I can’t stand Billy Joel, so that was an easy vote. The fact that I’ve gone to Elton John concerts across 4 decades is beside the point.
It’s a close vote for me, as I like both Billy Joel and Elton John, but I went with Elton. When I was younger, it would have been Billy, but though I still enjoy listening to his music, I think I don’t seek it out much anymore, whereas I still intentionally listen to Elton’s albums and singles fairly often.
My wife’s friend married into money, and as the old say goes, has been paying for it since.
The amount of fighting is unbelievable.
The Saurus is a Greek lizard.
I thought that was the bad guy in Galaxy Quest.
I like both Billy Joel and Elton John, but just by preference for their music, it’s Billy Joel by a comfortable margin, probably 60-70/40-30 or so. Both have great songs, and some that absolutely don’t work for me. But while the “fails” from each are about the same in number, the hits that match me/my mood for Joel are much higher.
Scary human-analogs - I voted for dolls. I dislike clowns as well, with some exceptions (Puddles Pity Party noticeably!), and I’m absolutely not a fan of ventriloquist dummies of the classic style such as those linked by @kenobi_65, but dolls win out over all of those. Probably because so much classic horror involving dolls include a squick-worthy combination of evil, duplicity, and the risk to the innocent.
Ozempic - I am on the low end of obese (given my current rate of weight loss, I’ll probably be merely overweight in 2-3 months, but my PCP carrier didn’t think I needed it because of my steady weight loss and “normal” range blood sugar. But when I took a sleep study per the same PCP’s suggestion, they seemed almost eager to proscribe it for me even though I was just barely over the line for mild sleep apnea. I got the distinct impression that lots of people were doing the sleep study just to get the drugs approved. The same sleep study group, also seemed really ready to push CPAP on me, though they were at least helpful when their referral group shipped me a full set without reviewing with me or getting permission, though one wonders why the referral group was so comfortable sending it to me and not dealing with it until I told them that if they didn’t get it soon, I was going to declare it as unsolicited goods, and keep it while reporting them to the BBB. They picked it up in 48 hours after that despite dragging their heels for over a week.
In both cases (the drugs and CPAP) they would have been uncomfortably expensive for me to pay as well, even after insurance. Meanwhile, the trazadone my PCP prescribed as well is $7 US a month. Though on my one month followup in a bit over two weeks, I’m probably going to try something else for sleep. The cons outweigh the pros.
I am not a fan of grotesqueries, there is just something visceral about the severely enhanced expressions and features that make them hard to look at for me. Clowns and drag queens[1] - I just can’t.
NOT members of the TG community, some of whom are my friends. I just cannot watch Ru Paul’s drag race - I get literal nightmares. ↩︎
Is “hire a hit man” an acceptable response to the billionaire’s daughter poll? 
Don’t use GLP-1 because I’d never heard of it. Now I have heard of it, I’m confused about its purpose.
I think one reason why ventriloquist’s dummies are doing so well in the poll is that they are semi-animate. We know that clowns are just people under that horrifying make-up, while dolls, mannequins and nutcrackers are inanimate objects. But a dummy actually moves and speaks during a performance, so even a dummy lying there unused raises the possibility in your mind that it might move independently. There have been many horror movies based around dummies that come to life.
I remember a Twilight Zone episode with a particularly creepy ventriloquist’s dummy
I voted mannequins because the lack of faces (or even heads altogether) is creepy. Individual dolls, clowns, and dummies easily out-creep them, but all mannequins are at least a little creepy.
Elton’s peak is clearly better in pretty much every way: there’s nothing in Billy’ catalogue like Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Candle in the Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Tiny Dancer, Rocketman, or Your Song, and nevermind deep album cuts like Grey Seal, Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters, St. Peter, or Madman Across the Water. After their peaks tho I do concur that their stuff does blend together into a miasma of mediocrity.
I really hate that song- it could depress a hyena. But I do love “You’re only Human (Second Wind)”.
I can’t think of anything of Billy Joel’s that I care for. Elton? I like a lot of his early- to mid-seventies stuff fairly well, when it seemed he was constantly on the charts with one thing or another.
I like Vienna. And a few others. But I’m a big Elton John fan.
For some people, a life-changing group of new meds that lower A1c (90-day blood sugar indicator) and can lead to weight loss. Developed for diabetes, prescribed also for obesity, mis-prescribed for celebrities and others who want to drop a little weight.
There are fingernail clippers in my house. What I usually clip my fingernails with, however, is the scissors on my Swiss Army knife; and what I usually clip my toenails with is a small sharp curved scissors made for the purpose, which I found in a kit of assorted nail tools (including clippers) which I think used to belong to my father.
I also have scissors specifically made for trimming cats’ claws; and somewhere a larger pair meant for use on dogs, though the current dog still wears his down enough on his own.
I use human nail clippers on the cats. I don’t really understand why other people don’t: they work fine.
I was naming albums. Piano Man is his second album. The song is of course overplayed but there are other good songs on the album. The title track may be the worst song on it.
My tattoos were for radiation positioning during my cancer treatment, so none of the above.