Feghoots site

[Wilson Gray]

In the case of the "sleeve job" story, the teller first briefly
described two grossly disgusting/digustingly gross sex acts (Do you
guys know what a socket job is? No? How about the walk job?): the
socket job and the walk job. Having baited us, he then switched (Well,
then, surely you guys know what a sleeve job is!), launching into a
long, long, long, but riveting, story about one man's crusade to
uncover the mystery of the sleeve job. Unfortunately, at the very
moment at which all is to be revealed, the protagonist of the tale is
accidentally killed. The end.

For the record, a socket job requires the services of a prostitute
with a glass eye.

The walk job is a form of masturbation. Fill a tub just deeply enough
to cover all but the head of your boner. Catch one of those honey
bee-sized houseflies. Deprive it of its wings, but don't otherwise
harm it. Step into the tub and carefully place the fly on your glans
penis. As a consequence of its fruitless efforts to escape, the fly
will eventually walk you off.

-Wilson Gray

On 9/6/05, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson writ:
> >>>
>  But why are they referred to as "shaggy-dog stories"? I've always
> considered them to be puns, whereas a shaggy-dog story is a long
> string
> of bullshit with no conclusion, as in the first such story I ever
> heard:
>
> And you know what it was?!
> What?!
> All this bull I'm shittin' you!
>  <<<
>
> I've always understood one sense of "shaggy-dog story" to be a long,
> rambling joke whose punch line is in some way trivial compared to the
> length and elaborateness of the story. Your example would count as
> that. It does have a punchline (imho), a self-referential one.
>
> The original Feghoot stories are long, elaborate tales designed to
> build up to (usually) one crashingly painful pun, often on an idiom or
> well-known phrase.
>
> The eponymous s-d s, as I've heard it, ends not with a pun but with a
> line ("Oh, no, he wasn't THAT shaggy!") that is bizarrely
> inappropriate to the story as narrative. And the hearer's reaction,
> perhaps, is the unifying element behind all the types of sds.
>
> -- m a m
>


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-Wilson Gray