The inspiration for the title of the humorous punctuation book Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss --
A giant panda goes into one of those expensive and pretentious restaurants serving French/Asian fusion cuisine and takes a table for one. The surprised waiter for that table explains unctuously that his name is Marcel, he will be your server tonight, and we 'ave a number of specials (he is French), etc., etc. The panda listens impassively to the list of $27 chili-pepper encrusted swordfish specials and so on, and then orders a delicately flavored dish of young bamboo tips and mixed greenery served with steamed jasmine rice. On finishing his meal, the panda gets up, reaches into his fur for a handgun, brings down the waiter with one shot, and calmly heads for the door.
The head waiter is near the door and exclaims in shock, "Oh, monsieur, what 'ave you done? You 'ave killed Marcel! Why 'ave you done zis, monsieur? You 'ad some problem? Ze service was not acceptable?"
The panda scowls at him and says, "I'm a fucking panda. Go look it up." He stalks out into the night.
The baffled staff huddle round the compact encyclopedic dictionary that they keep on the premises, and turning to Panda, giant, they read this:
Panda, giant. Large bear-like animal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, with distinctive black and white markings, related to raccoon family. Rare; found only in bamboo forests of Tibet and western China. Eats shoots and leaves.
- Re: Eats, Shoots and Leavesposted on 05/15/2006
That's the second most popular books in English language world, only second to bible. I know there are countless books claimed to be second only to Bible, but this one is indeed a good one. Although I never really take a serious look yet. :) - Re: Eats, Shoots and Leavesposted on 05/15/2006
上礼拜还在班上给同学讲这个笑话呢。是我会讲的唯一笑话。他们都没听说过。 - Re: Eats, Shoots and Leavesposted on 05/16/2006
When the writer of the book was driven to an award ceremony she told the driver that she wrote a book on punctuation. The cab-driver said: "Well, you'd better not be late then." - Re: Eats, Shoots and Leavesposted on 05/16/2006
That's good one. I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. - Re: Eats, Shoots and Leavesposted on 05/16/2006
浮生 wrote:
When the writer of the book was driven to an award ceremony she told the driver that she wrote a book on punctuation. The cab-driver said: "Well, you'd better not be late then."
这个好笑。哈哈!
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