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    "description": "<p>A panda walks into a caf&eacute;. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.<br /> <br /> \"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.<br /> <br /> \"I'm a panda,\" he says at the door. \"Look it up.\"<br /> <br /> The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.<br /> <br /> \"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.\"<br /> <br /> Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.<br /> <br /> We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. &lsquo;Its Summer!&rsquo; screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. &lsquo;Pansy&rsquo;s ready&rsquo;, we learn to our considerable interest (&lsquo;Is she?&rsquo;) as we browse among the bedding plants.<br /> <br /> It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers&rsquo; apostrophes with a war cry of &lsquo;Sticklers unite!&rsquo;</p>",
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