{"id":63,"date":"1997-12-09T21:11:16","date_gmt":"1997-12-10T01:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-11-20T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T01:11:47","slug":"things-you-would-never-know-without-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Things You Would Never Know Without The Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.<\/p>\n<p>When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.<\/p>\n<p>If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade &#8211; at any time of year.<\/p>\n<p>All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level on the man lying beside her.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star detective or give him 48 hours to finish the job.<\/p>\n<p>All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French Bread.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone to talk you down.<\/p>\n<p>The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place &#8211; noone will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.<\/p>\n<p>Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their polar opposite.<\/p>\n<p>The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they are going to go off.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition &#8211; even if you haven&#8217;t been carrying any before now.<\/p>\n<p>You are very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.<\/p>\n<p>Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language &#8211; a German accent will do.<\/p>\n<p>If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or killer beast, the mayor&#8217;s first concern will be the tourist trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.<\/p>\n<p>When paying for a taxi, don&#8217;t look at your wallet as you take out a bill &#8211; just grab one at random and hand it over.\u00a0 It will always be the exact fare.<\/p>\n<p>Kitchens don&#8217;t have light switches.\u00a0 When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.<\/p>\n<p>If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning even though their husband and children never have time to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555.<\/p>\n<p>A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.<\/p>\n<p>It is not necessary to hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.<\/p>\n<p>It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.<\/p>\n<p>A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.<\/p>\n<p>It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts &#8211; your enemies will patiently attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>No-one ever involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.<\/p>\n<p>Once applied, lipstick will never rub off &#8211; even while scuba diving.<\/p>\n<p>You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.<\/p>\n<p>Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds &#8211; unless it&#8217;s the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment that it is aired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once. 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