shaggy dog (story)

shaggy dog (story)
shaggy dog (story) or shaggy dog
n.
from such an anecdote involving a shaggy dog
a long, rambling joke, typically involving ludicrously unreal or irrational behavior and usually having an irrelevant conclusion

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