[Ads-l] Shaggy Dog Story now on QI website

Sun Nov 17 04:10:23 UTC 2019

The Quote Investigator website now has an entry on this topic.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/11/16/shaggy/

[Begin excerpt]
This exploration was inspired by a mailing list discussion. Great
thanks to the discussants Stephen Goranson, Jonathan Lighter, Wilson
Gray, Peter Reitan, Joel Berson, and Robin Hamilton.
[End excerpt]

It may take a few hours until the updates propagate to the distributed
copies of the article. I just added a 1908 citation.

Garson

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