On (10 Oct 06) Cindy Haglund wrote to George Pope...
 CH>  GP> What defines a shaggy dog tale is the building up of mystery all
 CH> for a
 CH>  GP> punchline at the end that seems to throw the whole story into
 CH>  GP> question! (a punny, usually!)
 CH>
 CH>  Oh..... okay. I just KNOW there's another name for this....

Probably a dozen of them, but the commonly understood term is "shaggy
dog tale" (look it up in google)

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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