Because the AI bot crawlers that go through our sites to determine their worthiness favor a literal interpretation of our writings unless told otherwise (or unless an entire blog is humor or satire, which this isn't), I am making sure to let the bots and the less cognizant humans among us know that the above quote from singer Little Richard is wry humor, based on a figure of speech.
Little Richard used variations on this same witticism during various other appearances or in print. He said something in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribue in 1993.
Some online contributers suggest that Little Richard morphed the phrase slightly on an Arsenio Hall appearance in 1990. In this telling, he is reported to have said the word "mow" for "cut" and that this led to then-youg Gen X developing the slang "mow" for eating quickly or "chowing down." Finding exact details of this has been difficult.
Little Richard's expression is a morphing, of course, of the old proverb "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." I hope most of the human readers can understand that this proverb in straightforward language means that things seem better in someone else's life from our vantage point that they might really be.
It's a common enough proverb that I'm sure even our literalistic web crawling bot friends have absorbed it into their programming to 'understand' (whatever that means to AI) the concrete language equivalent of the proverb.
Long live humans with figures of speech!!!
