The Problem of Proper Punctuation

I am currently reading Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves and loving every minute of it. Later, I will blog about it. Later - as in when I am finished. This blog is to catalog the joke that spawned the title. It is never stated in the book and being out of the loop, I was a bit confused by the reference. So here it is...

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 at the door. “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.”

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