[Amesman]

Originally Posted by fullor30

Hey, it worked for Lawrence Welk........

"Much of the show's appeal was Welk himself. His unusual accent appealed to the audience. (On one 1955 show, he mentioned Danny Thomas's series, "Mek Room fur Deddy.") While Welk's English was passable, he never did grasp the English "idiom" completely, and was thus famous for his "Welk-isms," such as "George, I want to see you when you have a minute, right now," and "Now for my accordion solo, Myron, will you join me?" . Another famous "Welk-ism" was his trademark count-off, "A one and a two..." which was immortalized on his California automobile license plate that read "A1ANA2".

Now where else are you going to go to get this kind of information in this day and age?! Makes it worth the price of admission alone. (But, seriously, I thought when you gave your credit card number to sign up for this discussion board they were only going to charge $9.99, not $99.99.)