Exaggeration Expert Gifts

"When Dennis gets a cold everyone has to know about it"

'You were featured on Rogue Traders'

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

Alarmistclock

"Run for your lives! It's an asterisk!"

Fishing Tales

Fred's last lie.

“Sweet mother of Marmaduke... no!”

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

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

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

Early accounting scandals.

"Here's your hourly job performance review."

SWAT Team (going in to catch a fly).

An exaggeration of estate agents

National Hyperbole Society: Inspirational & Outstanding

"Don't worry about the economy, dear. We'll always live large."

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

'You're an estate agent aren't you?'

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

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

Fish Story

"Come check this out, Doris! I think our mouse trap finally caught a mouse!"

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

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

'This infestation is far more serious than I was anticipating.'

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

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

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

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

"Okay. It's a balloon. Get over it."

'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...'

Fishing Stories