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Things I learned watching King Solomon's Mines


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I had so much fun watching this movie, I decided to make the list. No particular order.

1. If a giant pot of boiling water begins to tip, the entire tribe will not notice.

2. To stop a lion from eating you, start making out with a girl.

3. Be careful when rolling out a carpet with a person, they will continue rolling.

4. Trains will not stop for cars, but will for elephants.

5. Any vehicle that crashes will automatically explode.

6. Cannibal tribes prefer white meat.

7. You can change the world by hanging upside down.

8. If you shoot randomly, you will probably hit your own men.

9. Train tracks will become flat when you're snagging on the end.

10. When a man dies from a trap in a merchant's house, he will worry more about the door.

11. If you fail at trying to ambush a caboose full of soldiers, play a song.

12. If a soldier is gay, you must shoot him in the balls.

13. If you scream really loud, the whole tribe will too.

14. Two people can feed a tribe of over 1000 cannibals.

15. Cannibals prefer eating fully clothed people.

16. Sharon Stone does not know how to beg for someone's life.

17. If you fall between a train, you will be okay, a chain is waiting at the end for you to grab.

18. Different tribes wear the same thing.

19. If you accidentally mess up someone's carpet, tell them "Wrong color".

20. If you touch lava, you will explode.

21. Blonde women will distract any soldier, except gay ones.

22. "Stop sinking! That's an order!"

23. Dead bodies will float on quicksand/mud.

24. If you're going to kill someone by lowering them into something, do it very slowly.

25. Don't step on the clearly colored red stone.

26. Swallowing bugs will keep up your strength.

27. If you see a giant spider, don't shoot it, just walk backwards until you're trapped in a web.

28. Some people will protect you by holding their eyes shut in fetal position.

29. If the whole ceiling is coming down, try pushing it back up.

30. A good place to store jewels is in your hat.

31. If you almost fall into a pit of lava, chains will be on the side for you to grab.

32. Sticks will not melt (or explode) in lava

33. If you're an adventurer and a girl is with you, she will eventually fall in love with you.

34. Soldiers cannot tell the difference between dynamite and a cigar.

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35. Turks are afraid of fire.

36. Germans too.

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37. Tribes must kill someone slowly to give their friends time to save them.

38. If you're in trouble, dynamite will always save you somehow.

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Forgot one:

39. When throwing dynamite, it's proper etiquette to shout out "I got it!" before you do so.

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40. Germans have the best laxatives.

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41. Swearing in languages other than English will get the words past the censors (scheisen-feces in English-clean version).

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42. Cigars in Africa sparkle and fizz like a lit fuse rather than burn slowly, so it's easy to confuse then with a stick of dynamite.

43. Huge, thick, heavy bullet-proof vests that don't slow you down at all are an old Turkish invention.

44. Giant mutant spiders and rock monsters exist in African subterranean caves.

45. If you spin a carpet around in a market you'll hit random white dudes in the face.

46. With no training you can fly a plane as long as you pretend like it's driving a car, bruuuuum!

47. It's necessary to hide a map to King Solomon's Mines in a statue even though the direction are simply some plains that lead to two mountains, with no names or locations for reference.

48. Don't bother briefing your troops on your new enemy Quatermain's appearance, so that he can board your train and freely walk through your men playing a horn.

49. If you can't read the markings you'll walk into obvious pitfalls.

50. You can't order a man to stop sinking into quicksand.

51. If you're being eaten alive by an impossible creature you should shout out "Ze German army vill not stand for it!"

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I may be a tiny chimney-sweep but I've got an enormous brush.

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52. If you tell a snake to go away, it will.

53. A handful of diamonds can buy you Iowa.

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54. Even when dealing with this crap Jerry Goldsmith managed to compose engaging and wellcrafted music.

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The throttle is that thing between your legs. PULL ON IT!

Sharon Stone used to be really hot

African Natives will wash your shirts

Spilling large amounts of water onto a cannibal cook fire will not put it out.

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58. African cannibals love to cook their white people with Corn, Tomatoes, and Peppers, all of which are native to the New World - well except the white people.

59. "German laxatives are the best"

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60. Always send out henchmen into danger before you.

61. Large groups of heavily armed insurgents pop up and disappear alongside the train tracks like magic.

62. Always have a large collection of riding crops ready when beating the information out of a prisoner.

63. Jumping into a small pool of lava can bring down an entire mountain.

64. Don't play chicken, just fire the machine guns.

65. 'Ze German Armiee never vuns avay!'

66. That plump German guard over there is attracted to you...

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Sharon Stones short's get shorter through out the film

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Dummy dynamite comes in handy sometimes.
'Talk or Die' is three words.
When fighting a nazi under a train pulling your head in a the last second before it hits a boulder looks really cool.


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68. It's safe to play chicken with planes as long as they don't exceed 15mph.
69. Courgette is a fine accompaniment to boiled human.

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70. German soldiers locked in an card game fail to notice where one of their co-players went.

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This thread is a failure. You can't make these lists about spoof films like this. The film is meant to be this way. It's a spoof for crying out loud.

Hidyho!

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