Pandas Rampaging in Restaurants

Last night I finished reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves, by Lynne Truss. It's a book that's now a best-seller by a woman who is a stickler for puntuation. She even went so far as to go around with a marker adding the apostrophe to the posters from the movie Two Weeks Notice (it's supposed to be Two Weeks' Notice; in this case it's indicating time). [Look at my use of the semi-colon! I'm not too sure if it's right, but it's supposed to be the bridge between two sentences that are directly related. Well, if Lynne Truss is reading this- that would be so cool- I'll happily edit anything that she finds wrong with it.]

I just wanted to put here some examples, from the book, of misplaced/missing punctuation.

Dicks in tray (I'm guessing it's supposed to be Dick's in-tray)
Glady's (on the badge of a salesgirl, who is probably named Gladys)
XMA'S TREES
apple,s, orange,s and grape,s (I guess they don't know about the apostrophe)
Your 21 today! (on a birthday card)


Look at the difference puntuation makes in these sentences:

A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: with her, man is nothing.

The convict said the judge is mad.
The convict, said the judge, is mad.

And if you're wondering what this has to do with pandas rampaging, read the book! It does go into the history of punctuation, which I strangely found interesting after a while, but I know it's not for everyone. The book is funny; it was even classfied as Reference/Humour. It's barcode number is 9781861976123 and it's ISBN is 1-86197-612-7. As you can see, I've run out if stuff to say about the book. Just go out and read it!