Dogs in Elk

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

"I know how to take meat away from a dog. How do I take a dog away from meat?" This was a real question posed in Salon.com's Table Talk forum in 1999. What ensued from there played out like, well, a play.

The Endless Thread team performs the accidental, online, collaborative comedy that came to be known as "Dogs in Elk" by the people who made this strange story an early viral internet sensation.

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0:00.0	WBUR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to
0:11.4	let mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3.
0:15.1	Out now.
0:16.1	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.3	WBUR Podcasts.
0:22.3	Boston.
0:23.3	What was your initial reaction to the story when you first came across it?
0:32.5	Well, you know, to be honest, the first one is like, wow, this is kind of gruesome.
0:36.5	Yes, today we have a story for you that is kind of gruesome, as our new friend Janet
0:44.0	said.
0:45.0	But, you know, and then you read it and you're like, well, it's also really funny.
0:49.2	This gruesomely funny story came to us from a listener and Pell's.
0:54.2	And the story came to Ann from her good friend Janet Burge, who's a computer science professor
0:58.8	at Colorado College by day and by night.
1:02.4	You played D&D?
1:03.5	I do.
1:05.0	What's your character?
1:06.0	What do you got?
1:07.0	What's your character?
1:08.0	Well, my current one is actually a rogue and this was actually one where my D app had
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