1. If staying in a haunted house,
women should investigate any strange
noises wearing their most revealing
underwear.
2. If being chased through town,
you can usually take cover in a
passing St Patrick's Day parade
- at any time of the year.
3. All beds have special L-shaped
top sheets that reach up to armpit
level on a woman but only waist
level on the man lying beside her.
4. All grocery shopping bags contain
at least one stick of French bread.
5. It's easy for anyone to land
a plane, providing there is someone in
the control tower to talk you down.
6. Once applied, lipstick will
never rub off - even while scuba diving.
7. The ventilation system of any
building is a perfect hiding place. No
one will ever think of looking
for you in there and you can travel to any
other part of the building without
difficulty.
8. You're likely to survive any
battle in any war unless you make the
mistake of showing someone a picture
of your sweetheart back home.
9. Should you wish to pass yourself
off as a German officer, it will
not be necessary to speak the language.
A German accent will do.
10. The Eiffel Tower can be seen
from any window of any building in Paris.
11. People on TV never finish their
drinks.
12. A man will show no pain while
taking the most ferocious beating but
will wince when a woman tries to
clean his wounds.
13. The chief of police is always
wrong.
14. When paying for a taxi, never
look at your wallet as you take out a
note - just grab one at random
and hand it over. It will always be the exact
fare.
15. If you lose a hand, it will
cause the stump of your arm to grow by
15 cm.
16. Kitchens don't have light switches.
When entering a kitchen at
night, you should open the fridge
door and use that light instead.
17. During all police investigations,
it will be necessary to visit a
strip club at least once.
18. Mothers routinely cook eggs,
bacon and waffles for their family
every morning, even though the
husband and children never have time to eat
them.
19. Cars and trucks that crash
will almost always burst into flames.
20. Wearing a vest or stripping
to the waist can make a man invulnerable
to bullets.
21. A single match will be sufficient
to light up a room the size of a
football stadium.
22. If a killer is lurking in your
house, it's easy to find him. Just
relax and run a bath - even if
it's the middle of the afternoon.
23. Medieval peasants had perfect
teeth.
24. Although in the 20th century
it is possible to fire weapons at an
object out of visual range, people
of the 23rd century will have lost this
technology.
25. All single women have a cat.
26. Any person waking from a nightmare
will sit bolt upright and pant.
27. Even when driving down a perfectly
straight road, it is necessary to
turn the steering wheel vigorously
from left to right every few moments.
28. One man shooting at 20 men
has a better chance of killing them all
than 20 men firing at one.
29. Creepy music coming from a
graveyard should always be closely
investigated.
30. If a phone line is broken,
communication can be restored by
frantically beating the cradle
and saying, "Hello? Hello?"
31. Most people keep a scrapbook
of newspaper clippings - especially if
any of their family or friends
has died in a strange boating accident.
32. 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 predecessor.
33. During a very emotional confrontation,
instead of facing the person
you are speaking to, it is customary
to stand behind them and talk to their
back.
34. When you turn out the light
to go to bed, everything in your room
will still be clearly visible,
just slightly bluish.
35. Dogs always know who's bad
and will naturally bark at them.
36. Police departments give their
officers personality tests to make
sure they are deliberately assigned
a partner who is their total opposite.
37. When they are alone, all foreigners
prefer to speak English to each other.
38. Action heroes never face charges
for manslaughter or criminal damage
despite laying entire cities to
waste.
39. No matter how badly a spaceship
is attacked, its internal gravity
system is never damaged.
40. If there is a deranged killer
on the loose, this will coincide with
a thunderstorm that has brought
down all the power and phone lines in the
vicinity.
41. You can always find a chainsaw
whenever you're likely to need one.
42. Rather than wasting bullets,
megalomaniacs prefer to kill their
arch-enemies using complicated
machinery involving fuses, pulley systems,
deadly gases, lasers and man eating
sharks that will allow their captives at
least 20 minutes to escape.
43. Having a job of any kind will
make all fathers forget their son's
eighth birthday.
44. Many musical instruments -
especially wind instruments and
accordions - can be played without
moving the fingers.
45. All bombs are fitted with electronic
timing devices with large red
readouts so you know exactly when
they're going to go off.
46. It is always possible to park
directly outside the building you are
visiting.
47. Guns are like disposable razors
- if you run out of bullets, just
throw the gun away. You can always
find a new one.
48. Make-up can safely be worn
to bed without smudging.
49. A detective can only solve
a case once he has been suspended from duty.
50. If you decide to start dancing
in the street, everyone you bump into
will know all the steps.