It takes a special kind of someone to produce something simple that is also special.
Huh? Don’t blame me blame Billy Joe Shaver.
I remember a phrase in Zen Buddhism a phrase “putting legs on a snake.”
Where smart people start using their brains and make the simplest of things harder and harder.
Billy Joe Shaver was in an interview with Norm McDonald on Netflix, which I can only assume is a deliberately bad chat show.
Billy’s line was “Simplicity don’t need no greasing.”
Norm grew up on a farm in Canada. Their job as kids was to empty the outhouse – similar to Billy Joe.
Carry the contents of the outhouse buckets to the top of a field and dig a hole to put it in.
Norms father said “If that’s the worst thing you experience in life then you’re doing good.”
In the show Norm said his father was right. It was the worst thing he had experienced.
I guess my previous 1linerweds post was also excrement related.
What country has over one….. ( One liner Wednesday)
Back to the interview –
Despite occasional low-brow humor involving watermelons, the interview was interesting as it gave insight in how country music stars worked back then.
People like Kris Kristofferson,according to Billy Joe, would say they would record a song but only if they could get 50% royalty rights.
Billy Jo turned it down as he said his songs were so good – Kris recorded them anyway.
No squirrels were harmed in the typing of these words.
The rebel fish 
Interesting insight.
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Thanks Ray, I use quantity theory, so something interesting has to happen eventually 🙂
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We do tend to make things harder when we think. I love the black squirrels.
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Where ignorance is bliss…..
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I’m sure I will have an opportunity to use the phrase “putting legs on a snake” within a day at the office. Thanks for sharing – I always need new sayings to keep people awake there.
Joan
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See I can be sensible too 🙂 let me know how it goes 🙂
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Boy oh boy! That is a BAD talk show. I couldn’t get through ten minutes…
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I was on an exercise bike.. couldn’t make it stop 🙂 it’s post-ironical comedy – ie not comedy at all. He used to write for Roseanne in the 80’s before the world went… well..
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Legs on a snake would be cool, like a huge centipede. Even better if you made teeny tiny red boots for its little legs, and then he could do a little Riverdance….all that leg movement without moving his scaly body…that would go viral on Twitter and then you could afford to buy him a little top hat and tails too. Even cooler, buy him a hair piece, so he’d be like a huge hairy Caterpillar…hungry, of course.
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We had an ancient 4 holer at the rear of our shed when I lived on the Island. The house was built in 1874 and apparently families did everything together back then…
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as a history buff that sound more like the roman set up..
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The style of the house was Greek Revival… so, you’re close.
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I think I sense an excrement-related theme developing here…:D
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Lol, hopefully not, it was an accident 🙂 …..
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Drives me bonkers when steps change to improve the process but only make the process more difficult to accomplish.
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How would one fill ones time if one wasn’t discovering the complexity underneath the simplicity?
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cats in the cradle string game?
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“putting legs on a snake” – never heard that one but I know exactly what it means!
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