Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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 and 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. --back cover