Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:09:22 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Jack Benny's Birthday
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> Lawhorn.William at bls.gov 2/14/2005 4:02:11 PM >>>
>HUH?  I don't get please clear the mud from my mind and explain
>how he would
>be 39?

His schtick was that each year on his birthday he turned 39.  For
decades.

mjw
>
>Bill
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith F. Lynch [mailto:kfl at KeithLynch.net]
>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:54 PM
>To: WSFA members
>Subject: [WSFA] Jack Benny's Birthday
>
>On rasff, Matthew Tepper points out that today is Jack Benny's
>eleventy-first birthday, as he was born this date in 1894.
>So today Jack Benny is 39.