Top 24 Things You Wouldn’t Know Without the Movies

[marval]

24. It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

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

22. During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

21. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

20. The ventilation system of any building is the 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 you want without difficulty.

19. If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.

18. When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

17. Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.

16. Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment.

15. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of Wembley Stadium.

14. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

13. It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.

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

11. 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 predecessors.

10. Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

9. An electric fence powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.

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

7. It is not necessary to say hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations.

6. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

2. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

1. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade -- at any time of the year.

[weecalf]

People into song suddenly there's a fifty piece band playing .Let try it ..The hills are alive withnthebsound of music ......nothing yet Maria got a 70 piece band up a mountain

[tonyav]

Why is it that in those old western films, cowboys would shoot each other with their colt 45's ect but there was no blood.

[Brinjal]

Lol

[starone]

And they always kept their hats on tony, in spite of being in ferocious fights.

[starone]

Sorry marval - lol to all of them.

[marval]

That's alright Star, glad you joined in.

[erin-x]

Evil villains will always catch the hero but then proceed to divulge their whole plan of world domination to him... the hero then gets away unscathed, of course.

[marval]

That's true erin

[ELVIS68]

Lol nice one marval

In westerns, cowboys get shot and their horses fall over

[dotty.]

when the camera angle includes a phone you know it's about to ring.

[weecalf]

Irish cop have an o in their name

[mxyzptlk]

Villains can't hit a barn door with an ak47, but the hero can hit a fly at 500 yards with a handgun!

[emmie]

That Will Smith will always come to the rescue and save the world.

[marval]

So much we have all learnt from the movies.

[Duncer]

Women will inevitably trip when being chased.

[askyourgran]

Years ago it was cue ---violin music or gently falling water when the hero and heroine were getting their oats. Now they've done away with the orchestra, now they show the action instead.

[andy-hughes]

As soon as you can hear a helicopter in a movie, you see it about one second later.

[zebo]

Ref No 20, the said ventilation systems are very clean, youll emerge looking immaculate.
Air in films never disturbs your hair, unless you're B. Jones and it's for comic effect.
The hero can drive or fly anything, and speak the most obscure dialects.

[AliceTickband]

and massive amounts of head hair styled very elaborately will cascade over a scantily clad female's shoulders with the removal of one hairpin.

[Kiki-frog]

And it's fine to sleep with your make-up on. A movie heroine will never, ever wake up looking like Alice Cooper