Promotion Exaggerator Gifts

"You heard right, mom...the boss made me his plant manager!"

“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.

An exaggeration of estate agents

"On your application it says you've been a circus clown, an orthopaedic surgeon and a molecular biologist."

National Hyperbole Society: Inspirational & Outstanding

"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

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

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

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

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

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

'Ma, I didn't get the raise, but I'm now the vice president in charge of empty cans and bottles!'

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

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

"What quality do you have, that will make us hire you as our new telephone support employee?"

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

"Hard work, determination, success!"

"My wife took up walkin' a mile a day five years ago. Haven't seen her since!" "Lucky son of a..."

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

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

"Oh, no, I'm sorry a Level 2 badge isn't what you thought."

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

"Very impressive references... I didn't know the Pope ran a digital marketing agency."

"Remember my teacher made the class write a report about their parents? Well, to make it more interesting, I got 'creative' with the facts."

"And Tim is doing very well. He's a media distribution officer."