What we've learned from TV (Teacher, Mother, secret lover)

Qualm

1. When staying in a haunted house, women should always 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, lip stick 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 nec essary 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 black.
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
16cm.
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
cheesy 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 singlet 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,
and maintain a ster n expression.
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 cuttings 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 buy 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.