Made of Awesome!

 Lynne Truss visited our campus recently. I keep meaning to get her book from the library, but I also keep forgetting to do so when I'm actually on campus--and seeing as I'm not telekinetic, this presents itself as real hindrance. But any book mourning the death of punctuation whose title, because of a crucial placement of commas, alludes to a joke about a panda with a gun, is perhaps more than a literary savant should ever hope to see. Some gems from her address, beyond her greeting of "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," include the following:

• "Sticklers unite! You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and you obviously didn't have much of that to start with."
  
• The comma is the "sheepdog of language"
• Our language is in the hands of idiots (My bluntly stated conclusion, not hers)
• On the written page, the most important punctuation is the semi-colon; "if you liked that first bit, hang onto your pants."
• "I've ruined their lives." (In reference to the people who will now read street signs for missing apostrophes and other punctuation.
• "Do Slow Children Crossing grow up to be Slow Men at Work?"

I keep hoping for a transcript to appear somewhere, but I won't hold my breath. There is only so much awesome you can expect the universe to extend to you at any given time,