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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000031.txt from 2007/02

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Humor of the Day
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:29:30 -0500


One day Jack Benny, famed for his role as a violin-playing miser, used a pay
toilet in his hotel lobby before jumping into a cab and heading off. He soon
realized that he had dropped his wallet in the cubicle, however, and asked
the driver to turn around.

Back in the rest room, Benny peered through the gap below the door and saw
his wallet lying inside. Lacking a dime to get into the cubicle, he slipped
under the door and was lying flat on his stomach, reaching for his wallet, when
another man entered the room.

The newcomer recognized the tightwad of all tightwads apparently attempting
to sneak into a pay toilet and Benny, despite a valiant effort, was quite
unable to convince him otherwise...

-Benny, Jack [born Benjamin Kubelsky] (1894-1974) American comedian,
vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor

*Benny began studying the violin, an instrument that would become his
trademark, when he was six. By 14, he was playing in local dance bands as well as
in his high school orchestra. After he found an opportunity to play the
instrument in local theaters for $8 a week, he quit school and eventually began a
career in vaudeville.

**Sources: C. Fadiman, ed., Bartlett's Anecdotes

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