Comments for Panda Joke VI

Panda Joke VI

2005-03-15T20:10:23Z

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.

Comment from Phil Ringnalda on 2005-03-16

2005-03-16T05:27:17Z

All those definitions, and you've never once done it as a

? Think of the semantics, man!

Comment from Jeff on 2005-03-16

2005-03-16T10:58:25Z

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.

Comment from Shahid on 2005-03-16

2005-03-16T19:07:29Z

Reminds me of this article I read.

Comment from curious george on 2006-03-15

2006-03-16T00:27:07Z

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

Comment from Mary aka Pand Picks on 2008-11-01

2008-11-01T20:30:56Z

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.