# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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 6, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/21 "2017-09-06T03:19:18Z")
> [@LoneRhino](#): > > John Lennon would be alive. To finish: Paul McCartney - Teacher George Harrison - Electrician Richard Starkey - Hairdresser George Martin - Best known as the producer for the Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/22 "2017-09-06T03:43:20Z")
If John Lennon were alive today, I expect he would be an embarrassing crank. He would have retroactively diminished the reputation of the Beatles and kids today would be mystified as to why every time this crazy old man comrs out of isolation and says something ridiculous it gets on the news. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/23 "2017-09-07T02:53:43Z")
I wonder about that too. McCartney seems mostly happy to make history (the recent collaboration with Kanye west and Rihanna seemed mostly about ensuring McCartney could say he had a best selling song in every decade of his adult life). Lennon could easily have become tedious. Or like Cat Stevens - on some weird tangent where his fans lament. Kurt Cobain: school cleaner. Tidies up the gymnasium when the cheerleaders make a mess with errant pom poms. Major Elvis Presley. Drowned in a boating accident while on leave in Hawaii, 1961. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/24 "2017-09-07T03:20:49Z")
[Niel Hamburger,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-4Lxh1cwGM)46th President of the United States. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/25 "2017-09-07T07:46:42Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 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. I’m with you through the distinguished military career. After that, I think he’d be a professor at a state or community college teaching poetry and/or creative writing with a drinking problem that often threatens his employment. ---
**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 7, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/26 "2017-09-07T13:32:31Z")
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Billy Joel would all be working at a gas station while trying to get gigs for their bar room band “The Three Bees.” ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/27 "2017-09-07T19:14:53Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Billy Joel would all be working at a gas station while trying to get gigs for their bar room band “The Three Bees.” How did Mr. Zimmerman end up out east to meet up with the other guys? He didn’t take over the family business? ---
**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 9, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/28 "2017-09-09T14:37:40Z")
Nope. He hated Hibbing, and came East to try to make it as a Greenwich Village folk singer, and failed miserably. He answered an ad for a roommate “Into music” placed by Billy Joel, who got him a job working at the gas station where he and Springsteen were working. Chuck Lorre heard this tale somehow, and made a successful sitcom based on the idea “Pump Boys” about three guys working in a gas station and running a whorehouse across the street. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/29 "2017-09-09T17:27:36Z")
Noddy Holder would be a schoolteacher. Happy Easter; everybody’s having buns. ---
**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 11, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224/30 "2017-09-11T12:35:54Z")
Captain Bryan Cranston, LAPD retired. Not too far fetched. I just heard him on a podcast. He went through the police explorers. He was in college as criminal justice major with the intention of being a police officer. Then he took an acting class and the first scene they gave him involved making out with a pretty girl. And the rest is history. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-actor-musician-doing-in-on-a-parallel-earth/795224.md?page=1)