There are two typea of people on the boards…
Those who would ask this question in IMHO, and those who would ask in GQ.
You’ve created a definition with two subparts. Let me look at the second first:
B) " the reader has to be one of those people being described to get the joke"
Tautology: if there are only N types of people, then you must be in one of the categories if you’re a person at all.
Therefore I’d have to call them “jokes that are only for people”,
A) "one in which the writer is pretending to be one of the people they are describing"
Due to the tautology above, only a nonhuman could pretend to be one of the people described, so this subcategory is: “jokes by non-people”
I’m not sure how to combine the two categories with any simpler formulation.
I conclude:
There are two types of jokes you’re talking about: the ones only for humans, and the ones by non-people pretending to be people.
The two classes are not, however, mutually exclusive. Feel better?
There are too types of people in this world!
There are two types of people in this world.
Those with loaded guns and those who dig.
Seems to be a variant of the Tom swifties. Or at least I am reminded of those after reading the post.
To add to the list…
“Just because I have a short attention span doesn’t mean I”
[Elise]Ooh, I love this board![/Elise]
I like This by Jim Morrison:
Those who race toward death
those who wait
those who worry
(Where else would I get to use that?)
You dig.
A quote from John Waters’ “Pink Flamingos”
“There are two kinds of people in this world, my kind of people and assholes!”
Ha! HPL and Trunk, beat ya to it…
sheesh, after preview, make sure show is checked!!:smack:
… or the SDMB version:
Those with loaded dogs and those who burning your dog.
Not exactly the same thing, but it is a fact that 3 out of every 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.
There are two types of pee-pole in this world … cut and uncut.
Julie
those that don’t and those that get things in reverse order: There are 2 types of people in the world.
There’s two kinds of people in the world, and you’re not one of them.
There are 3 kinds of people in this world, the 50% that believe this is true, the 50% that think this is false and the 50% that are undecided.
From Yogi Berra the Great\
Ninety percent of baseball is half mental.
I find this joke more amusing when phrased as ‘There are 2 types of people in the world: Those that divide the world into two types of people, and those that know better.’
There are two kinds of people in the world, hillbillies and son-of-bitches.
from wise ole hillbillies