After joining the Beatles, Ringo Starr was treated as a "faithful spaniel." John Lennon in particular thought very little of the drummer's intellect. "Ringo doesn't know the meaning of fear," he once remarked, "or any other word of more than three letters."

["Paul McCartney has built a Beatles website that's expected to set new records for the number of hits," Craig Kilborn once reported. "In a related story, Ringo Starr has gotten his electricity turned back on by claiming he's in an iron lung."]

[While hanging out with Harry Nilsson at the 'Playboy' club one night, Ringo Starr tried to impress some girls by sticking cigarettes up his nose.]