Things you would never know without the movies. - During all police investigations, it willl be necessary to visit a strip club at least once. - When they are alone, all foreigners prefeer to speak English to each other. - If being chased through town, you can usuually take cover in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year. - All beds have special L-shaped cover sheeets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level on the man lying beside her. - The Chief of Police will almost always suuspend his star detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job. - All grocery bags contain at least one stiick of French Bread. - It's easy for anyone to land a plane provviding there is someone to talk you down. - The ventilation system of any building iss the perfect hiding place - noone will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected. - Police departments give their officers peersonality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their polar opposite. - The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any winndow in Paris. - All bombs are fitted with electronic timiing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they are going to go off. - If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition, even if you haven't been carrying any before now. - You are very likely to survive any battlee 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 aa German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language - a German accent will do. - If your town is threatened by an imminentt natural disaster or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist trade or his forthcoming art exhibition. - A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds. - When paying for a taxi, don't look at youur wallet as you take out a bill; just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare. - Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead. - If staying in a haunted house, women shouuld investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear. - Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waaffles for their family every morning even though their husband and children never have time to eat it. - Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames. - All telephone numbers in America begin wiith the digits 555. - A single match will be sufficient to lighht up a room the size of RFK stadium. - Medieval peasants had perfect teeth. - Any person waking from a nightmare will ssit bolt upright and pant. - It is not necessary to say hello or goodbbye when beginning or ending phone conversations. - Even when driving down a perfectly straigght road, it is necessary to turn the wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments. - It is always possible to park directly ouutside the building you are visiting. - A detective can only solve a case once hee has been suspended from duty. - It does not matter if you are heavily outtnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will patiently attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors. - When a person is knocked unconscious by aa blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage. - No-one ever involved in a car chase, hijaacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock. - Once applied, lipstick will never rub offf - even while scuba diving. - You can always find a chainsaw when you nneed one. - Any lock can be picked by a credit card oor a paper clip in seconds - unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside. - Television news bulletins usually containn a story that affects you personally at the precise moment that it is aired.