Enough of dumb jokes, here are some intellectual jokes

[geckosfeet]

67. Good question. I suppose the answer is that it was the nature of the original "joke".

You could say "There are whale bone types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't", but it just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Consider these two statements:

"There are 3 (three) types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"
"There are 10 (ten) types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

If one reads 10 as a "ten" instead of "two", the statement has the same nonsensical character as reading 3 as "three". IMO the second half of the statement, "those who understand binary and those who don't" does not make sense in the context of ten or three types of people, but does make sense on it's own. Similarly, the first half of the statement makes sense on its own, but when used as a pre-amble for the second half of the statement its meaning becomes obscured and cannot be resolved.

"There are whale bone types of people in the world" does not make sense in any context.

The entire statement does makes sense if one reads 10 as "two".
"There are 10 (two) types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"