# Alexa Ray Joel - boy it's like you stirred up her parents in a blender **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-ray-joel-boy-its-like-you-stirred-up-her-parents-in-a-blender/601201 "2011-10-29T17:28:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-ray-joel-boy-its-like-you-stirred-up-her-parents-in-a-blender/601201/21 "2011-10-31T16:36:40Z")
Genetics is life’s ultimate crap shoot. Who’d uv thunk Lord & Lady Lloyd Webber could have childrenthat look like [William, Alastair & Isabella](http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Isabella+Lloyd+Webber) Lloyd Webber?. I’ve seen Belle in person, and she is drop dead gorgeous! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-ray-joel-boy-its-like-you-stirred-up-her-parents-in-a-blender/601201/22 "2011-10-31T16:57:02Z")
I think she’s attractive, but wow, does she look like Billy Joel, so much that it’s a little freaky. Only because he’s famous, I mean. If she was the child of non-famous people, it wouldn’t be so distracting. Years ago, one of the New York papers reported in one of those “Overheard in NYC” columns that someone was shopping in a boutique and saw a father and a little girl in the store. A Billy Joel song was playing on the sound system, and the father started singing along. The little girl said “OMG, Dad, stop, you’re so embarrassing!” in the way that kids of that age have of being mortified by whatever it is their parents are doing in public. The person then realized the father WAS Billy Joel. I always thought that was cute. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-ray-joel-boy-its-like-you-stirred-up-her-parents-in-a-blender/601201/23 "2011-10-31T17:05:14Z")
She’s cute all made up, but when she was younger I used to wonder if she resented having Christie Brinkley as her mother but looking like her father. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-ray-joel-boy-its-like-you-stirred-up-her-parents-in-a-blender/601201/24 "2011-10-31T17:47:25Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > Years ago, one of the New York papers reported in one of those “Overheard in NYC” columns that someone was shopping in a boutique and saw a father and a little girl in the store. A Billy Joel song was playing on the sound system, and the father started singing along. The little girl said “OMG, Dad, stop, you’re so embarrassing!” in the way that kids of that age have of being mortified by whatever it is their parents are doing in public. The person then realized the father WAS Billy Joel. I always thought that was cute. That’s from a Dave Barry column, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-ray-joel-boy-its-like-you-stirred-up-her-parents-in-a-blender/601201/25 "2011-10-31T19:26:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **astorian** : > There’s an old anecdote (whether it’s true, I have no idea) that Isadora Duncan propositioned George Bernard Shaw, saying how wonderful it would be to have a child with his brain and her body. Shaw, supposedly, declined, saying “What if our child had your brain and MY body?” I heard it with Marilyn Monroe and Einstein, but given the way jokes evolve, yours was more likely the original. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-ray-joel-boy-its-like-you-stirred-up-her-parents-in-a-blender/601201.md?page=1)