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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 04 May 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.05.03 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Dear Pat
Reynolds</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L
"Etymology"</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Mark Dreyer wrote "who
could possibly not know the origin of the shaggy dog story?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Well, the four scholars of
the OED & I don't! Could you enlighten us?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Well, all five of you should go
to the pub more often - it's that kind of joke. Try the Bird & Baby in
Cambridge.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"This bloke I know - Thank you,
I will - spotted an ad in the New York Times, 'Missing, a shaggy dog. He is a
castrated male, has lost his right eye & left foreleg & ear -
Cheers - & has been declawed & debarked. He has bad halitosis & he
drools, & answers to the name of 'Lucky'. Substantial reward... As
soon as he put the paper down on the table in front of him he sees the self-same
dog hopping out of the restuarant. No sweat, he pays up & goes after the
dog. Substantial rewards don't grow on trees you know!</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">He damn' near lost everything
the dog was missing in the next five minutes, the traffic in Karachi is not
kind. Anyhow he tracked it down, & bibed this bloke a couple of pice to let
go of it, & back to the airport.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">They were a bit difficult about
it in Teheran. He told them it was a lion & he was it's
handler, & they walked wide of them. </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">He had time off so he
dead-headed on to Alexandria with the damn thing, & lost it in the ladies in
international departures. He mooned around at a loss - yes, a bitter, a small
one - until this woman screeches out at forty knots, wailing that there's a lion
drinking out of the toilet bowl. So our hero sashays in & grabs it out of
there & the ladies pass the hat around for him, his kind of
luck.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Same trick in Da
Vinci.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Well, he managed to lose it in
Heathrow again, but the Poms are a tight-fisted lot & he didn't - no
offence, mate - get over half a dollar. The next stop was Thule, No ladies
there. Montreal they know more about lions; he got a thick ear.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In New York they're tight-arsed
about importing dead animal tissue. He said, who's dead? Customs officer
says, this carcase! & kicks the dog. Dog bites him in the ankle. He still
has all his teeth - my shout? Wait a bit, I'm nearly done. Oh, thank you; a
small one - it cost a dollar to buy him off.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">So he still has this address,
& takes the underground to the Bronx & rings the bell, & a bloody
English butler opens up, & looks down his nostrils & says,
'Yeees?'</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">'You're missing a shaggy dog. I
brought him.'</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Well the butler looks him over
thoroughly, then he says. 'No. not that shaggy.' & shuts the door in his
face."</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If your audience is drunk
enough, or you are, you can drag the tale out to closing time. That is THE
ancestral shaggy dog story, forerunner of all other pointless anecdotes with an
infinitely extendable story-line, dependant on the patience or sobriety of the
hearers.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Yrs bibulously,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark<br><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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