# Unethical drug dealers are killing Amy Winehouse!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-drug-dealers-are-killing-amy-winehouse/454182>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 25, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-drug-dealers-are-killing-amy-winehouse/454182 "2008-06-25T13:49:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-drug-dealers-are-killing-amy-winehouse/454182/61 "2008-06-28T06:23:27Z")

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Heh, nice brag post. 🙂

To tell the truth, I’m a dash enthusiast. Look at my posting history here and you’ll see that any post I make of two or more paragraphs is very likely to have at least one dash. In fact, I often have to go back and rework my sentence structure to avoid them, because by inclination they’d be in every third or fourth sentence.  
Question: is there a term for a “dash clause,” like the one present in your prize-winning sentence? Is the clause “bedashed”? Is it just another class of parenthetical clause?

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-drug-dealers-are-killing-amy-winehouse/454182/62 "2008-06-28T16:36:07Z")

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I almost never use dashes - not because I don’t like them, but I just don’t think of them. I’m more of a colon/semi-colon/comma girl myself.

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-drug-dealers-are-killing-amy-winehouse/454182/63 "2008-06-28T17:14:14Z")

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> Is the clause “bedashed”?

I like “endashened.”

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