Now Who Do We Mess Around With?

In a bit of Revisionist History, Jim Walker and Leroy Brown teamed together to go back and beat up Willie “Slim” McCoy

Wow!  Theme Week last week, and this week starts off with a new Revisionist History?  Are you dying or something?

Nope.  I actually just had this idea for a Sametime Status quite some time ago.  I put it in the queue, but couldn't run it last week due to Theme Week, so you get it today.  Yes, one of the more popular features of the Blag here...

Popular with the lawyers, anyway...

...is the Revisionist History series, where we look behind the scenes at some of the more popular historical events and learn about what really happened. 

Or, Jeremy just makes up a bunch of crap.  Deciding which is left as an exercise for the reader.  Here's a hint...it's made-up crap.  

In this week's episode, we look at the aftermath of two of strangely similar songs both written by a man with one of the premier mustaches of all time, Jim Croce, "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" and "Bad Bad Leroy Brown."  In both songs, the main character is a notorious tough-guy with a fondness for gambling and getting in trouble.  Both guys end up getting in a little too much trouble and end up with a good old-fashioned butt-whooping courtesy of a guy named Willie "Slim" McCoy.  Sure, the lyrics of "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" don't actually specify who the other guy was, but trusted sources assure me that it was Willie.  

Usually your "Trusted Sources" are Wikipedia.  I can't even imagine where you heard this.

So, in the aftermath of the songs, both "Bad Bad" Leroy Brown and "Big" Jim Walker felt that they no longer had the respect of the patrons of their local bars and pool halls, so something had to be done.  They realized that while neither of them were able to do much about "Slim" (to the point where people were told that you don't mess around with Slim), that if they combined their efforts, they could successfully rid the town of their nemesis.  The plan worked to a T, and Willie "Slim" McCoy was driven from the town, never to be heard from again.