# There Are Ten Kinds of People... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194 "2012-01-30T15:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/21 "2012-01-31T21:46:59Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The binary joke doesn’t properly work if it’s said “There Are Ten Kinds of People” does it? Does it not have to be written out as “There are 10 Kinds of People”? You wouldn’t pronounce “10” as “ten” in binary, would you? I agree. I think it’s a joke that makes sense only if it’s told in written form. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/22 "2012-01-31T22:08:11Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I agree. I think it’s a joke that makes sense only if it’s told in written form. It makes sense to me. It just means that the joke teller is one of the people who doesn’t understand binary, thus his mispronunciation/confusion over the number. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/23 "2012-02-01T00:35:05Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > It just means that the joke teller is one of the people who doesn’t understand binary, thus his mispronunciation/confusion over the number. Who tells a joke that he doesn’t understand? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/24 "2012-02-01T03:14:35Z")
When come back, bring pi. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/25 "2012-02-01T03:38:00Z")
There are two types of peepholes in the world: those you can see through, and those you cannot. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/26 "2012-02-01T15:40:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > People are of two types: pica and elite. No, there are those with serif and those without. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/27 "2012-02-01T17:25:52Z")
> [@detop](#): > > No, there are those with serif and those without. They also serif who only stand and wait. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/28 "2012-02-01T17:54:38Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Who tells a joke that he doesn’t understand? That’s part of what would make telling it verbally more funny. The fact that the joke teller uses the word “ten” instead of “one zero” would only add to the humor! Most people probably don’t tell jokes they don’t understand, but there are a class of jokes that are made funnier when the joke-teller is supposedly “unaware” of why what he just said is funny 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/29 "2012-02-01T18:17:05Z")
My two favorites: There are two kinds of people in the world, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.” – Clint Eastwood My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. – Indira Gandhi ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/30 "2012-02-02T15:41:11Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > They also serif who only stand and wait. “They also surf who only stand on waves.” -John Milton “On California” ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194/31 "2012-02-03T19:39:42Z")
There are two types of people: Those who have a way with words, and those not way who have a. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-ten-kinds-of-people/611194.md?page=1)