Once and for all: Yoko didn't break up the Beatles.

[raccoon]

"If somebody is controlling you--they are not the problem." I heard that in a workshop, and I believe it.

If you're an adult of sound mind, and you're letting someone else control you--then YOU'RE the problem.

John was 29 in 1969, about the time the Beatles broke up, way too old to be letting somebody else control him.

[ohiosmith]

1. Did so!

:P

[Dr. Strange]

2. You sound just like the Jeanine apologists on the Spinal Tap Discussion Board.

[TZ]

3. LOLOL

I saw spinal tap but didn't see the poster name at first when I opened this thread. I should have known...:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

4. I sound better in Dobly.

:P

[ohiosmith]

5. Do you go to 11?

[TZ]

6. He's one louder than Nigel, yes.

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Dr. Strange]

7. What's wrong with being sexy?

[TZ]

8. Hey no joke..

I worked a version of that line into an actual lab conversation last week. It worked well, though only a couple of people got the reference

[JVS]

13. Nice!

:thumbsup:

[UTUSN]

9. Once and for all: Yoko ONO was no artist or even creative.

Whenever I was going to knock pool balls as a slop shot, I would yell out, "Yoko ONO!1"

[intheflow]

12. Well, John thought she was.

And she certainly inspired a great deal of creativity in him. :shrug:

[JVS]

15. Yoko wasn't a musician, but one can view her life as performance art.

[GReedDiamond]

17. What are your artist/creative person judgment credentials?

...I'm just wondering what, if anything other than your own subjective POV, what gives you, UTUSN, the "once and for all" level of authority?

The apparent self-admitted fact that you hang out in pool halls doing slop shots will be factored into your response.

Respectfully,

GReedDiamond

[UTUSN]

21. Why... I'm a natural at appreciating sarcasm and other blunt objects.... n/t

[RedCloud]

10. How do you explain her all too cozy alibi last name then?

[intheflow]

11. No kidding!

the only person I've ever put on ignore on DU was absolutely rabid about Yoko in a thread - as if she were Cynthia Lennon. Geesh.

[SOteric]

14. Boy I wish I could have that engraved in a wall plaque.

[cemaphonic]

16. Didn't George once quip that it was "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" that finally did them in?

Which was basically a nice, funny way of saying "Paul's fault."
I think they were just growing apart creatively and personally, and a myriad of small problems got magnified in that sort of intense environment.

[nolabear]

18. I also heard Obama wasn't born...oh, never mind.

"That's how these things get started, Michele." *snort!*

[chollybocker]

19. Yoko Ono reads (and maybe posts on?) DU.

She gets major bonus points just for that.

[Dr. Strange]

20. I think this might be her:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=165347

:hide:

[UTUSN]

22. Bwah-ha-ha-HAH !1 You mean she's pulling a Scott ADAMS?!1 n/t

[CBGLuthier]

23. When I was a lad we made fun of her. But then

I grew up and learned of her life and her art.

May not appeal to the masses but WTF should she?

The world today would be a lot more boring without Fluxus.

[edbermac]

24. Lots of factors played a role.

They stopped touring, Brian Epstein's death, tensions between Lennon, Harrison and McCartney, their involvement with their Apple company, John involved with Yoko, George involved with the Maharashi etc.

They basically just grew up. Lennon's standard response afterwards to people asking him when the Beatles would get back together was "When you go back to high school."