Weekly Amusement (26nov05)

The captain of the school’s intramural track and field team couldn’t decide how to make use of Arnie, the brainy but skinny and clumsy team nerd. One day at practice he took Arnie aside. “I have good news and bad news,” he said.

“Give me the good news,” Arnie prompted.

“The guys all want you to be on our hammer toss unit.”

Arnie beamed. “Terrific! I’ll do my best. Er . . . what’s the bad news?”

“They want you to be the catcher.”