[alexander_busek]

I was taught in English class that a dash is to be used when nothing else is perfectly fitting.

So your frowsy old "Mrs. Jensen" (who got her B.A. in English and degree in teaching from a 3rd-rate state college, and who was, at best, a "C student") is your definitive, "go-to" source?

Regards,

[gloryblaze]

You hardly know whether my English teacher was an A student or a C one, or whether or not she was “frowsy.”

But I am very, very good at punctuation, whether by school lessons or by reading excellent writers.