Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Shooting out a television in the Jungle Room of Graceland with an illegal handgun makes you a king. - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Shooting out a television in the Jungle Room of Graceland with an illegal handgun makes you a king.

Reposted from Charles Louis Richter

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Pretending your ship's not sinking, denying the tears in your eyes, and refusing to give in to your blues is how you become king.

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mlip16.bsky.social•1 day ago

There’ only one King

revbeaker.bsky.social•1 day ago

bezier.bsky.social•2 days ago

🔥💥

wastrel333.bsky.social•2 days ago

dereksbabble.bsky.social•2 days ago

Calling yourself king doesn't make you a king. Smoking your last cigarette in a 50 cent room where there's no phone, no pets allowed, and no pool outside, having arrived by third boxcar from Bangor, Maine makes you king.

csparks.bsky.social•2 days ago

Damn right!

singmeadowlark129.bsky.social•2 days ago

Absolutely!!!

joewestfall.bsky.social•2 days ago

and to be an Emperor
you have to get NEW CLOTHES

thomasbroderick.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm sure you've read it, but Naipaul's A Turn in the South was an eye-opening book into the part of the country I grew up in.

The part about likening white visitors to Elvis's boyhood home as religious pilgrims was on point.

thomasbroderick.bsky.social•2 days ago

The WTF moment for me is when he discussed visiting Williamson County, TN, around the time my folks and baby me moved there. He talks to some land developer who basically tells him, "Oh, you have no idea. This place is gonna be huge."

And it was.

kevinmkruse.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh yeah

jnthnwd.bsky.social•1 day ago

From shitgibbon to orange-utan

courtney01.bsky.social•2 days ago

LOL!

doclittle.bsky.social•2 days ago

Almost! There WAS a handgun involved, but "The King" was arrested just outside Graceland's gates!

stevenglaros007.bsky.social•2 days ago

Playing a Gibson guitar makes you a BB King.

bruisewayne.bsky.social•1 day ago

While reading Tom Robbins.

frobisher.bsky.social•1 day ago

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Demonstrating to your flattering courtiers that you no control over the elements, like the incoming tide, makes you king.

quacktasticfarm.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, calling our Prime Minister a Governor doesn't make it so. Neither does calling us a state. He can't magically decide we're part of the country like he magically declassified documents. The more he pokes us, the angrier we get. Ever seen a pissed off Canada Goose? That's us right now.

lincolnskayak.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fun Fact: the current Republican president is a convicted felon and cannot legally possess a handgun. Watch out if he visits Graceland after his jaunt to Fort Knox.

shillelagh.bsky.social•2 days ago

It wasn’t illegal. Elvis was a Very Special Agent of President Nixon in charge of rooting out drugs and also delicious hush puppies.

tombtegtmeyer.bsky.social•2 days ago

That was supposed to be between me and you.

jasontyrrell.bsky.social•2 days ago

nikosleverenz.bsky.social•2 days ago

As with so much of Graceland the Jungle Room didn't feel like a comfortable, inviting, or luxurious environment.

mgryan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Singing and playing the blues, inspiring and spawning guitar legends, and naming your guitar Lucille, that makes you a king.

geraintfychan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords in a farcical aquatic ceremony is how you become a king.

born2bemild.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/born2bemild.bsky.social/post/3likorygahc2o

immanentize.bsky.social•2 days ago

It wasn't the jungle room fun, it was that Federal Bureau of Narcorics meeting with Nixon.

spamriskegypt.bsky.social•2 days ago

actually, dying on a toilet makes you king, and don could do that. let's go, king!

danifroom.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was once suspended from Twitter for making this same joke

padawanjon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tywin went out like a king.

illimij.bsky.social•1 day ago

Another Elvis (Declan by birth):

He thought he was the King of America
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine
Now I try hard not to become hysterical
But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying

melinab.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wish that I could push a button and talk in the past and not the present tense. And watch this hurting feeling disappear like it was common sense.

nomnomnomdeplumb.bsky.social•1 day ago

And being a king, doesn't mean there aren't higher powers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh3J32ZJF3E

mlip16.bsky.social•1 day ago

Imagine hanging out with the Memphis Mafia

They made the Rat Pack look like choir boys

lorno.bsky.social•2 days ago

notelon.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'd be thrilled if he took a seat on the porcelain throne and never returned too.

iamticktickbang.bsky.social•1 day ago

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. But
third boxcar, midnight train
Destination Bangor, Maine
Old, worn out suit and shoes
You don't pay no union dues
Smoke old stogies you have found
Short, but not too big around
You're a man of means by no means
Makes you a king.

csparks.bsky.social•2 days ago

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Killing your brother, marrying his queen, and keeping a sharp eye out for your wife's son because he is talking to the ghost of your dead brother makes you a king.

matttttthews.bsky.social•2 days ago

Only King I acknowledge.

joeryan.bsky.social•2 days ago

philmarsden.bsky.social•2 days ago

Calling your guitar Lucille and knowing the thrill has gone makes you BB King.

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