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09/15/09 09:15

Robert Benchley, the great humorist and harbinger of tweeting, was born 120 years ago today in Worcester, Mass.

Benchley found humor in everything - his short film How to Sleep won an Academy award - but some of his most classic pieces were about travel: Carnival Week in Sunny Las Los; Route Nationale 14; What - No Budapest? (an early study of geographic illiteracy); Kiddie-Kar Travel ("In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."); "Ask That Man" ("This is written for those men who have wives who are constantly insisting on their asking questions of officials.").

And then there was his famous telegram (a precursor of Twitter) sent from Venice to friends in New York: "Streets full of water. Please advise."

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