Yes, I'm back, sorry about that, had some stuff to do and a State of the Union to view. Sorry I missed your riddle, silly me, I would have said cocktail olive or something. So what do you think 'ol Elton was getting at in his strange lyrics of "Benny & the Jets?"

Don't believe there's any deep symbolic meaning in "Bennie and the Jets" actually. I think it's just a straight up story about a fictitious band and it's fans. Could be about Elton himself actually...."...he's got electric boots...a mohair suit..."

"We'll kill the fatted calf tonight." Okay, what does that mean?

According to the song lyrics, Bennie is a girl, short for Benita, like Lopez's mom in the George Lopez show, she wears electric boots and a mohair suit, apparently she's famous because she's in a magazine, and she's probably a singer, judging by the lyrics that follow, so she must have appeared in Rolling Stone or High Times. Really strange lyrics but a timeless classic of a song by Sir Elton. When you take the lyrics out of some of these songs, it can be difficult to try to understand what the songwriter was trying to tell you, the message or the meaning.

"killing the fatted calf" could just mean that they are gonna' celebrate, ya' know...pull out all the stops. Like, they've sacrificed and waited for just this moment to truly live, ya' know?

thanks for clearing that up, other than those lyrics, I've never heard that term used before. Then again he is British, so that slang must have passed me by, when I first heard it. In that context, it does seem to fit with the party atmosphere of the rest of the song.

...maybe Elton was just hungry for veal?

That would also make sense, huh. Too bad it's not PC to eat veal these days. I still do, but then I was never politically correct.

O.K. This is the story about a "Big Shot"... wanna' hear it? These people in this song are real pretentious morons, man....

Well...it starts out with this proto-yuppie type drivin' in up-town New York in his limo...his Vercace suit...drinkin' Dom Perignon and snortin' Peruvian flake outta' his gold coke spoon, right?

...But his friend is warnin' him , right? Say's "Hey man....when ya' wake up with yr swollen red eyes and yr hangover that's so bad that yr head feels like a frozen pineapple...well...cry in yr coffee all ya' want, man...but I told ya' so..." See...cuz' he had to be a big shot, dig?

I love watching pretentious morons!

...O.K., see the GENIUS of Billy Joel is that he writes characters, dig! This next verse is about a chick big shot. Check this out...

chick big shots are usually waaaaaaaaay more pretentious than guy big shots.

True...and this chick...God she' wearing her Halson dress...her friends were all impressed. Well, not just by her dress but also by the people she knew at Elaine's. See...in New York in the 70's, Elaine's was where all the pretentious people went to eat, right? You pay extra to see a menu with no prices....they charge you what they want and insult you....THAT type of place, right?....

ok so you fed them some bull shlt about being totally sucessful and they acted like they were entertained, cuz you were footin the phukking bill

...and all she can talk about is herself, dig? How great she is...how successful she is...and she's goin' on and on puttin' people down...just bein' a self-centered biotch, right? ...and she's keeps drinkin' wine, gettin' buzzed....

That's right...but they also enjoy her makin' an a$$ of herself too, see? They're no REALLY impressed. In fact...they find her sad and pathetic, right?

...so she gets up the next mornin'...and she's trippin' cuz' she's not sure how much she ran her mouth, see? She has a vague idea about some of what she said...but she's not sure....