Back in 2004 there was a very fun and informative book about punctuation titled Eats Shoots and Leaves.
The title was a fun joke. With no commas (Eats Shoots and Leaves), it referred to what Panda Bears eat.
With the addition of commas (Eats, Shoots, and Leaves), it referred to a robber who has a meal at a diner, then pulls out a gun and shoots it as he's robbing the place.
I think of that book every time I see one of these dumpsters. Do you see the period after the word 'Bears?' I always have the urge to get out some white paint and change the period to a comma!
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