Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 1997/09

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: you call that music?
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:32:12 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:

> If someone offered you the extraordinary amounts of money Welk made by
> doing his thing, I suspect that, like most of us, your ethics would bend
> to the situation, no offense intended.

I hope not, Dan, I certainly hope not. There is a word for that, isn't
there?

It calls to mind a famous story. At the moment, I can't remember whether
this was supposed to be Winston Churchill, or George Bernard Shaw, or
someone else. But, he is supposed to have said at party to an attractive
woman, "Would you go to bed with me for one million dollars?" To which
she replied, "Well, yes, I think I probably would." Then he asked, "Would
you go to bed with me for ten dollars." "Of course not," she haughtily
replied, "What do you think I am?" The reply was, "We've already
established that, now we're just haggling over the price!"

My price for playing in the Lawrence Welk band would be somewhere between
ten dollars and one million dollars, but I'm sure it would be a lot closer
to the latter figure.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu