Tall Tales Admirer Mugs

Reasonableman

A small snooker player chalking his cue.

Fishing Tales

"Can't you do something more creative than messing around with cupboard doors?"

Neptune

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

Fishing Boat Derby

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

Paul Bunyan gets the leg-lengthening Operation

'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."

Men reading Tall Stories, and Short Stories in a Library

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

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

"Pecos Bildungsroman"

'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.'

A Salmon Lie

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.'

Circus trousers

Three Little Pigs in a Cyclone

Library: Tall-Tales and Facts.

'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."

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

"Hopefully, the 7-foot guy is on our side."

'Our tuna salad baguettes are this big!'

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

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

Paul Bunyon, Castaway

A Tale of the Sea