A shaggy grasshopper story
maxine in ri
This man walks into a bar
<half hour later of telling joke>
...and then he stumbles out of the bar, totally drunk, and sees this
grasshopper sitting on the sidewalk outside.
He says to the grasshopper, "Hey little fella, I just had a few drinks
named after you!!"
and the grasshopper replies... "You mean... they called them ...
IRVING GREENBLATTs?"
grasshopper: http://www.drinknation.com/drinks.php
Marvin
In a true shaggy dog story, the tag line is a letdown after
a long buildup. That is the point of the joke. I don't
think this one fits that classification. In one variation,
the tag line is a pun, which makes it doubly good (or bad,
if you prefer). And truncating the joke is wrong.
This joke is a variant of the "A ----- walked into a bar"
joke. The difference is important for the Jewy Decimal
System I proposed on this NG.
Kenneth Brody
[...]
> In a true shaggy dog story, the tag line is a letdown after
> a long buildup. That is the point of the joke.
"Well, it's not _that_ shaggy."
> I don't
> think this one fits that classification. In one variation,
> the tag line is a pun, which makes it doubly good (or bad,
> if you prefer).
"That's a long way to tip a raree."
"Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
> And truncating the joke is wrong.
How about just telling the punchline instead?
> This joke is a variant of the "A ----- walked into a bar"
> joke. The difference is important for the Jewy Decimal
> System I proposed on this NG.
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Marvin
> Marvin wrote:
> [...]
>
>>In a true shaggy dog story, the tag line is a letdown after
>>a long buildup. That is the point of the joke.
>
>
> "Well, it's not _that_ shaggy."
>
>
>> I don't
>>think this one fits that classification. In one variation,
>>the tag line is a pun, which makes it doubly good (or bad,
>>if you prefer).
>
>
> "That's a long way to tip a raree."
>
> "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
"I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
harvey
spoonerisms. Such a pedantic potato head, I yam I yam.
Dick Adams
>>>> a long buildup. That is the point of the joke.
>>> "Well, it's not _that_ shaggy."
>> which I htink is the punch line of the first shaggy dog joke.
>>>
>>> "That's a long way to tip a raree."
>>>
>>> "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
>> "I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
> These aren't shaggy dogs, you sillies. They're
> spoonerisms. Such a pedantic potato head, I yam I yam.
A shaggy dog with a spoonerism at the end is called a Feghoot.
A friend of mine has a shaggy dog story that involves a trainman
on the Chicago EL from downtown to the north end of the line. He
goes trhough every stop from Washington to Howard Street telling
the stupidity of this inebrieted clutz.
<all but the last stop are snipped out of mercy>
At Howard Street, he opened the doors on the track side instead
of on the platform side. The remaining riders just pulled the
emergency on the track side doors and walked off. But the
trainman walked out the wrong door, fell, stumbled, and landed
on the third rail (the one with the electricity). But he did
not get electrocuted - because he was such a poor conductor.
Dick
Bob Cowell
Nice try, but, no banana
spoon·er·ism Pronunciation (spn-rzm)
n.
A transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one, such
as Let me sew you to your sheet for Let me show you to your seat.
harvey
>>>> "That's a long way to tip a raree."
>>>>
>>>> "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
>>> "I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
>>>
>> These aren't shaggy dogs, you sillies. They're
>> spoonerisms. Such a pedantic potato head, I yam I yam.
>
> Nice try, but, no banana
>
> spoon·er·ism Pronunciation (spn-rzm)
> n.
> A transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one, such
> as Let me sew you to your sheet for Let me show you to your seat.
I'll take one banana, please.
Sometimes it's a puzzlement how to categorize
these expressions, spoonerisms, puns and
combinations, maybe spunerisms.
One of them was a spoon, the others are knives or
forks, you choose.
Virgil
wrote:
Oh, that dog's not so shaggy!
harvey
>>>>
>>>> "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
>>> "I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
>>>
>> These aren't shaggy dogs, you sillies. They're
>> spoonerisms. Such a pedantic potato head, I yam I yam.
>
> Nice try, but, no banana
>
> spoon·er·ism Pronunciation (spn-rzm)
> n.
> A transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one, such
> as Let me sew you to your sheet for Let me show you to your seat.
>
sometimes hard to categorize, some are
spoonerisms, some are puns, some mixes.
Of the ones shown, one is clearly a spoon, the
others are knives or folks.
And every once in a while, one is actually funny.
Rare, though.
Marvin
> Marvin wrote:
>
>> Kenneth Brody wrote:
>>>> think this one fits that classification. In one variation,
>>>> the tag line is a pun, which makes it doubly good (or bad,
>>>> if you prefer).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "That's a long way to tip a raree."
>>>
>>> "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
>>
>>
>> "I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
>>
> These aren't shaggy dogs, you sillies. They're spoonerisms. Such a
> pedantic potato head, I yam I yam.
>
spoken. But when there is a long, rambling lead to the
let-down of a punchhline, it is a shaggy dog story. When
the punchline is a pun - preferably a bad one - it just adds
to it.
harvey
>>>> "That's a long way to tip a raree."
>>>>
>>>> "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
>>> "I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
>>>
>> These aren't shaggy dogs, you sillies. They're
>> spoonerisms. Such a pedantic potato head, I yam I yam.
>
> Nice try, but, no banana
>
> spoon·er·ism Pronunciation (spn-rzm)
> n.
> A transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one, such
> as Let me sew you to your sheet for Let me show you to your seat.
I'll take one banana. These wordplays are
sometimes hard to categorize, some are
spoonerisms, some are puns, some mixes.
Of the ones shown, one is clearly a spoon, the
others are knives and folks.
maxine in ri
I hang my head in shame, and bow the the superior hum-dom/wis-mor of
this fine group of humonists.
maxine in ri
harvey
>>>> "That's a long way to tip a raree."
>>>>
>>>> "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids."
>>> "I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
>>>
>> These aren't shaggy dogs, you sillies. They're
>> spoonerisms. Such a pedantic potato head, I yam I yam.
>
> Nice try, but, no banana
>
> spoon·er·ism Pronunciation (spn-rzm)
> n.
> A transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one, such
> as Let me sew you to your sheet for Let me show you to your seat.
I'll take one banana. These wordplays are
lefty
"Marvin" <phys...@cloud9.net> wrote in message news:12nj5fa...@corp.supernews.com...
Marvin
The whole point of a shaggy dog joke is the let-down. In
that sense, a really bad pun adds to the joke, and a really
clever pun detracts. The logic diagram for this gets rather
complex, doesn't it? And the quality of a pun is subjective.
Steve Watt
Marvin <phys...@cloud9.net> wrote:
[ Attempt to recover quoting, sorry if I misattribute ]
Actually, I believe that the quality of a pun is subjunctive. If
there were any quality, it would probably not be a pun.
And on another note...
I play in a swing band. We played a "Hanukkah party" at a synogogue
in a more tony part of town. Several amusing items:
- When we started playing, after each of the first three or four
charts, someone came up to the lead and complained that we were too
loud. So we played more and more quietly. Then someone complained
that we were too quiet. We gave up and went back to normal, and
got no further complaints.
- There was one of those "gift exchange with theft" games in one of
the breaks. It was very amusing to watch some of the negotiations.
--
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Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32-ARIN
Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices...
Dick Adams
> lefty wrote:
>> Or detracts from it!
>> "Marvin" <phys...@cloud9.net> wrote:
>> When the punchline is a pun - preferably a bad one - it just adds
>> to it.
> The whole point of a shaggy dog joke is the let-down. In
> that sense, a really bad pun adds to the joke, and a really
> clever pun detracts. The logic diagram for this gets rather
> complex, doesn't it? And the quality of a pun is subjective.
It is so rare to hear or read a clever pun!
Dick
kir...@gmail.com
Marvin wrote:
> "I wouldn't put a knight out on a dog like this."
"why is this knight different from other knights?
lefty
"Marvin" <phys...@cloud9.net> wrote in message news:12nr8oo...@corp.supernews.com...
Kenneth Brody
[...]
> I play in a swing band. We played a "Hanukkah party" at a synogogue
> in a more tony part of town. Several amusing items:
>
> - When we started playing, after each of the first three or four
> charts, someone came up to the lead and complained that we were too
> loud. So we played more and more quietly. Then someone complained
> that we were too quiet. We gave up and went back to normal, and
> got no further complaints.
"Go back home. Put the chickens back outside. Put the goats back
outside. Put the cow back outside."
harvey
A British Jew is waiting in line to be knighted by
the Queen.
He is to kneel in front of her and recite a
sentence in Latin
when she taps him on the shoulders with her sword.
However,
when his turn comes, he panics in the excitement
of the moment
and forgets the Latin. Then, thinking fast, he
recites the
only other sentence he knows in a foreign
language, which he
remembers from the Passover seder:
"Ma nishtana ha layla ha zeh mi kol ha laylot."
Puzzled, Her Majesty turns to her advisor and
whispers,
"Why is this knight different from all other
knights?"
Mike Lindsay
kir...@gmail.com <kir...@gmail.com> writes
>
>"why is this knight different from other knights?
>
--
Mike Lindsay
Harry Farkas
>From my 2003 post to news:alt.humor.puns:
I used to know what punnish meant,
But now I'm not so sure.
Is a pun not really a pun
if it isn't circular?
Is a pun a joke or a play on words?
Does it even have to be funny?
As serious as this discussion's been,
You'd think we post for money.
So I'll post whatever pops into my head
And let the rest go by,
'Cause if punnish meant means punishment,
Then who would even try?
--
Harry Farkas
***************
Marvin
of what I suspect is the original shaggy dog story. I don't
have the patience, or the bandwidth, to post the whole, long
story. So I leave it as a task for the student to invent a
suitably complicated tale to go with the tag line.