He who laughs last....

 

The following story IS the truth. I know, cause I was part of it.

Last year a group of friends from my online chat group got together for a (rare) real world meeting for dinner. Most of the group, I had chatted with for sometime, but one gentleman from New York, was a stranger to me. His nickname was Lone Wible, and by some strange twist of fate, I found myself across from him at dinner.

Now some people have similar tastes in humor, and I was not surprised that a lot of the crowd had heard at least some of the jokes that I told. Wible, however, would tell the punchline the moment the first sentence left my mouth. After a moment, I started to do the same to him. Remember, that this man is a stranger to me, and we had never met even online before this.

In 10 minutes we started and ended at least 30 jokes. The chat group thought it was hysterically funny, as did the two of us.

Another member of the group, however, was annoyed. He does consider himself the "joke-teller", and every time he would start to tell a joke, both Wible and I would finish it. I saw our third joker getting frustrated, and hoping against hope turned to wible and said "THIRTEEN". Wible looked at me for a moment, then his eyes got wide, and he burst out laughing. "SEVENTEEN," he responded and I almost fell out of my seat, laughing so hard. The rest of the group by this time looked at both of us like we were nuts.

"Ninety-three", said Wible with tears in his eyes from laughing so hard. Finally, the joker, who was totally exasperated asked, "What's so funny?"

"I realized that Wible and I have the same joke book," I replied. "I just called out the number, and he knew what it was."

"Go ahead and call out a number" said Wible.

The joker thought for a moment and said "SEVEN". Wible and I looked at him deadpan, with not a trace of a smile. "Try again", I urged. "SIXTEEN," the joker tried, without getting any response at all. Finally, totally frustrated, he jumped to his feet and shouted "What's wrong? Aren't they funny enough for you?"

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