Shaggy dog story
In its original sense, a shaggy dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. Shaggy dog stories play upon the audience's preconceptions of joke-telling. The audience listens to the story with certain expectations, which are either simply not met or met in some entirely unexpected manner. A lengthy shaggy dog story derives its humour 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, as the end resolution is essentially meaningless. The nature of their delivery is reflected in the English idiom spin a yarn, by way of analogy with the production of yarn.
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Shaggy dog story
In its original sense, a shaggy dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. Shaggy dog stories play upon the audience's preconceptions of joke-telling. The audience listens to the story with certain expectations, which are either simply not met or met in some entirely unexpected manner. A lengthy shaggy dog story derives its humour 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, as the end resolution is essentially meaningless. The nature of their delivery is reflected in the English idiom spin a yarn, by way of analogy with the production of yarn.
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Ett västgötaklimax är en retor ...... ta ett kraftigt prutat anbud.
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In its original sense, a shagg ...... y with the production of yarn.
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Une histoire sans queue ni têt ...... fin n'a aucune signification.
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シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー(英: shaggy dog s ...... 」は、このような語りの性質を糸紡ぎに例えて表したものである。
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长毛狗的故事是一类英文反笑話,其特点是对无聊情节的冗长叙述,而以并不好笑的转折结局。幽默在于,听者对于情节的预计被拉长,而结局却要么期待并未发生,要么以完全超出预计的形式发生。
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Captain Kopeikin, illustration
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by Pyotr Boklevsky
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Extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax
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Ett västgötaklimax är en retor ...... ta ett kraftigt prutat anbud.
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In its original sense, a shagg ...... y with the production of yarn.
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Une histoire sans queue ni têt ...... fin n'a aucune signification.
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シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー(英: shaggy dog s ...... 」は、このような語りの性質を糸紡ぎに例えて表したものである。
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长毛狗的故事是一类英文反笑話,其特点是对无聊情节的冗长叙述,而以并不好笑的转折结局。幽默在于,听者对于情节的预计被拉长,而结局却要么期待并未发生,要么以完全超出预计的形式发生。
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Histoire sans queue ni tête
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Shaggy dog story
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Västgötaklimax
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Yarn
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シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
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长毛狗的故事
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