It's a joke that's funny for the person telling it. You get this huge build up and then no punchline. It's always worth telling people it to see the look on their faces after you've drawn it out for five minutes!
There's a story I know that you can drag out up to twenty minutes, about a guy who always hears this dripping sound coming from a monastery he walks past, but the head monk says he has to be a monk to find out what it is. Twenty minutes in, the guy becomes a monk and finds out what it is. You give it a good pause so the other person says "Well? What was it?" and you say "You have to be a monk to find out" and get a punch in the face for your troubles.
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