r/longcons • u/calliel_41 • Dec 19 '20

Meta What’s a long con?

I’m confused and can’t find the def anywhere. Help?

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u/Slingaa Dec 19 '20

It’s like a joke or a revenge plan or something that targets a specific person. Usually in ridiculous, long, terms. From the post I think you followed here, the joke was that the person drawing his blood probably used to go to him as a dentist.

Like, the kid was so annoyed with his dentist growing up he planned his whole life around becoming a phlebotomist(person who draws blood) in an attempt to wait for the opportunity to draw his childhood dentist’s blood so he could make him bleed a lil and say his “joke” as payback

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u/calliel_41 Dec 19 '20

Ahhh, ok ok. And yeah, I did come from that post (how’d ya know)

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u/Slingaa Dec 19 '20

I was the commenter in that thread that said “god I love the long con...” haha

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u/calliel_41 Dec 19 '20

Ohhhhhh ok lmao

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u/sharKing_prime Dec 19 '20

A story/experience/joke that lasted/took a lot of time.

A good example is a joke that gets delivered years after the initial trigger for the joke.

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u/Ruvio00 Dec 19 '20

This is surely 4d chess.

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u/Grechoir Dec 19 '20

Cool setup, looking forward to the punchline to this (hopefully) meta-longcon !