At least he knows when to bring his shaggy dog stories in for the kill.

At the core of the book is a strangely baroque dog story.

I have forbidden you to tell the dog story.

It has been described as the shaggiest dog story ever told.

And our reporters had an eye for many a shaggy dog story.

And with that, I promise to stop telling shaggy dog stories about my days in the army.

It sounds all too much like the beginning of a shaggy dog story.

It can be considered a type of shaggy dog story.

He noted glumly that they'd used the talking dog story.

You told the shaggy dog story in the first person.