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

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

Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override alien society.

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, this by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out the predecessor.

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

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

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.

All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

It is easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk to her/him down.

Once applied, lipstick will never rub-off-even while scuba diving.

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.

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.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds (haha!).

If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noise in their most revealing underwear.

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

All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

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

If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.

In the Philippines, it would seem that whatever lessons can be learned from the movies can be summarized by this one: whatever you see a movie star as hero do onscreen, he does in real life, and should thus become the next president of the country.

We certainly all have a lot to unlearn. And learn.

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