50 Lessons Learned From Movies (11 – 20)
11. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.
12. Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.
13. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.
14. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
15. All single women have a cat.
16. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
17. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.
18. Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
19. Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings – especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.
20. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involved 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 predecessor.
March 15th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
# 20 brings back fond memories of my youth in Northern Manitoba,where the local Paiutes,when engorged with firewater, would infamously all wade in at once and kick the shit out of you.
If only they’d had martial arts training!
March 16th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
When defusing a bomb it is always the blue wire. Exept when it isnt. And all bombs will have a handy timer to let you know how near you are to things going really bad.