In 1978, Eric Idle (of Monte Python's Flying Circus comedy group) and Neil Innes (of Monte Python and Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band satirical groups) wrote and starred in a satire about The Beatles called All You Need Is Cash. They covered the Paul Is Dead story with a mixture of George, Paul and replacement Paul references.
In the video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PgzRizr6o they cover the rumor that Stig--the George character--might have died. At 0:06-0:16 in the video, the commentator (Eric Idle) says,
"Stig had hidden in the background so much that a rumor went around in 1969 that he was dead. He was supposed to have been killed in a flash fire at a water bed shop and replaced by a plastic and wax replica from Madame Tussauds." My interpretation of this is that they were alluding to: the Lotus hyperbaric chamber bed I've mentioned in previous posts; and to the man who replaced Paul who needed plastic surgery to resemble Paul enough to convince a world audience.
The movie talked about the Paul Is Dead clues. Beginning at 0:27-0:30, they say :
". . . he'd not said a word since 1966."
At 1:30-1:38 (in a reference to, apparently, Linda Eastman, who married the man who replaced Paul):
"He'd fallen in bed with Gertrude Strange . . . whose father had invented the Limpet mine."
Limpet mines were naval mines developed in England during World War II that were attached by frogmen (underwater divers) to enemy ships. Again, I think this was an inside joke about Paul and the hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
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So...is the idea that Faul was put in the hyperbaric chamber to make his plastic surgery heal more quickly (and learned the diving signals as a way to tell the medical administrator that he needed to get out of the tank)? or are you thinking Paul #2 (the one you believe to be John Black) wound up stuck, for some period of time, in a coma or semi-conscious state due to his injuries and a hyperbaric tank was part of his treatment? Or that he was being held in a hyperbaric tank against his will?
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