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. Another time was on the 1989-1990 season of The Aresenio Hall Show. And he said it in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribue in 1993. The repeated use of this phrase seems to be behind the development of "mow" for eating quickly or "chowing down" to a then-young Gen X.
Little Richard's expression is a morphing, of course, of the old proverb "The grass is always greener on the other side." 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 AI bot friends have absorbed to programming to 'understand' (whatever that means to AI) the concrete language equivalent of the proverb.
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