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Shaggy-dog story
SHAGGY-DOG STORY

Definitions:

i. A very long joke with a silly or disappointing ending.

ii. A funny story with a calculatedly feeble ending. It is told at length with exasperating detail.
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* It's no ordinary ' joke or 'story' (to emphasize);


a. Oral or written account, will be concluded/completed.

b. Real or imagined event or events (may also be a news item in a newspaper, an anecdote, a rumour circulating or (popular) a lie!).

c. Bits and pieces annoy and irritate beyond measure.

d. Takes an unduly long time (either deliberately by the storyteller or/and in the opinion of the hearer(s) of the tale).

e. Deliberately dim, unclear, indistinct conclusion to the tale.

f. So hilarious, therefore, hearer(s)/listener(s) must laugh.

g.

h.

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* All eight elements should be in.


1. Purposeful and necessary for joke teller.

2. Not known in the beginning that ending would be a flop.

3. Listened to, attentively, till the very end.

4. Not originally intended to be silly or feeble in the end.

5. Time spent listening to 'rubbish' could have been spent profitably on something else.

6. Achieves objective(s) ... but only partially. (Connect to #8.)

7. (Reserved.) (Will not deliberately be retold, with/in exactly the same details, unless ... .)

8. Laugh or laughter will be short-lived, if started at all.
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See perfect JOKE (2).

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