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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: A Shaggy Dog Story (exemplary)
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Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 18:48:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  5 18:48:03 1984
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No shaggy dog story can properly be told within the confines of a reasonable
article, so this "example" is badly foreshortened.
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A man went into a bar, accompanied by a small long-haired dog.
The bar was not very full, but the barman told him all the same that
he couldn't bring the dog in.
	"But this is no ordinary dog. He talks."
	"I don't care. He can't come in here."
One of the regulars intervened:
	"Let him stay, Joe. He looks clean and harmless. But I bet he
doesn't talk."
	"Oh yes he does. We have conversations about all sorts of things."
	"Hundred dollars says he doesn't."
	"You're On!!"
And the man took more bets from several of the people at the bar. Then he
asked the dog:
	"What is it on top of a house?"
	"ROOF"
	"And where does the ball go on a golf course if you slice it?"
	"ROUF"
	"What baseball player was called the Sultan of Swat?"
	"ROUF"
So they all shouted him down, and made him pay up on the bets, because
the dog didn't talk any more than other dogs.  Saddened, the man paid for his
drink an left with the dog.  Outside, he turned to the dog and said:
	"Why did you do that? Why didn't you talk properly?"
	
	"Well, just think what the odds will be tomorrow!"
-- 

Martin Taylor
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