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Umm, in Taken 2, they take his ex-wife and himself. His daughter escaped. What if they did a mashup of Taken & The Transporter, with the girl in the trunk of Martin's car being Mills' daughter? Hijinks ensue.

He wasn't in a Fed. Pen., he was in a city lockup. Even a Mayor could have ordered a "youse guys make yourself scarce for awhile" hit.

I knew someone would make this argument. As myths, legends, lore, etc go, it's fairly contemporary. When most hear the word "myth", they think of the ancient Greeks & Romans.

Excising future back & forth from the Memes thread. Paul (McCartney) is Dead. The story as I remember it was that on a rainy night in the late 60's (just prior to Sgt. Pepper), Paul is driving in his car and sees a young lady getting drenched. He pulls over to offer a ride and she accepts. As they resume, she realizes who she's in a car with and flips out. Paul loses control of the car and slams into a wall, killing himself and the girl. The clues (not necessarily in order - Abbey Road LP - The front cover shows George dressed as a common man/gravedigger. Ringo as a mourner. Paul, in the suit he crashed in as the dead man, he's out of step, shoeless and holding his cigarette in his right hand (he's left-handed). John as the preacher. The back of the album cover shows the wall the car slammed into. The crack in the wall runs through "BEATLES" indicating there's a fracture in the band. Magical Mystery Tour - I Am The Walrus - In some Nordic mythology, the Walrus represents death. Strawberry Fields Forever - at the end it says, "I Buried Paul". White Album - Glass Onion - the lyric "The Walrus was Paul" sung by John, admitting that Paul was dead (see: I Am the Walrus). Revolution #9 - playing the repeated words "number 9" in reverse sounds like "Turn me on dead man". Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Front cover is Paul's grave. The guitar (in flowers) has four strings, Paul played a 4 string bass and faces with the fretboard to the right (as Paul would play left-handed). Paul holds an oboe across his body as one might when lying in repose in a casket. On the interior of the album, Paul has a patch on his shoulder that purportedly says, "OPD" (Offically Pronounced Dead).The "old Beatles" are in mourning (depicted). The back of the LP shows George, John and Ringo facing the camera with Paul facing away. George is making an L with his fingers, Paul's belt has a circle (an O), John has his hands tucked in his belt as a V and Ringo interlaced his fingers in an E (L-O-V-E). George's index finger also points to the lyrics of "She's Leaving Home" on the line "Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock...". Some DJ flipped the front of the album upside down & found that "BEATLES" looked like 537-1438, so he called the number on a Wednesday at 5 am and asked about the Beatles - the person who answered only said "PM". The DJ asked if the person could say anything more and the person said to call back later. The DJ checks the lyrics and finds "Friday Morning at 9 o'clock...", so he calls at that time and the number has been disconnected. In the song, "A Day in the Life" are the lines, "He blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice that the lights had changed, a crowd of people stood and stared, they'd seen his face before...nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords", meaning his face looked familiar but was too messed up from the crash to identify. Another part of the story has there being a "Beatles Look-alike" contest, hosted by a British Radio station with the winner getting some Beatles related stuff. The winner was a near match for Paul. His name was something like George MacKenzie. When Paul "died", the remaining Beatles grabbed him to fill in, despite his not knowing how to play any instrument. The rest covered for him on albums until they taught him how to play. Supposedly this happened before SPLHCB, which was why there was such a drastic change between it and the albums that came before. Someone even tried to do a dental comparison from photos, claiming that the Pauls had different smiles and tooth alignments. I think there's more that I've forgotten. For their part, The Beatles claimed that they had no hand in the rumor or adding to it. A joke going around was that Paul's guitar playing "improved after he died". I personally don't think any of it is true, but I think the Beatles did play along to some extent. I'm pretty sure, that the patch that supposedly says "OPD" is actually "OBE" (Order of the British Empire)" award which they all received (and John returned).

Nope. The song is actually the story of a guy & his girl tripping. The guy has a bad trip & knocks his girl unconscious and in his stupor, believes he's killed her. In a panic, he finds a crate and puts her body in it and starts to bury the crate. Parts of the instrumental is the dirt falling on the crate, the slow woodblocks and building drums are her heartbeat as she comes to, the screeching guitar his her screams and fingers clawing at the interior of the crate... People were crazy in the '70s. BTW - did you know "Paul is Dead"?

You hear the legend behind the song?

Full Disclosure - "Roman Around" was the name of the show before mine when I was on radio in college. A Polish guy whose first name was Roman jocked it . I had NNTH (Not Necessarily the Hits), where I would play Blue Cheer, Frijid Pink, Crabby Appleton and a bunch of stuff nobody but a few people/callers cared about.

Inna Gadda Da Vida was a Christmas song. If you listen closely, you'll hear the melody of 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' during the organ interlude, but you have to listen close as it's pretty well buried.

Everyone thinks that Romans lived in Rome, but they were actually quite migratory. They were always "Roman Around".

There's Heavy Metal, and then there's Heavy Metal. Depending who you ask, the first Heavy Metal song was "Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer or "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles. But others claim that the first three Heavy Metal bands were Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple & Black Sabbath.

If you haven't already, you should start documenting everything and take pictures of all the damage. I hope you took pics when you moved in, so that the mgmt doesn't try to claim you created the mess. I suppose they might have needed to order the parts, if the originals were off-sized. My folks had a double-wide mobile home and nothing in it was standard sized.

Very cool! The Canadiens fans chanted "Fleury" and some of the Canadiens players stayed on the ice & tapped their sticks after the game. Fleury is only the 3rd goalie to win 500 games in the NHL.

I'm guessing whoever tried to repair the pop-up assembly didn't want to shuck out the >$20 for a new one, so they spent the equivalent amount or more on Flex Seal. I fixed one in a little over an hour this summer, but I was dealing with trying to squeeze myself into an undersink cabinet to get at it (not as flexible as I used to be). This should have taken around 15 minutes to do right.

WTF??? Those pictures - yeesh! Does your location have a housing board/council? This looks like the stuff you see in those "house inspector nightmares" pictures. Like these.

A manager at a big box store I worked at would wait for a rainy day, then ask the new stockperson what the weather was like. Upon hearing that it was raining, he would tell the person (in a panicked voice), "Quick, run to the basement and close all the windows!". The people in the stockroom office would know what was up once the person asked where the stairs to the basement were.