Originally Posted By: Faldage
And more than legendary, he existed IRL. While the legendary Paul Revere might have yelled, "The British are coming! The British are coming!" the real one would have more likely yelled, "The regulars are coming! The regulars are coming!"

Well, yes, strictly speaking I should have applied the adjective to the ride or the cry rather than the person, quite right. Though it can be taken in the wider more modern sense of the word of course, as in the sentence "the coffee at that restaurant is legendary!" Or "his exploits at the last Olympic Games were legendary." That is, it can mean something like "larger than life."