Other punctuation marks don’t let the colon (:) play in their punctuation games because it shares a name with an unseemly human body part.
Authorities once charged the period (.) with attempted murder of the comma (,) after the period’s wife gave birth to a semi-colon (;).
Despite society’s increased acceptance of different kinds of unions, the interbang (‽) — the combination of an exclamation mark and a question mark — is still a felony in 13 states.
Hyphens (-), en dashes (–), and em dashes (—) are bred on the remote Greek island of Gavdos, which is only accessible by small ferries from Crete, which can be cancelled for days due to wind and rough seas, leading to global shortages.
The pilcrow (¶), the paragraph mark, was nearly wiped out by over-hunting in the 18th and 19th centuries, but survives in secret habitats seen only when someone clicks the wrong button in Microsoft Word.
FINNEY’S 5 is an occasional humor column by exiled newspaperman Daniel P. Finney that is not meant to be taken seriously. If you did, stop it. Sine sale, gravis nimis.
Nothing more needs to be said. Period.