Narrative Exaggerators Gifts

Fishing Stories

Fishing Tales

"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.'

“Sweet mother of Marmaduke... no!”

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

Alarmistclock

Early accounting scandals.

"Here's your hourly job performance review."

An exaggeration of estate agents

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

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

National Hyperbole Society: Inspirational & Outstanding

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

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

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!'

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

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

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

Baron de Munchausen

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

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

"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.'

'You were featured on Rogue Traders'

"Hard work, determination, success!"

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

"I said it was INSPIRED by a true story."

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

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

Fred's last lie.