Things You Learn 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. At least one of a pair of identical twins is 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 arch enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape. 10. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her. 11. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread. 12. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down. 13. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off-even while scuba diving. 14. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home. 15. 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. 16. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris. 17. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds. 18. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrownthrough it before long. 19. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear. 20. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say Enter Password Now. 21. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments. 22. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off. 23. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. 24. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps. 25. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite. 26. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English. --------

it doesn't matter how charmed your life may appear, life is still short. Peter Blake's achievements A brief timeline of the life and achievements of America's Cup and Round the World winning yachtsman Peter Blake, who was killed by pirates in Brazil on Thursday: 1 October 1948 Born in Auckland. 1974 First round-the-world yacht race as watch officer on Burton Cutter. 1979 Line honours and course record in Fastnet race on Condor. 1980 Line and handicap honours Sydney-Hobart Race on Ceramco 1982 Named New Zealand's Yachtsman of the Year. 1983 Awarded MBE 1988 Line honours in inaugural two-man round Australia race aboard Steinlager 1. 1989/90 Line, handicap and overall honours for Round the World Race aboard Steinlager 2. Named New Zealand's Sports Personality of the Year in 1989. 1990 Named New Zealand's Sportsman of the Year and New Zealand's Yachtsman of the Year. 1991 Awarded OBE 1992 Brought in to New Zealand's unsuccessful America's Cup challenge. 1994 Wins Jules Verne Trophy for fastest non-stop circumnavigation of world aboard Enza. Named World Sailor of the Year and British Yachtsman of the Year. 1995 Head of New Zealand's successful America's Cup challenge. Knighted for services to yachting. Awarded (with Robin Knox Johnston) the Royal Yacht Squadron's Sir Francis Chichester Trophy. Also received New Zealand's Outstanding Management and Marketing Achievement Award. 1997 Appointed captain of Cousteau Society, combining his duties with planning for New Zealand's America's Cup defence. 2000 Team New Zealand becomes first non-American team to successfully defend the Auld Mug. Resigns from Cousteau Society and establishes "blakexpeditions" to educate people about the world's ecosystems. 2001 January-March Inaugural blakexpeditions voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula. Appointed a Special Envoy of the United Nations Environment Programme. 2001 December 5 Killed by pirates while on another blakexpeditions voyage in Amazonia. � Reuters Published on Dec 07, 2001 --------

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