Monday, September 19, 2011

An introduction to the Oxford comma--





To top that off, I'll share with you my favorite punctuation joke of all time:

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."

If you're not laughing out loud right now, you obviously didn't have Sr. O'Dea for high school English.


(PS: Read Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. You won't regret it.)
(PPS: Listen to "Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend. It's not AMAZING, but it is enjoyable.)

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