here’s a joke i just told over at htmlforums. i hope it does better here.
i’m in Las Vegas, and there’s a convention in town for stand-up comics. everybody’s there. most of them are grizzled vets, so they all already know every possible joke, and even go so far as to use a numbering system, in lieu of sitting all the way through the same tired, though funny, old jokes they’ve all heard before a million times. “42!” shouts one guy, and everybody laughs. “23!” shouts another, and the crowd is rolling. “73” yells the bartender, who knew a few jokes himself. even i got into it and called out 420, which got a few chuckles here and there.
just then, somebody shouts out “235!” and a young guy across from me just starts howling in mads fits of laughter. he fell off his stool and actually started to ROFLHAO! two more jokes were “told” before he finally came to his senses. “what was that all about?” i asked him. “oh,” he giggled (in spurts, wheezing a little and obviously out of breath from laughing so hard), “that joke was so funny! i hadn’t heard it before!”
