as long as we all know the punchline you really don't need more than the first line of a joke ;)
There was a story about that. Some long term prisoners who only had one joke book between them. They all knew the jokes off by heart and in the end just used to call out the number of the joke in the book.
One would flick through the book, choose a joke and shout '46'!
And the others, knowing what joke 46 was, rolled about laughing.
A new guy was admitted to the prison and after a day or so got to know the joke book. He wanted to be liked, so he shouted: '46'!
No-one even smiled! '57!' still no reaction '36!' nothing
So eventually he asked another inmate what was the problem?
The other guy said 'You aren't telling them right'
as long as we all know the punchline you really don't need more than the first line of a joke ;)
There was a story about that. Some long term prisoners who only had one joke book between them. They all knew the jokes off by heart and in the end just used to call out the number of the joke in the book.
One would flick through the book, choose a joke and shout '46'!
And the others, knowing what joke 46 was, rolled about laughing.
A new guy was admitted to the prison and after a day or so got to know the joke book. He wanted to be liked, so he shouted: '46'!
No-one even smiled! '57!' still no reaction '36!' nothing
So eventually he asked another inmate what was the problem?
The other guy said 'You aren't telling them right'
hee hee