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 twenty-two.
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 archenemies using complicated
machinery involving fuses,
pulley systems, deadly gasses,
lasers, and man-eating sharks,
which will allow their captives
at least twenty minutes to escape.
10.During all police investigations,
it will be necessary to visit a
strip club at least once.
11. All beds have special L-shaped
cover sheets that
reach up to the armpit level
on a woman
but only to waist level on
the man lying beside her.
12. All grocery shopping bags
contain at least one
stick of French bread.
13. It's easy for anyone to
land a plane providing
there is someone in the control
tower to talk you down.
14. Once applied, lipstick
will never rub off-even
while scuba diving.
15. 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.
16. 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.
(It used to be an English
accent for the German.)
17. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
18. A man will show no pain
while taking the most
ferocious beating but will
wince when a woman
tries to clean his wounds.
19. If a large pane of glass
is visible, someone
will be thrown through it
before long.
20. If staying in a haunted
house, women should
investigate any strange noises
in their most revealing underwear.
21. Word processors never display
a cursor on screen
but will always say: Enter
Password Now.
22. Even when driving down
a perfectly straight road,
it is necessary to turn the
steering wheel
vigorously from left to right
every few moments.
23. All bombs are fitted with
electronic timing devices
with large red readouts so
you know exactly
when they're going to go off.
24. A detective can only solve
a case once he has
been suspended from duty.
25. If you decide to start
dancing in the street,
everyone you meet will know
all the steps.
26. Police departments give
their officers personality tests
to make sure they are deliberately
assigned
a partner who is their total
opposite
27. When they are alone, all
foreign military officers
prefer to speak to each other
in English.