A Prison Joke Told in Numbers — And One New Guy Changes Everything

Finally, he turned to the inmate beside him and asked what was happening.

The older prisoner chuckled.

“You see, we’ve all been here so long that we’ve heard every joke hundreds of times. Instead of telling the whole joke, we just assigned each one a number. Now we only need to say the number, and everyone remembers the punchline.”

The newcomer thought it was brilliant.

The next night, eager to join in, he stood confidently and shouted, “Twenty-three!”