What is a "real estate novelist"?

Cafe Society
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I always thought the “waitress is practicing politics” meant she had to keep the men interested enough to leave big tips without actually encouraging them to complete the passes they keep making at her.

22

With all the alcophilophobia in America, I’d get killed before I even reached there.

23

This is supported by the videos (both versions) in which the waitress is shown fending off amorous advances.

24

I always thought it was as simple as writing more fiction than fact in his real estate listings.

25

I’ve always made that connection.

Not being very polite when refusing to serve them another drink when they can’t stand up anymore?

26

I thought it was sort of a double entendre. She’s “practicing politics” by trying to ward off advances but not discourage tips and she’s probably a law or poly-sci student.

27

I’ve always wondered about the odd internal rhyme scheme of the verses. The first verse is line seven (But it’s sad and it’s sweeet/And I knew it complete). The second and third are line three (And he’s quick with a joke/or a light of your smoke; And he’s talking to Davy/Who’s still in the Navy), and the last verse has them at both three and seven (Cause he knows that it’s me, they’ve been coming to see; And they sit at the bar/And put bread in my jar).

28

Billy himself has said the song is, essentially, an extended limerick.

29

Elton & Billy, two of the world’s best piano men, do a duet.

30

Perhaps the bar might even be a microcosm of the real world!

31

I don’t know what’s funnier–the unintentional cheesey of the first one, or the very intentionally sleezy of the second.