When events have a little more dash to them, it seems to be because they are apocryphal.
But if you look for work of more dash and brio in this show, you are lost.
It also helps to be a creative type with more dash than cash, as Vogue used to call it.
This is what the fringe should be about: a young company doing a promising and intelligent piece of physical-theatre storytelling with more dash than cash.
We are perfectly content to learn that a novelist needed half a decade to tell his or her tale, but somehow we demand of painters a little more dash.
Black blouses are fine, if a bit New Romantic, but navy blouses just have that bit more dash and look less like something someone might wear to a job interview at Wernham Hogg.
Andrew Lee, the bachelor in question, asked Joel Sanders, a New York architect, to turn an uninspired downtown loft into something with a bit more dash, a good deal more flexibility and a lot more storage.
Yang Guang, whose name means "Sunshine", might be a larger and, to all appearances, more affable creature, but Tian Tian ("Sweetie") is a panda with more edge, more wit and more dash.
The most recent European entries in this part of the market, Ford's five-seat C-Max and seven-seat Grand C-Max, still have a bit more dash than the Orlando – the Ford pair have sharper handling for one thing, and the Grand C-Max's handy sliding rear side-doors also appeal - but the Orlando is a good, strong, solid effort.
So while she created the practical "More Dash Than Cash" pages, she also employed the endlessly witty Antonia Williams to make every title and sub-head sparkle, because what caught the eye in passing was as important to her as the rest.
