why shoes?

I went to a Ruby Users Group meeting the other day and there was a presentation on Shoes, described as “a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit.” It’s written by Why the Lucky Stiff, who does a lot of Ruby and Ruby on Rails work. I’m interested in the toolkit so I was doing a search for it just now with the query ‘why shoes’, and it occurred to me that that might be kind of funny coming from a Kentucky native. Yep, I jes found teh Internets and I’m'a wonderin’ why for we need t’be wearin’ them shoes.