20 things we have learned from the movies:

1.  During all police investigations it will be necessary 
to visit a strip joint at least once.

2.  All beds have special L-shaped top sheets which reach up to armpit 
level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

3.  It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is 
someone in the control tower to talk you down.

4.  A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious 
beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

5.  Large loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the 
price range of most people - whether they are employed or not.

6.  Even when driving down a perfectly straight road it is necessary
to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few
moments.

7.  At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.

8.  A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from
duty.

9.  If you decide to start dancing in the street everyone you bump
into will know all the steps.

10. Should you decide to defuse a bomb don't worry which wire to cut.
You will always choose the right one.

11. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the
communications system of any invading alien society.

12.  Extremely beautiful and intelligent women are likely to become
prostitutes or welders.

13.  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.

14.  When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your
bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.


15.  Police departments give their officers personality tests to make
sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their total
opposite.

16.  When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to
each other.(I think they do in real life too...just want you to feel
stupid).

17.  Radiation causes interesting mutations - not to your future
children but to you, right there and then.

18.  If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world
expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.

19.  Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down
three days before their retirement.

20.  Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their
archenemies 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.