Was someone allergic to commas?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:07 pm
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Was someone allergic to commas?
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Re: Was someone allergic to commas?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:51 pm
That reminded me of a classic National Lampoon magazine cover:
Re: Was someone allergic to commas?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:17 pm
Was someone allergic to commas?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:38 pm
Who can ever forget Patti Page's big hit "How Much Is That Doggie Meat in the Window?" (arf, arf!)
Re: Was someone allergic to commas?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:28 pm
I recall Lynn Truss's classic - Eats, Shoots & Leaves- which bewailed modern punctuation lapses. It explained the title in terms of a joke which I have copied and pasted from Wikipedia:
The original of that joke which I heard many years earlier was: Why is an Australian man like a wombat? Because he eats roots and leaves. I prefer the original but I understand why Truss didn't use it.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."