The Danger of Acting with a Wrong Definition

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Another light-hearted lesson from Professor Soumik Pal (University of Washington, Seattle)

A Panda bear walks into a restaurant, eats a meal, pulls out a gun and shoots several patrons, and then walks out the door.

Naturally, the restaurant manager is astounded. He runs out the door and yells after the Panda, "What are you doing? Who are you?"

The Panda bear spins around and declares, "I'm a Panda. I know who I am and what I'm doing because I use a dictionary. I suggest you do the same!"

The restaurant manager immediately goes to his office to look up 'panda' in his dictionary.

pan-da

- noun

A bear

Lives in China

Eats shoots and leaves



(I'll spare you the elephant jokes ...)
 
mmm4444bot said:
The restaurant manager immediately goes to his office to look up 'panda' in his dictionary.

pan-da - noun: A bear; Lives in China; Eats shoots and leaves[/size]
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The problem wasn't with the definition, but in the punctuation. The poorly-framed informational statement famously said,"Eats, shoots, and leaves", making "shoots" and "leaves" verbs, rather than nouns.

Eliz.
 
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