Punctuation can sometimes be a matter of life or death.
Quote:
A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. After he finishes eating the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter, and then stands up to go.
"Hey!" shouts the manager. "Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for your sandwich!"
The panda yells back at the manager, "Hey man, I am a PANDA! Look it up!"
The manager opens his dictionary and sees the following definition for panda: "A tree-dwelling marsupial of Asian origin, characterised by distinct black and white colouring. Eats shoots and leaves."
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Lynne Truss is the author of
'Eats shoots and leaves' described as being 'The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'.
Said book also has its own
Wiki page which relates the above story but confusingly ends with the line "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
To comma, or not to comma? That is the question.