Monday, October 24, 2016
A SHAGGY DOG PRESIDENT?
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A SHAGGY DOG PRESIDENT?
Despite their often pious lip service to liberal platitudes. It has become obvious that the Clintons have become quite comfortable with Wall Street and vice versa.The best outcome for financial markets according to the Wall Street Journal would be for a Clinton presidency but not an overwhelming victory which would make Congress Democratic too.
This is reminiscent of a joke about a shaggy dog. One classic version:
the archetypical shaggy dog story involves an advertisement placed in the Times announcing a search for a shaggy dog. In the Partridge story, an aristocratic family living in Park Lane is searching for a lost dog, and an American answers the advertisement with a shaggy dog that he has found and personally brought across the Atlantic, only to be received by the butler at the end of the story who takes one look at the dog and shuts the door in his face, saying, "But not so shaggy as that, sir!"
from
Shaggy dog story - Wikipedia
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In its original sense, a shaggy dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and ...
Archetypal story · Examples in literature · Examples in music · See also
The Original Shaggy Dog Joke | Greensted Blog
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Jan 20, 2011 - I heard on the radio recently that the original shaggy do
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