In the 1800's, the Director of Linguistics and I would have been seen crashing through the window of the weathered, old, dilapidated saloon and out into the dusty, red dirt streets, for ever calling me out on a dad-blamed pair of hyphens, while knowing good and well that I'm a rather bad hombre who rides shotgun alongside the much feared and respected semicolon gang.
Watch yer back, partner. I'll be riding this way tonight right around supper time, and when I do, you had better make yerself real scarce. We don't take kindly to them dad blasted hyphens, a compounded anything, or the lawman that represents them egg suckin' yeller polecats.