Dice Dot Painter on "What's My Line?"

This clip was so long I had to trim the sign-in and walk-off to fit the alotted time and it still runs over. Contains an irresistible Martin Gabel zinger to John Daly, though.

[@marthafarquar]

...if I might fight my way through the dense jungle of your rhetoric...

[@nikkia4950]

3:38 when Arlene knows John is going to give her the no and quickly changes her question hahah smart lady

[@emnem100]

Yes definitely. Actually, sometimes while watching WML I look up the contestant to see if they're still alive, read about their lives, etc. You'd be surprised how much I've learned about one of these random people with strange jobs. Unfortunately in this video, they cut off the part where the contestant signs in with their name so I couldn't look it up.

[@Jorbz150]

This is the second time Daly has said that the question "Would it be used in any particular part of the home?" couldn't be answered yes or no. It is a yes or no question. The question is different from "What particular part of the home is it used in?"

[@icturner23]

I scrolled down to look for just this comment. It was bizarre that that question confused him, since they asked it routinely.

[@icturner23]

Arlene even asked the same question shortly afterwards and Daly didn’t bat an eyelid!

[@bubbleheadft]

Amazing that he pretty much gave her the answer and she steered away from it.

[@lojosol]

Int the terms of reference of this video, the term gay does not mean one who favors the same sex as oneself is, but rather "happy" im starting to get a feel of how to describe things like John Daly lol

[@bernlin2000]

3:50 Arlene comes in with the best questions

[@weatdamal]

John's rhetoric is entertaining all on its own. haha

[@cjeansliwa6662]

I remember being there; it doesn't seem like 55years ago. CJB

[@Celisar1]

C Jean Sliwa It’s fascinating to read your comment and think about how much can change in one lifetime. Those days seem to be so far away but what’s 55 years, really? Must have been wonderful for you to be there!

[@edrooney9580]

Amazing that you commented. Hope you are ok maam

[@vroxxzz]

Are we going to gloss over the description of dice as four sided square objects?!?! ...Ok then...

[@icturner23]

Quite. I was going to let “square” slide, and then...

[@justageneraluser]

Right? I want to hear more stories about Arlene's experience with flat two-dimensional dice

[@sunsetswest]

Thanks for posting!

[@PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

There are a couple of clever zingers in this one! ☺

[@ReMeDy_TV]

Unless Miss Francis plays Dungeons & Dragons and is familiar with D4 dice.

[@TopperMadeline]

This is quite a longer game. Usually Daly calls the game after a certain point.

[@roachtoasties]

A career as a dice dot painter: It's good to have goals.

[@tastx3142]

roachtoasties My mother in law used to hand paint photographs to cover up the white dots on the eyes. She went to the Chicago Art Institute in the late 40's.

[@philippapay4352]

@roachtoasties - This contestant looks quite young and well-groomed. Allow me to suggest that it could be her first job out of college or a starting position in a family firm, so she could learn the ropes, or merely a function of there being so many fewer jobs with a future. After WWII when the men came home, went to college on the GI Bill, and got the good jobs, affording women so many fewer opportunities until after the 1960s, during which decade many of them went to college and got degrees in fields with opportunities for a future allowing some stimulation from one's work. It could be, too, if she is still in college, that she sought a production line type job just to pay tuition and fees and save her intellectual skills and energies for her studies.

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@philippapay4352 She May not have have gone to college

[@IMortage]

Throughout the clip, the attitude of the time (about gambling) is very noticable. Some answers and certainly John Dailys explanations and remarks are clearly influenced by it (much more than would be nowadays).

[@chiedu90069]

Arlene is so HOT when she's confident!

[@13loomisst]

Thanks very much.

[@randomheartofgold]

@wmlfan9 You're right. I never even thought of that.

[@GhostInTheShell29]

@Ezhuks It was just because of the wording she used, they often ask this question. She used a plural rather then a singular and that makes the question impossible, because even if it was used in different rooms. It still be a yes answer. Also think John wanted to get off that question.

[@2014moorea]

I think when they hear dice, that think of bad gambling!

[@josseppie]

I would bet her job is now done by a robot.

[@Bobstew68]

Pretty incredible that this was a line of work even back then. How could a company that hires people to paint dots on the dice make a profit?

[@pendragonchen]

@@Bobstew68 by charging more.

[@tastx3142]

I imagine that it was taken over by an automated machine long before robots were used.

[@HunterShows]

I'm sure it's a plastic pigment, not paint these days.

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@tastx3142 So many of these lines of work do not exist anymore.

[@jimmysudar]

oh, arlene: dice are cubes not squares, and they have six sides.

[@doodwillysr6851]

Actually dice are made with a number of different sides. They can have 4, 6 ,8,10, 12 or 20 sides.

[@stevesmith291]

@@doodwillysr6851 Yeah, but they didn't have that so much back in those days.

[@jonabank]

4 sided dye?

[@doodwillysr6851]

Yes there are four sided dice. I have several. Most commonly used in role playing games.

[@seinfan9]

Tetrahedron

[@wardka]

What was this clip about? After the first glimpse of Arlene's shoulders I had no idea what was going on.

[@graperonto]

how times have changed, eh? you couldn't say that today.

[@grandexandi]

A tetrahedron can be a 4 sided die.

[@GeertDelmulle]

Correct.But it is very pointy and it doesn’t roll very well.

[@wmlfan9]

When Arlene said "four-sided" at 8:58, she should have gotten a no. Dice have six sides.

[@marthaleebailey4798]

You've never played D&D?

[@marthafarquar]

How gay for you!

[@wmlfan9]

@randomheartofgold Hmmm ..... now that I think of it, a die has 12 sides. Six faces, but 12 sides. (I'm using the word "side" in the sense that a square has four sides, not one - a triangle has three sides, etc.)

[@themonkeyhand]

The answers would be completely different today.

[@Ezhuks]

How come "Would it be used in any particular part of the home?" can't be answered yes or no ?

[@2014moorea]

So is it back then that only men played with dice?? That changed then.

[@philliphayes3641]

I didn't realize dice had a negative connection as it seemed to in those days

[@richardsoos8902]

before you can say - 'spots before your dies'

[@randomheartofgold]

@wmlfan9 i'm surprised noone noticed

[@emnem100]

Well considering this was almost 60 years ago, she'd either be dead or long retired ...

[@loggats]

lol

[@grandexandi]

Oh now I see you were commenting Arlene's remark. I guess it's possible to conceive a cube as a 4 sided object, if you consider that the top and bottom facets are not "sides" as they are aligned along a vertical axis.

[@MagesLikeYouAndI]

I wonder why John thought more men would buy dice than women ...

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

The gambling aspect of dice.

[@shoredude2]

+Kristin Carter Check out a craps table the next time you are in a casino. I bet that you will count more men playing than women.

[@majorneptunejr]

You mean machines now paint dice. One could still paint them by hand in a factory.

[@shane8037]

"How gay for you!"

[@channelingusllcix3512]

This was actually a career back then?

[@xaviotesharris891]

Arlene is full-on the best best best at taking what John says to redirect her first vague question.

[@flaggerify]

Arlene Francis can't seem to ask straightforward questions.

[@ajs11201]

At 9:00 , Arlene: You do? How gay for you!

[@davidprice9939]

A die could be described as a square prism.

[@seinfan9]

That's done by machines now, but man, what a boring job that must've been.

[@kathydethman7218]

Sometimes John's rhetoric was just annoying.