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Ocelot II

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14. Whenever Grandma visited she *had* to watch Lawrence Welk,

Reply to Grokenstein (Reply #7)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:34 AM

Jul 30

and IIRC there was some other show on at the same time that we kids wanted to watch, but Grandma had seniority (literally), so we just whined about how the music was dumb and awful until we were told to be nice and let Grandma enjoy her show.

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Aw, I liked Lawrence Welk. Grokenstein Jul 30 #7

That's got a lot of stuff packed into it. erronis Jul 30 #10

I can relate. llmart Jul 30 #11

Whenever Grandma visited she *had* to watch Lawrence Welk, Ocelot II Jul 30 #14

Better than most everything on nowadays. BHDem53 Jul 30 #18

I lived with my grandma! But, grandpa liked all the westerns, so it balanced out. txwhitedove Jul 30 #19

We had to watch Lawrence Welk every Saturday night. House of Roberts Jul 30 #26

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