Tall Mugs

You must be this tall to bump head on sign.

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.'

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

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

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..."

'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.'

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."

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

"Pecos Bildungsroman"

A Salmon Lie

'Knock it off, Gus! This is tough enough without your yodeling!'

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.'

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

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

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

Man around campfire Title: 'Ed is a fisherman who never lies. He tells all his stories sitting up.'

'Man, I hate it when she wears heels.'

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!'

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

A Tale of the Sea

"In your original statement, you said the fish was much bigger."