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1 When your car breaks down on a back road, all you need is for some guy to come along, lift the hood and fiddle with the engine for 30 seconds. When he says, "O.K. Give her a try now!" the car will start instantly.
2 Although dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures were reptiles, they roared like angry lions when provoked.
3 All professional assassins wear black turtleneck sweaters, wraparound sunglasses and black leather gloves.
4 The best way to put a German tank out of action was to lift the turret hatch and throw a grenade inside. The hatch was never locked.
5 All New York skyscrapers are equipped with window ledges which are wide enough to accommodate a full-grown adult.
6 Young women being pursued by hideous monsters will continually look over their shoulders while running away to make sure that the beast is still there.
7 When the person on the other end of the phone is suddenly disconnected, you must click the receiver on and off violently while shouting, "Hello! Hello!"
8 All Air Force officers know each other from a previous war and are either old drinking buddies or hated rivals.
9 If you're an LAPD cop involved in a high-speed chase, there's no problem in driving the wrong way on a one-way street. All the other cars will swerve madly to get out of your way.
10 There will always be one black convict on Death Row who plays the harmonica.
11 All fiery, headstrong women long to be kissed by men that they hate, loathe and despise.
12 Tough determined men always keep the butt of a cigar clenched between their teeth long after the cigar has gone out.
13 When anyone's elderly mother coughed twice, it was a clear indication of some incurable disease that she was bravely trying to hide from the rest of the family.
14 Although Gestapo agents were Hitler's secret police, they could be spotted a mile away because of their full-length black leather coats and black fedoras.
15 Captured American pilots in the Pacific were always interrogated by Japanese officers who had spent time in the U.S.A. before the war and were quite familiar with baseball, hot dogs and Benny Goodman's music.
16 Sadly, people who are fatally shot always manage to die before they can whisper the name of their killer.
17 Female scientists tend to be quite mousy-looking until they take off their horn-rimmed glasses and untie their hair.
18 In any large city, newsvendors and shoeshine boys know everything that's going on and will gladly tell you if you slip them a few bucks.
19 The quickest way to get shot down in aerial combat is to take off without your good-luck charm or mascot.
20 Even while galloping over rugged terrain at top speed, U.S. Cavalry buglers were able to sound the Charge without hitting a single bad note.
21 All European railway platforms are full of sinister looking men in trench coats who puff away nervously on cigarettes.
22 If you want to scatter a large group of horses in a corral, just slap one of them on the rump and they wi1l gallop away for miles.
23 For some unknown reason, all gangsters have girlfriends who chew gum, have high whiney voices and are not particularly bright.
24 When you run out of water in the desert, throw your canteen away in disgust. That way, if you should happen to find water somewhere, you'll have nothing to put it into.
25 Beneath the crusty exterior of every ship's captain, army sergeant, newspaper editor, construction foreman, ranch boss, police chief, flying instructor, or gangland crime boss, there beats a heart of gold.
26 When cowboys wanted to torment a newly arrived Easterner, they would fire their revolvers at his feet and order him to dance. Miraculously, none of the bullets ever struck him.
27 If a person becomes hysterical in a crisis, a single hard slap across the face will usually calm them down.
28 Any western horse was capable of keeping pace with a speeding train so that its rider could climb aboard.
29 Even though they had no formal musical training, plantation slaves were able to sing spirituals and work songs with intricate harmonies and vocal blendings.
30 When ordered by their passengers to "Follow that car!" New York cab drivers will never refuse or ask why.
31 All old mansions and castles have bookshelves, which swing open to reveal secret rooms or passageways.
32 When faced with a tough military objective, the army usually had to round up the worst thieves, murderers, drunks, psychos, and low-lifes it could find and whip them into a crack elite raiding force in order to get the job done.
33 Anyone can be hypnotized if a pocket watch on a gold chain is swung back and forth in front of their eyes.
34 The finest illumination ever invented was the flaming torch. They never burned down or blew out.
35 Drivers of any kind of vehicle never realize that their brakes have been tampered with until they are descending an extremely steep hill.
36 Although covered wagon trains of the '1800s carried settlers from Ohio all the way to California, they never seemed to encounter the Rocky Mountains.
37 Bundles of newspapers thrown from delivery trucks will always land front side up so that you can read the headlines.
38 Handsome men and beautiful women never get seasick while taking an ocean voyage even during raging typhoons.
39 Even second-rate boxers who've been battered senseless can usually slug their way to victory in a title fight if some- one brings them good news at ringside.
40 When invading space aliens take over the mind and soul of a person, the only one to notice any personality changes will be the family dog.
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