More insults ("idiotic"). I do not insult you - why do you insult me? All I ever did was ask a simple, harmless question. Again, when you insult someone for no reason you reveal much more about your own character than you do about the person you're insulting.
She was very tall; it would be interesting to find out how she shopped for clothes in those days; I'm a man who's 6'1.5" and even for me, it's hard sometimes; a woman that height, back then, would have had more of an issue.
Did you catch the knock against George Jessel at the end? "You better stay away from George...he's always interested in minors." Bennett often went for bad puns, but that's one of the cleverest jokes I've heard from him. And quite risque too!
@KarinPluss Yeah I agree about Bennett, he was a bit sneaky when it came to figuring out these things. Although it usually came into play regarding celebrities; he'd scoured the news pages to see which were in town that day! :P
Did you notice that at the very instant that her occupation came up (1:25), John told the panel that they'd have to dig? I wonder if that was a deliberate pun.
How in the world did Bennett Cerf zero in on mining? The entire panel seemed to be out at sea with regard to her job, but he suddenly brought them home. Bennett was very smart!
Oh, honestly, Dorothy. Did you really have to tell that nice lady that she would be better suited to be a goldigger than a gold miner? That coming from Hal Block I could see, but you?
@intooblv The term "golddigger" carries a negative connotation, does it not? It refers to a woman who beguiles men out of money and gifts. I can think of better ways to compliment a woman than that. Still, Dorothy did say "respectably" and "digging gold" rather than "golddigger" and I'm sure there was nothing mean-spirited in her heart, so, very well - I take your point.
@wmlfan9 I see you're one of "these people" that need ready-made, spoon-fed answers; even with the internet you're obviously totally incapable of looking up her bio on "Wikipedia" and reading it; you're obviously not someone that's also much for reading, one of the classic hallmarks of the truly ignorant.
If you're one of these fakeroos that protests "I didn't bring my glasses" some other such nonsense, then have someone ELSE read it to you, or even digest it for you.
@SatchmoSings My heavens - I ask a simple, harmless question in reply to your post and you repeatedly insult me. When you insult me for no reason that says more about you than about me.
@wmlfan9 It was not a simple, harmless question; that and your response is that of the passive-aggressive whiner/shithead.
Kilgallen was a fairly controversial figure and so was her death; she was not popular with the other panelists.
There, I gave you "some answers" that if you weren't such a lazy retard who could have quickly skimmed her bio on "Wikipedia" you could have found all this out in about two minutes so go fuck yourself.
@SatchmoSings Again you insult me and call names. What on earth did I do to bring such vindictiveness from you down on my head ? All I did was ask you why you said what you said. When you make an accusation you, not I, have the burden of proof. If you had said "I base my statement on what I read in Wikipedia" I would have gladly accepted that, but to rant and rage at me - why?
@wmlfan9 I personally find the lack of self-reliance to look up stuff on your own pretty idiotic, especially so since it is obvious you have the internet; it's not as if you have to schlepp over to a library to look this up.
Since I am the kind of person who can and does "look things up" I find it odd and even strange that others cannot or even refuse to do like wise.
I also find it strange that someone who is my own age is not famaliar with Kilgallen's legacy over all these years.
@SatchmoSings I too can and do "look things up". I was just curious as to what your specific source was that you based your comment on. I maintain that mine was a perfectly reasonable question. "Her entry in Wikipedia" would have been a civil response from you - agreed? And without the insults, name-calling and vile language. If you only knew how your hateful comments hurt me, I'm sure you wouldn't do it. BTW, what makes you think we're the same age? This time not a screed, please.
@wmlfan9 First of all, you're not the kind of person who "looks things up," otherwise you'd not have asked the question you did in the first place.
Secondly are ages are fairly close; I looked up yours on your homepage and obviously you didn't bother to look up mine; another example of how you DON'T "look things up."
That you somehow "need to be told" to look up Kilgallen's bio on Wikipedia seems rather idiotic to me.
@SatchmoSings Dear SatchmoSings, thanks you for ceasing your insults. One last thing - the ONLY thing I was attempting to do was "pick your brains". You kept refering me to Wikipedia (which of course I read) but the Wiki article only gives me facts - it does not give me your worthy opinion which is what I was hoping to elicit. I thought you'd enjoy sharing with me your personal favorite of DK's dastardly deed. It was just a good-natured question. OK, now I'm done. No hard feelings. WMLFAN9
@wmlfan9 The Wikipedia article on Kilgallen covered many highlights of why she was not popular with the other panelists and, at least, a somewhat controversial figure who was not so well-liked; these also includes the details of her death.
Frank Sinatra used to call her "The Chinless Wonder;" she's also a person of somewhat limited warmth, charm and overall good humor; she tends to take herself rather seriously.
@SatchmoSings Thanks, SatchmoSings, for your kind, civil response. I sincerely appreciate it. And now, my friend, with any luck we'll meet each other on other threads devoted to the greatest TV show ever - What's My Line. (PS You've GOT to love that Sinatra appellation for DK - "The Chinless Wonder" LOL)
@SatchmoSings Awright, Satchmo - NOW we're on the same page! I'm sure if Kilgallen were around today her hair stylist would inform her that it's not 1922.
@wmlfan9 Do me a big favor and don't bother speaking with me; I've been skimming our thread and I find all your comments subsequent to my pointing out your inability to research Ms. Kilgallen for yourself to be something that still stands as far as I'm concerned.
I'm also fairly sure you have no idea who most of the celebrity guests are; you must find other elements of this show appealing.
@SatchmoSings You say you find all my comments to be something that still stand? OK, so do I. You don't want to speak anymore. OK, we won't - this'll be my last missive to you. (Gee, I was just trying to be friendly.) One last thing - I know about 99% of the celebrity guests.
@wmlfan9 That was a very strange comment. Given the humor of the time though, I think Dorothy was merely trying to be witty and charming like Arlene. Dorothy was an educated and well repspected journalists and would have no doubt gone on to great things had she not died very young. I firmly beleive she was killed because of what she was about to divulge involing the Kennedy assasignation.
She wasn't always witty and she did take herself quite seriously but she was elegant and charming
@wiguy3 Just so I understand, when you say "that was a very strange comment" are you refering to the comment I made or the comment Dorothy made? Otherwise I do not know how to respond to what you said.
Bennett rules. He can be suggestive of this and that but always elegantly, and he's never rude og crude. And I love his language!!
pildskadden 4 months ago
@pildskadden Agreed, big Bennett fan in spite of the cheesy puns and wordplay ;)
ShawDAMAN 2 months ago
Did Bennett just call Jessel a pedophile?
ClassicShowbiz 6 months ago 2
yes Bennet rocks he was amacing
eron1963 6 months ago
More insults ("idiotic"). I do not insult you - why do you insult me? All I ever did was ask a simple, harmless question. Again, when you insult someone for no reason you reveal much more about your own character than you do about the person you're insulting.
wmlfan9 8 months ago
I wouldn't mind being marooned with her on a tropical island, at least for a little while . . .
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
She was very tall; it would be interesting to find out how she shopped for clothes in those days; I'm a man who's 6'1.5" and even for me, it's hard sometimes; a woman that height, back then, would have had more of an issue.
SatchmoSings 9 months ago
Bennett's last minute save is suspicious.
irvingklaw57 9 months ago
She looked and carried herself like a model. Wonder if she had done that at one time?
gmaureen 10 months ago
4:52 John sure loved having those "small conferences"!
LandondeeL 11 months ago
Did you catch the knock against George Jessel at the end? "You better stay away from George...he's always interested in minors." Bennett often went for bad puns, but that's one of the cleverest jokes I've heard from him. And quite risque too!
SoaringTrumpet 1 year ago
@SoaringTrumpet I was surprised that joke got by without as much as a giggle. Great joke actually!
I did find Bennett's sudden guess about mining a bit sketchy, though. Seemed a bit too out of the blue....
KarinPluss 1 year ago
@KarinPluss Yeah I agree about Bennett, he was a bit sneaky when it came to figuring out these things. Although it usually came into play regarding celebrities; he'd scoured the news pages to see which were in town that day! :P
SoaringTrumpet 1 year ago
The Lady carried herself so well.
Inonca 1 year ago
Did you notice that at the very instant that her occupation came up (1:25), John told the panel that they'd have to dig? I wonder if that was a deliberate pun.
wmlfan9 1 year ago
Bennett is the man! always my favorite male panelist, :) (Arlene is my favorite female one) ;P
ShawDAMAN 1 year ago
Bennet rocks, rest in peace
sweetiepillow 2 years ago 14
How in the world did Bennett Cerf zero in on mining? The entire panel seemed to be out at sea with regard to her job, but he suddenly brought them home. Bennett was very smart!
karlakor 2 years ago 4
she looks like a body double for an older janet leigh or dina merril.
amazing how bennett pulled it out oike that. he must have figured what else does one do in south dakota.
bigred997 2 years ago 3
That's probably exactly it. South Dakota is where the Black Hills are located and where Black Hills Gold is mined.
PirateQueenMaureen 2 years ago 2
Oh, honestly, Dorothy. Did you really have to tell that nice lady that she would be better suited to be a goldigger than a gold miner? That coming from Hal Block I could see, but you?
wmlfan9 2 years ago 11
@wmlfan9 Seing the time this show was set in, you occationally hear some very strange remarks on it.
MsSarjen 1 year ago
@wmlfan9 It was meant as a compliment. Ms. Kilgallen was trying to say that the guest was attractive.
intooblv 11 months ago 2
@intooblv The term "golddigger" carries a negative connotation, does it not? It refers to a woman who beguiles men out of money and gifts. I can think of better ways to compliment a woman than that. Still, Dorothy did say "respectably" and "digging gold" rather than "golddigger" and I'm sure there was nothing mean-spirited in her heart, so, very well - I take your point.
wmlfan9 11 months ago
@intooblv ya, golddiggers were very attractive women and she was implying she could have any man she wanted on that alone. It truly was a compliment.
sweeney60 9 months ago
@wmlfan9 Well, Kilgallen was an incredible low-life.
SatchmoSings 9 months ago
@SatchmoSings Oh? Why do you say that?
wmlfan9 8 months ago
@wmlfan9 I see you're one of "these people" that need ready-made, spoon-fed answers; even with the internet you're obviously totally incapable of looking up her bio on "Wikipedia" and reading it; you're obviously not someone that's also much for reading, one of the classic hallmarks of the truly ignorant.
If you're one of these fakeroos that protests "I didn't bring my glasses" some other such nonsense, then have someone ELSE read it to you, or even digest it for you.
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
@SatchmoSings My heavens - I ask a simple, harmless question in reply to your post and you repeatedly insult me. When you insult me for no reason that says more about you than about me.
wmlfan9 8 months ago
@wmlfan9 It was not a simple, harmless question; that and your response is that of the passive-aggressive whiner/shithead.
Kilgallen was a fairly controversial figure and so was her death; she was not popular with the other panelists.
There, I gave you "some answers" that if you weren't such a lazy retard who could have quickly skimmed her bio on "Wikipedia" you could have found all this out in about two minutes so go fuck yourself.
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
@SatchmoSings Again you insult me and call names. What on earth did I do to bring such vindictiveness from you down on my head ? All I did was ask you why you said what you said. When you make an accusation you, not I, have the burden of proof. If you had said "I base my statement on what I read in Wikipedia" I would have gladly accepted that, but to rant and rage at me - why?
wmlfan9 8 months ago
@wmlfan9 I personally find the lack of self-reliance to look up stuff on your own pretty idiotic, especially so since it is obvious you have the internet; it's not as if you have to schlepp over to a library to look this up.
Since I am the kind of person who can and does "look things up" I find it odd and even strange that others cannot or even refuse to do like wise.
I also find it strange that someone who is my own age is not famaliar with Kilgallen's legacy over all these years.
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
@SatchmoSings I too can and do "look things up". I was just curious as to what your specific source was that you based your comment on. I maintain that mine was a perfectly reasonable question. "Her entry in Wikipedia" would have been a civil response from you - agreed? And without the insults, name-calling and vile language. If you only knew how your hateful comments hurt me, I'm sure you wouldn't do it. BTW, what makes you think we're the same age? This time not a screed, please.
wmlfan9 8 months ago
@wmlfan9 First of all, you're not the kind of person who "looks things up," otherwise you'd not have asked the question you did in the first place.
Secondly are ages are fairly close; I looked up yours on your homepage and obviously you didn't bother to look up mine; another example of how you DON'T "look things up."
That you somehow "need to be told" to look up Kilgallen's bio on Wikipedia seems rather idiotic to me.
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
@SatchmoSings Dear SatchmoSings, thanks you for ceasing your insults. One last thing - the ONLY thing I was attempting to do was "pick your brains". You kept refering me to Wikipedia (which of course I read) but the Wiki article only gives me facts - it does not give me your worthy opinion which is what I was hoping to elicit. I thought you'd enjoy sharing with me your personal favorite of DK's dastardly deed. It was just a good-natured question. OK, now I'm done. No hard feelings. WMLFAN9
wmlfan9 8 months ago
@wmlfan9 The Wikipedia article on Kilgallen covered many highlights of why she was not popular with the other panelists and, at least, a somewhat controversial figure who was not so well-liked; these also includes the details of her death.
Frank Sinatra used to call her "The Chinless Wonder;" she's also a person of somewhat limited warmth, charm and overall good humor; she tends to take herself rather seriously.
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
@SatchmoSings Thanks, SatchmoSings, for your kind, civil response. I sincerely appreciate it. And now, my friend, with any luck we'll meet each other on other threads devoted to the greatest TV show ever - What's My Line. (PS You've GOT to love that Sinatra appellation for DK - "The Chinless Wonder" LOL)
wmlfan9 8 months ago
@wmlfan9 I'm sure that if Kilgallen had been around today, she would have had a chin implant
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
@SatchmoSings Awright, Satchmo - NOW we're on the same page! I'm sure if Kilgallen were around today her hair stylist would inform her that it's not 1922.
wmlfan9 7 months ago
@wmlfan9 Do me a big favor and don't bother speaking with me; I've been skimming our thread and I find all your comments subsequent to my pointing out your inability to research Ms. Kilgallen for yourself to be something that still stands as far as I'm concerned.
I'm also fairly sure you have no idea who most of the celebrity guests are; you must find other elements of this show appealing.
SatchmoSings 7 months ago
@SatchmoSings You say you find all my comments to be something that still stand? OK, so do I. You don't want to speak anymore. OK, we won't - this'll be my last missive to you. (Gee, I was just trying to be friendly.) One last thing - I know about 99% of the celebrity guests.
wmlfan9 7 months ago
@wmlfan9 That was a very strange comment. Given the humor of the time though, I think Dorothy was merely trying to be witty and charming like Arlene. Dorothy was an educated and well repspected journalists and would have no doubt gone on to great things had she not died very young. I firmly beleive she was killed because of what she was about to divulge involing the Kennedy assasignation.
She wasn't always witty and she did take herself quite seriously but she was elegant and charming
wiguy3 1 month ago
@wiguy3 Just so I understand, when you say "that was a very strange comment" are you refering to the comment I made or the comment Dorothy made? Otherwise I do not know how to respond to what you said.
wmlfan9 1 month ago
great save by Bennett!
63utuber 2 years ago 3