Tall Tale Teller Prints

Fisherman put in the stocks with a sign: 'Thou Shalt Not Tell a Lie.'

Fishermen bragging - One has caught a diver

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.

The giraffe-tamer.

'Tell the children I was swallowed by a whale...'

Farmer in front of 'Beware of the bull' sign, says: 'So there I was, surrounded on all sides, facing certain death ...'

'I swapped shirts with Peter Crouch.'

Fish scales.

'You should have seen the one that got away!'

'That the biggest fish ever caught here, what bait did you use?'

"My wife had the baby last night- it was this big."

'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.'

'It was this big. I swear'

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

'He was six foot nine when he started!'

The Fisherman Who Got Caught

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

"You consistently lied about the size of the fish you caught. Well....we've all done that."

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Where dandruff comes from.

Tall tales, short stories

"You should've seen the one that got away."

'You should have seen the one that got away, it must have been a size thirteen at least!'

... then a rattlesnake popped up and spooked the horses. They started running uncontrollably! We were speeding toward the canyon rim and just about to plunge thousands of feet when I yanked on the reins and loudly yelled a command to the horses! We stopped with only inches to spare! There goes Ernie again -- telling his tale of "whoa!"

'So there I was with the world at my feet - it was then I got frostbite.'

'I'm telling you, that was Henderson and he was carrying a GOOSE!'

'If your mother asks, it's water buffalo.'

Father imagining son with fish

"We don't think your wife will believe you were in the belly of a while, Jonah...better you should say you were playing cards with us!"

If you think you have caught a record fish...make sure you have a witness...

'Hey,Hank-come on over and see the giant catfish I just caught.'

'A compilation of fish stories? You'll find that in the fiction section.'

I bragged about catching a fish a meter in lenght but it was the size of a sardine.

Tall man struggling to fit in his bath

'The fish are so eager here, they cut the hole in the ice!'