Legend has it that Rinpoche arrived at the site on the back of a flying tigress from Tibet before spending three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours in deep meditation.
In 1916 Manhattan, Colin Farrell escapes from Russell Crowe's Irish gangster Pearly on the back of a flying horse (no, I have not been at the spiked punch), then falls for doomed ingenue Jessica Brown Findlay, who walks barefoot in the snow and has the hale, rosy-cheeked glow peculiar to Hollywood consumptives.
Take the infamous Tiger's Nest for example (pictured above) where Tibetan Buddhist Master Guru Padmasambhava is said to have flown on the back of a flying tiger, or the "Divine Madman" who was believed to have fought off enemies with a thunderbolt from his magical genitalia.
The last time we saw Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown he was travelling back in time on a flying stream train with his family.
At least two audience members scribbled down long division on the back of a flyer that had been placed on each seat.
"They see me go back on a fly ball, and if there are two outs, maybe I won't get under it, but just run it down.
He's pulled back after a flying run on the left and it's yet another free-kick to the Czech Republic.
When I found her again, just before two, she was holding a page full of remarks that she had written out on the back of a flyer, and was shifting from foot to foot.
In the post game celebration, Stevens and walk-on forward Emerson Kampen connected on a flying back-bump that became one of the iconic images of the tournament.
The audience apparently agreed, transfixed by such sights as Venus ascending into the heavens and "being almost lost in the clouds", whereupon "Cupid flies up and gets into her chariot, and brings her back", followed by Jupiter appearing on a flying eagle.
