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Panda Joke VI
March 15, 2005
Back again for the sixth consecutive year, it's the Panda Joke!
A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun, and shoots the waiter dead. As the panda stands up to go, the manager shouts, "Hey! Where are you going? You just shot my waiter, and you didn't even pay for your sandwich!"
"Hey, man, I'm a PANDA!" the panda shouts back. "Look it up!"
The manager opens his dictionary and reads:
Panda: A tree-dwelling marsupial of Asian origin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring. Eats shoots and leaves.
Thanks to everybody who came out to KICK! down in Texas, and if you're in San Diego for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference, catch me and say hello.
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The Panda Joke: A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun, and shoots the waiter dead. As the panda stands up read more »
Phil Ringnalda 
All those definitions, and you’ve never once done it as a <dl>? Think of the semantics, man!
Jeff
Hey the joke only works if you get the puncuation wrong. I don’t see how someone could actually tell the joke…
Panda: A tree-dwelling marsupial of Asian origin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring. Eats, shoots and leaves.
Notice the comma after “Eats”. It’s not supposed to be there (like you had it, the correct way grammatically). Without it the sentence just means “Eats shoots and leaves”. With it the sentence means “Eats” and then “shoots” and then “leaves”. Ha ha, funny funny. Get it.
Shahid
Reminds me of this article I read.
curious george
My mom said that this was a famous headline that they talked about in journalism school. How important punctuation was…eats! shoots and leaves!
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