Frank Williams recently posted this thought on Facebook: “KFC advertises its grilled chicken has ‘five-star, fall-off-the-bone taste.’ In my experience, if chicken is falling off the bone it’s either grossly overcooked or rotten. Neither of those sounds very appetizing.” As always, Frank’s right (that’s how he drolls). In subsequent iChat, Mr. Williams also points out that taste can’t fall off a bone. Also true. My only quibbles: a missing “that” (after “advertises”), an MIA comma (after the second “bone”) and hyphens. Obviously, Frank (and KFC) are adhering to the rules of punctuation when they quadruple hyphen “fall-off-the-bone.” “Fall off-the-bone” would indicate an autumnal event. “Fall-off the bone” sounds more than slightly obscene. And “fall off the bone” sounds like something undeniably obscene that went seriously awry. But the whole hyphenation thing has me tied-up— tied up?—in knots.