Panda Joke VI

March 15, 2005

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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.

3:10 PM

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Eats, roots, and leaves. from vudeja ::aweblogbymark:: on March 15, 2005 6:44 PM

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The Panda Joke from farblogg on May 20, 2005 2:22 PM

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5 Comments

All those definitions, and you've never once done it as a <dl>? Think of the semantics, man!

Phil Ringnalda | March 16, 2005 12:27 AM | Reply

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.

Jeff | March 16, 2005 5:58 AM | Reply

My mom said that this was a famous headline that they talked about in journalism school. How important punctuation was...eats! shoots and leaves!

curious george | March 15, 2006 7:27 PM | Reply

I have a cleaned up version as I find the original similar to yours to be offensive. I toned it done by having the panda shoot at the walls.

You can read my version which is posted on my Panda Picks-Seniors Working on the Net Blog.

So far the joke is the only thing I have about Pandas. I just happened to have identified with the Panda about 3 years ago when I couldn't get my pic up in a social community.

Thanks for posting your version.

Mary aka Pand Picks | November 1, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply

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