Punctuation Junction - Why do they keep going out of town?

[ashling]

The following post was on a local news facebook page with the picture of a basset hound:

I HAVE HER FOSTERED UNTOL HOME IS FOUND KEEP SHARING
IM SURE SOMEONE IS MISSING THIS BEAUTY

On county road 389 needed water bad so got her some we can't keep
going out of town--collar has no tags

[Tobin S.]

1. I was really bad at writing until I was in my mid-30s.

I joined DU when I was 30 after getting directed to the front page through a link from another site. I was very much interested in what people were saying in regard to opposition to the coming war in Iraq, and I wanted to talk to like-minded people on the subject because they seemed to be in short supply in my hometown. I had taken to the Internet in search of anti-war articles.

I had never had a reason to write much before I joined DU. I did not have a college education and I went to vocational school my last two years of high school which limited my writing education even further. I was a working class Joe. When I started posting here on DU, a lot of people thought I was a troll because of my shitty grammar. However, I kept plugging away.

Over the years, I learned how to write better by reading and writing here at DU. I used to have a different account that I had over 13,000 posts on. I created a new account because I wanted a new user name and I had missed the name change amnesty. So I actually have over 21,000 posts here at DU and I read here more than I post.

I started writing stories and posting them here when I was in my mid-30s. They were pretty rough in the early going, but I've honed them over the years. I now have put them all together and have created a book. I have yet to sell it, but it's not because of bad grammar.

If you would have told me when I was 30 that some day I will have written a book, I would not have thought that very likely. It took a great deal of effort for me to put together a poorly written post here on DU. I would not have been able to imagine writing a book.

[DawgHouse]

2. Oh no, they got her some water that they can't keep?

[NorthCarolinaL]

3. Reminds me of that book about punctuation and that now internet famous back-and forth

If you have not heard it yet:

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."