Tooth Tall Tale Teller Mugs

'She reminds me of a toothache I once had.'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall 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.’"

Horror Stories.

"Tell us the one about swift justice, Grandpa."

Early accounting scandals.

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.

'It was this big. I swear'

'Yeah. Yeah... Wolf, girl, grandma. I got the picture.'

'Do you honestly expect me to believe that fairy tale?

'I swapped shirts with Peter Crouch.'

'And now for my William Tell shot.'

'New rule. From now on you don't just sit in the penalty box. You also get a root canal.'

"Your story is quite the booze-filled dive into the depths of depravity. Is this your first children's book?"

'It started off as stories I told my wife.'

I swear, we rode right through the town and my mistress Lady Godiva wasn't wearing a thing...

Yeah, yeah, yeah - tell my editor the fables are almost done, and she'll have them as soon as

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

The giraffe-tamer.

"Have a seat. She's not ready. She's still in her whitening strip."

My tail's cold.

Father imagining son with fish

Tall tales, short stories

'That's better than your fish stories, Dad.'

'I have a case of...oh, heck. What's that called?'

Little Red Riding Hood

"An amusing story no doubt Captain, but let me tell you about my experiences with the head hunters of the Amazon!"

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

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

"Remember toothache!!!"

Anecdote Magazine

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

Before the invention of writing, ancient wisdom was passed down the generations orally, through the art of storytelling.