"Oh, Ares...The colon is one of the most misused of all punctuation marks, and yet it's one of the sexiest. Turn it sideways, and what do we have? A punctuation mark that looks like your eyes, or better yet, your balls. Maybe that's why people use colons so often, when they really want commas."
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Strunk and Freud's Elements of Style
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