长毛狗的故事

长毛狗的故事（英語：Shaggy dog story）是一类英文反笑話，其特点是对无聊情节的冗长叙述，而以并不好笑的转折结局。幽默在于，听者对于情节的预计被拉长，而结局却要么期待并未发生，要么以完全超出预计的形式发生。^[1]

这个故事的原始版本是用一系列冗长的事件描述一条狗的毛很长。一个经典的版本是^[1]：

• 冷笑话

1. ^ ^{1.0 1.1} Ted Cohen. Jokes. University of Chicago Press. 1999: 8. ISBN 0226112306. 

• Jan Harold Brunvand. A Classification for Shaggy Dog Stories. The Journal of American Folklore (American Folklore Society). January–March 1963, 76 (299): 42–68 [2011-03-27]. doi:10.2307/538078. （原始内容存档于2021-03-08）. 
• Isaac Asimov. Shaggy Dog. Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor: A Lifetime Collection of Favorite Jokes, Anecdotes, and.... Houghton Mifflin Books. 1991: 49–67. ISBN 0395572266. 
• Eric Partridge. The Shaggy Dog Story. New Statesman (Statesman Pub. Co.). 1931: 534. 
• Eric Partridge. The ‘Shaggy Dog’ Story: Its Origin, Development and Nature (with a few seemly examples). C.H. Drummond (illustrator). London: Faber & Faber. 1953. 
• Francis Lee Utley and Dudley Flamm. The Urban and the Rural Jest (With an Excursus on the Shaggy Dog). Journal of Popular Culture. 1969, 2: 563–577. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1969.0204_563.x.