The truths I've learned from the Movies:

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. One of a pair of identical twins is always 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 by 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 blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world
expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.

8. Honest and hard working 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, and then
depart without witnessing the cruel and diabolical demise which will
allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

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

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

12. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French
bread.

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

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

15. In war it is impossible to die unless you make the mistake of
showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

16. 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. (It used to be an English accent for the
German).

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

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

19. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown
through it before long.

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

21. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always
say: Enter ... Password Now.

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

23. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large
red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

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

25. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet
will know all the steps.

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

27. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to
speak to each other in English.