Spine-tingling Tale Enthusiast Gifts

The Perils of Reading Ghost Stories Before Bed.

Fishing Tales

Don Quixote

Falstaff

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

"Well did he?"

Fishing Boat Derby

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

"That's right kiddo, I'm one of the original band members of the Musicians of Bremen..."

Paul Bunyan gets the leg-lengthening Operation

"Yes, I was using my mobile whilst driving... I was calling the police to tell them I was chasing a gang of bank robbers!"

Men reading Tall Stories, and Short Stories in a Library

Pun on Excalibur - Swiss Army knife appears from the lake.

'All this is nuthin! There was one yeaw up noth...when it snowed fah two yeaws! I had t'dig down ten feet t'haul in my lobstah traps.'

"At long last, Wyatt, our dream has come true and we are within reach of the legendary toast fields of the Sierra Madre."

A Salmon Lie

"So it was a performance enhancing drug."

"Why do you automatically assume that I'll fly too close to the sun?"

"Pecos Bildungsroman"

Captain Eddie's New Boat:'The insurance company laughed last year when I insisted on adding Kraken coverage.'

'Sure you always catch bigger fish than me. Your arms are a foot longer than mine.'

'He doesn't exaggerate, he just remembers big.'

'That's right kids: I jumped through rings of fire when I was with the Circus!'

"So I break free and I swear that hook was this big."

'Women don't simply believe everything we hear, you know.' - 'But that does not stop you repeating it.'

"His nose grew every time he lied? That must've taken all the fun out of fishing."

'I don't believe for one minute that an octopus crawled up last night and ate all the coconuts!'

'He's lying about either a fish or his penis.'

A Tale of the Sea

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

"I must have hit 20 home runs!"