I remember reading about Japanese fire brigades in the 30's and 40's where someone bearing the brigade standard would rush towards the flames and stand at a point where the fire would be stopped. Often these standard bearers were subsequently memorialized.
In the Movies - Invasion of the Body Snatchers - real people were replaced by duplicates hatched from giant pea pods.
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Arnold from being married all these years to a liberal has become a super liberal RINO by osmosis of Maria’s bodily fluids. You might say Liberalism is an STD.