Sunday 4 February 2007

Eats (Samosas) Shoots and Leaves

Any of you read the book, "Eats Shoots and Leaves", about the importance of punctuation?

A panda walks into a café. 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."
So punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.

Something funnier than this happened over the last weekend. My friend received a call from his wife and was asked to do grocery shopping on the way back home. Being a technophile, he asked her to SMS the shopping list to his blackberry. The SMS read something like ... rava idli mix coriander 3 bunches samosas....

He asked us "What does she mean by 3 bunches of samosas? Do samosas grow on trees?" to which another friend replied "Call her and tell her samosas are not in season"!!!

2 comments:

  1. gogo, pitvayega...mujhay vai say pitvayega...

    Pee Are

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  2. reminds me of the all time jam topic - "Nut screws and bolts"

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