or: "English is so ambiguous"

One of my favorite books in school was "Basic English Revisited" or 'The thin yellow book' as we called it. My 7th grade teacher enouraged us to 'lose' them at the end of the semester, have our parents pay the fees, and keep the books for ourselves. It had all the gems of the english language including how to use an apostrophie correctly, how to quote properly, how to write all kinds of bibliographic references (though there's no data on citing web pages. The book came out too URLy...).

What I remember most from the book though was the bit about ambiguity in sentences. Accompanying the phrase, "we make combs for people with unbreakable teeth" there was a cartoon of a trapese artist hanging from the sky, holding a rope carrying an elephant, using only his teeth.

I was just reading a photo-essay on yoga and I came across the phrase: "Herbal animal eye pillows are available for serious relaxation-seekers' and I was thinking of all the different ways to read it. Pillows made out of animal eyes? Herbal pillows for animal eyes? Shaped like animal eyes? Shaped like animals? I'm not sure any of these interpretations would really help me achieve 'serious relaxation'...