动物们也往往被人类拿来“玩笑一把”，这不，鹦鹉啊、企鹅啊、大熊猫啊……都带着它们各自的趣事儿、糗事儿赶来凑热闹了！

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Once upon a time there was a cruise ship sailing¹. On board, a magician was giving a show to some passengers. The magician always had a parrot² on his shoulder. Whenever the magician told a joke, the parrot would give it away³. One time the magician had a knife, he spun⁴ it around and it disappeared! The parrot said, “It’s in his pocket, it’s in his pocket”. The crowd booed⁵ him because the parrot gave it away. The next trick he did, he waved a wand around and it vanished.⁶ Again, the parrot said, “It’s up his sleeve! It’s up his sleeve!” The magician got mad because he couldn’t keep any of his tricks secret. The parrot kept giving them away.

One day the cruise ship sank. The magician and the parrot managed to make it to an island where they stayed for about three months when the parrot, all of a sudden, burst out⁷ and asked: “Ok, I give up! Where’d you hide the ship?”

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A local business was looking for office help. They put a sign in the window, stating the following: “HELP WANTED. Must be able to type, must be good with a computer and must be bilingual⁸. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer⁹.”

A short time afterwards, a dog trotted¹⁰ up to the window, saw the sign and went inside. He looked at the receptionist and wagged his tail, then walked over to the sign, looked at it and whined.¹¹

Getting the idea, the receptionist got the office manager. The office manager looked at the dog and was surprised. However, the dog looked determined, so he led him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped up on the chair and stared at the manager.

The manager said, “I can’t hire you. The sign says you have to be able to type.” The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter and proceeded to type out a perfect letter.¹² He took out the page and trotted over to the manager and gave it to him, then jumped back on the chair.

The manager was stunned¹³, but then told the dog “the sign says you have to be good with a computer.” The dog jumped down again and went to the computer. The dog proceeded to enter and execute a perfect program that worked flawlessly the first time.¹⁴

By this time the manager was totally dumbfounded¹⁵! He looked at the dog and said “I realize that you are a very intelligent dog and have some interesting abilities. However, I still can’t give you the job.”

The dog jumped down and went to a copy of the sign and put his paw¹⁶ on the sentences that told about being an Equal Opportunity Employer. The manager said, “yes, but the sign also says that you have to be bilingual.”

The dog looked at the manager calmly and said, “Meow¹⁷!”

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A giant panda went into a cafe and ordered a cheeseburger¹⁸. It sat there quietly eating the cheeseburger, then it got up, took out a gun, shot¹⁹ the waiter, and walked outside.

“Did you see that?” cried a customer. “Why did he do that?” he asked the manager. The manager looked up from the book he was leafing through²⁰. “I’m looking it up in the dictionary,” he replied. “It says here: Panda, eats shoots and leaves²¹.”

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There once were three foxes. Two of them were clever, the other one was stupid. One day they were stranded²² in a desert when they saw a little shop. They went inside and the two clever foxes bought food and water and the stupid one bought a car door. When they asked him why he.