Things that only/always happen in the movies.

[Rainbowreflect]

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/features/20moviethings.htm

8. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to learn to speak German. Simply speaking English with a German accent will do. Similarly, when they are alone, all German soldiers prefer to speak English to each other.

25. You will survive any battle in any war UNLESS you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

[stopbush]

1. Never announce your retirement as a movie cop/detective...

it means you're 7 minutes away from getting killed in the line of fire.

[terrya]

2. #8 is what I call "Hogan's Heroes Syndrome"

The film "Where Eagles Dare" with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood is another example of this. Burton and Eastwood's characters pass themselves off as German soldiers at one point. They're in a German military base...where, yep...the German soldiers speak English to each other...with German accents. Ridiculously moronic.

[kick-ass-bob]

8. I just prefer to think of it as

they are speaking German - but it is automatically translated for my benefit.

Yeah, it's all about ME!

:P

(like in Hunt for Red October - they actually started speaking Russian - but they zoomed it and it changed to English until English-speakers were around)

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I love these! Thanks so much for sharing!

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Some more

Scrapbooks are always filled with clippings about mysterious boating "accidents".

A terrible secret about your past will be revealed by someone else just before you are about to confess it to you lover.

[flvegan]

5. Airbags never deploy in a car chase, no matter what you hit, nor how

often you hit something.

[graywarrior]

6. Even people on their death bed wear makeup

People who've been out in the desert for days on end have eyeshadow on and it's not melted down their face. Their hair never looks like a rats nest or greasy.

[billyskank]

7. I've said it before, and I'll say it again

151. Any police detective cannot solve a difficult murder investigation until he has been suspended from duty.

Also,

163. During the course of any difficult murder investigation, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.