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Subject: FW: Things you learn from the movies
From: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 13:40:30 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suzanne Gauthier 
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 1:33 PM
> To:   Daniel Thompson
> Subject:      FW: Things you learn from the movies
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> Suzanne
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cheryl Bozynski [mailto:cbozynski@gbc.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:11 PM
> To: Suzanne Gauthier
> Subject: Fw: Things you learn from the movies
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>    Subject: Fw: Things you learn from the movies
>   
>   
>     Things You Learn From the Movies:
>     
>      1. Large, loft-style apartments in New
>     York City are well within the
>     price range of most people-whether they
>     are employed or not.
>     
>      2. At least one of a pair of identical twins
>     is born evil.
>     
>      3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb,
>     don't worry which wire to cut.     You
>      will always choose the right one.
>     
>      4. Most laptop computers are powerful
>     enough to override the communications
>     system of any invading alien society.
>     
>      5. It does not matter if you are heavily
>     outnumbered in a fight involving
>     martial arts: your enemies will wait
>     patiently to attack you one by one by
>     dancing around in a threatening manner until
>     you have knocked out their
>      predecessors.
>     
>      6. When you turn out the light to go to
>     bed, everything in your bedroom
>     will still be clearly visible, just slightly
>     bluish.
>     
>      7. If you are blonde and pretty, it is
>     possible to become a world expert
>     on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
>     
>      8. Honest and hard working policemen
>     are traditionally gunned down three days
>     before their retirement.
>     
>      9. Rather than wasting bullets,
>     megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch
>     enemies using complicated machinery
>     involving fuses, pulley systems,
>     deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating
>     sharks, which will allow their captives at
>     least 20 minutes to escape.
>     
>      10. All beds have special L-shaped cover
>     sheets that reach the armpit level on a
>     woman but only to waist level on the man
>     lying beside her.
>     
>      11. All grocery shopping bags contain at
>     least one stick of French bread.
>     
>      12. It's easy for anyone to land a plane
>     providing there is someone in the
>      control tower to talk you down.
>     
>      13. Once applied, lipstick will never rub
>     off-even while scuba diving.
>     
>      14. You're very likely to survive any
>     battle in any war unless you make the
>     mistake of showing someone a picture of
>     your sweetheart back home.
>     
>      15. Should you wish to pass yourself off
>     as a German or Russian officer, it
>     will not be necessary to speak the language.
>     A German or Russian accent
>     will do.
>     
>      16. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from
>     any window in Paris.
>     
>      17. A man will show no pain while taking
>     the most ferocious beating, but will wince
>     when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
>     
>      18. If a large pane of glass is visible,
>     someone will be thrown through it before
>     long.
>     
>      19. If staying in a haunted house, women
>     should investigate any strange noises in their
>     most revealing underwear.
>     
>      20. Word processors never display a
>     cursor on screen but will always say:
>      Enter Password Now.
>     
>      21. Even when driving down a perfectly
>     straight road, it is necessary to turn the
>     steering wheel vigorously from left to right
>     every few moments.
>     
>      22. All bombs are fitted with electronic
>     timing devices with large red readouts so
>     you know exactly when they're going to go
>     off.
>     
>      23. A detective can only solve a case
>     once he has been suspended from duty.
>     
>      24. If you decide to start dancing in the
>     street, everyone you meet will know all the
>     steps.
>     
>      25. Police departments give their officers
>     personality tests to make sure they are
>     deliberately assigned a partner who is their
>     total opposite.
>     
>      26. When they are alone, all foreign
>     military officers prefer to speak to each
>     other in English
> 

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