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You must be this tall to bump head on sign.

A small snooker player chalking his cue.

Fishing Tales

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

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

Reasonableman

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

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!"

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

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

'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.'

"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

'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.'

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

Circus trousers

Library: Tall-Tales and Facts.

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

Paul Bunyon, Castaway

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

'He's lying about either a fish or his penis.'

Today's special guest: Rudy Park. Author of the bestselling memoir iMac Therefore I Am. Raised by rabid chimps in the desert, Rudy went on to invent the computer, and date Paris Hilton. Such an inspiring tale, young man. I made it all up. And so honest, too. Let me come clean!

'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."

'Our tuna salad baguettes are this big!'

A Tale of the Sea

"I must have hit 20 home runs!"