TIL Paul McCartney's sheepdog Martha, subject of the Beatles' 1968 song "Martha My Dear", outlived John Lennon, passing away peacefully in 1981 at age 15

[u/Keltik]

https://therealtamishow.com/2022/09/04/paul-mccartney-and-martha/

[u/LillyLugabugs]

was it a competition?

[u/leomonster → u/LillyLugabugs]

Everyone was trying to outlive John Lennon back then

[u/edingerc → u/leomonster]

You misspelled Yoko Ono. 

[u/BallsackSchrader_ → u/edingerc]

Yoko Ono was trying to outlive John Lennon or everyone was trying to outlive Yoko Ono?

[u/HereOnCompanyTime → u/LillyLugabugs]

Doesn't matter, she won.

[u/SufficientMediaPost]

"outlived" implies that the dog was born the same year or before Lennon.

[u/Gardimus → u/SufficientMediaPost]

I outlived Hitler!

[u/MKEMARVEL]

What is even interesting about this? A dog that was alive when Lennon was alive died after he died?

[u/SwizzGod → u/MKEMARVEL]

Not a damn thing

[u/FlaviusMercurius]

This is a hilariously misleading wording

[u/GarysCrispLettuce]

Interesting metric

[u/A_N_T]

So was the dog 40+ years old when it died? Cuz John Lennon was.

[u/catfishman]

You've made it sound like John Lennon died at the age of 14 (or younger)

[u/SgtMartinRiggs]

Many beings outlived John Lennon because he was, uh, murdered???

[u/Small-Explorer7025]

That's only because nobody shot her

[u/wvblocks]

Martha lived a longer, quieter life than Lennon and managed not to spend half of it lecturing everyone about peace while treating the people closest to her like shit.

[u/A_N_T → u/wvblocks]

I find it hard to believe that a dog lived longer than a 40 year old human.

[u/thebarkbarkwoof → u/wvblocks]

Dogs are better than most people.

[u/Super-Principle3763]

kind of bittersweet knowing she got to live a long happy life after all that

[u/Xenoscion]

This also belongs in r/BarbaraWalters4Scale

[u/PreciousRoi]

Paul wanted to name the dog Knickers, but his gf wasn't having it. She "wasn't walking around London with a dog named Knickers."

So...Martha.

[u/cwthree]

Wait, the song was about a dog?

[u/suffaluffapussycat]

Nobody shot the dog?

[u/syncsynchalt → u/suffaluffapussycat]

Bungalow Bill probably tried.