Twenty-five years ago

Q: If Mark David Chapman had killed Yoko Ono instead of John Lennon, what would be on the Strawberry Fields plaque instead of “IMAGINE” ?


A: Who says there’d be a plaque?

15 Comments

  1. Overanalysis on the basis of no data:
    Strawberry Fields must be Mr. Lennon’s grave, and this joke presumes that if Mr. Lennon had not been killed that day, he would still be alive today. Well, maybe, but 25 years is a long time, especially for a rock star. There is a fair chance he would be dead by now. Even if he wouldn’t have been dead yet, (do we need Douglas Adams’ time travelers’ tense here?) he would have died someday. There’s a fair chance he would still be buried at Strawberry Fields, and a fair chance it would still say “Imagine”, so there is a (fair)^3 chance that nothing would have changed, except for the date on the plaque, and a (fair)^2 that once the plaque was in place, it would say “Imagine”.
    I don’t even know why I care, except the $#@& stole my birthday, so I can confidently predict that the big story on my birthday from now to eternity will be “Mr. Lennon’s XXth birthday”. How would you like that?
    Besides, its just some dumb old band. Get over it, people!

  2. I think Dennis Leary said it best:
    “We live in a world where john lennon takes six bullets to the chest. Yoko Ono is standing right next to him. NOT ONE BULLET!!!! EXPLAIN THAT TO ME GOD!!! PLEASE GOD EXPLAIN IT TO ME NOW!!!!”
    Adam

  3. Don’t be so hard on the girl, i.e., try to see the bright side of everything: would you rather have a Beatles reunion tour with the sixty-year-old lads playing ‘Back in the USSR’ and not being able to hit the high notes?
    Said another way: the Strolling Bones are now a pitiful farce, devoid of anything except a desire for cash.
    At least Yoko broke up the band. I thank her!

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