prison joke
Sandy Ward
first day there he hangs around with his cellmate who promises to show
him the ropes. At meal time they both pick up a tray of food and find a
place to sit. Shortly thereafter, some guy in the dining hall stands up
and yells "NUMBER 34!". Suddenly the entire place goes into an uproar.
Some guys are laughing and clapping and others are rolling around on the
floor. Not long after another guy stands up and yells "NUMBER 5!".
Again, the place goes into an uproar.
The new inmate is puzzled by all this and asks his friend what was going on.
"Well", said the friend, "since we are cut off from society, we rarely
get to hear any new jokes. Since we've all heard them so many times, we
have them all numbered. So, if someone wants to tell a joke they just
shout out the number rather than repeat the entire joke since we've all
heard them before".
The new inmate ponders this for a moment and decides it is probably a
good system.
Anyway, all through lunch this continues, people shouting out numbers
followed by fits of laughter. Finally, the new inmate decides that this
may be a good way to make friends with everyone at the prison so he
stands up and yells "NUMBER 12". To his suprise and shock, no one
laughs. In fact, the place remains dead quiet. Slowly he sits back down
wondering about what has just happened. He turns to his friend and asks
why no one laughed.
The friend replies: "Well, I guess some people can tell a joke and some
can't".
SW
swan...@comphy.physics.orst.edu
And then another inmate gets up and says, "NUMBER 86." All are quiet
except one inmate who is laughing quite earnestly. "Why are you
laughing?" And he replies, "I never heard that one before"
Tom
George R Owens
fall about the place laughing. He asks his friend why and his friend says: "They
never heard that one before!"
11lli...@gallua.gallaudet.edu
got out their favorite porno pictures and so on........
LLoyd
*peace in this world please*
Duane Morin
Ok, the joke about the prisoners numbering the jokes has come
around again. I like this joke because it's got several different endings.
But, for the life of me, I can't remember the one I want to remember.
(For those that don't know the joke, a new prisoner is in the mess hall
with the other prisoners, or whatever, and every now and then one of
them shouts out a number, and the others laugh. He asks what they're
doing, and another prisoner tells him that they've heard every joke
so many times before, that now they just give them all numbers to save
time. So, the kid tries it and shouts out his own number...and...)
Answer 1: Nothing happens. Kid says "What did I do wrong?" And his
new friend says "You didn't tell it right."
Answer 2: Everyone goes hysterical, falling off their benches. Kid
says "What happened?" And, through laughter, new friend says "We never
heard that one before!"
And, of course, assorted variations. But if I recall, there's a third
answer to this joke. I used to use it as a good example of how a joke
can manifest itself in various forms and NOT be essentially identical
every time.
Does anyone happen to know the third ending I'm talking about? It's
something along these same lines, I just can't quite put my hand on it.
Thanks.
ObSomething: Did Shakespeare write the first knock knock joke in The
Taming of the Shrew? (Sorry, I'm not going to transcribe the scene)
Duane
Duane Morin
>
>Answer 1: Nothing happens. Kid says "What did I do wrong?" And his
> new friend says "You didn't tell it right."
>
>Answer 2: Everyone goes hysterical, falling off their benches. Kid
> says "What happened?" And, through laughter, new friend says "We never
> heard that one before!"
>
Answer 3: At first, silence. Then, the whole place bursts out in
laughter. New guy, "What's going on?" Old guy, "We like the way you
tell it better."
My girlfriend insists that this is the other ending I'm searching for,
but it just doesnt seem right. Alas.
>
>Duane
>
jacqueline rennick
There is just silence, the new guy says "What's wrong?" the old guy says,
Some people just can't tell a joke well.
Bart Lamiroy
Also ...
Big silence, and the old man says "Gee you're disgusting, telling this kind
of tasteless jokes while we're eating !"
Bart
Justin Michael
(Duane Morin) writes:
(Duane Morin) writes:
>> >
>> >Answer 1: Nothing happens. Kid says "What did I do wrong?" And his
>> > new friend says "You didn't tell it right."
>> >
>> >Answer 2: Everyone goes hysterical, falling off their benches. Kid
>> > says "What happened?" And, through laughter, new friend says "We never
>> > heard that one before!"
>> >
>>
>> Answer 3: At first, silence. Then, the whole place bursts out in
>> laughter. New guy, "What's going on?" Old guy, "We like the way you
>> tell it better."
This is my favorite joke. I told it to my girlfriend Maribel and warned
her on the way to Thanksgiving dinner to watch for it, my dad would use
it. Sure enough, he started saying 6, 24, 19, 54 at the dinner table.
Of course, my family knew what was going on, but Maribel had forgotton.
When she didn't start laughing, it was all I could do
not to give her a number to tell. My family was laughing so hard
because Maribel wasn't laughing, so my Dad kept rattling off reasons
Maribel wasn't laughing. He had four or five reasons so I think we
should keep looking.
Why wasn't Maribel laughing:
Dad didn't tell joke right
Maribel heard it before
Maribel didn't get punchline
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>I wonder if any of y'all can still see replies to this, 27 years later. Good lord, if y'all were 20 when you posted this, you'd be almost 50 now! The internet is a crazy place.
The Horny Goat
able to find on Google groups) in April 1994