What exactly is a real-estate novelist

[motely36]

and why would that preclude having a wife?

[flamingyouth]

1. Damn you for this earworm

I'll get you for this!!! :evilfrown:

[motely36]

2. LOL

:hi:

[flamingyouth]

4. Seriously, I've wondered that too

That is, when I've been tied up and forced at knifepoint to listen to that song. WTF???? :D

[motely36]

8. Sorry, I'm a big Billy Joel fan

I have seen him and Elton John together twice. This is usually one of the last songs they do. It gives me goosebumps when they stop playing and the entire arena keeps singing the song. That must be really cool for Billy.

Sorry if you don't like the song. I could start a Britney thread if that would help :P

[flamingyouth]

10. LOL

I don't think I could get a Britney earworm - I don't know enough of her songs! :D

[Worst Username Ever]

3. I have often thought the same thing.

A novel.. about real estate? WHa?? I can see a how-to book, or a text, but a novel?

[ixion]

5. a novelist with a day job selling real estate

and because of the two, never decided to ruin his life by getting married. :shrug:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

6. He's actually a real estate broker

"The line "Paul is a real estate novelist" is about a real estate broker who was a regular at the bar who always claimed to be working on a book. Joel figured Paul would never finish because he was always in the bar."

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=1079

Edit: This is why "he never had time for a wife".

[motely36]

9. That explains it, then!

Thanks. I learn so much on DU

:hi:

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Neat site. Thank you.

Now, 'scuse me while I kiss this guy... ;-)

(On edit: That was a reference to a line in "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, which nobody understood, which was because they misheard it, which was usually because they were surrounded by a little purple haze themselves, which... never mind...)

[Lavender Brown]

7. When I was little, I wondered why on earth

they would put bread in his jar.

And yes, thanks for the evil earworm :spank: