# Is This Reference To Dinah Shore "Hard To Get" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155 "2009-10-17T19:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/21 "2009-10-18T06:29:07Z")
Nearly 40 and got it. I remember her show from the early 70s but not much about it as I was a toddler and kindygarden baby. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/22 "2009-10-18T06:36:42Z")
Dinah Shore, I only know by name. Wouldn’t be able to tell you what she looked like or what songs she sang, but of course I got the Dinah Shore/dinosaur pun right away. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/23 "2009-10-18T18:28:48Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Some of what I know about Dinah Shore: > > She was a lot cooler than her folksy demeanor might have suggested. She had Iggy Pop and David Bowie on her daytime talk show in the 70s and talked to them like they were real people instead of freaks… She also had Tom Waits on her show, and had a splendid conversation with him. You could tell Waits had the utmost respect for her as a singer and song stylist and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/24 "2009-10-18T20:59:28Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I had a temp job for a few days and I had to enter data so they let me listen to my CD. I was playing was called “When Dinah Shore Ruled The Earth.” > > Of course I don’t expect anyone there with me to know who Dinah Shore is, (she’s a singer most famous in the 40s and early 50s. She later hosted a talk show and was noted for dating Burt Reynolds). > > Anyway I had about four people look at the CD, while they liked her singing, they didn’t understand the title of the CD. > > “When Dinah Shore Ruled The Earth” > > It’s obviously a play on the phrase > > “When dinosaurs ruled the Earth?” > > My question is do YOU get this right off the bat? Or are both Dinah Shore and the phrase too old to have meaning. > > All these people who didn’t get it were young probably under 25 I got the joke, and note that in the 1949 movie “On the Town” the resemblance between “Dinah Shore” and “Dinosaur” is also referenced (a cop, hearing the report on the police radio of “collapse of dinosaur” (at a museum), is worried about his favorite singer) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/25 "2009-10-18T21:57:34Z")
Didn’t she have a signature tune–something about San Francisco (not I Left My Heart…–that’s Tony Bennett–but something about a cable car)? I remember her. Blonde, capable singer, I saw her on stuff like Carol Burnett (she was Melody in “Went With the Wind”, the BEST sketch ever on a variety show) and various talk shows. I’m 47. I think I did used to mix her up with Dr Joyce Brothers–they looked alike to me and I didn’t know the difference. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/26 "2009-10-18T22:48:00Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > the golf tournament named for her still has a large lesbian following It has just come to my attention that it has been 10 years since Dinah Shore’s name was officially attached to the tournament now titled the Kraft Nabisco Championship. But people still call it the Dinah Shore. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/27 "2009-10-18T23:06:53Z")
I know who Dinah Shore is and I got the reference right away. I’ll be 48 on Dec 1st (send cards!). ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/28 "2009-10-19T00:10:43Z")
46 here, and I had a brief crush on Dinah Shore growing up. My annual Xmas tape has her in a duet singing “Baby It’s Cold Outside”…love the sound of her voice. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/29 "2009-10-19T01:45:40Z")
She just got her own [postage stamp](http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009/pr09_070.htm). ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/30 "2009-10-19T03:36:27Z")
Took me 2-3 seconds. Didn’t immediately look for a pun. “Walked the earth” is the phrase more familiar to me, but I understand that may not be as good advertising. I am old enough to know her pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/31 "2009-10-19T15:07:58Z")
Late 40’s here, I know who she is, I didn’t get the pun immediately but it’s early and I’m still working on my coffee. I did get it when you mentioned that people weren’t getting the title so I didn’t need the spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/32 "2009-10-19T16:54:11Z")
I’m only 36, but I got it. Dinah Shore is one of my standards-singer heroines though, so I’m perhaps ahead of my time. Or behind my time. I’m not sure. > [@TWDuke](#): > > It has just come to my attention that it has been 10 years since Dinah Shore’s name was officially attached to the tournament now titled the Kraft Nabisco Championship. But people still call it the Dinah Shore. And there is [the Dinah Shore Week](http://www.dinahshoreweekend.com/) (formerly weekend) in Palm Springs, a huge lesbian gathering with concerts, expos, parties, etc. It occurs at the same time as, but is not in any way affiliated with the golf tournament. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/33 "2009-10-19T17:06:51Z")
Knew her back when, got the joke, remember her Burt days. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/34 "2009-10-19T17:27:22Z")
I only remember seeing the Dinah Shore show when I stayed home from school because of illness. She would be on late morning TV my mom used to watch it and to me it was an old ladies program, but I do remember. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/35 "2009-10-19T17:32:55Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Andy Kaufman once dumped eggs on her head, which is yet another reason not to like Andy Kaufman. I think you’re misremembering. It was Tony Clifton who did that. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/36 "2009-10-19T22:45:48Z")
I only get it when I say it aloud. And, even then, the supposed phrase is rare enough that I didn’t think of it. I’m 24. Of course, I live in a very Creationist community. They don’t believe dinosaurs ever ruled the earth. That was Adam’s job. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/37 "2009-10-20T00:02:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I remember the first time I ever encountered the pun was on _Beanie and Cecil_. Oh, God, **kaylasdad!** That was the first thing I thought of when I read this thread. “Cecil Meets the Singing Dinosaur”. We go way back. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/38 "2009-10-21T07:35:51Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Didn’t she have a signature tune–something about San Francisco (not I Left My Heart…–that’s Tony Bennett–but something about a cable car)? I remember her. Blonde, capable singer, Here signature tune was “Button And Bows.” I was also very impressed with her version of “Georgia On My Mind.” ---
**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/39 "2009-10-21T15:43:00Z")
42 here and I have that album, got the pun right away. Loved the clip with Iggy Pop and Bowie. She was so clearly crushing on Bowie! ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155/40 "2009-10-21T17:35:17Z")
And let’s not forget this gem from the old Hudson Brothers’ Saturday morning show: - Will you be eating on board the ship or are you going to Dinah Shore?\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-reference-to-dinah-shore-hard-to-get/514155.md?page=1)