But in some other crucial respects, Mr Anderson's shaggy-dog story is lagging behind the pack.
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"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," Laurence Sterne It's the ultimate shaggy dog story.
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Its lyrics are a shaggy-dog story involving a circus, a jailbreak and popping multicolored pills.
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The moth joke is not a shaggy-dog story, one of those ambling anecdotes with no point.
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As anti-comedy, the shaggy-dog story congratulates the audience for being in on the absence of a joke.
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The moth joke resembles a shaggy-dog story structurally, but its wrenching punch line reveals Macdonald's mastery of craft.
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But in a way, this whole episode is like a joke — not a dirty one, but a shaggy dog story.
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This story of a peppy troop of shoe-store employees in the Pacific Northwest is, in many ways, a classic shaggy dog story.
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After a long shaggy dog story involving a car accident, sleepless nights, and Michael Bay, it turns out the car made it to LeEco's grand event.
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Where to start with "Pursuit of Happiness," a spaghetti Western with extra sauce that climaxes in a shaggy dog story so hirsute it will upset pet groomers everywhere.
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The visitor soon discovers — maybe when seeing a coral-encrusted bronze self-portrait of the artist as a collector holding Mickey Mouse by the hand — that the shipwreck is an elaborate shaggy dog story.
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What results is a sequence of face-offs, each of which feels as if it might make its own play without adding up to much by the end of the questing, shaggy dog story on view.
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John Goodman's long, shaggy-dog story about being stalked by a one-eyed duck might go on forever, but it's worth watching to the end just to see Goodman sell it as hard as humanly possible.
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The story of Greyfriars Bobby, the faithful terrier who kept up a vigil by his master's grave—of the statue and film fame—was actually a shaggy dog story invented by a local businessman who fabricated it in return for cash.
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The end of the film squanders the strength of the rest of the film, extending both the black humor and the symbolism past the breaking point, and holding on like a shaggy-dog story that doesn't know when to quit.
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Ostentatiously peppering a shaggy-dog story with allusions to Greek myth — and, depending on how you take the title, Dante — the Quebecois director Denis Côté's "Boris Without Beatrice" appears to have something to say about the hubris of the modern business tycoon, but it never coalesces into more than a self-amused goof.
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This bewitchingly shaggy dog story from the National Theater of Scotland has set up camp in a custom-made pub in the McKittrick Hotel (home to the immersive hit "Sleep No More") to enlist audiences in the telling of a lusty tale about an inhibited academic who meets up with Old Scratch during a snowstorm.
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There isn't much that's especially gentle about "The Gentlemen," the new Guy Ritchie movie that the filmmaker's long-suffering fans will be glad to hear is a return to what he does best: a funny, violent, rambunctious shaggy-dog story of a crime caper featuring an ensemble cast studded with colorful characters played by name actors.
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What viewers get instead are some striking images of the hulk of an immense wooden ship stranded in a desert landscape in Iran, a shaggy dog story of a political dissident who has either hanged himself or been murdered inside the ship, but who has left intriguing scribblings all over its interior walls, plus police agents driving around in a vintage Chevrolet Impala.
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This is the kind of shaggy dog story The Devil's Defender is filled with, and it's one that will be familiar to anyone who has sat through a dinner party with a proud veteran of the sixties: Something almost happened, the story goes, and things almost changed forever, but then they didn't and now here we are, and wasn't it fun while it lasted?
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We have the slow, painful death of romance ("Marriage Story"); a dour, near-funereal shaggy-dog story about a phlegmatic hit man ("The Irishman"); a blackly funny but agonizing depiction of contemporary social polarities culminating in gore and gristle ("Parasite"); a wish-fulfillment fantasy of an alternate-universe 1969 whose climax is no less bloody ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"); a harrowing odyssey through the muddy, corpse-ridden battlefields of World War I Europe ("1917"); and an origin story of a comic-book sociopath ("Joker") that seems almost nostalgic for a dingy, crime-ridden urban landscape straight out of the Bronx-is-Burning era of 1970s New York.
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Following the success of the "Perfect Day" music video, the BBC produced three further similar campaigns. The first, Future Generations, in December 1998, did a similar multi-celebrity montage with favourite BBC children's programmes. The second, called Shaggy Dog Story, featured various comedians and comic actors telling a long-winded shaggy dog story, with each one sharing a line or phrase. A second, shorter shaggy dog story, entitled Mammals vs.
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Shaggy Dog Story is a charity programme for Children in Need, put together by the BBC in 1999 as a sequel to the previous year's Future Generations video (featuring children's programmes), and the great success of 1997's "Perfect Day" charity single. It was first shown on 27 December 1999. Shaggy Dog Story was dedicated to the BBC's comedy output. It featured various comedians and comic actors (some in character, others as themselves) telling a long-winded shaggy dog story, beginning off with Ronnie Corbett in his trademark armchair, who is most famously known for telling such stories on The Two Ronnies.
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It is inscribed with "Oriental" writing; the old man calls it "Sanskrit", but it is imprecise Arabic.Todd, Jane Marie. "Balzac's Shaggy Dog Story". Comparative Literature.
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The following year, a similar promotion was created entitled Shaggy Dog Story. This promotion featured a collection of BBC comedians and was used to represent the diverse range of comedic output.
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Written by Polanski and previous collaborator Gérard Brach, What? (1973) is a mordant absurdist comedy loosely based on the themes of Alice in Wonderland and Henry James. The film is a rambling shaggy dog story about the sexual indignities that befall a winsome young American hippie woman hitchhiking through Europe.
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The film is essentially a shaggy dog story, leading up to a single play-on-words joke based on "beaver" also being a euphemism for female genitals. At the film's climax, the vampire is frightened by the Beaver; in his delirium, he begins seeing double, thus seeing two images of the Beaver. He cries, "Split beaver!" and disintegrates.
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Another noticeable aspect of the film is its use of puns. For instance, the title of the film, Céline et Julie vont en bateau, has other meanings from that of taking a boat ride: "aller en bateau" also means "to get caught up in a story that someone is telling you", or, in English, getting taken up in a "shaggy dog story".
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The inhabitants of Earth's capital city sees to it that the planets the Legion of Doom and the Barlocks have conquered are liberated. Homer Simpson mentions Morlocks in The Simpsons episode "Homer the Moe", claiming he became their king while telling a shaggy dog story. In 2003, Peak Entertainment relaunched "Monster in My Pocket" with former lead villain Warlock as the hero. The new villain became Warlock's evil twin Morlock.
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" The praise continued with Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer awarding the film three out of four stars and saying, "Marley and Me operates on the assumption that happiness is a warm tongue bath. And those who endorse this belief will enjoy this shaggy dog story . . . The anecdotal structure does not make for a gripping movie. For one thing, there's no conflict, unless you count the tension between a guy and his untrainable pooch.
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The film culminates in the replayed game, played at Cardiff Arms Park. According to the Helen Martin and Sam Edwards' book New Zealand Film 1912 - 1996: "The dialogue is witty and characterisations are fine, if deliberately overplayed, but the ending turns the film into a shaggy-dog story."Martin & Edwards (1997), p. 155. The match ball is replaced by Wales's "lucky ball", an antique taken from the Welsh Rugby Museum by Price.
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English title: A Dog's Life Canardo isn't the main protagonist of this album, but rather a background influencer, or Éminence grise. The story features a dog working to stop a mad doctor who performs animal experiments, while investigating the murder of his girlfriend, for which everyone blames him. This is one of two albums that were officially published in English, under two different titles: Shaggy Dog Story and A Shabby Dog Story.
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The criticism most often heard from the critics of Marx, such as Friedrich von Hayek, Karl Popper, Francis Wheen and Ian Steedman is that, even if Marx himself meant well, Marx's value-form idea is simply an esoteric obscurantism, "dialectical hocus pocus", "sophistry", or "mumbo jumbo". Francis Wheen refers to "a shaggy-dog story, a picaresque journey through the realms of higher nonsense."Francis Wheen, Marx's Das Kapital: a biography. Grove Press, 2008, p. 42.
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In 2002, David Geary moved to Canada, where he has written a series of short plays - Menu Turistico, A Man Walks Into A Bar …, and Oedipus Butchers the Classics for the Walking Fish Festival of Vancouver. These plays have also had successful seasons in New Zealand. He’s continued to maintain strong ties with New Zealand theatre, with A Shaggy Dog Story (2005), The Underarm (2006) and a revival of The Farm (2007) all having productions at Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North.
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Norman Stanley "Fletch" Fletcher is the main fictional character in the BBC sitcom Porridge, and the spin-off, Going Straight. He was played by Ronnie Barker. In the pilot episode Fletcher claims to Mr Barrowclough that he was sentenced for stealing a lorry which then crashed through garden walls and a tool-shed when its brakes failed. This turns out a shaggy dog story leading up to the punchline "I asked for six other fences to be taken into consideration".
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A shaggy God story is a story in a minor science fiction genre that attempts to explain Biblical concepts with science fiction tropes. The term was coined by writer and critic Brian W. Aldiss in a pseudonymous column in October 1965 issue of New Worlds. The term is a pun on the phrase shaggy dog story. A typical shaggy God story might feature a pair of astronauts landing on a lush and virgin world and in the last line their names are revealed as Adam and Eve.
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Pastis will often employ a shaggy dog story, using a great amount of dialogue to spin an elaborate premise often resolved with a character's unforeseen death or near death. A variation known as a feghoot builds to an intentionally bad pun in the penultimate panel, with the final panel showing the cartoon version of Pastis as the target of criticism, hostility, or even physical violence from the characters, usually Rat. Pearls uses dark humor, at times involving topics such as death, depression and human suffering.
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However, even Merchant has been driven to verbally abuse Karl during the most obviously nonsensical and extreme stories. Despite the far-fetched nature of Monkey News, Pilkington always insists he is accurately recounting the facts. The confrontational interactions among Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington often result in Monkey News becoming a sort of collaborative shaggy dog story. During their podcast, Ricky and Steve try to disprove monkey news by "casually" talking of the story being told and how the central character could not possibly be a monkey due to the need for high intelligence, specialized knowledge, or the fact that a monkey would be immediately recognized by onlookers, etc.
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The shaggy dog story involves telling an extremely long joke with an intricate (and sometimes grisly) back story and surreal or repetitive plotline, before ending the story with either a weak spoonerism, or abruptly stopping with no real punchline at all. Another type of anti-joke gives a suggestion of building to a (typically risqué) punchline, but breaks the audience's anticipation by swerving to a non-risqué punchline or no punchline at all: "Did you hear about the honeymooners who confused the tube of K-Y Jelly with window putty? Quite the tragedy, all the windows fell out of their new home." One more type of anti-humor is found in the joke "No soap radio".
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He also did vocal impressions of such singers as Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. In 1970, he was allowed to produce The George Kirby Show, a television special, to gauge whether he could attract an audience for a weekly series. This led to his hosting Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour, a sketch comedy and variety show, which lasted for 22 episodes in 1972; it was one of the actor-comedian Steve Martin's first credits in front of the camera. The series was in many ways an uneasy compromise between Kirby's natural gifts and what the public would accept of black actors at the time; a regular feature was a shaggy dog story segment entitled the "Funky Fable".
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The song consists of a protracted spoken monologue, with a constantly repeated fingerstyle ragtime guitar (Piedmont style) backing and light brush-on-snare drum percussion (the drummer on the record is uncredited), bookended by a short chorus about the titular diner. (Guthrie has used the brief "Alice's Restaurant" bookends and guitar backing for other monologues bearing the Alice's Restaurant name.) The track lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds, occupying the entire A-side of the Alice's Restaurant album. Due to Guthrie's rambling and circuitous telling with unimportant details, it has been described as a shaggy dog story. Guthrie refers to the incident as a "massacree", a colloquialism originating in the Ozark Mountains that describes "an event so wildly and improbably and baroquely messed up that the results are almost impossible to believe".
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Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog story. (The pseudonym 'Tom Collins' is slang for a tall story.) There are hidden substories, and the narrator sometimes gets hold of the wrong end of the stick in untangling them, but the reader can nut them out. Subjects which occur in the book but are not spoken of directly include: foul language; nakedness and undergarments; passing as the opposite sex; homosexuality among bullock drivers; effeminacy; mutilation; and murder. At the same time the great joy of the novel is its realism: Furphy is able to capture the flavour of interaction between the bush characters he meets, their way of talking, the physical landscape, the feel of a nomad's life.
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This can be done using a pun or other word play such as irony or sarcasm, a logical incompatibility, nonsense, or other means. Linguist Robert Hetzron offers the definition: It is generally held that jokes benefit from brevity, containing no more detail than is needed to set the scene for the punchline at the end. In the case of riddle jokes or one-liners the setting is implicitly understood, leaving only the dialogue and punchline to be verbalised. However, subverting these and other common guidelines can also be a source of humor—the shaggy dog story is in a class of its own as an anti-joke; although presenting as a joke, it contains a long drawn-out narrative of time, place and character, rambles through many pointless inclusions and finally fails to deliver a punchline.
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Phillips was believed by many to have retired from writing fiction after 1958.However, he wrote his longest story, Shaggy Dog Story, as recently as 1980Estate of Peter Phillips.. This was not published at the time, partly because of its length, which at just over 22,000 words, was too short to be published as a stand-alone novella, and too long for a typical short storyScott Meredith Literary Agency Inc.. The manuscript for this story was long believed to be lost, but was rediscovered among the author's considerable archive of papers and photographs in early April 2020Estate of Peter Phillips.. At almost the same time, another shorter unpublished story, Alice Where Art Thou, was also discovered. A volume of Peter Phillips' collected writings, to include the newly rediscovered stories, is in preparation (2020).Wall Road Publishing / Estate of Peter Phillips Phillips was raised in Ripon, Yorkshire, and attended Ripon Grammar School.
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The Scotsman described Worst as "profoundly bleak",Book review: Worst. Person. Ever. by Douglas Coupland, by Susan Mansfield, at the Scotsman; published 20 October 2013 while the Washington Post called it "scabrously hilarious" and "an erupting Vesuvius of abuse and profanity".‘Worst. Person. Ever.,’ by Douglas Coupland, by Steve Donoghoe; at the Washington Post; published 6 May 2014; retrieved 16 May 2014 The A.V. Club stated that it was "essentially an extended shaggy-dog story", A series of vulgar, hilarious adventures for the Worst. Person. Ever., by Noah Cruickshank, at the A.V. Club, published 31 March 2014; retrieved 16 May 2014 and the Financial Times said that the "plot is a cavalcade of more or less random events", but emphasized that it "succeeds by virtue of its verbal energy, the brio of its invention, the snappiness with which successive gags and ever more appalling atrocities are piled on."Worst. Person. Ever.
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It may not be an out of the box theme or exceptional execution, but the 136 minutes of this movie is never boring and the screenplay completely invests in focusing on its final target".The Times of India rated 3 out of 5 stars and said "Varnyathilaashanka is worth your time for Suraj's performance, a handful of situational comedies and the smart 'utpreksha' delightfully weaved into it". Filmibeat rated 3 out of 5 stars and stated "Varnyathil Aashanka is yet another film in the league of good entertainers, without any unwanted gimmicks. As mentioned above, the film has a humorous tone throughout and undoubtedly, is one of the decent satires of recent times". Baradwaj Rangan of Film Companion South wrote "Varnayathil Ashanka, then, is less about plot than about these characters, and events that are equally interconnected...this message is slyly delivered on a stage, and it’s the latest instance in Malayalam cinema of a scene you don’t see coming, and yet feels totally right. Even the film’s “looseness,” by the end, feels right, for this is really a shaggy-dog story.
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