Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Author: Lynne Truss

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. — Why? asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. — I'm a panda, he says, at the door. Look it up. — The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

So punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.

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