Tall Family Tales Gifts

Kate realised that having a child with a really tall father did have its advantages.

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

"Feel free to take notes."

"Hey grandpa, tell us more about the time you were in that Steven Spielberg movie."

Fishing Tales

"Just kick back and enjoy this. These are the nest years of our lives!"

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

"Listen, pal, I’m not seeing a ‘giant squirrel eating a rib-eye steak.’"

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

Elephants never scared me. I once chased three of them into the river/I was able - before I lost my teeth - to bite a crocodile's tail right off / I'll never forget the time I roared so loud, twenty or maybe thirty monkeys fell right out of the tree.

Fishing Boat Derby

Paul Bunyan gets the leg-lengthening Operation

'It was this big. I swear'

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

"You should've seen the triceratops that got away. It had to be this...um...this...uh...well, it was huge."

'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.'

"Oh, you haven’t seen holiday drama ‘till you’ve met our little family."

"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

'I never saw a tracer bullet that I didn't admire for color, clarity and swiftness.'

Couple with lots of kids. Woman says: 'This is our daughter, my son from my first marriage, John's daughter from his second marriage, and I've no idea who the one on the end is.'

'I swapped shirts with Peter Crouch.'

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

"Can you tell me the story again about how you swiped right on Dad?"

"When I was a little girl...my mami had really good remedies for our aches and pains."

A Salmon Lie

"Pecos Bildungsroman"

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

'Who turned up the thermostat?'

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

"A beautiful baby. Who does he take after?"

Thank you for visiting us again Son... Can I still call you Son? You are so handsome now...

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

"Okay, I'm not the fastest gun in the west. . . but I am the fastest gun in my immediate family!"