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Billy Joel (reportedly) wrote this song because he overheard a child say that he felt sorry for "older people" like Billy Joel because no "history" happened in their lifetime, that NOW (or the time the song was written) was going to be the world's most historical time period. The comment got to Billy Joel so much that he sat down and wrote this to prove that his lifetime has been FULL of history.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2002/02/051-firewire/firewire.png

gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Now tell me if THAT aint in se cur

LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I still can't get over that he decided to end the song with "rock and roller cola wars", especially since if he had waited a month, he could've rhymed "law" with Berlin "wall" instead.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost


And the Firewire logo looks like Momus!

LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

And is it just me or did he almost ENTIRELY skip the seventies?

Did nothing happen then, other than my birth?

Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

what the fuck?

N_RQ, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

still roffling.

strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

nooooooooooooooooooooooo

tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i have also been going COMMUNIST BLOC at various points for the last 12 hours

strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

all the mac tonight images are gone :(

maura, Sunday, 25 May 2008 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link

poor old johnnie ray
sounded sad upon the radio
moved a million hearts in mono

dell, Sunday, 25 May 2008 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link

DEANO, DEANO
DEANO, DEANO

Noodle Vague, Sunday, 25 May 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Better screen name: Toscanini Dacron or Space Monkey Mafia?

G00blar, Sunday, 25 May 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

the former

get bent, Sunday, 25 May 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link

if those are taken: chubby checker psycho

get bent, Sunday, 25 May 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

sometimes i reread this thread just for shits and giggles

maura, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link

aids, crack, bernie goetz

from peanut to president (get bent), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link

four years pass...

rip mac tonight images

maura, Sunday, 8 February 2015 03:11 (nine years ago) link

Surprised there was never a band called "Space Monkey Mafia"

Michael F Gill, Sunday, 8 February 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link

four years pass...

RIP Doris

maura, Monday, 13 May 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link

people namechecked in we didn't start the fire who are still alive:

england's new queen
brigitte bardot
chubby checker
bob dylan
half of the beatles
bernie goetz

maura, Monday, 13 May 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link

'Hula Hoops' Castro is still a mainstay at car shows and state fairs last I knew. People just can't get enough of those hoop tricks.

U2, duh.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link

TIL he sings bernie goetz in this song and not "burning jets".

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link

four years pass...

guys i think im about to see this live

maura, Sunday, 24 September 2023 02:37 (six months ago) link

And was the fire started?

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 September 2023 03:21 (six months ago) link

Aaaaay maura

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 24 September 2023 04:16 (six months ago) link


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