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#1 2003-08-16 9:01 am
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Things I've learned by watching movies
1. Cars are always washed and shiny and have no bugs on the windshield
2. All women like to show clevage
3. All computers are Macs.
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Complacency to Apathy; Apathy to Fear; Fear to Dependency; Dependency back to Bondage
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#2 2003-08-16 9:11 am
Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
4: Everyone had a 10gigabit internet conenction
5: All computers beep when you type
6: Everyone leaves their cars unlocked with the keys under the sun visor
7: No-one gets "hat hair"
8: It's possible to drink a small lake of whisky without getting even mildly drunk
9: All east-Asian people are martial arts experts
10: All British people speak either "BBC English" or "American Cockney"
11: Turning a corner is enough to make the hubcaps fly off a car's wheels
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#4 2003-08-16 11:17 am
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
12. Saying the name of a board game usually helps.
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#5 2003-08-16 11:28 am
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13. Always investigate a crime scene at night.
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#6 2003-08-16 11:40 am
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14. You can never defuse a bomb on a timer until the last 10 seconds before it's set to go off.
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#7 2003-08-16 11:41 am
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
15. Every Prostitute has a heart of Gold...
"Obviously they have mistaken me for a much shorter man"
- Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, in North by NorthWest
"There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!"
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#8 2003-08-16 1:04 pm
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
This reminds me of the "40 things I learned from Independence Day" I saw years back.
Highlights:
5: If alien "Destroyers" come to your city to blast it into oblivion and you are caught in traffic at the last minute, make sure that you are NOT a raspy-voiced homosexual cable TV executive. The Law of Averages says you'll get waxed by the Death Ray.
17: People too drunk to walk can still fly crop dusters and F-18s.
36: In 10 hours, one man with a Macintosh Laptop can code a virus in C++ that will take down a completely alien computer system.
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#9 2003-08-16 1:20 pm
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16.) Any image can be zoomed in on, and cleaned up, so you can see the bad guy clearly, regardless of the quality of the video camera.
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#12 2003-08-16 1:32 pm
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18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
"Obviously they have mistaken me for a much shorter man"
- Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, in North by NorthWest
"There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!"
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#13 2003-08-16 1:33 pm
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20)Apple pie can be used for things other then eating.
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#14 2003-08-16 1:42 pm
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
2. All women like to show clevage
A lot of us do.
::looks up::
sorry, did you say something?
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#15 2003-08-16 1:49 pm
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18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
Nope. That's just Ford Pintos.
Jingoism - Extreme and emotional nationalism, or chauvinism, often characterized by an aggressive foreign policy, accompanied by an eagerness to wage war.
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#16 2003-08-16 1:54 pm
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18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
Nope. That's just Ford Pintos.
You've got to hand it to the germans. they make great cars.
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#17 2003-08-16 2:37 pm
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
Nope. That's just Ford Pintos.
You've got to hand it to the germans. they make great cars.
Did you guys see the Simpsons where Homer died and had to do a good deed so he grabs a baby out of a runaway baby carriage and when the carriage hit a wall it exploded... I found that quite clever...
"Obviously they have mistaken me for a much shorter man"
- Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, in North by NorthWest
"There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!"
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#18 2003-08-16 2:45 pm
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
Nope. That's just Ford Pintos.
You've got to hand it to the germans. they make great cars.
Did you guys see the Simpsons where Homer died and had to do a good deed so he grabs a baby out of a runaway baby carriage and when the carriage hit a wall it exploded... I found that quite clever...
I've seen that episode but what did that have to do with German cars? 
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#19 2003-08-16 2:57 pm
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
21. Bullets from a 30-round magazine can be used to kill 50 bad guys but bullets from fifty 30-round magazines will never touch the good guy.
22. While walking through dark, scary places, everyone walks backwards without ever looking behind themselves.
Bondage to Spiritual Faith; Spiritual Faith to Courage; Courage to Freedom;
Freedom to Abundance; Abundance to Selfishness; Selfishness to Complacency;
Complacency to Apathy; Apathy to Fear; Fear to Dependency; Dependency back to Bondage
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#20 2003-08-16 3:04 pm
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
Nope. That's just Ford Pintos.
You've got to hand it to the germans. they make great cars.
Did you guys see the Simpsons where Homer died and had to do a good deed so he grabs a baby out of a runaway baby carriage and when the carriage hit a wall it exploded... I found that quite clever...
I've seen that episode but what did that have to do with German cars?
These quotes were in response to my comment: that every Vehicle explodes in Movies...
Thats all...
"Obviously they have mistaken me for a much shorter man"
- Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, in North by NorthWest
"There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!"
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#21 2003-08-16 3:10 pm
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Re: Things I've learned by watching movies
18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
Nope. That's just Ford Pintos.
You've got to hand it to the germans. they make great cars.
Did you guys see the Simpsons where Homer died and had to do a good deed so he grabs a baby out of a runaway baby carriage and when the carriage hit a wall it exploded... I found that quite clever...
I've seen that episode but what did that have to do with German cars?
These quotes were in response to my comment: that every Vehicle explodes in Movies...
Thats all...
Dang it--of course it does.
Don't I look like an idiot. 
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#22 2003-08-16 3:20 pm
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18?) Every Car/Motorcycle/Boat Will explode when bumped, flipped or otherwise touched while running...
Nope. That's just Ford Pintos.
You've got to hand it to the germans. they make great cars.
Thank you, Chocolate Mousse.
1a: Cars never have rear-view mirrors.
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#23 2003-08-16 3:23 pm
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23.7 - Pre-1974, all black guys were ghetto brothers. Post-1974, a few were super-intelligent ex-ghetto brothers.
4 - Foreigners conveniently speak American, albeit in a poor accent, when require.
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#24 2003-08-16 3:54 pm
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This reminds me of the "40 things I learned from Independence Day" I saw years back.
26. (also from Independence Day) If the Swirling Torrent of Blazing Hot Death is about to overtake you, make sure you remember to shut the door---it will protect you from anything.
26. Leather belts are stronger than tornadoes. Always keep one with you.
27. Shoulder-fired rocket launchers produce no backspray. This is helpful to know if you're ever in cramped quarters with one, like, say, a helicopter.
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#25 2003-08-16 3:59 pm
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28. Stuff blows up for no reason at all. 
The storm starts when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping, the storm starts stopping.
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