A Tangled Web

A ZERO APPROACH TO PUNCTUATION.



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 turn to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.



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



I've been reading a marvellous book by Lynne Truss called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" - a lovely read on punctuation.