Tall Tale Admirer Pillows

'There goes Dewey again, talking about his supposed 'near-fillet' experience.'

A small snooker player chalking his cue.

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Fishing Tales

'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.'

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

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

"Well did he?"

Reasonableman

Fishing Boat Derby

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.

'It was this big. I swear'

Paul Bunyan gets the leg-lengthening Operation

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

'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.'

"...and the dung was this big!.... No...elephant, actually."

Triumphant mouse posing like Perseus holding aloft Medusa's head.

"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

"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

'Well, by golly! Martha's right, I did make those doors a touch too low.'

"Pecos Bildungsroman"

'Take Gerald a cup of punch or something, I think he's feeling left out.'

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

Don Quixote knocking over a propeller.

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

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

Circus trousers

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

"My dad was a prize-winning bull too: According to Mum, he won a raffle once at the local fair..."

The giraffe-tamer.

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

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