Subject: Things that Hollywood has taught us ...

 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 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 a blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world
     expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
 8.  Honest and hardworking 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 20 minutes to escape.
 10. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit
     level on a woman, but only to the waist level on the man lying beside
     her.
 11. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French
     bread.
 12. It's easy for anyone to land a plane provided there is someone in
     the control tower to talk you down.
 13. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving
 14. 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.
 15. 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.
 16. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
 17. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating,
     but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
 18. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through
     it before long.
 19. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange
     noise in their most revealing underwear.
 20. Word processors never display a cursor on the screen but will
     always say: "Enter password now."
 21. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary
     to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few
     moments.
 22. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red
     readout's so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
 23. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from
     duty.
 24. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet
     will know all the steps.
 25. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make
     sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is the total
     opposite.
 26. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak
     to each other in English.

AND FINALLY A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered
that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem,
NASA scientists spent a decade and $1.2 million developing a pen that
writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface
including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil.

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