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July LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of July?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

2 3.92%

John Kelly

18 35.29%

Jared Kushner

1 1.96%

Wilbur Ross

4 7.84%

Ben Carson

0 0%

Rudy Giuliani

1 1.96%

Scott Pruitt

15 29.41%

Kellyanne Conway

2 3.92%

Rod Rosenstein

3 5.88%

Write-in

5 9.80%

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07-15-2018 , 12:46 PM

#826

Noze

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Billy Joel sucks, wouldn't think too much about it.

07-15-2018 , 12:51 PM

#827

suzzer99

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Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

You would if you couldn't get that stupid song out of your head.

07-15-2018 , 12:57 PM

#828

microbet

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I think Paul is a real estate agent who fancies himself a novelist. I think Billy Joel is allright, but my youngest daughter is a huge fan and went to a concert not very long ago. She's a little weird. She's also into Jimmy Buffett.

07-15-2018 , 01:00 PM

#829

microbet

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I got a new phone and on Gmail Google is reading emails and suggesting specific quick replies like, "Wednesday works for me."

07-15-2018 , 01:03 PM

#830

otatop

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Genius has your answers, or some of them anyway

Quote:

Paul and Davy continue to exemplify the loneliness and wistfulness of the song. They both are so absorbed in their respective careers, it is unlikely they will ever be able to escape.

Paul was based on a real-life real estate agent whom Billy would always see at the bar. Paul would be working on what he considered “the great American novel.” But since Paul was at the bar, Billy assumed he’d never finish the book (or, as the lyrics state, have “time for a wife.”)

“Davy who’s still in the Navy” refers to David Heintz, a man Joel met at a bar in Spain. David’s daughter Lisa explains:

[Dave] met Billy Joel in a pub in Spain in 1972 while he was in the Navy. He married while he was in the navy, had three children. He passed away in 2003 of ALS. It really hurts when I hear this song played on the radio and they leave this part out.

07-15-2018 , 01:12 PM

#831

microbet

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Now Paul is a wannabe writer
Whose novel was never released
And he's talkin' with Davy, who'll get out of the Navy
When he dies of Lou Gehrig's disease

07-15-2018 , 01:38 PM

#832

suzzer99

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lol

07-15-2018 , 01:38 PM

#833

markksman

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The song was not a Davy biography. Lol at being sad the song “left that part out.”

I hate when they showed my dad as a waiter on Big Bang theory they didn’t show him getting crashed into by a drunk driver on the way home from the set.

07-15-2018 , 01:45 PM

#834

ANONN123

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I'm dumb

Last edited by ANONN123; 07-15-2018 at 02:11 PM.

07-15-2018 , 01:51 PM

#835

simplicitus

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Interesting but won't matter for the election.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...41238176043009

07-15-2018 , 02:04 PM

#836

iron81

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07-15-2018 , 02:08 PM

#837

suzzer99

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Damn they must like prison.

07-15-2018 , 02:09 PM

#838

suzzer99

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bware

Huh? Her dad is dead and a specific verse in a song references him directly, I don't blame her for being sad when she hears the song but that part is left out

What version of Piano Man leaves out that lyric?

07-15-2018 , 02:11 PM

#839

ANONN123

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Lol, I totally misinterpreted her statement, which led to the confusion. I had never heard it left out, but assumed there was some ****ty radio edit that cut that verse. Nvm I get it now.

07-15-2018 , 02:21 PM

#840

suzzer99

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I wonder if Davy even makes the song if his name doesn't rhyme with navy.

07-15-2018 , 02:23 PM

#841

Oroku$aki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I've had Piano Man stuck in my head for over a week. Questions:

1) What's wrong with staying in the Navy? If you're there for a while you might as well see it through. Davy is gonna get the last laugh when he gets that sweet govt pension.

2) Wtf is a "real estate novelist" and how does it keep you so busy that you never have time for a wife?

3) Of course John at the bar would rather be some place else. He's at *work*. He's still quick with a joke and a light of your smoke. What else are you asking for?

Thank you for your time. I'll show myself out.

I don't think Joel is necessarily saying there is anything wrong with it, just stating that Davy's still in it (but maybe you're right, and Joel's saying "you're still in the Navy? What's wrong with you?")

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

I don't drink margarita's very often, but I do love being wasted away. May as well pass the time being drunk while I'm on this rock spinning around the sun.

07-15-2018 , 02:32 PM

#842

suzzer99

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Why have you *******s never told me about Facebook timeline grid-view? So much easier to find old posts.

07-15-2018 , 03:22 PM

#843

Trolly McTrollson

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Kind of amazed Pussy Riot hasn't been assassinated yet.

07-15-2018 , 04:14 PM

#844

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Now Paul is a wannabe writer
Whose novel was never released
And he's talkin' with Davy, who'll get out of the Navy
When he dies of Lou Gehrig's disease

A+

07-15-2018 , 06:09 PM

#845

lycosid

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Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

How does what W did for AIDS in Africa factor in? I've heard people say it was by far the best (only?) good thing he did as president, but I don't know enough.

I can help. I recently visited the Bush Presidential Library and learned that his accomplishments include Cutting Tax, Making Decisions, and Afghanistan.

07-15-2018 , 06:29 PM

#846

JoltinJake

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Bill Gates is doing incredible work fighting malaria but he doesn't build rockets so the Big Bang Theory-watching faux nerds haven't built a cult around him.

Yeah I got Bill Gates as the GOAT human. Anyone disagree?

07-15-2018 , 06:30 PM

#847

champstark

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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoltinJake

Yeah I got Bill Gates as the GOAT human. Anyone disagree?

Not a billionaire, but Jimmy Carter

07-15-2018 , 06:35 PM

#848

StimAbuser

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JoltinJake

Yeah I got Bill Gates as the GOAT human. Anyone disagree?

By the end of his life he'll definitely have done the most good by a huge margin.

He's also started a club of billionaires where all of them pledge to give like 90%+ of their wealth to charity when they die and they all currently work together for good causes.

He's done a bunch of Reddit ask me anythings and he seems like an absolutely fantastic human being. Obviously he was a douche while he was building his empire, but he's done a complete 180, mostly due to his wife.