Let's hope an exclamation mark is enough to save Geoff Hoon!, by Craig Brown 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion

The exclamation mark - or "screamer", as it is sometimes called by journalists - is often derided as the most brash and vulgar of punctuation marks. 

Sophisticated people have always tended to pooh-pooh the exclamation mark. They sense something populist and vulgar about it, pointing to all those brash musicals - Oliver!, Mamma Mia!, Oh! Calcutta! Apparently, when it was still on its initial out-of-town tour, the musical Oklahoma was in grave danger of flopping; only after the producers decided to pop on an exclamation mark - Oklahoma! - did the theatres began to fill.

Scott Fitzgerald said that using an exclamation mark is like laughing at one of your own jokes.