Hanged by a comma

I just finished reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss; so, let me share this joke. It’s for the intelligent minds with keen eyes.

A panda walks into a café. 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.

Don’t sit there and say: “Huh?!” (that ?! punctuation is called an interrobang, by the way) Sometimes punctuations really do matter, and on occasions a matter of life and death.

When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill