# There are two kinds of people in this world... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318 "2005-10-01T08:16:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/41 "2005-10-02T04:52:46Z")
…Or spent the '80’s dating and avoiding Molly Ringwald movies like the plague. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgonzola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@Gorgonzola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgonzola)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/42 "2005-10-02T05:06:38Z")
_Dark Side of the Moon_ people, or _The Wall_ people. _Quadrophenia_ people, or _Tommy_ people. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/43 "2005-10-02T05:11:31Z")
Cat people and dog people. Morning people and night people. New Yorkers and “tourists.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/44 "2005-10-02T05:17:34Z")
Baseball fans and Yankee fans. Hockey fans and Maple Leaf fans. Dog people, cat people. People who fold the toiler paper before wiping, and people who bunch it. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/45 "2005-10-02T05:24:53Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Hockey fans and Maple Leaf fans. Them’s fighting words, pardner! 😛 (Are you coming to the Dopefest on the 8th?) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/46 "2005-10-02T05:37:48Z")
> [@GrizzRich](#): > > /blatant ripoff/ > > There are 10 kinds of people in this world… > > …those who understand binary, and those who don’t. There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand trinary, those who don’t, and those who think it’s binary. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/47 "2005-10-02T05:57:49Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > I was wondering the same thing, so I Googled it. Heaven help us all, _Pretty in Pink_. Ducky is Andie’s best friend. Andie is quirky, unpopular girl with aspirations to become a designer. Blane is the most popular boy in school, on whom she has a major crush. I still don’t know how it turned out, as Molly Ringwald gives me hives. Well I’m no MR fan but there is only one “Ducky”. Gave it away from the start. And James Spader absolutely wins the ultimate prize for his role as the _quintessential_ pseudo-eclectic-stuck-up-rich-boy ([Blane](http://www.msoof.com/images/James%20Spader/Films/Pretty%20in%20Pink/03.JPG)), in quite the variety of shitty 80s movies. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/48 "2005-10-02T06:10:06Z")
The Important ones, and the dead ones. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/49 "2005-10-02T06:26:18Z")
There are two kinds of people in this world; those who believe in conspiracy theories, and…_them_. Who ? You know \< looks around furtively \> _them_ ! ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/50 "2005-10-02T13:25:37Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > The directors of this thread would just like to apologize for this post, and let you all know that those responsible have been sacked. > To continue. > There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have been bitten by a m00se and those who haven’t. We apologize again for the fault in the thread. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked. The moose in this post was trained by Yutte Hermsgervørdenbrøtbørda ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/51 "2005-10-02T14:31:03Z")
Special Moose Effects OLAF PROT Moose Costumes CECIL CHURCHILL Moose Choreographed by HORST PROT III Miss Taylor’s Mooses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME Moose trained to mix concrete and sign com- plicated insurance forms by THE GOAT Mooses’ noses wiped by MICHAEL E. BUCKNER The directors of the thread hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. There are two kinds of Llamas in the world. Those that speak up to comment on the topic of a discussion, and those that talk about the new topic that came up later. Llamas Llamas Llamas Llamas Llamas Llamas Llamas [sub]fnord[/suB] Llamas ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/52 "2005-10-02T14:45:01Z")
**Marlitharn** , I’d like to apologize for the snitty comments I made last night. I had no call to piss in your thread that way, and after thinking about it, I realized I was being a bitch. I hope you can accept my apology. M. Anyway. There are two kinds of people in this world. People who own Macs, and everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/53 "2005-10-02T14:53:51Z")
those who say Natalie Portman is beautiful and liars ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/54 "2005-10-02T22:27:01Z")
those who are sane. those who don’t. those with gas stoves. .those who understand binary Everyonewhoisntadad … what again? those without multiple personality disorder Don’t have a cat Those who can count and those that don’t. those who don’t care about the Google ads. Those who generalize pinko-commie-bastards. Dopers Those who can count in binary Those who read the whole thread Those who post to this thread hose who love repeating old Monty Python sketches, those that don’t. and assholes. Those who influence the Google ads Those who make lists. people with no soul. Those who don’t have ADD those that don’t. Except for the ones who don’t know who he is. those who haven’t. .those who get that 0.99999…=1 those who will soon wish they hadn’t. those who play chess. those who don’t have sex with sheep those who all your bases belong to Those who knows how to count hose who pee in their wetsuits those who have no idea who Andie, Blane, or Ducky are There are those who grew up in the 80s spent the '80’s dating and avoiding Molly Ringwald movies like the plague The Wall people. Tommy people. dog people. night people. Those who understand trinary The Important ones, them. Who ? You know \< looks around furtively \> them ! everyone else. those who say Natalie Portman Those with enough time to categorize themself into categories, and those with a life ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/55 "2005-10-03T01:24:11Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > those who are sane. > those who don’t. > those with gas stoves. > .those who understand binary > Everyonewhoisntadad > … what again? > those without multiple personality disorder > Don’t have a cat > Those who can count > and those that don’t. > those who don’t care about the Google ads. > Those who generalize > pinko-commie-bastards. > Dopers > Those who can count in binary > Those who read the whole thread > Those who post to this thread > hose who love repeating old Monty Python sketches, > those that don’t. > and assholes. > Those who influence the Google ads > Those who make lists. > people with no soul. > Those who don’t have ADD > those that don’t. > Except for the ones who don’t know who he is. > those who haven’t. > .those who get that 0.99999…=1 > those who will soon wish they hadn’t. > those who play chess. > those who don’t have sex with sheep > those who all your bases belong to > Those who knows how to count > hose who pee in their wetsuits > those who have no idea who Andie, Blane, or Ducky are > There are those who grew up in the 80s > spent the '80’s dating and avoiding Molly Ringwald movies like the plague > The Wall people. > Tommy people. > dog people. > night people. > Those who understand trinary > The Important ones, > them. Who ? You know \< looks around furtively \> them ! > everyone else. > those who say Natalie Portman > > Those with enough time to categorize themself into categories, and those with a life those with a life and those who read things categorized by those who categorize and, presumably, have no life. Where is Ralph the Wonder Llama now that we need him most? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/56 "2005-10-03T05:20:22Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > **Marlitharn** , I’d like to apologize for the snitty comments I made last night. I had no call to piss in your thread that way, and after thinking about it, I realized I was being a bitch. I hope you can accept my apology. > > M. > Anyway. > > There are two kinds of people in this world. People who own Macs, and everyone else. Sweetie, think nothing of it. I didn’t like Molly Ringwald either. Ducky was better. Anyway… There are those who’re pining for the fjords, and those who have joined the bleedin’ choir invisible. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/57 "2005-10-03T05:26:09Z")
There are two kinds of people in this world … And I’m neither one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/58 "2005-10-03T07:02:51Z")
In honor of my most popular thread… There are two kinds of people in the world: those who wipe while standing, and those who wipe while sitting. I suppose there are also those who don’t wipe, but the less said about them the better. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/59 "2005-10-03T12:36:10Z")
There are 2 kinds of people in this world: Those who tell the truth, and those who lie. I am of the latter group. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318/60 "2005-10-03T21:13:40Z")
> [@Dragwyr](#): > > _ **A paradox for everyone:** _ > There are 2 kinds of people in this world: > > Those who tell the truth, and those who lie. > > I am of the latter group. There are two kinds of people in the world: people who present false dichotomies, and those who don’t. I am of the _third_ group: those who present false dichotomies, occasionally. (In other words, you presented no paradox. Good morning!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/324318.md?page=2)