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douglasfisher:

This Sunday comic by Bill Amend illustrates perfectly the inanity of using “and/or.”

Or as the old illustration goes, so the police radio crackles that the suspect may be armed with a shotgun or a machine gun, and the order is to shoot to kill if seen. So if he comes out brandishing both, you’re holding fire?

(BTW, no knock on Amend here; that was perfect for the joke. The entire strip is used here only for educational purposes - the context of and/or would not be clear without it. Visit his site - buy his stuff. Really. Support comic strip artists. They make the day worthwhile.)