Eats, Shoots & Leaves was book of the year at the British Book Awards and is currently Nº 1 in Canada. The fame of the book is such that a member named Lady Strange (I’m not making this up) told the panda joke in Britain’s House of Lords.
“It will be debated in every national newspaper and mentioned, yea, even in the House of Lords, where a woman named Lady Strange – I kid thee not – will actually tell the panda joke.”
Except I can find no evidence a Lady Strange ever said any such thing. (I did another two searches – bringing the total to six; they’re not bookmarkable – to no avail.) And aren’t the two grafs above a little too similar?
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