I remeber that show too.

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Aim high (but don't blow yourself up)!- Homer Hickam

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

— Alan B. Shepard Jr.

Out-of-control antics on snow. I don't care if it's runaway sleds or people skiing; it's not only old, it's idiotic. Fall down, morons, it's snow! Solids don't get much cuddlier than snow.

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The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits

Chases by ski. So overused. A good spy should know to have a secret snow cave to duck into and leave their oponent chasing nothing.
Within five minutes of somebody mentioning that there could be traps, one springs.

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"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

... Able to follow the tracks through the snow right to where the spy is now quite trapped. Fresh snow is the worst surface in the world to attempt to lose a chaser, even with a sizable head start.

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Not true! You simply run in every direction, and then your pursuer won't know which set of tracks to follow. Simple!

Or run backwards.

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Running backwards doesn't help, a backwardsset of prints looks different.

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'The eye can only see what the mind is prepared to accept'

Even in a cliche'?

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It worked for Danny in the movie version of The Shining

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Tracks that have been walked through once look different than tracks that have been walked through twice, even backwards.

While you're busy wandering around laying tracks around some hub, your pursuer is busy catching up to you.

If you lay a lot of tracks and loop a bunch of times, your pursuer merely needs to circle around the hub in a radius larger than your loops. The track that crosses that circle once is the right one. And I guarantee I can make that circle faster than you can lay the false tracks.

The solution is this: move fast, move straight. Find a car, get into it, and drive like hell. Hitch-hike, beg, borrow, buy, steal. Get wheels and move. Get out of "Dodge" just as fast as you can. A stern-chase on foot in snow is not a favorable environment for the guy in the lead.

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Moose, you may be right, but you are just NOT in a cliche' frame of mind.

The best thing would be to make a big snowman. When the bad guy walks up to it, smirks and fills it full of lead the hero rises from the snow he buried himself in behind the villain and klunks him in the head. Then he turns away without making sure the villain is completely incapaciated and...

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

If the little kid thinks somebody is lying or bad, they are.

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Kai's home computer is broken and her posting may be eratic for a while - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Whenever somebody with a possible medical problem gets told to see a doctor, they angrily deny having a problem, and then immediately collapse in pain.

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"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

The doctor cannot do anything about whaterver is wrong with the patient.

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Kai's home computer is broken and her posting may be eratic for a while - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Snow survival is firmly in a class of clichés that get on my nerves only slightly less certainly than Hollywood computing does.

It's pretty much the same reason why Blair Witch Project annoyed the living heck out of me. With the information readily available in the movie, when token-guy number two announced he deliberately ditched the map, I had no fewer than three workable navigational strategies even these fool lay folks couldn't possibly botch by the fifth expletive.

Simplest of them is this: if you're truly lost in the woods, find running water (like the water these turkeys were standing in), a brook or river, and follow it downstream. Walk in the water if you can't walk along it. But follow the river downstream.

You do this for three reasons: 1) you will eventually find a settlement, a road, or the ocean, 2) You'll have water to boil, purify and drink as needed (you did bring your purifier tablets, right?), 3) a ready supply of brook trout pan-fries for the win. (You did bring your line and a hook, didn't you?)

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New! It combines the power of science with the gentleness of your mother's best intentions!
A new miracle technique, we apply homeopathic methods to achieve scientific efficaciousness
for dilutions WAY beyond Avogadro's Limit. It's New! It's Fresh!
It's Placebo^[tm] Brand Power Drink! *[Use as directed. May increase kidney function.]

They know exactly what the problem is almost immediately, but they can't cure it (but they know exactly where the cure is and who has it). Or they don't and the local shaman/medicine man/crazy Aunt Sadie/homeless man does, and the doctor scoffs at their primitive notions.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

You don't need a hook and line, just some dental floss and a safety pin can work in a stretch.

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Kai's home computer is broken and her posting may be eratic for a while - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

It wasn't too clear in the movie, but they DID try to follow a stream. Somehow, they wound up circling back to their starting point. At this point, the viewer is clued in that the Blair Witch is hunting them

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Whenever a news story is on TV it relates directly to the plot whoever is watching it is either already involved in or is about to be involved in.

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