The new Washington DC baseball team

[Jeanelle Barrett]

At 11:55 AM 10/13/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Fred Shapiro said:
>>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Alice Faber wrote:
>>
>>>  Standings, standings, standings. The Mets were *not* in last place
>>>  this year, no matter how badly they played.
>>
>>It wasn't for lack of trying.
>
>That's for damn sure. The Mets suck so badly they can't even excel at sucking.


Reminds me of a joke:

Wife:  Sol, you're a schmuck. You're such schmuck, you'd
take second at a schmuck contest!

One of my favorites....


********************
Dr. Jeanelle Barrett
Assistant Professor of English
Coordinator, Graduate Program in English
Department of English and Languages
Tarleton State University
P.O. Box T-0300
Stephenville, Texas  76402
Office: 254-968-9319
Fax:  254-968-1931