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To continue the title: Paul. As in Sir Paul McCartney . But in 1969, there was a problem: several radio stations broadcast a conspiracy theory: Paul died in a car crash in 1966 . And the remaining Beatles covered it up and replaced the dead Paul with an (apparently equally-talented) imposter. Fans began scouring Beatles songs for evidence of the ruse; they pointed to "The walrus was Paul" line from the song  W hite Onion , concluding that "walrus" was the Greek word for corpse (it isn't). in reality, John Lennon was messing with fans' propensity to find meaning to those lyrics when there was none. In an interview for what later became the Beatles Anthology television documentary , John said:  I threw the line in—"the Walrus was Paul"—just to confuse everybody a bit more. It could have been "The fox terrier is Paul." I mean, it's just a bit of poetry. I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledygook about Pepper—...

The ICON A5 is an amphibious "light-sport aircraft" that is marketed primarily to adventurous amateur pilots with deep pockets (and spacious home garages in which to store their ICONs). The plane has a recreational focus; it can seat only two, has limited load capacity, and isn't intended to go very far.  The cost of the plane was $139K when first introduced in 2006  but is now $389K for a "fully-loaded version." YouTube is full of videos showing how much fun you can have with an ICON A5 (especially with water landings and take-offs), bringing to mind the "jet ski with wings" analogy. So the ICON A5 is perhaps the ultimate high-tech, outdoor adult toy (unless you're afraid of heights). T here have been several fatalities with the A5, but these apparently resulted from pilot  error in one case and reckless flying in another rather than from mechanical defects or design flaws.  The ICON A5 Purchase Agreement (including the Operating Agreeme...