While being a master myself at the misuse of the ellipsis, may I ask anyway, what the hell is with the hyphens? Since we're on the more humorous elements of Sham's posts as opposed to the simply non-sensical elements, I can't figure for the life of me what he's trying to do with the damn hyphens.

I can't figure if he's trying to use them as substitutes for commas or semi-colons or what? Am I supposed to pause there and allow it to delineate that word or phrase from the others? The best laughs seem to come from the way he often connects three or four incomplete sentences with them, ending up with one long incomplete sentence.

I can't make sense out of most of his shit. I gather I am not alone in that problem. Like Bill, I think in a former life Roger was a certain Danish philosopher but in this life he's just an ass.

Maybe we could have a contest! I'll post a quote by Sham and everyone gets a chance to interpret what the fuck it means! The problem there is that only Sham knows what it means and the little dude's explanation of the quote might be even more mysterious than the quote itself!!! I can go get a thousand others, but let's take a look at this one.   Okay now folks, we need entries.   Take your best shot and see if you can make sense of this:

-If all posters were now to be encouraged - by example - to try to resist the temptation to post publicly - only to pass their personal judgement upon any fellow poster. And were encouraged - by example - not to post and request that any imposition to be imposed upon the contributions of others – and our our volunteer fellow posters did not insist on firing the first shots at our forum - there is real danger that peace could well break out.

Lots of weird hyphenization and I am completely enamored of the phrase "imposition to be imposed."   I have no idea what the hell he really means AND if I go back and retrieve the entire post to put it in context, it gets even worse. That is the real beauty of Sham's postings. The longer they are, the more confusing and convoluted they become.

Spaw