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shaggy dog story
(redirected from Campfire yarn)

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shaggy dog story
n
Informal a long rambling joke ending in a deliberate anticlimax, such as a pointless punch line
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Noun1.shaggy dog story - a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness
gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh - a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
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shaggy dog story n → storiella interminabile senza capo né coda
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2 SCOUT MASTER TONY is ace at telling a tall tale so he'd be masterful at devising campfire yarns.
So would you give this man a job? by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
TOM WAITS IS A STORYTELLER par excellence, equal part campfire yarn spinner and sideshow circus barker.
Tom Waits by Sterling, Eben / Thrasher
Our last night in Carpinteria, sitting around the campfire long after the youngest of the kids had gone to bed, I launched into the story of Hook Man, the cornball campfire yarn about the couple who find a hook-tipped artificial limb hanging on their car's door latch after hearing a radio report about a one-armed crazy man in the area they just left.
CAMPFIRE TALES IN CARPINTERIA by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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