I am an "ilk."

Roger is cool, he understands welk.

Perfecto!!! That's the way folks have been using the word 'ilk' in forums. It's using the word as if it were negative, and trying to sound smart. I've thought about looking up the old thread about pet peeves and adding 'those of your ilk'. It's not like English is Greek (made myself chuckle)

Arg...I just heard a sports commentator use someone of his ilk in referencing the NBA draft.

But in a good kinda way, huh?

I confess I used "your ilk" in at least one political post. But I don't make a habit of it.

You're not a real ilk.

I contacted the Benevolent and Protective Order of Ilks, an' they said they ain't never heard of no Edgar Blythe.

Indubitably I am an ilk

I am a stealth ilk. Not even Wikileaks has heard of me.

Mmm, if only Boomerang could have returned and said instead, "Ilk should be the word to describe throwing up in your mouth a little bit".

Similarly, ilk reminds me of akin, someone I've metaphor.

I use this.

Yes, that is undeniably true; but does he understand Lawrence Welk?

You may be an ilk, but I am the walrus.

Lawrence Welk used to go to our church.. many years ago. I was never a fan of his music. Our family would sit in the living room with our tv trays and watch the Welk show with our dinners.. I close to hated it.

I should add those family episodes with the teenage me are actually good memories now - my parents and aunt still alive, us all eating together watching tv.

You didn't love the tickling of the ivories by the lovely Norma Zimmer? The high pitched voice of Joe Feeney? The trillings of the Lennon Sisters? The lively accordion playing from Myron Floren?

Not to mention one of the most hysterical moments ever when they decided to sing a song with strong drug references (though they likely were unaware).




Lawrence Welk Show is one of my earliest television memories.

Stan Freberg as Lawrence Welk

Nah - the Lennon sisters went to the school I had gone to for 1st and 2nd grade but I went to different schools later, so I was never in class with any of them. My then best high school friend's mother taught them though and we kept getting told about them. For a long time, the whole family lived in a big old house, oh, three block from us in Venice. More yada yada about "oh, the Lennons live there". Enough already..

Generally, the people in our areas of Venice and Santa Monica didn't get excited about the famous people who lived in the better parts of those areas (there were scrungy areas there too, like our street). Besides the famous that you would run into on Main Street (etc), plenty worked in the movie/tv industries themselves. So, between the natural nonchalance for people who were really just neighbors and the on and on enthusiasm of my friend's mother, we weren't all gaga over Lennons.

Irish tenor Joe Feeney

I still think of that as one word when I hear an Irish tenor. Such a distinctive sound.

Champagne Lady Norma Zimmer

I used to make hamburgboy dance with me whenever Lawrence Welk was on. It's a draw as to which one of us was worse - me at 5, hbg at 32 and with dance classes in his history.