Punctuation saves lives

[guitar man]

:spray:

[HopeHoops]

1. The first version is sort of a zombie thing.

[frogmarch]

2. In that case

it sure would. :-O

Here's an example of putting a comma where it shouldn't be: (from the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves.)

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."

[Aristus]

3. The comma that saved a man's life. Old story:

There's a story that one of Czar Alexander III's top Army officers was accused of treason, and the Czar condemned him to exile in Siberia, despite the officer's protestations of his innocence. The Czar's wife, the Czarina, was aware of the officer's innocence, and wrote a note to the Czar, urging him to pardon the officer.

The Czar jotted down a reply to her note: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."

The Czarina, thinking quickly, managed to transpose the comma so that the note read: "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia."

The officer was set free, but the story does not relate the Czar's reaction to having been outwitted by his wife.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Tastes like chicken.

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Not spring chicken, mind you... but chicken nonetheless.
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