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’s only occasionally a matter of life and death.
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