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Show It's A Gift It was Smedley's first night in jail and he noticed that one of the inmates in his block would call out a number and the rest would howl with glee. Then the process was repeated by someone else. Smedley asked his cellmate what it was all about and got this answer: "Well, we've been here so long and heard the same jokes so many times, we numbered the stories to save time. Now someone calls out a number, and we identify iden-tify it with a certain funny story." Next night, Smedley tried his hand. "Twenty-six," he yelled. Utter Ut-ter silence followed. "Fifty-two," he yelled. Not a chuckle. "What's the matter?" Smedley asked his cellmate. "Well," said the inmate, . "it's like this. Some folks can tell a Joke and some folks just can't." |