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	Shaggy Dog Story Encyclopedia Article @ QuiltPlace.com (Quilt Place) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Shaggy-dog story has come to also mean a joke where a pun is finally achieved after a long (and ideally tedious) exposition.
		The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying (see the examples), since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.
		A shaggy-dog story may not have a pun at all; the humor (if any) is then derived from the fact that the joke-teller held the attention of the listeners for a long time (such jokes can take five minutes or more to tell) for no reason at all (an anticlimax).
	www.quiltplace.com /encyclopedia/Shaggy_dog_story (389 words)

	Shaggy dog story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Shaggy dog story has come to also mean a joke where a pun is finally achieved after a long (and ideally tedious) exposition.
		The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying (seethe examples), since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listeneris surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.
		A shaggy dog story may not have a pun at all; the humor (if any) is then derived from the fact that the joke-teller held theattention of the listeners for a long time (such jokes can take five minutes or more to tell) for no reason at all.
	www.therfcc.org /shaggy-dog-story-167182.html (1029 words)

	Shaggy dog story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In its original sense a shaggy dog story is an extremely long-winded tale featuring narration of typically irrelevant incidents that usually in a pointless or absurd punchline.
		The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden recognition of a familiar saying (see the since the story has nothing to do the usual context in which the phrase normally found yet the listener is surprised discover it makes sense in both situations.
		A shaggy dog story may not have pun at all; the humor (if any) then derived from the fact that the held the attention of the listeners for long time (such jokes can take five or more to tell) for no reason all.
	www.freeglossary.com /Shaggy_dog_story (1376 words)

	Shaggy Dog Stories and other mp3 recordings for English learners \| Antimoon.com
		The stories were on a vinyl record attached to a copy of the
		The stories are rather silly, but we still think they're funny.
		The quality is worst in the first story, because we have listened to it the most times.
	www.antimoon.com /other/shaggydog.htm (629 words)

	Books \| Shaggy dog story
		When he discovers his neighbour's dead dog lying on the lawn, Christopher sets out on a quest to reveal the identity of the canine killer.
		It turns out to be his own cuckolded father, who stabs the dog in a futile act of revenge after finding out that his wife has run away with its owner.
		Christopher's fragile mental frame has to withstand not only the revelation that his mother has betrayed his father, but also the devastating truth that his mother is still alive (his father tells him she has died of a heart attack rather than admit the truth to his son).
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4879353-100569,00.html (373 words)

	Shaggy dog story - Jokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In its original sense, a shaggy dog story is an extremely long-winded tale featuring extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents that usually results in a pointless or absurd punchline.
		A shaggy dog story may not have a pun at all; the humor (if any) is then derived from the fact that the joke-teller held the attention of the listeners for a long time (such jokes can take five minutes or more to tell) for no reason at all.
		The townspeople were convinced that this grotesque plant was devouring their dogs, cats, and children.
	www.jokes.eu.com /wiki/index.php?title=Shaggy_dog_story (1758 words)

	Accuracy In Media - Media Monitor - A Shaggy Dog Story
		He told AIM that the dogs’ reported actions and even the scene depicted in the Newsweek story are, in his words, "atypical." He represents one of fifteen police and bloodhound teams in the part of Maryland that includes Hatfill’s apartment.
		A dog was brought in and Hatfill, a dog lover, scratched the dog’s ears.
		When the dog began to return the affection, a Bureau agent started screaming "the dog is reacting, the dog is reacting." AIM was told that even this is not the way bloodhounds are used in such cases.
	www.aim.org /publications/media_monitor/2002/10/09.html (818 words)

	Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Six hunting dogs, trapped at 1800 meters altitude since Sunday on the Plateau de Sous Dine in the Haute-Savoie were rescued by helicopter today in an operation involving 4 members of the fire-mountain rescue service.
		Informed of the dog’s whereabouts on Sunday the rescue services were unable to start operations due to the poor weather.
		The dogs seemed well after their adventure but were checked over by a vet.
	www.pistehors.com /comments/130_0_1_0_C (125 words)

	Accuracy In Media - Weekly Column - A Shaggy Dog Story
		The bloodhounds were "barking and howling and straining at their leashes." That was the sensational lead to a Newsweek story that has become one of the particulars in the public "indictment" of Dr. Steven Hatfill for last fall's unsolved anthrax killings.
		When the dog began to return the affection, an agent started screaming "the dog is reacting, the dog is reacting!" Also, a Baltimore Sun reporter determined that none of the twelve Denny's in Louisiana had been visited by the FBI and bloodhounds.
		It doesn't appear to have challenged the shaggy dog story it was fed by the FBI and repeated it verbatim.
	www.aim.org /publications/weekly_column/2002/09/27.html (1045 words)

	ABC News Repeats Shaggy Dog Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We found that the FBI had the dogs flown here from California, even though there are at least 15 police dog teams in Maryland, including one that is on call with the bureau's Hostage Rescue Team.
		A dog expert flew to California to testify for the defense, and one of the most experienced police dog handlers in the country submitted for the defense a detailed critique of the STU-100 and the dog handler.
		Many of the dog handlers interviewed by AIM believe that the reason the FBI took the dogs to Hatfill's apartment was to see if they could scare him into a confession.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/10/26/233150.shtml (859 words)

	A Shaggy Dog Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If it wasn't a dog show it was a visit to the grooming parlor, or the vet, or some other expensive thing.
		He doubted the dog would get a passing mark from dog school, but what the hell, it was better than prancing around at some stupid show with a bow in his hair.
		She was wearing one of her oven mitts, and the dog was leaping at it half-heartedly, its Veronica Lake hairdo flying in the breeze.
	www.newmysteryreader.com /a_shaggy_dog_story.htm (1817 words)

	Club 753: the dog story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I like dogs, but this one seemed so small and worthless that I objected to his going, and asked the missionary why he was taking him.
		Like children, most small dogs beg to be loved and allowed to love; but Stickeen seemed a very Diogenes, asking only to be let alone: a true child of the wilderness, holding the even tenor of his hidden life with the silence and serenity of nature.
		But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons driven hard home.
	www.teledyn.com /mt/club753/archives/001200.html (6319 words)

	A boy, a dog, a happy ending - Happy Tails - MSNBC.com
		The family dog saw to it that she did.
		She told her story a week after the giant waves crushed or washed away at least 123,400 lives on the shores of the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, with the horrible loss of life and property stretching from Sumatra to Somalia on the west coast of Africa, 3,000 miles away.
		Most days, the dog escorts Dinakaran to and from school, spending the rest of the day playing with the other two boys, or begging for food.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6778468 (893 words)

	Shaggy dog story
		There is nothing I appreciate quite so much as a really good (or bad, depending on your point of view, I suppose) shaggy dog story.
		Having heard several clever 'shaggy dog stories' recently, I wondered what the origin of the term is...
		For those who find this Shaggy Dog story a howl, there's good news: Santa Clause 3 comes out later this year.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Shaggy_dog_story (289 words)

	Woof : Woof An Enchanting Shaggy Dog Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	www.dvd-vhs.net /woof-%3A-woof-an-enchanting-shaggy-dog-story.html (834 words)

	Big-Cat Saga That Turned Into A Shaggy Dog Story. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The footprints were of a dog and the style of eating was doglike.
		Another feature was that an elderly dog was chained up a few feet from where the dead calf had been left for collection.
		"The big cat is a killer and would have killed the dog and one of the live calves." He did not believe the incident had dented the credibility of other reported big-cat sightings but it is unlikely that such a beast would leave the wilds.
	www.scottishbigcats.co.uk /shaggydogstory.htm (337 words)

	Shaggy dog story - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		The humor in the punch_line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying (see the examples), since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.
		This is a parody on the Smokey_Bear slogan "only ''you'' can prevent forest fires."'' ---- :One day a man was looking for a new pet, so he went to the pet store and asked the owner if he had a dog.
		:"Why yes, that ''is'' the shaggiest dog I ever saw!" said the man. "I should take it to show my wife!" he went on, "I'll buy him." :The man bought the dog and took it home to his wife.
	www.indexsuche.com /Shaggy_dog_story.html (1034 words)

	A Shaggy Dog Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The dog was just a normal hound, with one exception: while most dogs like to chew on grass occasionally, Mace loved it.
		When the dog saw his master, he came running, tail wagging, telling the old man how glad he was to see him.
		Kneeling beside the hound, the man began to pet him, and through tear-filled eyes told the dog that there would be no supper tonight and no food for tomorrow.
	www.beeker.net /humor/jokearchive/msg00046.html (638 words)

	Tarzan's Tripes Forever, and Other Feghoots - The Web's First Shaggy Dog Story Archive
		For example, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (1977, G. Merriam) indicates that a shaggy dog story is "a long-drawn-out circumstantial story concerning an inconsequential happening that impresses the teller as humorous but the hearer as boring and pointless; also: a similar humorous story whose humor lies in the pointlessness or irrelevance of the punch line".
		A modern shaggy dog is one that tells an entertaining tale in its own right, and which ends in a ripping pun as the punchline.
		There are nearly 1,500 groaners, shaggy dogs, and the shorter shaggy puppy stories in the collection as of December 2003.
	www.awpi.com /Combs/Shaggy/index.html (915 words)

	PUP - Just A Shaggy Dog Story
		Unlicenced canines are being popped inside an oven or a spin dryer after dark and during the night are picked up for the next leg of their journey to unlicensed freedom.
		Instead the night-deposit dogs are collected at Royce's in the wee hours of the morning by Gardener-of-the-Month Pat Benoit.
		She fearfully supposes cameras are mounted on the tower and that these are scanning her yard, but less concerned members of the group have managed to assuage her fears on this score.
	www.stephaniepiro.com /fc165.htm (864 words)

	Questions & Answers: Shaggy dog story
		He said that “the best explanation of the term is that it arose in a story very widely circulated only since 1942 or 1943, although it was apparently invented in the 1930’s”.
		An obscure collection of shaggy dog stories under that title was published in 1946.
		After a vast amount of effort and investigation (described in detail, after the nature of this type of story), the winning dog was presented to the aristocratic instigator of the competition, who said: “I don’t think he’s so shaggy”.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-sha1.htm (379 words)

	Shaggy Dog Story Cartoons
		Shaggy Dog Story cartoon 1 - catalog reference abr0020
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	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/s/shaggy_dog_story.asp (148 words)

	The Shaggy Dog
		He was a poor man, but a great reader, who shared his hard and lonely life with several well-thumbed adventure yarns and a large shaggy dog called Rover.
		Whistling for the dog, he hurried to his own cabin and there made preparations for his journey.
		As he drew nearer to civilization, he learned with great relief that the search for a dog continued and that the millionaire's mansion lay at the top of a steep hill just visible on the horizon.
	www.scoutxing.com /stories/story001.htm (532 words)

	Bad Puns - Get your muds wordled! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This dog is a giant, almost as large as the horse the knight was riding.
		But it is also the filthiest, shaggiest, smelliest, mangiest dog that the knight has ever seen.
		The stablekeeper walked over to a saddle near the dog and started gasping for breath, holding the walls to keep himself upright.
	www.badpuns.com /jokes.php?section=shaggy&name=shaggydog (306 words)

	Shaggy Dog Story
		The dog's name was Rover and he was an extremely shaggy dog - I mean REALLY shagy.
		It said that way down south in Minnesota an eccentric multi-millionaire was offering half his fortune if only someone would bring him his dying wish, a really shaggy dog.
		He waited patiently on the doorstep, dreaming of the luxury soon to be his.
	www.boyscouttrail.com /content/Story/Story-1097.asp (430 words)

	Big Cat Sightings Not Just Another Shaggy-dog Story.
		And although people should be careful with their pet cats and dogs at night, people have nothing to fear.
		The story has echoes of the film Puma of the Andes by award-winning filmmaker Hugh Milo who was befriended by a female puma, which even drove away a threatening dominant male.
		She believes there are 200 pumas and the same number of panthers living and breeding in Wales.
	www.scottishbigcats.co.uk /welshnews8.htm (814 words)

	Shaggy Dog Story About Talking Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the backyard.
		The dog looks up and says, "Well, I discovered my gift of speech as a young pup.
		He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
	www.citybrat.com /p648.htm (208 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Shaggy dog story
		The FBI told the magazine that the Bureau does not have its own dogs and had flown in bloodhounds for use by the Washington Field Office.
		He and his dog form one of 15 teams, all from the law enforcement community in the part of Maryland that includes Hatfill's apartment.
		Asked about the "new technology," the officer laughed and said that the reference was to a "scent machine," probably the STU-100, invented by William Tolhurst and Larry Harris, two well-known dog handlers and experts on the use of bloodhounds in police matters.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29097 (774 words)

	A Shaggy Dog Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The magazine said that the dogs also "reacted" at his girlfriend’s apartment and a Denny’s restaurant in Louisiana.
		The FBI told Newsweek that the Bureau did not have its own dogs and had flown in bloodhounds for use by the Washington Field Office.
		AIM has learned that the STU-100 was the "new technology" and that Harris and his dogs were flown in by the Bureau for the Hatfill search.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/9/27/164743.shtml (791 words)

	Shaggy Dog
		Finally he is greeted by James, the company personnel manager, and Parker, a rather eccentric management consultant who has previously arrived wearing a bizarre suit and sporting a comic red nose.
		Gilbert (1995: 163) reports the director, Gareth Davies, commenting on Shaggy Dog as follows: "A sad piece about a madman applying for a job.
		Shaggy Dog was thought to have been effectively lost to the Potter oeuvre.
	www.yorksj.ac.uk /potter/shag_dog.htm (708 words)

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