http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo_incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo_incident Sometimes when you shout "shut up, you water buffalo",

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo_incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo_incident Sometimes when you shout "shut up, you water buffalo", people misunderstand. It might have been more effective to simply shout "shut up" and leave out the part that can be misconstrued or misunderstood. In other words, calling programmers "lions", referring to "zoos", and anointing a certain set of activities as "natural".. do these things help or harm the underlying message in the essay?