I WATCH IT SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
You lot don't know how lucky you are. I guess I was thinking that any show that called itself "The Welk Stars" must have a pretty sharp sense of irony. I was wrong, as I am with disturbing regularity these days. This was nothing more than an hour-long commercial for an excruciating DVD, possibly developed by the CIA to take the place of waterboarding, and a compelling argument for immediately revoking any and all government moneys from PBS and giving it to hedge fund managers, no strings attached.The only redeeming moment for me came when a sparkly lady named Norma Zimmer said this: "As the years go by, our relationship will only grow more aggressive." I swear, that's what she said. So I answer, bring it on, osteoporotic rhinestone lady. Show me what you got.
Sparky Donatello
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you crack me up
Norma Zimmer wasn't the original for Lady Edna?
Programs like are enough to turn you off public TV.
Stories are still told in our family of the younger cousins who dared come between our grandfather and "The Lawrence Welk Show" on Saturday nights. He thought Norma was a little too brassy, but was quite smitten with the Lennon Sisters. (He liked to believe their mother still drove them back and forth to work on Mr. Welk's show, when in truth they were probably out in the parking lot behind the studio necking with Ed Burns from "77 Sunset Strip.") If only they'd made a recording of "The Old Rugged Cross" or "Nearer My God to Thee," I'm quite sure Granddad would have played them on the Knotts Island Methodist Church steeple speakers instead of that cheesy recording of "Chimes of Ages."
I don't understand.
Ah yes, "Champagne Music", light and bubbly >pop< I remember it well. It was the Saturday night TV staple at my grandparents home in the '60's. Most recently seen in constant play in the lounge of the Happy Trails Nursing Home.
Your drawings are exquisite... you have a marvelous gift of interpreting the absurdities of every day life with just a few perfect strokes. Joy!
How could I have lived in this country for 10 years and not known about the Lawrence Welk Show? I tell you, they're not asking the right questions at the citizenship exam.
Well, PCB, I don't know what some of my decade younger friends are talking about. Things move fast in Ghent. Oh, and it is Dame Edna, right?
Sorry,Rennie! I'm a bit dim I'm afraid. I know who Dame Edna is - I even caught one of her gladioli at a show once - but I don't get the relevance. Clue?
just thinking about The Lawrence Welk Show makes my teeth hurt. Like chewing down on tin foil.
PCB, you have to be very interested in detail. Look to my prior entry. Then in the past, Wally has referred to her.
As I say, My friends say, "Real poets hate research."