Joke

A man gets himself convicted of a crime, and is consequently sent to prison. All goes reasonably well for him this first day. After lights out he is lying on his cot trying to go to sleep. All of a sudden he hears someone yell out at the top of his lungs----- "fourteen" ------ and then all the cons in that block break out in laughter.

After a few minutes he hears this again only this time someone yells-----------"eleven"----------- everyone laughs again. The new guy is really confused now so he asks the con in the next cell what is going on.

He tells him that what they are doing is telling jokes. The new guy says, "I still don't understand that, all I hear is numbers being yelled out."

The old con says, "yeah, that's how they tell them. You see, we've heard just about every joke there is, so instead of going through the whole thing we just number them and everyone knows which ones they are just by the number."

"Oh," says the new guy, "now I get it."

A few minutes goes by and all of a sudden someone yells out -------------"seventeen"----------- nothing, not even a snicker.

The new guy asks the old con, "what happened there?"

The old con replies well, "you know how it is? some guys can tell jokes and some can't."