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This is mostly a shaggy-dog story.
by hollerith 3y ago
This is mostly a shaggy-dog story.
- ketanmaheshwari 3y agoWhat is the meaning of the phrase "shaggy-dog"?
- yorwba 3y agoWiktionary has got you covered: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shaggy_dog_story#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shaggy_dog_story#English
- KineticLensman 3y agoEssentially a very long meandering joke that has all sorts of side-tracks and irrelevant bits before reaching the punchline. The British comedian Ronnie Corbett told these regularly on TV [0] in the 70s/80s. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Corbett#The_Two_Ronnies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Corbett#The_Two_Ronnies
- timetraveller26 3y agoTV Tropes definition > A "Shaggy Dog" Story is a plot with a high level of build-up and complicating action, only to be resolved with an anti-climax or ironic reversal, usually one that makes the entire story meaningless. The term comes from a type of joke (called "gildersome" in The Meaning of Liff) that worked the same way—a basic premise, a long amount of buildup, and a deliberately underwhelming punchline. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory
- nsajko 3y agoAs usual for YT.
- hollerith 3y agoI can keep my viewing of shaggy-dog stories very very infrequent on Youtube. For example, there are many channels I have come to trust. I think I'm going to stop following links from HN into YT though because most of the ones I've followed till now are long mostly-pointless expositions.