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So, eight and a half years before I was even conceived, John Lennon was tragically murdered in front of his apartment, at only 40 years old. Then, when I was in sixth grade, and much to the bereavement of a certain Beatle-obsessed classmate, George Harrison passed away due to cancer at a more appropriate, but still somewhat young 58. Paul McCartney is still going strong, just about to turn 64, as is Ringo Starr, nearly 66 now. So which one of them will endure? Which will be the last surviving Beatle?

EDIT: Please, please vote on the poll.

Ringo. Definitely Ringo.:cool:

Of course it'll be Ringo. Who else could it be?

Paul McCartney. Why you ask? Well it's an alphabetical pattern. First was John Lennon - IJKLM,... Then there was George Harrison - FGHI, notice though that his initials are now next to each other... Next has to logically be Ringo Starr - QRST, same thing as with old George, except alphabetically Ringo must follow, GH come before RS. Paul McCartney's initials just screw with the pattern. He is the anomolly, therefore I have come to the conclusion that Paul McCartney will be the to tough it out.

As he sat up in bed, he looked over at the picture of his addopted baby seal which had died years before from the chlorine in the massive estate's pool.

Paul, a kind gental soul, covered his mough with a crumbled up tisseue and coughed ever so slightly.

His one legged lover sitting at his side, he professed his true feelings, "I wanted to fuck that baby seal."

He laid down to rest his fragile body, before he closed his eyes to rest in God's house he said in such a poetic form, "Ringo lives."

"No shit you dumb fuck", Ringo muttered as he sat by his side.

That's my answer.

Actually, they're dying in order of most talented to least talented. :p

I know it'll have to be whichever is less cool, because that's what order they seem to be dying in. But I just can't decide even that. Ringo was less arrogant and a good drummer, but was too quiet to know much about. Paul was arrogant and is kind of culturally annoying sometimes, but he wrote craploads and was one of the originals.

So which one of them will endure? Which will be the last surviving Beatle?

No 'Pete Best' option? For shame. The young are being taught a revisionist version of history.

It doesn't matter, the Rolling Stones are stealing their life essence just like they've stolen the life essence of every other talented rocker in the last twenty years. So really, The beatles will live forever as tiny parts of the slowly becoming immortal Rolling Stones. Except John, he died before the Stones started stealing life essences.

Actually, they're dying in order of most talented to least talented. :p

Augh! You're so right!

*bursts into tears and furiously types out her monologue cursing Mark David Chapman*

No 'Pete Best' option? For shame. The young are being taught a revisionist version of history.

Nah, we just think everything before 1966 doesn't count 'cause so much of it sucked.

EDIT: please don't kill me for that, I'm really joking, but seriously, Pete Best (and Stuart Sutcliffe for that matter) missed most of the Beatle awesomeness and they're not really thought of as part of the band.

Ringo will never die.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Jk_beatles_ringo.jpg/150px-Jk_beatles_ringo.jpg

It'll likely be Pete Best
He didnt have all that fame and money to prematurely age him.

Nah, we just think everything before 1966 doesn't count 'cause so much of it sucked.

The first three years after sex was invented hardly sucked (apart from those bits of sex which did literally involve sucking).

No 'Pete Best' option? For shame. The young are being taught a revisionist version of history.


AAARRRGH you beat me to the correct answer:rolleyes:

EDIT: please don't kill me for that, I'm really joking, but seriously, Pete Best (and Stuart Sutcliffe for that matter) missed most of the Beatle awesomeness and they're not really thought of as part of the band.

...by people who are wrong.

Nah, we just think everything before 1966 doesn't count 'cause so much of it sucked.

EDIT: please don't kill me for that, I'm really joking, but seriously, Pete Best (and Stuart Sutcliffe for that matter) missed most of the Beatle awesomeness and they're not really thought of as part of the band.

But Sutcliffe even named them the Beatles!

...by people who are wrong.

I hate to argue this, but Pete was out and Ringo was in before the band even released an album. Besides, the four of them were the unit that really became popular and aged and changed and evolved and produced all the awesomeness we can turn on and listen to today. Pete was a beginning contributer, but I don't think he qualifies as a real Beatle. When you talk about the Beatles, you can't expect anyone to think of pre-album-release lineup.

But Sutcliffe even named them the Beatles!

I thought that was credited to Lennon? That's what I've always heard, and it's what Wikipedia says too.

When you talk about the Beatles, you can't expect anyone to think of pre-album-release lineup.

Your expectations are out of line with what you have already discovered in this thread: both myself and Not bad confounded your preconceived notions of what other people think.

So are you claiming that Best and Sutcliffe weren't Beatles?

Your expectations are out of line with what you have already discovered in this thread: both myself and Not bad confounded your preconceived notions of what other people think.

So are you claiming that Best and Sutcliffe weren't Beatles?

They were Beatles by name, but they weren't Beatles by culture. They only participated in a beginning sliver of what the Beatles were and became.

I thought that was credited to Lennon? That's what I've always heard, and it's what Wikipedia says too.

It says the same about Sutcliffe

Yoko

how old was paul in '66? didnt jesus die at 33? what year did john say the beatles were bigger than jesus?

Have to be Ringo,
Can't be Paul, as he was the first to die replaced as he was by Billy Shears.

And it won't be Billy Preston, as sadly he died a couple of days ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5054074.stm

Man, his afro deserved it's own emmy!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41735000/jpg/_41735208_preston_bbc_203.jpg

Actually, they're dying in order of most talented to least talented. :p

Does that mean that Stu was the most talented?

there is only one way to settle this fight to the death
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Chuck Norris.