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92. Parents in arranged-marriage societies never give a moment's consideration to their children's feelings on the subject.

93. Actually, parents are pretty rubbish across the board. The only exception is if they're dead. Then they left a great legacy for their child to live up to.

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Wow, that's so true! (Sadly.)

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This is so fun.

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100. (W00t!) Any thirteen-year-old kid with a few weeks of intense training is virtually guaranteed to beat seasoned experts at the martial arts.

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"The more laws, the less justice."--Cicero

"I hope I will never write a novel that 'contains characters.'"--Tsahraf

"The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost maidenlike, guest in a hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth." --C.S. Lewis, "The Necessity of Chivalry"

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96: Villians always enage their victims in hour long monlouges of how evil they are, instead of simply killing their victims.

97: If a hero is to be executed, he will never simply be shot in the head. No, he will either be forced to take part in gladitorial sport (which he will promptly win) or be slowly lowered into a pit filled with razor blades or lava (from which he will always be rescued).

98: Cliffs: escape for heroes, death for villians.

99: Inverse law of Ninjas: When a hero is facing minor villians, the danger of the villians will decreace as the number he faces increaces. For example if a hero faces one lone ninja it will always be a long drawn out combat. But if he faces ten ninjas he will dispatch them in a matter of seconds.

:rofl: So true. One of the problems with cliches, right? ;)

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104. Dark secret tunnels usually have a lit torch conveniently hung on the wall.

105. A thrown knife or sword always lands blade first.

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106. If the power goes off, something bad is about to happen.

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Ha, yes. On that note:

107. If the night is dark and stormy, get ready for something dramatic and/or frightening to happen.

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108. When someone says, "I've got a bad feeling about this", it always turns out to be a premonition rather than just nervousness or heartburn.

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Oh yeah. :rofl:

109. In a fleeing situation, the most out-of-shape team member will lag behind, stumble, and fall, and the hero must go back to help him.

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110. In the hands of a highly trained individual, a .22 rifle with an empty water bottle on the muzzle works as well as higher caliber sniper rifle with a suppressor, albeit at a shorter range.

111. In dire circumstances, a pen works as well as a knife.

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112. If the door's locked, there's usually a key under the mat.
113. If the door's locked and there's no key under the mat, then turn to the female main character, as she will have a bobby pin that will pick the lock in under ten seconds.

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114. A tiny mask and/or glasses are enough to keep people from recognizing you.

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116. The average person with a snub-nosed revolver can hit distant moving targets with ease--unless the target is important later in the plot.

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117. A locket bearing the faces of the character's parents (probably dead) must be involved.

118. If you are involved in breaking into a high security building, rest assured that your technology will fail, and your pal outside in the van will freak out.

119. If it is Victorian England, there is no shame in marrying a young man who lives on his father's money, has no job (or looks for one), camps out at friends' houses for weeks on end, and mainly goes on walks or listens to piano music while drinking tea. In fact, he will be considered respectable.

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120. If you have one bullet left and two enemies, grab a nearby sword, hold it at arm's length, and shoot at it. No worries--the sword will not be broken. Rather, the bullet will split in two and kill your enemies.

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120. If you have one bullet left and two enemies, grab a nearby sword, hold it at arm's length, and shoot at it. No worries--the sword will not be broken. Rather, the bullet will split in two and kill your enemies.


I love that stunt. It works every time for me. ;)

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120. If you have one bullet left and two enemies, grab a nearby sword, hold it at arm's length, and shoot at it. No worries--the sword will not be broken. Rather, the bullet will split in two and kill your enemies.


I love that stunt. It works every time for me. ;)


Uh-huh! It doesn't matter if your enemies are at an odd angle. The bullet (with the help of the sword) will always bring them down. :D

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"One should write of ordinary life as if one were writing history." Gustave Flaubert
"Writing is hard work and bad for your health." E.B. White
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." Robert Louis Stevenson
Writer's Block--when your imaginary friends don't talk to you.
"Creative minds are seldom tidy."
Careful--or you'll end up in my novel.

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Yup. Even if it has to curve and bounce off a few walls.

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121. Everyone hates the popular girls.

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122. The popular girl's group consists of one evil ringleader with a bunch of brainless followers.

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123. No classes actually go on in high school. The ones that do are less than five minutes in approximate length and the teachers do nothing.

124. No one likes moving. Ever. It doesn't matter if they moved from the slums where hearing gunshots just meant it was Tuesday, to a nice, safe, suburban neighborhood with a huge house; moving is always terrible.

125. Attics are cool; basements are creepy.

126. Automatic machine guns are generally ineffective at any range, unless you are the main character/hero, in which case they work like a miracle.

127. Foster families are either evil or will be killed.

128. Disney hates parents - particularly moms.

129. Comparing the protagonist to the villain is a bad idea that will result in an angsty growl and short, cryptically hissed speech at first, but leads to a longer, heart-felt explanation later.

130. High school girls are really sadistic sociopaths in a blonde and pink costume.

131. Vampires are always hot, despite the fact that they are mobile corpses.

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132. It always rains during funerals, or other equally depressing moments.

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133. Bad guys can't shoot straight. Unless you're trying to kill off a main character.

134. Farmboys who later become a great hero, always go to live with their uncle.

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135. It is a physical impossibility for main characters to die.

136. Wizards must always have abnormally long, white beards.

137. When a character lies, no matter how obvious it seems, the one being lied to will never notice.

138. A main character can kill thousands of people without being touched once and still end up with bruises and cuts on their arms and face.

139. When you suddenly start dancing in the middle of a hallway, the lyrics and choreography will magically be injected into your surrounding classmates' brains. Not to mention, invisible instruments will play the correct tune.

140. Good guys always have an endless amount of bullets.

141. Good guys can "peer" around a corner to spy on bad guys by sticking out half their bodies and whisper loudly to each other while never getting caught.

142. Both good and bad attractive women in heels can always run perfectly fine.

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:rofl: Quite true...unfortunately.

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Oh, I love number 141! That is so true! :rofl:

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I'm not sure if these have been added, so let me know if I'm doubling any:

143. The bad guy always feels compelled to explain his master plan to his prisoner(s) then finds he has a time schedule to keep and leaves them to their doom. Which in most cases, ends with the prisoner(s) escaping and foiling his devilish plot.

144. Old people are actually pretty spry for their age.

145. Hunger is irrelevant unless there is no access to food--then they get hungry.

146. Some people have the unique ability to keep their hair (and makeup) perfect throughout the movie.

147. Distance matters not, if someone must carry an injured person they have the stamina to bear the weight for miles and days on end.

148. Everyone is so eloquent that not one "um", "but", "uh", or "er" is uttered in long incoherent strings.

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