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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (6684)	9/3/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

>>Don't you just hate jokes that sound like they're gonna be >>funny then have a lame punch line? Is this a riddle?

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (6684)	9/3/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: The Rabbit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 62549

Long jokes with lame punch lines are a category in and of themselves; the "Shaggy Dog story". Reason follows: A very rich man man had a very shaggy dog that he loved. His dog was very shaggy. They would romp together and play together, and were very loyal to each other. They took walks to the park together, and the dog loved to fetch and lick and cuddle and all the things dog lovers love dogs to do. One day he went to the dog's area and found that the dog had escaped through the fence. He searched high and low, all over the area and the city, and never found his beloved dog. He took out an ad in the newspaper, offering a very hefty reward for the return of his dog. People came out of the woodwork with shaggy dogs, but he know that they were all frauds. "This dog is not shaggy enough", he would say to one. To another, "My dog is much shaggier than this." This went on and on. Finally, one enterprising young man found the most shaggiest, hairiest, pouffiest dog he could find and brought it to the forlorn man. The man took one look at this dog, and with tears in his eyes, exclaimed... . . . . . . . . . . "No, not THAT shaggy!"