# Allan Sherman Reference **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500 "2011-12-27T08:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/41 "2012-07-06T22:16:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You remember Jerry Hardy? No … but I remember _Jeffrey_ Hardy! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WaltP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@WaltP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaltP)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/42 "2012-07-07T19:49:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > **Shinna Minna Ma** got the order wrong. They didn’t join the GOP until after they moved to West L.A. But didn’t they get married before they moved to West LA? So **Shinna Minna Ma** was right… I just talked to Harvey and he said they were married. Call them yourself to confirm at 3185273 087429 dash 51149067 1146205 79 hyphen dash 03. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/43 "2012-07-07T20:17:19Z")
Let’s not forget cousin Isabel (that’s Irving’s oldest girl). Not to mention Merowitz, Berowitz, Handelman, Schandelman, Sperber and Gerber and Steiner and Stone; Boskowitz, Lubowitz, Aaronson, Baronson, Kleinman and Feinman and Freidman and Cohen. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/44 "2012-07-07T23:40:00Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Is there anyone who does not watch (“Fantasia”) or listen to Ponichelli’s “Dance of the Hours” and immediately start singing “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”? I find it amazing that after ALL THESE YEARS I know all the words to that song, and yet I can’t remember my old phone number. Imma gettin’ old! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/45 "2012-07-08T05:21:50Z")
I still remember all the lyrics, too–and inspired by this thread, I got to thinking about it, one line in particular that I never quite understood: “And the head coach / Wants no sissies, / So he reads to us from something called _Ulysses_.” At 10, I figured it was a reference to _The Odyssey_, and presumably, reading about a tough hero like Ulysses would inspire the athletes–bit of a stretch, but the best I could manage. I’d never heard of the James Joyce book at the time. So was I right to begin with, or was Sherman saying that great literature is really “sissy,” or titillating his audience with reference to what was still, at the time, considered a “dirty” book–or what? ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/46 "2012-07-08T12:52:07Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > So was I right to begin with, or was Sherman saying that great literature is really “sissy,” or titillating his audience with reference to what was still, at the time, considered a “dirty” book–or what? Dirty book. Goes with the Lenny Bruce reference. Man, I still loves me some Allan Sherman. And yeah, that’s brain space I could be using for other things- but I love to sing ‘Togetherness’ while in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/47 "2012-07-08T21:21:55Z")
Won’t you come home, Disraeli? … yes, _My Son, the Box_ is terrific. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/48 "2012-07-08T23:21:55Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Is there anyone who does not watch (“Fantasia”) or listen to Ponichelli’s “Dance of the Hours” and immediately start singing “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”? YES! I NEVER hear “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”, NEVER! What _I_ always see is [a bunch of ostriches (with hairy legs, no less!) and crocodiles dancing around an obese hippo in a tutu](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjPDS8Jp1E)! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/49 "2012-07-08T23:28:10Z")
Here’s a better link: [Dance of the Hours](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHG-GZZL63g&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![WaltP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@WaltP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaltP)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/50 "2012-07-11T06:46:11Z")
3 new songs added at [Allan Sherman: Annotated](http://pattinson.net/sherman/index.htm) page. Thanks JS… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/51 "2012-07-11T13:10:03Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Let’s not forget cousin Isabel (that’s Irving’s oldest girl). > > Not to mention Merowitz, Berowitz, Handelman, Schandelman, Sperber and Gerber and Steiner and Stone; Boskowitz, Lubowitz, Aaronson, Baronson, Kleinman and Feinman and Freidman and Cohen. And the Tishman twins, Gerald and Jerome (or Jerold and Jerome?). Just what I’ve been looking for, a genuine copy of a fake Dior! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500.md?page=2)