Rubes by Leigh Rubin for January 05, 2023

Best time to nap. After a full meal.

Binge eating & binge-reading

I like that there’s no comma between “EAT” and “PREY”.

Yes, Love, a nice nap helps the digestion.

Punctuation saves lives.

Pandas eat, shoots, and leaves.

Let’s eat Grandma. Let’s eat, Grandma.

Looks like my plate after a fried chicken dinner – look how cleanly those bones have been picked.

Any time I see this particular play on words, I’m reminded of the first time I saw it. Two lions stand on a ridge, looking out on the African savanna with its great herds of animals. One turns to the other and says, “Let us prey”.

He may take pride in letting the females do most of the preying.

This is really true of ALL cats, not just big ones.

Garfield wrote that?

Eats shoots and leaves; a book about pandas/grammar

The importance of commas, example 2: “Look at that huge hot dog!” or “Look at that huge, hot dog!”.

I hope the prey wasn’t Julia Roberts. The irony might stun me.