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In reply to the discussion: Enough of dumb jokes, here are some intellectual jokes [View all]sarisataka
(22,695 posts)41. I don't get it...
but I'm going to steal it
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It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#5
No offense, but that places you squarely in the "doesn't understand binary" category.
Thor_MN
Dec 2013
#20
If the first and second definitions don't make sense, go with the one that makes it funny.
Thor_MN
Dec 2013
#63
If you are still scratching your coconut, 10 in binary = 2 in the base 10 system.
geckosfeet
Dec 2013
#25
Good question. I suppose the answer is that it was the nature of the original "joke".
geckosfeet
Dec 2013
#67
Welll.. I wanted to make one with Sarah Palin in it, so here's my pathetic attempt.
ananda
Dec 2013
#26
Neil deGrasse Tyson uses a variant of this joke as an example of 'not so Intelligent Design'...
DreamGypsy
Dec 2013
#58