Tall Tale Aficionado Mugs

'Once a giant white whale took away your leg? Pah, that's nothing! Once a seagull come down on me like a bolt from the blue and WHOOOSH!- there goes my fish sandwich!'

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

Men reading Tall Stories, and Short Stories in a Library

"This is your great-great-uncle Enchilmo Ladas. We called him 'Enchi' for short."

Total Bull Frog

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

"Go ahead and eat her, she's a pain in the a**."

A small snooker player chalking his cue.

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

'That's not really what I meant by 'let your hair down', Rapunzel.'

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.'

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

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

"Well did he?"

Reasonableman

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

'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..."

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

'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."

'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."

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

A Salmon Lie

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

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

"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.'

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