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senoritafish ([personal profile] senoritafish) wrote2004-06-17 02:28 pm
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Yep, commas are important...

Well, someone beat me to it, but I had it copied anyway.

A panda goes into a bar, orders a sandwich, fires a gun and heads for the door. "Why did you do that?" the barman calls after him. The panda tosses him a badly punctuated wildlife manual. "I'm a panda," he says. "Look me up." The barman finds the relevant page, which says, "Panda. Large black-and-white, bearlike mammal native of China. Eats, shoots and leaves."


Heh.

Well, I just went and joined [livejournal.com profile] databases, in hopes that I can get some Access tips.

LOL

[identity profile] megthelegend.livejournal.com 2004-06-18 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
We have a similar joke over here, but you need to understand first that "rooting" = "having sex" for us. "roots" = "screws" (or "f***s").

Why is a man like a wombat?

Eats, roots and leaves.
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Re: LOL

[identity profile] senoritafish.livejournal.com 2004-06-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, there's a book about puncuation with the title Eats, Shoots and Leaves; someone at [livejournal.com profile] npr_junkie had heard the author being interviewed and wanted to know the rest of the joke. By the time I found it, about five other people had already posted it.

There was another Aussie version:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/npr_junkie/78958.html?thread=429422#t429422

Re: LOL

[identity profile] megthelegend.livejournal.com 2004-06-22 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, cool! Ta, I'll check it out.