History Quotes / ShaggyDogStory

-->--''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', "Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack"

'''CIA Superior:''' I'm fucked if I know what we did.

->I said to him "[[LampshadeHanging O-Orville, not every story has to have significance, y'know]]? Sometimes, uh, y'know, sometimes a story is just a story. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall You try to read into every little thing and find meaning in everything anyone says you'll just drive yourself crazy]]. Had a friend do it once - Wasn't pretty. We talked about it for years. And not only that, but you'll likely end up believing something you shouldn't believe, thinking something you shouldn't think, o-or assuming something you shouldn't assume, y'know?"

->I said to him "O-Orville, not every story has to have significance, y'know? Sometimes, uh, y'know, sometimes a story is just a story. You try to read into every little thing and find meaning in everything anyone says you'll just drive yourself crazy. Had a friend do it once - Wasn't pretty. We talked about it for years. And not only that, but you'll likely end up believing something you shouldn't believe, thinking something you shouldn't think, o-or assuming something you shouldn't assume, y'know?"
-->-- '''Mr. Hippo''', ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'', ironically in the middle of a Shaggy Dog Story

-->-- ''WebVideo/SamONellaAcademy'', "[[Tarrare, the Hungriest Man in History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHDj2sB-rc&t=400s]]"

-->-- '''Kvothe''', ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicles''

->We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I took the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter you'd say. Now where were we, oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice which was the style at the time]]. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

->We can't bust heads like we used to, [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment but we have our ways.]] One trick is to [[InvokedTrope tell them stories that don't go anywhere]]. Like the time I took the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter you'd say. Now where were we, oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice which was the style at the time]]. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

-->-- '''Grandpa Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

-->-- '''Music/GerryRafferty''', "Baker Street"

-->-- '''Spike''', in the last line of dialogue of [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/191621/not-the-same "Not The Same"]]

-->-- '''Anonymous [[ImageBoards /co/]] user''', on [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Ruber's]] presence at the Round Table

''And then he'll settle down, there's this quiet little town''\\

-->-- '''Anonymous [[ImageBoards /co/]] user''', on [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Ruber's]] presence at the Round Table

-->--'''Music/LinkinPark''', "In The End"