Exaggeration Enthusiast Gifts

"Hard work, determination, success!"

'These young social workers now nothing, I used to see 5000 clients every day...'

“Sweet mother of Marmaduke... no!”

"It strikes me you're making a deal more fuss over this than it calls for, Dan'l."

'Move back!'

"Don't worry - you've got to expect a few midge bites on holiday..."

'All my senses are very acute.'

'What a CV - if you can write memos like this you'll go far in our organisation.'

'I can tell this fish story just fine by myself, man's best friend.'

"Don't be so dramatic, you've only got a cold!"

National Hyperbole Society: Inspirational & Outstanding

'At Hyperbole Club'.

"A simple note from your mother would have sufficed, Tommy."

"All our extras are ex-soccer players - they're the best at dramatically faking injuries."

Fishing Tales

"Pfff, eating homework is nothing! My mum eats the clothes off the clothes line..."

Alarmistclock

'Do you always have to shout? Well? Do you? Huh?'

Early accounting scandals.

"Here's your hourly job performance review."

'You fancy yourself as a press baron, don't you?'

An exaggeration of estate agents

'...and that's the one that got away!'

"Lost his first hat about nine months ago. Really tore him up too."

"It came... it grew... it made Nana say bad words... 'Ow! You rotten #@!!×!' The invasion of the thistle"

Fish Story

'I gave him the old one-two, but then he gave me three, four, five, six, seven and eight!'

"In your original statement, you said the fish was much bigger."

'When I said in my on-line profile that I was athletic, I meant that I like watching sports!'

“At what point does it stop being just moths, and start being Pestilence?”

"The fish gets bigger every time he tells the story."

"And that one I tagged with a flamethrower from ten yards."

'Yes, I did suggest you enlarge that photo of you and your car. However...'

'This is what I've been waiting for-a bunch of fishermen telling fish stories.'

'Oh, I would say it was at least twice that size, and it had fangs and horns too...'