Pearls Before Swine: Billy Joel Is Screaming In Florida
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/25
Hopefully, Stephan Pastis does not have a friend named Captain Jack.
On 26.02.24, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Billy Joel Is Screaming In Florida
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/25
Hopefully, Stephan Pastis does not have a friend named Captain Jack.
I neither get the comic (what is it about?) nor where Captain Jack would
come in.
What? :)
On 26.02.24, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Billy Joel Is Screaming In Florida
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/25
Hopefully, Stephan Pastis does not have a friend named Captain Jack.
I neither get the comic (what is it about?) nor where Captain Jack would
come in.
What? :)
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:08:00 +0100, "Mickmane" <ATH@kruemel.org>
wrote:
On 26.02.24, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Billy Joel Is Screaming In Florida
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/25
Hopefully, Stephan Pastis does not have a friend named Captain
Jack.
I neither get the comic (what is it about?) nor where Captain Jack
would come in.
What? :)
The chorus to The Piano Man by Billy Joel
"Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright"
Captain Jack is another Billy Joel Song
and
I loathe you just the way you are is referencing one of his big hits
I love you just the way you are
On 2/26/2024 2:48 PM, Mickmane wrote:
On 26.02.24, Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote: >>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:08:00 +0100, "Mickmane" <ATH@kruemel.org>
wrote:
On 26.02.24, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Billy Joel Is Screaming In Florida
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/25
Hopefully, Stephan Pastis does not have a friend named Captain
Jack.
I neither get the comic (what is it about?) nor where Captain Jack
would come in.
What? :)
The chorus to The Piano Man by Billy Joel
"Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright"
Captain Jack is another Billy Joel Song
and
I loathe you just the way you are is referencing one of his big hits
I love you just the way you are
Thanks! To you and the others who replied and explained. :)
(I'd have to look up who Billy Joel is, but am not that curious.)
I also won't ask what's supposed to be funny about it. I'll just go
with: The only Captain Jack I know is Captain Jack Harkness. :)
Thanks again!
Here's the performance usually heard today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0
Here's the original video, from 50 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlsu-4BNv8
Billy Joel is one of the best loved American
singer/songwriters of the past 50 years.
pt
On 2/27/24 14:44, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 2/26/2024 2:48 PM, Mickmane wrote:I may have mentioned this before...
On 26.02.24, Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote: >>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:08:00 +0100, "Mickmane" <ATH@kruemel.org>
wrote:
On 26.02.24, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Billy Joel Is Screaming In Florida
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/25
Hopefully, Stephan Pastis does not have a friend named Captain
Jack.
I neither get the comic (what is it about?) nor where Captain Jack
would come in.
What? :)
The chorus to The Piano Man by Billy Joel
"Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright"
Captain Jack is another Billy Joel Song
and
I loathe you just the way you are is referencing one of his big hits
I love you just the way you are
Thanks! To you and the others who replied and explained. :)
(I'd have to look up who Billy Joel is, but am not that curious.)
I also won't ask what's supposed to be funny about it. I'll just go
with: The only Captain Jack I know is Captain Jack Harkness. :)
Thanks again!
Here's the performance usually heard today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0
Here's the original video, from 50 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlsu-4BNv8
Billy Joel is one of the best loved American
singer/songwriters of the past 50 years.
pt
I saw Billy Joel open for a band called Pablo Cruz in 1977 at the
Berkeley Community Theater. Pablo Cruz was the headliner, if that was
not clear. Billy Joel blew them away. People were leaving the auditorium >while they were playing.
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:15:25 -0800, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
Billy Joel is one of the best loved AmericanI may have mentioned this before...
singer/songwriters of the past 50 years.
=20
pt
=20
I saw Billy Joel open for a band called Pablo Cruz in 1977 at the=20 >>Berkeley Community Theater. Pablo Cruz was the headliner, if that was=20 >>not clear. Billy Joel blew them away. People were leaving the auditorium= >=20
while they were playing.
So, was that a /good/ thing?
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:15:25 -0800, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
Billy Joel is one of the best loved AmericanI may have mentioned this before...
singer/songwriters of the past 50 years.
=20
pt
=20
I saw Billy Joel open for a band called Pablo Cruz in 1977 at the=20 >>>Berkeley Community Theater. Pablo Cruz was the headliner, if that was=20 >>>not clear. Billy Joel blew them away. People were leaving the auditorium= >>=20
while they were playing.
So, was that a /good/ thing?
I read it as "people were leaving Pablo Cruz".
On 02/03/2024 16:34, Paul S Person wrote:
On Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:45:05 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:15:25 -0800, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote: >>>>
Billy Joel is one of the best loved AmericanI may have mentioned this before...
singer/songwriters of the past 50 years.
=20
pt
=20
I saw Billy Joel open for a band called Pablo Cruz in 1977 at the
Berkeley Community Theater. Pablo Cruz was the headliner, if that was >>>>> not clear. Billy Joel blew them away. People were leaving the auditorium >>>>
while they were playing.
So, was that a /good/ thing?
I read it as "people were leaving Pablo Cruz".
That is, indeed, a possible interpretation.
Just not the one I made.
Oh, well.
It's pronouns. Billy Joel is "he", I take
it, and a band which I suggest was "Pablo Cruise" ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Cruise>
is "they", in the manner of "Jefferson Airplane",
although Wikipedia states that "fans", if the
term is used correctly, would ask which of the
people on stage was Pablo himself. They were
told "He's the guy in the middle."
But I too read it that Billy Joel was
blowing audience members out of the
auditorium. If literally, that's too
much amplification.
"Pablo Cruz may refer to:
Pablo Cruz (soccer) (born 1991), American soccer player
Pablo Cruz (actor) (born 1984), Mexican actor"
Not sure on the Captain Jack reference either, but PBS usually does
terrible puns on Sundays.
In this case, Pastis has assembled components to make a sound-alike of
the first verse of Billy Joel's hit song, 'Piano Man'.
'Sing us a song: You're the Piano Man
Sing us a song tonight!
We're all all in the mood for a melody,
And you've got us feeling alright!
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