Bromberg's version of "Bullfrog Blues" (on How Late'll Ya Play 'Til?) is a rambling shaggy dog story performed as a talking blues song. "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Albuquerque", the final track on his 1999 album Running with Scissors, is an over-eleven-minute digression from one of the first topics mentioned in the song, the narrator-protagonist's longstanding dislike of sauerkraut. The J. Geils Band's "No Anchovies, Please" on their 1980 album Love Stinks, is a shaggy dog story that tells the tale of an American housewife who meets an unfortunate fate after opening a can of anchovies. Other examples In the film Six of a Kind, Sheriff John Hoxley (played by W.C. Fields) explains how he came to be known as Honest John. The story itself is short for a shaggy dog story, but it is padded by Fields's drunken and unsuccessful attempts to make a simple shot at pool. In the end, it turns out that the reason for the nickname is that he once returned a glass eye to its owner, who had left it behind. Comedians Buddy Hackett and Norm Macdonald were famous for telling shaggy dog stories. 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. In the novel The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, the main character Kvothe tells 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.Rolling Stone called The Illuminatus! Trilogy'' "The longest shaggy dog joke in literary history..." See also Anti-humor The Aristocrats Chekhov's gun Feghoot Information overload No soap radio Rakugo Red herring Shaggy dog (disambiguation) Shaggy God story References Further reading Folklore Humour