Was someone allergic to commas?

[Scooter]

[Lord Jim]

That reminded me of a classic National Lampoon magazine cover:

[BoSoxGal]

[RayThom]

Who can ever forget Patti Page's big hit "How Much Is That Doggie Meat in the Window?" (arf, arf!)

[ex-khobar Andy]

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:

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."

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.