# What is your favourite actor/musician doing in on a parallel Earth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224 "2017-09-01T03:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/1 "2017-09-01T03:26:29Z")
What unlikely, yet oddly likely jobs would they each be doing in an alternate universe? Emily Blunt: magazine editor. Robert De Niro: therapist. David Bowie: costume designer for the fake NASA lunar mission. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/2 "2017-09-01T05:56:53Z")
John Lennon would be alive. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/3 "2017-09-01T09:07:17Z")
Harrison Ford: Carpenter ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/4 "2017-09-02T14:07:51Z")
I would have loved to see how John Lennon would have reacted to the Bush years, if they even would have happened at all in a universe where he still lived. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/5 "2017-09-02T14:12:58Z")
Weird Al would be an architect. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/6 "2017-09-02T20:18:47Z")
Kris Kristofferson would be a university professor. Heck, the dude was a Rhodes Scholar! In our universe anyway he was. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/7 "2017-09-03T03:47:24Z")
Stephen Colbert: Priest ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/8 "2017-09-03T16:40:32Z")
Christopher Walken: manager of his family’s bakery ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/9 "2017-09-03T21:08:26Z")
Keith Richards is retired, attends AA meetings and yells at kids to get off his lawn. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/10 "2017-09-04T05:42:29Z")
Surely Keith Richards is dead? And Amy Winehouse is alive? > [@Quimby](#): > > I would have loved to see how John Lennon would have reacted to the Bush years, if they even would have happened at all in a universe where he still lived. Warren Ellis, in the Marvel Comic “New Universal”, posited a parallel earth where the Chinese had moon bases, and McCartney was assassinated instead of Lennon. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/11 "2017-09-04T13:19:46Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Kris Kristofferson would be a university professor. Heck, the dude was a Rhodes Scholar! In our universe anyway he was. I’m thinking General Kristofferson is retired after a long and distinguished military career which included being commanding general of Fort Rucker and head of Army aviation. In our universe Kristofferson left the Army as a captain and helicopter pilot. His father was an Air Force general. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/12 "2017-09-04T13:37:18Z")
Natalie Portman would be Dr Hershlag, Neuroscientist. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/13 "2017-09-04T14:38:37Z")
I loved Chris Rock describing Tina Fey if SNL hadn’t existed: “She’d be the funniest professor at Drexel University!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@The\_Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dope)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/14 "2017-09-04T14:57:20Z")
Bruce Willis - Police Officer / Detective ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/15 "2017-09-04T17:21:43Z")
Shane MacGowan is a model known for being teetotaler with an amazing smile. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/16 "2017-09-04T17:26:33Z")
I learned a while back that alternate-universe Stephen Fry is the king of Albania. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/17 "2017-09-04T17:41:22Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Shane MacGowan is a model known for being teetotaler with an amazing smile. Ha! And Nick Cave hosts a children’s show with fluffy bunnies and unicorns. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/18 "2017-09-05T06:46:27Z")
I want a live in a universe where John Lennon is alive…why I can’t? It ain’t fair. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/19 "2017-09-05T13:37:42Z")
Jim Morrison led a distinguished military career, just like his father, retiring with honors. He later became a distinguished poet, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. But he does tell kids to “keep off the grass.” On his lawn. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/20 "2017-09-05T13:49:10Z")
As Jeff Lynne notes in his song, “[When I Was a Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM34A80RTv4),” he would have been driving a milk delivery truck or a bread delivery truck in Birmingham. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224.md?page=2)