History Main / RamblingOldManMonologue

[[folder:Live-Action TV? I didn't have a TV back in my day! When we wanted entertainment, we'd gather around the radio and tune in for the weekly thrillers. Least till my pa sold the radio to buy a tractor and a few cows for the farm.]]

* OlderThanFeudalism: ''Literature/TheIliad'' has Nestor, the oldest and wisest of the Achaean kings, is well-known for giving advice. However, this advice will surely be nestled in with him talking about his past exploits that he can relate to the situation at length. Similarly, the ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' has Odysseus' son Telemachus visit Nestor in hopes of getting information that can help Telemachus find out his father's fate. Nestor receives and entertains him lavishly but has little of substance toward Telemachus' goal to say...but still never stops talking so much that Telemachus urges Nestor's son Peisistratus to let him leave as soon as possible.

* Mr. Wojakowski in Connie Willis' ''Literature/{{Passage}}'' has a tendency of rambling off into WWII stories when he should be talking about his Near-Death Experiences. Then again, his WWII stories are mostly made up...

'''Bo'Rai Cho''': You remind me of another student. He-\\

* The defining trait of Uncle Colm in ''Series/DerryGirls''. The actual content of his stories is often quite interesting, such as the time [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the IRA]] invaded his home and stole his van. But his droning voice, his rambling style, his fixation on insignificant details, and his tendency to loop back on things he's already said all combine to make everyone in the show feel any time in his presence is sheer agony.

Compare ToMakeALongStoryShort.

* Abraham "Grampa" Simpson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a master of these. The one from "Last Exit to Springfield" involving tying an onion to his belt ("which was they style at the time") is the most famous.

* Abraham "Grampa" Simpson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a master of these. The one from "Last Exit to Springfield" is the most famous.

* Abraham "Grandpa" Simpson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a master of these. The one quoted at the top of the page, from "Last Exit to Springfield", is the most famous.

This is TruthInTelevision, but in fiction it's usually PlayedForLaughs, only rarely acknowledging that this is a likely symptom of [[ScatterbrainedSenior becoming senile.]]

* Let me tell you the story...of me old bones, it started in {{WebVideo/Jerma985}} titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f9EpxPLlR0 'The Story of Me Old Bones']], where Jerma kept repeating the line over and over with little tidbits of stories without an actual story whenever he was on the boat. Jerma handwaved it in that Old Booty [=McScruffleBeard=] died of scurvy before he can ever finish his story.
** It all started in New Joisey, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrq_ne4N3JQ 'Jersey Boys In Sentry Town']], when Jerma tried to get {{WebVideo/STAR}} to tell his story about how STAR_'s apartment was a jungle. Then STAR_ lazily started it off with "It all started in New Jersey!" then Jerma just rolled with it and cranked the trope effect up to eleven with the line, it then became a running gag throughout the video. Justified in that both of them were sleepless, according to the description.
* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. He loves doing this as a means of wasting scammer time, particularly with his elderly characters Granny Edna and Billy Maizear. And whoa be to any scammer who tries to interrupt or talk over one of these monologues, as it will generally cause him to start over from the beginning. Sometimes it does result in them RudelyHangingUp, though, so he tends to often do it only once the scammer has been well and truly baited into expecting a big payday.
* Lenny, a chatbot designed to waste the time of telemarketers, recordings of which have found popularity on [=YouTube=] is basically this on a loop. The creator stated on Reddit that he basically just tried to think of what would be the worst nightmare for telemarketers to have to listen to.

---> ''"The year is 1946. In a war-torn world, a single flower blooms, and that flower is an angry Japanese monster named Godzilla. Fortunately, there was one man who could help...Colonel Tom Parker. The Colonel took this monster, cleaned him up, and put him on stage under the name "The Rolling Stones". The first concert was a sellout with many many, many people eaten, but those that survived RAVED about the undeniable harmonies and brutally honest lyrics of what they had just seen...and out of the wreckage of that concert crawled the woman who would later give birth to me...not once, but FOUR times, because in those days, if they didn't like the way you looked, they would send you back in to bake a little longer. After four times, they just decided to cut off my tail, but you can still see it...in the British Museum! Which, interestingly enough, is in France! Not the France you're thinking of, but a MUCH better one, filled with palm trees and leprechauns. But I digress. In fact, I used to be a professional digresser, but I don't want to get off the track, so I'll tell you about the time I was a professional digresser. The year was 2021 and I had just returned from a brief vacation where I had eaten more than my fill of tacos. Not the tacos you're thinking of. Did I ever tell you about the time that I started Gracie Films?"''

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