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Old 01-30-2010, 06:59   #26
Richard
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Joel
And so it goes
Billy Joel wrote the song of that title in 1983 and recorded it in 1990 - the original quote is used as the refrain of Billy, the time tripper, in Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance With Death' published in 1969.

You may have heard of it...it is the reason I often use the phrase.

As for the demotivational poster incident and the reactions by the CofC - I would like to think there would be more to it than just that one incidence.

Richard
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