Editing Shaggy dog story (section)

==Other examples==
*[[Myles-na-gCopaleen]], one of the pen-names of [[Flann O'Brien]], was a master of long shaggy-dog stories, most commonly in his ''Various Lives of Keats and Chapman'' stories in his [[The Irish Times|Irish Times]] column the <nowiki>''Cruisceann Lawn.''</nowiki> Almost all the stories would have meandering, painful, often esoteric detail, leading to a meaningless ending to justify a dreadful yet amusing pun or spoonerism, the more excruciating the better. Indeed the name and characters of the column, based on the poets Keats and Chapman derive from the first such story where [[John Keats]], in addition to his poetical gifts, is somehow reckoned an expert vet, to whom a prize homing pigeon belonging to [[George Chapman]] is brought, choking. Keats opens the bird's beak widely, stares down for some seconds, deftly removes a piece of stuck champagne cork from the bird's throat, and health is restored to Chapman's pigeon. Upon which happy event, Keats is moved to write his famous sonnet, "[[On First Looking into Chapman's Homer]]" (''homer'' being slang for [[homing pigeon]], as well as the name of the great Greek poet for whom Keats' poem was actually written).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/flann-obrien/the-various-lives-of-keats-and-chapman-and-the-bro/ |title=THE VARIOUS LIVES OF KEATS AND CHAPMAN (AND … {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Neill |first=Jamie |date=2003-11-22 |title=Whims and shams, puns and flams |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/22/classics.flannobrien |access-date=2023-03-29 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*Comedians [[Buddy Hackett]] and [[Norm Macdonald]] were famous for telling shaggy-dog stories.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/for-norm-macdonald-facts-are-just-starting-points-for-comedy/2016/09/20/ad39cfd6-7f42-11e6-8d13-d7c704ef9fd9_story.html| title = For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy - The Washington Post| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
*In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the character [[Grampa Simpson]] frequently tells nonsensical shaggy-dog stories, often to the annoyance of other characters. In the season 4 episode "[[Last Exit to Springfield]]," Grampa tells [[Mr. Burns]] that he uses "stories that don't go anywhere" as a strike-breaking technique before launching into a rambling tale.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/lists/grampa-stories|title=Simpson Crazy, the ultimate Simpsons fan site — in association with Krusty Krowd Kontrol Barriers}}</ref>
*In the novel ''[[V.]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]], the main character Benny Profane recalls a shaggy-dog story about a boy who is born with a golden screw in his belly button, the only purpose of which turns out to be to hold the boy's bottom in place.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pynchon |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Pynchon |date=1963-03-18 |title=V. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=STZbAAAAMAAJ |publisher=J. B. Lippincott |isbn=9780397003013}}</ref>
*In a [[Boy Scouts of America]] [[campfire story]] called "You're Not a Monk," a storyteller tells a 10-minute long story about a man who goes through a long series of trials to become a monk in hopes of gaining permission to learn a mysterious secret, and at the end, the storyteller refuses to tell the audience what the secret is because "you aren't a monk."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.boyscouttrail.com/content/joke/youre_not_a_monk-605.asp | title=You're Not a Monk Joke }}</ref>