eats, shoots & leaves

[paulz]

There's a new book [or newish] mentioned on TV this morning about correct punctuation. Didn't catch the author, could it be our irate spellmeister?

[brawburd]

My thoughts exactly. Wrong use of apostrophe's' and over-use of exclamation mark's' - at least you dont' get that on answerbank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[paulz]

get back to sorting out your wardrobe!

[FredPuli]

The book is this year's surprise hit. The author is Lynne Truss. She writes for The Times , a Murdoch paper. AB is in the the Daily Mail's group so she can't be the spellmeister. Anyway, she and her book are noted for humour . That seems utterly decisive on the question !

[archbishop]

The title of the book explains it all. A Panda goes into a bar stuffs all the nuts on the bar into it's mouth, pulls out a gun and shoots into the roof and then leaves. The barman runs after him and wants to know what's going on? The Panda throws a dictionary at him and says look me up.da dah.

[mikewith]

... archbishop perhaps meant to add: the name of the book being Eats, Shoots & Leaves, in case you hadn't worked it out.

[bobbobley]

although the more astute among you may have worked that out from the title of the question, which is indeed the same as the title of the book paulz was referring to...

[bluedolphin]

Eat shoots and leaves...is a punchline to the joke is it not? Guy picks up a "lady of the night" and they go to a restraunt have something to eat then back to her place and do the business and then he gets up and gets ready to walk away....she has to explain that she is a "Prostitute" he doesnt understand what the word means so she gives him a dictionary to look it up in.....so then he hands it back to her and tells her that he is a Panda...she says .."what are you talking about?" He tells her to look it up in the same dictionary and voila....Panda...eat, shoots and leaves.!!!!!!! That one was doing the rounds at least 5 years ago.