David,
I used the panda story with my students today. Also the sentence: Woman without man is nothing. I wrote it like this on the blackboard and funnily enough boys and girls punctuated it differently...:D

That's great Iris, I'm glad it was useful. For the rest of you who don't know what she's talking about, go read my blog post: The Importance of Punctuation (http://www.tomisimo.org/blog/2008/grammar/the-importance-of-punctuation/) :)