Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!gkloker From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Me, myself, and I) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: A Shaggy Dog Story Message-ID: <598@utai.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 16:06:03 EDT Article-I.D.: utai.598 Posted: Fri Jun 28 16:06:03 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 16:35:35 EDT Reply-To: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Me, myself, and I) Organization: Neither here nor there Lines: 41 One day, a man was passing by a pet store on his way home from work. He happened to look in the window of the store and saw an extremely shaggy dog -- in fact, the shaggiest dog he had ever seen in his whole life. He immediately decided to go into the pet store and buy the dog. As he was paying for the dog, he struck up a conversation with the pet store owner: "Isn't this the shaggiest dog you ever did see?", to which the owner replied, "Yep, that's the shaggiest dog I ever did see. Y'know, you should take it to England and show it to the queen." The man said, "I think I'll do just that." On the way home, he met a lady pushing a stroller, and so he stopped to admire her baby. He then pointed out his new dog to her, saying, "Isn't this the shaggiest dog you ever did see?", to which she replied, "Yes, that's the shaggiest dog I ever did see. You should take it to England to show the queen." The man replied, "That's what I'm going to do." [Insert a recounting of his adventures in arriving home and showing his wife the dog, buying airline tickets from a travel agency and showing the agent the dog, getting on the plane and showing the flight attendant the dog, . . ., customs official, . . ., London cabbie, . . ., each time repeating the conversation (with appropriate variations): "Isn't this the shaggiest dog you ever did see?" "Yes, that's the shaggiest dog I ever did see. You should take it to ______ to show the queen." "That's what I'm doing." Finally he arrives at Buckingham Palace and manages to get an audience with the queen.] The man was escorted to the audience chamber and, as he walked along the aisle to where the queen was seated, he spoke to courtiers on the left and on the right, saying, "Isn't this the shaggiest dog you ever did see?" They all replied, "Yes, that's the shaggiest dog we ever did see. It was a good idea to bring it to show the queen." Finally he arrived at the queen's seat, and, very nervously he said to her, "Isn't this the shaggiest dog you ever did see?" The queen looked at the dog and, after a moment's pause, she looked at the man and said: "No."