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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 - 05 May 2007 - Volume 01</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(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net
</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Literature"
2007.05.04 (06) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<div><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Dear
Pat:</span></div><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"></span>
<div><br>Subject: LL-L "Etymology"</div><span class="q">
<div><br></div>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span>>> Mark Dreyer wrote "who could possibly not know the origin of
the <br>>shaggy dog story</span></div><span>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><br></div></span>and
enlightened me! The four scholars know this tale, it turns out,
but<br>want evidence of anything known as a 'shaggy dog story' (with or
without <br>canine) before 1946.</blockquote></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I
wonder if it existed before 1946. One can see from the verbal tags that the
tale is steeped in the doings of early commercial aviation. As a kid I heard
it from my Uncle Chris, a fighter pilot in Korea, also virtually unchanged
from my Uncle Eddy, who retired some years ago as the senior pilot of
SAA, my American uncle Bud Tomae, a bush-pilot & petrochemicals
prospector from outer Montana, & my father, who in his youth did things
with biplanes like gypsy moths, & lady's handkerchiefs on the runway.
Uncle Eddy's was the tale as I related it, & he told it with the reverence
of a catechism to his ancient craft.</font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">But I
bet such anecdotes existed from time immemorial, only the shaggy dog brought
with it a plot of such histrionic potential & so mind-bendingly banal a
punchline that it was forthwith adopted as the masterpiece, the 'mastery'
of which opened the tyro to the drinking company of flying men, or perhaps the
flying company of drinking men.</font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">To Ed
Alexander,</font></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
<div style="direction: ltr;"> <br><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">> Finally, they
compromised, and laid a charge of making an obscene clone
fall.</font></div>
</span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">Ha ha ha
ho ho ho thatisagoodone Ed, have a drink on me.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">By the
way, My Ruth holds that shaggy stories are waste of brain space, & we
should desist: Forthwith. so, I shall spare you all the delights of the doings
of Wally & Goppy, & Tarzant, & the Dread Mystery of the
Monk.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">Yrs,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">Mark<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: <span id="_user_reuben@uniserve.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Reuben Epp
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:reuben@uniserve.com">reuben@uniserve.com</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Literature"
2007.05.04 (06) [E]<br><br><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Pat Reynolds
writes:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <<a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk</a>></span><span class="q">
<br>Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.05.04 (02)
[E] <br><br>Lowlands-L List <<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>> writes<br></span>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="q">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span>>> Mark Dreyer wrote "who could possibly not know the origin of
the <br>>shaggy dog story<br></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">and enlightened me!
The four scholars know this tale, it turns out, but<br>want evidence of
anything known as a 'shaggy dog story' (with or without <br>canine) before
1946.<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br>Pat</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"> </div></span>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Reuben Epp: <a href="mailto:reuben@uniserve.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">reuben@uniserve.com</a> replies:</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><font size="2"><font size="3">I do not know the origin of the 'shaggy dog story,' but I remember
this</font></font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><font size="2"><font size="3">version which I must have heard before 1946. Here goes with what I
</font></font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><font size="2"><font size="3">remember of it:</font></font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">It was in England,
probably in the 17th century, at a time when servicemen</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">who had become
knights roamed the countryside to sustain themselves by </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">telling tales or by
playing intruments and singing to the patrons of country</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">inns where they
overnighted. On this particular occasion, a small knight who</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">was in fact a
midget, rode into a country inn one late evening on the back of </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">a very
shaggy, large dog. </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">The innkeeper was
at first not kindly disposed toward the shaggy dog, but</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">decided to tolerate
his presence out of respect to the little knight whose </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">dog was his steed.
The little knight requested the innkeeper to allow him to</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">stay for the night
with the shaggy dog sleeping on the floor beside his bed.</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">The innkeeper
reluctantly agreed, after receiving assurances that the dog</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">would create no
problems </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Early on the
following morning the little knight rode his dog to the front </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">desk to square away
his bill with the innkeeper before leaving for the day.</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">The innkeeper
replied, "I'm sorry, but you cannot leave here now! I would </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">not let a
knight out on a dog like this!"</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Cheers!</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"> </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Reuben
Epp <br></div></blockquote><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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