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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 07:53 PM
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just what in the fuck is a real estate novelist?
and why do i want to hit billy joel in the head with a roofing hammer?
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 08:05 PM
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1. Piano Man is a great song, but I've always wondered the same thing.
"novelist"?
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 08:11 PM
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2. Billy Joel is a pedophile. "You Catholic girls start much too late"???
Come out Virginia, don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
aw But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one

<snip>

You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation
You got a brand new soul
mmmm, And a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information
You didn't count on me
When you were counting on your rosary
(oh woah woah)

They say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
the sinners are much more fun...
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 08:13 PM
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4. That's why he can't keep his hands away from the baby grand
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 08:11 PM
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3. Maybe that is a common metaphor in sea chanteys?
since that song sounds like one...
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 08:21 PM
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5. No court in the land would convict you for hitting Billy Joel in the head with a hammer.
In fact, if you hum a few bars of "Allentown", the judge might try to get a few licks in with his gavel.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 09:27 PM
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6. it's a working stiff who gives lip service to the notion that he's really an artist
But he apparently spends all his time at the bar, so it's questionable whether he's really committed to being a novelist or whether that's just a lie he tells himself to get through those long, soul-sucking days he spends at work, selling people more home than they can really afford, inflating the housing bubble, etc.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 09:30 PM
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7. .. Davy, who is still in the Navy, and probably will be for life...
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 09:47 PM
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8. Someone who can describe a falling down shack in a swamp
As "handyman's dream w/ lakefront view"
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 10:15 PM
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11. Thumbsup smilie
:thumbsup:
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 09:49 PM
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9. Boooooring.
And likely due to the "Tell Her About It" song and video.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 10:23 PM
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13. hey, listen
i didn't start the fire
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 09:57 PM
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10. It is a piece written by Mamma Leone
It is in the form of a note on the door.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 10:16 PM
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12. You want to hit Billy Joel over THAT masterpiece?
If they were all that good, he'd be a genius.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 11:17 PM
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14. You probably want to hit him in the head with a roofing hammer because of "We Didn't Start the Fire"
And who could blame you?

However, "a real estate novelist" is a person who feels trapped in a real estate career and wishes he could be a writer.

Every character in the song wishes they could be somewhere or something else. Except one character.


The song is much better than 99% of Joel's career. Of course, a strangulated hernia is much better than 99% of Joel's career, but the song is still quite good.
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XRubicon Donating Member (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 11:21 PM
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15. The answer is here
Edited on Mon Nov-30-09 11:22 PM by XRubicon
http://www.blender.com/guide/66688/dear-superstar-billy-joel.html

It’s an invented phrase. When I was working in a piano bar in L.A., around ’72, everybody came and dumped their day on you. Paul was a real-estate broker, and he would say, “I’m working on this book.” But he was there every night, crocked out of his skull, and I would think, “How’s this guy getting any writing done, unless he’s doing the F. Scott Fitzgerald bit: knock out a couple of things when he first gets up, after the coffee buzz, and then start drinkin’. ” Maybe he was like the guy in The Shining, and he just kept writing the same sentence over and over.
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