Things I learned from watching 10.5

Here they are in random order. Thaks to Cush and Zombywoof for pointing out some. Anybody who has more fell free to add them.

- Earthquakes are cunning predators that will even go after trains but stop when they catch them.

- When the governor decides to make a speech, she can fly to another city (ah hell, she's still seems to be better then The Governator).

- When the gas erupts from the river, make sure your gas mask is secure before you drive away from it.

- When the Space Needle is falling on you, try to outrun it (rather then turning to the left or right, or running underneath to go in the opposite direction to get away).

- When the scientist proposes the crazy theory, it's probably right.

- No one will believe the crazy theory until a lot more people die.

- When the smart-ass doctor proposes a more dangerous procedure, he's probably right.

- There's nothing a nuclear bomb can't fix.

- Eventhough the faults causing the quakes are hundreds of kilometers down, a few nukes at about 300 feet will fuse the plates.

- When you see much of the road has been destroyed it's probably still OK to drive over.

- When you have asthma problems, loosing the inhaler is a pretty sure bet.

- California sure looks a lot like Vancouver.

- Maximum Bob is now the president? Where's his mermaid show wife? What happened to Old Sparky?

- So this is why John Schneider hasn't been on Smallville as much lately.

- When the disaster hits, the only one the President can count on to head up the task force is the head of FEMA.

- Every disfunctional family is healed by facing the disaster together.

- You have choice of what you need more: Inhaler or Radio. Pick the radio.

- A massive 8+ or 9+ quake causes deep gas pockets to erupt , but triggers no volcanic eruptions.

- The White House has a basketball court (I may have read that somewhere else but forgot it.)

- The dead family had their radio playing loud enough to be heard through several feet of dirt, a good thirty feet away in a dust storm. No wonder they're dead. They wouldn't have heard anything coming.

- When you go into the field, leave the intern who believed you in charge.

- If your last words are a fight with your spouse, you're a goner.

- Trust your family to get out on their own. Your job comes first.

- When your father says all the things he should have said years ago, he's a goner.

- Always build an Earthquake Evacuation Camp on a fault line.

- The safest place to be is always in a govt. helicopter.

- Earthquakes can cause wild time fluctuations in the same time zone.

- That whole riding the bomb thing works better dropping out out of an airplane rather than a hole in the ground.

- When land drops into the sea, the water will rush in like a swift river rather than a tsunami.

- A 10.5 is localized in CA (even though the Alaska quake, an 8 swayed chandeliers in the White House)

- There is always a musical interlude when lots of people die.

- Women always trip and fall.

- After it's over the first thing a little girl will say is "wow" rather then "where's my mommy?"

But who the hell is Marshal Law?

Can I copy this and email it?

:thumbsup:

You know, he's good buddies with Dick Myers & the PNAC crew...

I only saw part two and was laughing while watching it in an MST3K sort of way.

- If you can't afford modern special effects, hire the guy who did the effects in 1970's Godzilla movies.

- All nuclear devices have a manual override panel with a simple 10 digit code consisting of several 'niners'.

into the ocean and the water ever so gently fills the new fault line crack.
Hey...bring the beach chairs & fishin poles!

I wanted to see big huge waves and giant tsunamis and boiling mud & earth!
damn...that was the neatest non- messy earthquake!!

Well...it musta been a Maximun Bob alternate reality west coast....
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Good for a laugh anyway!
10.5...*snork*

DR

drift. WooHoo!!!!

Actually my first thought was - this is a stroke film for all those people who want southern California to fall into the ocean. I stopped watching the final 15, Did they indeed literally run from the giant fault line?

"- Women always trip and fall."

This time it was the scientist guy who tripped and fell and our intrepid heroine got to go back and save him.

She did go back after the tower fell on him and he was amazingly uninjured, but as they were running, she fell, but managed to pull herself to her feet while the scientist guy kept going (so much for his returning the favor).

did they think no one would NOTICE? That's almost as bad as The Deer Hunter showing the guys hunting in what was purportedly Pennsylvania, but was unmistakably the Cascade Mountains of Washington state (I don't think Penn has very many 10,000+ peaks).

I expect this will show up on some version of MST3K in the future. There's an outdoor film festival here in Seattle that always shows Showgirls as part of the festival, with appropriate commentary added. Hysterical. This bit of cheese may suffer the same fate.

- Shared trauma is often mistaken for intimacy.

- when something slams into your chest with enough force to smash your insides and make you spit up blood, you can still manually arm a warhead AND give your kid a long winded speech (and to think I thought the internal bleeding would kill you pretty quick).

- People tend to watch something fall on them rather than try to get out of the way.

Apparently concrete can bend