TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynne Truss
TI  - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: : The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation
SN  - 9781861976772
U1  - 411 TRU 
N2  - 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 mkes 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
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