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In the Partridge story, an aristocratic family living in Park Lane is searching for a lost dog, and an American answers the advertisement with a shaggy dog that he has found and personally brought across the Atlantic, only to be received by the butler at the end of the story who takes one look at the dog and shuts the door in his face, saying ...
The yarn, also called a shaggy dog story, is a type of anti-humor that involves telling an extremely long joke with an intricate (and sometimes grisly) back story and surreal or repetitive plotline, before ending the story with either a weak spoonerism, or abruptly stopping with no real punchline at all, or no soap radio.
The book is mainly a compilation of anecdotes, urban legends, jokes, ghost stories, what Cerf calls "shaggy dog stories", and profiles of newsmakers.Celebrities profiled by Cerf include Alexander Woollcott, Gertrude Stein, Robert Emmet Sherwood, Albert Einstein, Herbert Bayard Swope, Dorothy Thompson, Monty Woolley, George Gershwin, and Lucius Beebe.
The story is a heartfelt, contemporary Australian tale, set in the country town of Upson Downs, where eleven-year-old Annie Shearer and her … Shaggy Dog Story ‘Runt’ to Shoot as Movie in ...
Additionally, there are many other kinds of "shaggy dog stories", and an example of each kind of story should be included. Different kinds of shaggy dog stories include the never-ender, the anti-climax, and the bad-pun, just to name a few. Each kind of long-winded shaggy dog story ought to include an example. This will take research.
Kipper's friend in a series of children's books and; about a mischievous and funny dog and his friends Timmy Border Collie: Famous 5: On the Case (British/French) The children's dog; loosely based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. Towser generic Towser: About a clever dog; created by writer and illustrator Tony Ross. Trouble
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"Shah Guido G." is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1951 issue of Marvel Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, where Asimov explains his love of puns. It is an example of a shaggy dog story, as indicated by the title ("ShahGui doG").