A Few Samples:• Dodger catcher Roy Campanella used to tell Dodger pitchers, "Now you young pitchers just throw what ol' Roy calls and I'll make you a winner. " After losing a game, however, Dodger pitcher Carl Erskine would show Mr.

Campanella the box score that said, "Erskine losing pitcher," and ask him whether instead it should say, "Campanella losing catcher. " Mr.

Campanella would laugh and reply, "You can always shake me off. "• A preacher in a small-town church was offered a job at twice the salary preaching in a big-city church.

A member of the congregation, wondering whether the preacher would accept the job, stopped by the preacher's house and knocked on the door. The preacher's daughter answered the door, and he asked her where the preacher was.

She replied, "He's on his knees praying for divine guidance about whether to accept the job offer. " He then asked, "Where's your mother?" The preacher's daughter replied, "She's upstairs packing.

"• The World Wide Web has a number of interesting sites about health, including , which includes a questionnaire that it uses to calculate your expected lifespan. Jonathan Pond's nine-year-old daughter wanted to fill out the questionnaire, and thinking of an educational use of the questionnaire, he told her, "Fill it out as if you are doing everything bad for your health ― drugs, booze, bad diet, no exercise, smoking, and so on.

" His daughter did, and she discovered that the Web site calculated that she would die at age 17. .