One of my all time favourites! The wordplay in that book is so fun.

Way to force your imaginary stuff on a very pleasant thread, read the room idiot.

Took me a few re-reads. Since eye and i are pronounced the same it's a joke about not mentioning the other letters, those letters being t,g,e,r or t_ger.

The punchline then talks about the letter t, pronounced the same as tea. So they use it as having tea time.

Sorry for shit explanation. I'm not the best at explaining stuff, but thought I'd try.

What?

Sooo... I understand where the joke ought to be. But I guess I must be missing one definition of "shoots".

So the dictionary entry should be changed to: eats shoots and talks to bartenders.

Wow this won't go down well in Australia it's wombats. Only wombats eats roots and leaves. 😁

Yep. It kinda doesn't make sense unless the Panda actually leaves...

The following day, a wombat enters the bar and orders a chicken parmigiana. After he finishes eating, he looks around and sees a beautiful woman. He wanders over and whispers a few words in her ear.

Next thing the bartender knows, the wombat is making sweet sweet love to the woman, right there in the bar!!

Shocked, the bartender demands to know what's going on!!

The wombat pulls out a dictionary and points to the entry for wombat. Eats roots and leaves.

She prefers the Oxford Comma and advocates for it in the book.

Think of: never gonna give you Up aka the words in the song

It's a brilliant book! It should be mandatory reading in all schools.

Make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here!

Make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here!

I reckon Norton beat me to a lot of things.

A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: 'Talking Dog For Sale.'

He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.

The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador Retriever sitting there.

"You talk?" he asks.

"Yep" the Lab replies.

After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says, "So, what's your story?"

The Lab looks up and says, "Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping, I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running... but the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals. I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired."

The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.

"Ten dollars" the guy says.

"Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on Earth are you selling him so cheap?"

"Because he's a fucking liar. He's never been out of the yard."

He meant tossed salad

Eye of the tire?Tier G?

BAHAHA!

The look of the lion.

Anyone have a link to an explanation of this joke?

Sorry ... Norton Juster beat you to it. In 1960-ish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth

Yeah, they just keep telling the driver to STFU and go.

I would give you 2 upvotes for that one.

Stealing that right now, good one dude 🤣