more fan-hitting

[Laurence Horn]

>Except for the original story, which is neither, wouldn't these be
>feghoots rather than shaggy dog stories?
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>John Baker

I actually proposed the last one below as a possible feghoot to Mark
when we were having that discussion earlier, but apparently I still
don't quite grok the feghoot concept.  It's true they're not classic
shaggy dog stories either.  I remember these fractured proverb
narratives from high school cafeteria, but we didn't have names for
them that I can remember.

LH

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>From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Laurence Horn
>Sent: Sun 10/12/2008 9:44 PM
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: more fan-hitting
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>Are we about to go through all of these shaggies?  The one proving
>that a Benny shaved is a Benny urned?  Even the one that ends with
>the arrest for transporting a mynah across a state lion for immortal
>porpoises?
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>LH
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