Talk:Feghoot

message: "Society for the Aesthetic Re-Arrangement of History" - nice acronym there.
24.146.8.72 16:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

message: I always had the impression that all Feghoots ARE science fiction stories, and that this is an important aspect that makes a Feghoot a subset of shaggy dog stories. All the examples in the article appear to be SF stories. Does anyone have any counterexamples, non-SF stories that are commonly or popularly (as in more than one person labeling it) called Feghoots?Benbradley 18:22, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But has anyone described that as a Feghoot ? -- Beardo (talk) 06:47, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't Feghoot imply an SF story? 

message: What are the rules of capitalization for feghoot in reference to the story, as opposed to the characted? PlaysInPeoria (talk) 04:54, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is feghoot (the story) capitalized? 

message: I am removing some of the opinions in this article,only slight changes though,like this one:
"...right down to the vile pun at the end of each episode."
Stuff like that.Im taking out 'vile'.Please reply to this if you think otherwise.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.226.150 (talk) 04:04, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit 

message: I forget the title, but a short story by Arthur C. Clarke ending in "a star-mangled spanner.". 142.104.166.203 (talk) 22:12, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: another example

message: I am 66 years old and I was an avid reader of science fiction magazines during the 1950's and 1960's including F&SF. I always looked forward to these little bits of filler and I am sure that I was not alone. They were always cast in the mode of science fiction, but it was obvious to all that everything was subordinate to the need to lead up to a really spectacular pun at the end. They can hardly be considered as serious literature, but rather an expression of the human urge to playfulness. They gave pleasure to a great many people over a long period of years and this is hardly insignificant. Then, there is the fact that people have sporadically used "feghoot" as a word describing a piece of writing that initially looks like a story but turns into the setup for an outrageous pun. Surely any proper encyclopedia must allow for an entry describing such a thing. Others have quoted fragments. The one that has always stuck in my mind was set up as a time travel story to Hawaii in the era of Captain Cook that ends with "one man's meat is another man's poi, son.24.130.82.68 (talk) 02:18, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The one that sticks in my mind may well have appeared in Galaxy for 1954 or 1955. The build up of the story told of a landing on a planet populated by some kind of exceptionally hirsute Wookies. The natives became restless while Ferdinand was somehow not directly involved, but when he appeared on the scene he was seized by a large individual who appeared to have the wherewithal to inject our hero with some potent toxin. The other earth beings were horribly frightened, but as he was being carried off Feghoot reassured his companions gallantly, "Be not concerned. It is only a furry with a syringe on top."  P0M (talk) 00:26, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Feghoot "notable?"

message: "Walter Bagehot, a major literary and political figure from the late 1800s now fallen into obscurity."  It doesn't seem to be NPOV, accurate, or relevant, to say he has "fallen into obscurity".
For example, The Economist newspaper has an editorial in every edition called "Bagehot", named after the man, who was a former editor.
[unsigned, undated]
I deleted the following, which appears to personal opinion and has no support: "The name Feghoot and the nature of the stories—detailed and tedious, yet ending in vaguely familiar catchphrases—may have been inspired by Walter Bagehot, a major literary and political figure from the late 1800s."  Zaslav (talk) 22:32, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin and Bagehot 

message: I suggest this article is renamed Story pun, since (a) Feghoot appears to be specifically an American term, and (b) the intro gives 'story pun' as the principle term. 90.202.117.180 (talk) 08:00, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Move proposal

message: Alternate terms for this type of story can be taken from the terms sometimes used for these puns.  In particular "groaner", see Wiktionary (definition 3), or "screamer", from the reader's reaction at the end. Since many people have never run across one of the Ferdinand Feghoot stories, they would not know "feghoot". The only one of them I have read was definitely a pun, but seemed rather flat on first reading, not in either the groaner or screamer categories.
agb  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.233.167.63 (talk) 22:49, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate Terms 

message: Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light. He has a whole section of the book that leads up to a character, the Shan, being given an epileptic body during a rejuvenation - 'Then the fit hit the Shan' 2001:171B:2274:7C21:5596:41C4:DCD6:E969 (talk) 14:48, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The one and only 

message: Wouldn't some jokes by Victor Borge qualify (e.g. "Long time – no C"), or are they too short? 195.187.108.130 (talk) 18:09, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples