Numbered jokes Two boys decided that they knew so many jokes that they should number them all, so instead of actually telling the whole joke they would just say a number and the other boy would know which joke he was being told. Example. Number 5. An Irish man walked past the bar. Then one day when the boys met, one of them blurted out 142, and the other boy almost choked laughing coz he had never heard that one before. Edit:spelling