The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
And then the murders began.
–Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
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Gonna cheat with a paragraph, because the entire thing works best:
It was October 23, 2008. The stock market was in free fall, having plummeted almost 30 percent over the previous five weeks. Once-esteemed companies like Lehman Brothers had gone bankrupt. Credit markets had all but ceased to function. Houses in Las Vegas had lost 40 percent of their value. Unemployment was skyrocketing. Hundreds of billions of dollars had been committed to failing financial firms. Confidence in government was the lowest that pollsters had ever measured. The presidential election was less than two weeks away.
And then the murders began.
– The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver.
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Episode 1: Steven thinks his favorite ice cream sandwiches are the trick to summoning his magic shield but learns otherwise when facing off with an acid spewing insect monster. And then the murders began.
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“I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there’s gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day…
And then the murders began.”
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst
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It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. And then the murders began.
47 comments in, I can’t believe nobody did that one yet!
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You win!
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“Intellectual and political debate about the distribution of wealth has long been based on an abundance of prejudice and a paucity of fact. And then the murders began.”
- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century
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I am a physician and human biologist for whom the natural history of human sexuality is of as much interest as the rest of human natural history. As with the rest of human natural history, I had notes on it. My wife encouraged me to bring biology into medicine, and my old medical school had no decent textbook to teach a human sexuality course. And then the murders began.
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October 2, 1950:
“Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown! Good ol’ Charlie Brown… yes, sir! Good ol’ Charlie Brown… How I hate him!”
And then the murders began.
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Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. On 30 June 1908,Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometres - a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. And then the murders began.
- Rendezvous With Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Hello valued Planet Mercenary Customer! We’ve been providing the finest weapons, armor, and materiel to sophonts like you for over six hundred years. And then the murders began.
- Planet Mercenary RPG manual
You’d think with all those weapons, the murders would have begun a lot sooner…
Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped - turned upside down. And then the murders began.
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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So, the Full House theme tune doesn’t have lyrics?
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Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
And then the murders began.
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To be fair, that’s entirely accurate regarding GoT.
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“Perhaps without being much noticed yet, a fundamental transformation in the history of marxism and marxist movements is upon us. And then the murders began.”
- Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities (of murder?)
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I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. And then the murders began.
EDIT: Oops - looks like @ChuckV thought of it first.
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Luke Skywalker has vanished. And then the murders began.
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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth/Minbari war. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. And then the murders began.
-Babylon 5
I come from the net. From systems, people, and cities, to this place. Mainframe. And then the murders began.
-ReBoot
One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of Gargoyles. And then the murders began.
-Gargoyles
He is immortal, born in the Highlands of Scotland four hundred years ago. And then the murders began.
-Highlander
The Cylons were created by man. And then the murders began.
-Battlestar Galactica
You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. And then the murders began.
-Person of Interest
My name is Sydney Bristow. Seven years ago I was recruited by a secret branch of the CIA called SD-6. And then the murders began.
-Alias
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“Showtime, a-holes!”
And then the murders began.
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A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight: a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law. And then the murders began.
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Well, if we’re doing TV shows now…
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.” And then the murders began.
- The Six Million Dollar Man
This briefing is from file A56-7W. Classified Top Secret. Subject is, Airwolf. A Mach 1+ attack helicopter with the most advanced weapons system in the air today. It’s been hidden somewhere in the Western United States by its test pilot Stringfellow Hawke. And then the murders began.
- Airwolf
In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. And then the murders began.
- The A-Team
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