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From: wartik@trwspp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's a Shaggy Dog Story?
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Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 11:58:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 11:58:22 1984
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Funny, I've heard yet another version of the "original" shaggy dog story.
I read it in an "Origin of Words and Phrases" book.  Someone
in England decides to hold a contest to find the shaggiest dog in the
world. Well, to make a long story short (and I have always understood
that any shaggy dog story should be long), the competition is pretty
hairy, but it is believed that the shaggiest dog of all is owned
by someone in Australia.  The owner is bringing the dog to England
by boat (the joke supposedly originated around the turn of the century)
and all England readies itself, expecting to bestow great honors
upon this champion of champions. (Again abbreviating the story -- if
you ever tell the joke, expand this part)  The boat lands, the
owner steps proudly down the gangplank with his dog, the judge takes
one look at him, and says, "He's not that shaggy."