It's all in how you look at it.

In a fourth-season episode of current nick-at-nite staple Roseanne, "Dan and Arnie struggle to bring their bowling team out of last place." Typical of this show at its blue-collar best, they're not trying to win first place...they just don't want to be last.

When they finally succeed, they celebrate with a chant. Not "We're number one!" But: "There's someone worse than us! There's someone worse than us!"

On a completely unrelated matter...

China has overtaken the United States as the world's top producer of carbon dioxide emissions - the biggest man-made contributor to global warming - based on the latest widely accepted energy consumption data, a Dutch research group says.

The group's analysis makes sense and had been predicted to happen by 2009 or 2010, said experts from the United Nations and the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and outside academics.

Bert Metz, a senior researcher at the Dutch agency and a leading expert on efforts to battle global warming, said the analysis was done using methods and data that "are the best currently available."

This means that "Chinese contributions to global CO2 emissions are getting more important," Metz said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

There's more if you can take it. But first...join me, won't you? All together:

There's someone worse than us! There's someone worse than us!