1. An explosion in a cave, no matter how small the blast, will result in the precise amount of falling rocks needed to just cover the solitary entrance. The rocks will always be small enough to be carried away by hand.
2. Even when there are tens of thousands of bats, the guano will have no affect on air quality.
3. All caves have a three meter ceiling throughout the walkways.
4. All caves have torch sconces on the walls. If they aren’t lit when you arrive, you needn’t worry. They have plenty of fuel still soaked in them and will blaze with the slightest spark.
5. There is always a deep, rushing river in every cave, drinkable and free of E coli.
6. Masks aren’t needed in movie caves, not even in coal mines. That Black Lung disease is a myth.
7. All it takes to cover up an abandoned mine is a few rotted planks of wood that are nailed to the very cave itself. They will never be level and there will always be a warning, half washed away in black paint.
8. It is possible to walk about inside active volcanoes without special outer gear. Remember, you can always outrun lava.
9. What have you learned about caves from movies?

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1. All cars can be hotwired. The first time the wires contact, they will spark. The second contact will always start the car.
2. You’ll never steal a car with bad brakes, poor suspension, etc. Stolen cars can jump cliffs, bridges and take impossible turns.
3. Stolen cars never have safety glass.
4. Shooting a criminal’s windshield will always kill the driver instantly, causing the vehicle to roll off a cliff into a fireball. Shooting a hero’s windshield will cause the glass to spider 14″ to the right or left of the driver.
5. When your car is too narrow to fit through a thin European alley, leaning to the side will angle the car upward on the passenger-side wheels only.
6. When you steal a car, no matter how intense the security or parking regulations, there will always be a parking space out front.
7. Wht have you learned about car theft from movies?

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1. They never check a vampire for ID
2. Likewise, no one asks child vampire why they aren’t in school
3. The DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) never seems to notice that vampires are about 2,000 years too old to drive. Oh wait, they OWN the DMVs.
4. Vampires exist by hard and fast rules. Once you turn, that’s it. Unless you’re in love with a good-looking human. Then you can return to the living by being nice.
5. Becoming a vampire isn’t like a tattoo where it’s there forever. You can opt out. Just kill the lead vampire, and you can go back to being drab.
6. Lead vampires are ancient, unstoppable and European that yearn for the “old ways”. Younger vampires are brash Americans with sophisticated technology.
7. Being a vampire is great for your hair. As soon as you bite a victim, it’s coiffed, teased out and even gets some colors and highlights.
8. If you’re a male vampire, and you suck a guy’s neck, it’s totally not gay at all. You get to call outs.
9. If you’re a female vampire biting a female human however, it’s still lesbian and you’ll both end up naked in bed, cause that shit’s hot

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1. All police chiefs are balding, pudgy, African-American mustachioed men, 50 years-old with hair-trigger tempers.
2. Police Chiefs are magical creatures that can only be summoned into one of three sacred shrines: a detective’s office, behind the interrogation glass and the office water cooler. They have not homes, nor spouses nor lives outside of the force. Appease them with offerings of stale donuts and old coffee.
3. Police Chiefs don a mandatory wardrobe consisting of black trousers and a white, striped dress shirt with one silver pen in the pocket and a black necktie. There are no exceptions to this rule.
4. Police Chiefs have the power to suspend detectives and cops without Internal Affairs inquiries or union interference.
5. A Police Chief will always suspect a detective of using violence without bothering to investigate the source of the complaint or taking past performance into account.
6. Police Chief communication is similar to that of the Howler Monkey: loud, ceaseless and audible from 10 kilometers away.
7. Police Chiefs are notorious for spilling scalding hot coffee on themselves, however they suffer no burns or ill effects later on.
8. Police Chiefs are a gullible lot, easily fooled by puckish detectives who are able to scam them with the most clichéd of tactics.
9. Police Chiefs, as harbingers of death, frequently purchase birthday cakes for detectives. However, the wise detective will shun these baked goods, for once the first bite is taken, that detective will receive a phone call with news that someone close has died.
10. Police Chiefs will invariably have the oldest and messiest desks in the station.
11. Police Chiefs frequently carry hypertension pills for their bum ticker.
12. In addition to the aforementioned coffee and donuts, Police Chiefs subsist on a strict diet of items purchased from an aging vending machine. Like scavengers, they will occasionally pilfer cold pizza from a desk or a jar of olives from the station refrigerator.
13. A Police Chief will frequently complain his doctor is “getting on my case about my diet,” however, since Chiefs never leave their desks, the possibility of a Police Chief even knowing a doctor is quite slim.

What have you learned about Police Chiefs?

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1. Every sports movie will have an ‘80s sound track, no matter what decade it was produced in. The raspy singer will over-stretch his limited vocal range on the chorus causing the local bat population to go into estrus. The keyboards will feature default Casio sounds that are barely audible under the wailing guitar pyrotechnics.
2. A down-and-out, last-place team can always be rallied into first place in one season by the simple addition of one player with a winning attitude.
3. The local last place team will have facilities worse than those in most federal penitentiaries.
4. A has-been great player can always be called out of retirement for one last big game—the one he he was born to win.
5. Only one player on the team will have a girlfriend or wife, and she will be way hotter than he deserves.
6. The team’s owner will be a Texan (or at least dress like one), with a Playboy Bunny wife who has slept with the entire team unbeknownst to him.
7. The local sports writer will always “have it in” for one of the players and will use all manner of unethical tactics just to get a scoop or ruin the big game.
8. One player on every team speaks no English whatsoever and becomes the butt of jokes. If the player is Eastern European in origin, s/he will also be freakishly large and have a carrot-sized mono-brow.
9. If the team is high school or college level, there will always be a hot girl who dates the quarterback of the opposing team. She will fall for the worst player on the local losing team and help that team win at the expense of her own school, friends, teammates, family, etc.
10. The local losing team will play the evil opposing team every week. There will be only two other teams in the league and they will be soundly defeated in a three-minute clip backed by a rousing ‘80s rock soundtrack.
11. When the local losing team needs to raise money, they will somehow convince a dozen bikini models to work a car wash. Owing to the vast number of wealthy perverts driving dusty BMWs, the car wash will raise $60,0000 in one Saturday. The car wash scene will be the second longest scene in the entire film.
12. The Big Game is the most important scene in a Sports Movie. Big Games are able to change the very fabric of space/time allowing players to make leaps that would stun a gazelle, slow-motion throws and Herculean acts of strength. Members of the opposing team will be so devastated that many will leave the field on stretchers.

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1. Modern Ninjas are generally six foot-tall white or Asian males, unmarried, who live on islands working as bodyguards for evil, French billionaires.
2. Guard dogs cannot kill or overpower Ninjas, no matter how large or well-trained.
3. Ninjas are not only silent — they’re mute from birth. They moonlight as mimes.
4. Orphaned, white teenagers invariably become better at Ninjitsu than the 80 year-old Japanese masters who taught them.
5. Ninja clans can hold grudges longer than the Middle East.
6. Ninjas frequently hold practice sessions in abandoned New York warehouses that somehow still have electricity, but no rat or roach problems.
7. Ninjas inevitably meet their end fighting in death matches held by their evil, French billionaire bosses.
8. Despite their secrecy, Ninjas are actually quite easy to encounter or hire.
9. When it comes to the discriminating, evil French billionaire, an army of Ninjas is the preferred weapon of choice over nuclear weapons, computer viruses, bio-terrorism or rabid Yorkies.

What have you learned about Ninjas?

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1. If you inherit a mansion, it will be haunted by a murderous ghost. You will not be notified of this until at least three people with you have died.
2. If your family owns a cabin, it will be in an area far from civilization, off a road that never made it to any map.
3. Teenage sex attracts serial killers and cannibals.
4. If you stab a serial killer, you will only be able to stab him just above the collarbone—an area that neither hurts him, not affects his ability to use his arm.
5. While the skin of a serial killer can burn, his internal organs are flame-retardant, allowing him to survive explosions, 3rd degree burns and blow-torches.
6. In any group of teenagers, the hottest girl will date the biggest asshole (he will also die the worst death).
7. Serial killers can make less noise tromping through dead leaves than a snail on glass.
8. Women running will invariably trip over an invisible branch. Wearing nothing but lingerie will increase the odds of tripping by roughly 50%.
9. Serial killers are also bullet-proof. Bullets actually give them more strength and are quickly absorbed into their bloodstream like multi-vitamins.
10. Serial killers cannot drown. They will simply relax underwater for several minutes, then silently creep up on you without dripping water.
11. Never stand within arms’ reach of a dead serial killer. This will resurrect him and he will grab your ankle (or the bloody machete you left next to him).
12. Virginity protects nerdy, bookish women from serial killers.
13. Local police do not believe in the existence of serial killers. The surgical removal of all limbs was clearly the result of a tragic accident.
14. Despite crime statistics showing most serial killers are “the guy next door,” according to Hollywood, serial killers all live in remote, backwoods regions that are invariably well-stocked with machetes, chain saws, Samurai swords, razor ribbon and military-grade explosives.
15. Serial killers, fed on a protein-rich diet of teenage livers and spleen kabobs, develop powerful muscles that enable them to punch through safety glass, saunter through solid, brick walls and tear the roofs off of sedans as easily as opening an envelope.
16. Serial killers have two fashion preferences: Cannibal Chic, a stunning ensemble consisting of hand-torn flannels and leather, accented with pentagrams, bird bones, animal heads and rusted chain suspenders. The other look — The Custodian — is more conservative. Look for a full-body jumpsuit with a monochromatic color scheme, finished with a blood-tinted hockey mask.

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1. Whenever magic is being performed for the first time, black clouds instantly roll in.
2. If a cop or some para-military soldier pokes at his own eyes, then forwards twice in the air, trouble is coming.
3. Giants and large dinosaurs move in slow motion. Small dinosaurs move with lightning speed.
4. In real life, putting up your open palm signals someone to stop. In the movies, this is how Native Americans greet each other.
5. In real life, putting up your closed fist means Black Power. In the movies, this is how Ninjas signal each other to stop.
6. Women have always worn thongs, even in the Renaissance.
7. The first time a werewolf transforms, it will take up an entire chapter on a DVD and involve painful screaming. Subsequent transformations take only seconds and are painless.
8. If a sea monster is large enough to eat your ship, it will.
9. Giant snakes will feed 6-10 times a day, every day, rather than resting a month between meals.
10. All Eastern European grandfathers hunted witches. All Eastern European grandmothers are witches.

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1. At any harbor, there will be two or more speedboats with keys left in them
2. Anyone who gets in a speedboat knows how to drive one expertly
3. Same thing applies to motorcycles
4. Aliens are attracted to our women and have matching genetics to breed with them
5. All twins are not only identical, but have matching voices and freckles as well
6. No matter how rare or ancient the relic, the world’s leading expert on it happens to teach at the local university
7. All magical talismans have rules that only work on certain astronomical configurations
8. The bad guys—who have spent their lives searching for these evil relics—will not find them until the day of the astronomical alignment.
9. These rare astronomical alignments will not make the news. Only bad guys and the local professor will be aware of them.
10. What have you learned from movies?

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