26 Things the Movies have taught us

a friend | 9-29-2001

[PJ-Comix]

Before about 1965, bathrooms had sinks and bathtubs but NEVER any toilets.

[Ichneumon]

When breaking into song, a full orchestra will accompany you (but be completely invisible)

...unless it's a Mel Brooks movie (e.g. "Blazing Saddles", "High Anxiety").

[Recluse]

it mysteriously swerved and hit a fire hydrant.

Of course the fire hydrant broke off and water shot 50 feet into the air???

[PJ-Comix]

Columbo opening the door again to ask you "just one more question" means that you're GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!!!

[Pukin Dog]

The 777 will do the touchdown on it's own, pull the reversers, set and modulate the brakes, pop spoilers, count down ground speed, bring up the flaps and engage nose gear steering if you want it too.

In 5 years, I want to be the first First Officer, to put one down at an airfield with a naked flight attendant in my lap, appreciating the turbulence.

[Temple Owl]

ping

[Temple Owl]

Yo Riley, I didn't see and I am enjoying it.

[Tribune7]

Can you post the Dr. Suess one about when a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port?

Just kidding. I enjoyed the post. Seriesly.

[balrog666]

Uh-oh. Are all those old Crevo threads now open to be corrupted?

[Dad was my hero]

Tape recording devices (tape recorders or VCRs) will always make that high speed whirring sound when fast-forwarded or rewound, and when rewound (hey wait a minute, go back to that) they always go to the exact spot desired rather than too far or too little.

I wonder what they'll do when recorders begin going digital.

[Hildy]

If a murder is committed and the only two suspects are a drug addicted street person or the CEO of a billion dollar corporation, the CEO is ALWAYS guilty.

When entering a mountain cabin, even when first arriving, the fireplace will always be roaring.

[squidly]

When making a purchase, no one ever waits for their change.

[Igraine]

There's no need to use "hello," "goodbye" or other pleasentries when on the phone, just bark "yeah" when you answer and hang up when the other person's finished talking.

[Zebra]

All high schools' have girls' showers that are easily accessible to mass peeping, which, when inevitably discovered by the gorgeous, 28 year-old student bathers, becomes hilarious to them, as well.

[Valin]

I wonder what the CEO would like if he uttered more than one line? :-)

[Hildy]

The cell phone routine! Did you see that horrible movie, THE THREE KINGS....The premise was so ridiculous, but then...they find themselves in trouble in an underground bunker in the middle of the middle east and in the bumker is a pile of CELL PHONES! Of course, the batteries are powered up and the guy calls his wife in the States. I was watching the movie in a hotel and turned it off after that scene.

[Hildy]

Yes, the correct terminology is: THE DOOMED EXTRA. If a character you've never seen before gets transported to the planet along with the regular gang, you can be guaranteed he ain't comin home.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

You need to watch "Falling Down".

There's a great scene where Michael Douglas calmly walks along a sidewalk while someone is shooting at him with a Tech-9 ... and never hits him.

[MinuteGal]

In the yuppie apartment kitchen scenes, the guy is always tossing a salad and the gal is always stirring spaghetti sauce. The mandatory loaf of french bread seen poking out of the bag when he entered is never seen again.

Later, when she and he are fleeing the villains, she's the one that trips and sprains her ankle, not him.

Leni

[hambran]

To post 31.
Do you notice that the fake glasses they use are flat lenses. They reflect a lot of lights at any angle. They should make blank lenses convex which doesn't reflect light so much. Notice that when the subject turns his head there is no change of the background thru the lens as it would be with a perscription lens.