Altijd online - Soren Gordhamer
Happy me - Sanne Bloemink (Verdwaald in de New Yorkse Geluksindustrie)
Wat wèl werkt - Alan Seale
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss (The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
I haven't read the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss yet, but the title alone makes me laugh.
The title of the book is an amphibology — a verbal fallacy
arising from an ambiguous grammatical construction — and derived from
a joke about bad punctuation
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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