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Sep. 30th, 2009 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_gneech"OOOOOOH Lord, it's hard to be humble," sang Greg loudly and badly, "when yer perfikt in EEEEEEEv-er-eeee way!"
"Oh God," snarled Brigid. "Please. Seriously. Stop."
Greg frowned. "Now what?"
"Please. You, perfect in every way? Where do you come up with these things?"
"Neither am I a rambler, a gambler, and a long way from home," said Greg, "but that wouldn't stop me from singing about it. This may come as a surprise to you, my young prune, but I sing because I enjoy singing, not because I'm trying to send coded messages to the world."
"You don't really expect me to believe you enjoy singing bad country music, do you?"
"There's an interesting paradox there; what would you consider good country music?"
"Johnny Cash and Vaughn Monroe," Brigid said without hesitation.
"Oooh! Good choices. How about Buck Owens and Roy Clark?"
"Are you trying to make me shoot you?"
"I guess that's a 'no,' then. But however you may feel about Hee-Haw, Roy Clark has some pretty amazing guitar chops."
"Like I care about amazing guitar chops," said Brigid.
"Actually, 'The Amazing Guitar Chops' would be a good name for a ramblin' country band," Greg said.
"You are trying to make me shoot you," said Brigid. "I'm leaving before I get arrested."
Greg was singing "Momma Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" before she reached her room.
-The Gneech
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"Oh God," snarled Brigid. "Please. Seriously. Stop."
Greg frowned. "Now what?"
"Please. You, perfect in every way? Where do you come up with these things?"
"Neither am I a rambler, a gambler, and a long way from home," said Greg, "but that wouldn't stop me from singing about it. This may come as a surprise to you, my young prune, but I sing because I enjoy singing, not because I'm trying to send coded messages to the world."
"You don't really expect me to believe you enjoy singing bad country music, do you?"
"There's an interesting paradox there; what would you consider good country music?"
"Johnny Cash and Vaughn Monroe," Brigid said without hesitation.
"Oooh! Good choices. How about Buck Owens and Roy Clark?"
"Are you trying to make me shoot you?"
"I guess that's a 'no,' then. But however you may feel about Hee-Haw, Roy Clark has some pretty amazing guitar chops."
"Like I care about amazing guitar chops," said Brigid.
"Actually, 'The Amazing Guitar Chops' would be a good name for a ramblin' country band," Greg said.
"You are trying to make me shoot you," said Brigid. "I'm leaving before I get arrested."
Greg was singing "Momma Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" before she reached her room.
-The Gneech
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Date: 2009-09-30 03:04 pm (UTC)Mind you, I consider "Good Country Music" to be an oxymoron of the highest order.
you're channeling Pete Bowden....
Date: 2009-09-30 03:21 pm (UTC)someone should make sure Gneech gets a good lunch....
MLD
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Date: 2009-09-30 03:28 pm (UTC)"...my young prune..."
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Date: 2009-09-30 03:38 pm (UTC)What about Faith Hill? ;-) :::ducks thrown objects:::
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Date: 2009-09-30 03:48 pm (UTC)The irony of the song, of course, is that the text of the verses indicate that he was dumped by his girlfriend and now spends his nights alone and unable to find a date.
-TG
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Date: 2009-10-01 08:33 pm (UTC)(Personally, I'd rather listen to "The Rose", but those cretins wouldn't even consider it, since "Bette Middler ain't country." Cretins.)
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Date: 2009-09-30 06:05 pm (UTC)Never meanin' no harm.
Beats all you never saw
Been in trouble with the law
Since the day they was born...
(Ducks and runs....)
if you had to quote something country..
Date: 2009-10-01 03:14 am (UTC)MLD
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Date: 2009-09-30 08:43 pm (UTC)my achy breaky heart,
I just don't think he'd understand.
And if you tell my heart,
my achy breaky heart,
he might blow up and kill this man.
(shoots own self)
thanks for saving me the trouble...
Date: 2009-10-01 03:15 am (UTC)MLD
Warning: Anime Quote!
Date: 2009-10-01 01:59 pm (UTC)Mega Brando!
*thunderous explosion*
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Date: 2009-10-01 03:43 pm (UTC)Don't play that song
That "Achy Breaky" song
You know I hate that song a bunch
And if you play that song
That nauseating song
It might just make me lose my lunch, ooo...
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Date: 2009-10-01 03:56 am (UTC)I never know just what she sees in me.
I told her someday, if she was my girl,
I could change the world,
with my little songs,
I was wrong.
But she has faith in me,
and so I go on trying faithfully,
and who knows maybe, on some special night,
if my song is right,
I will find a way.
While she waits,
while she waits.... for me. ♪♫
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Date: 2009-10-01 08:35 pm (UTC)