tall tales

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Date Poem: Thursday, June Ninth, Two Thousand And Twenty-Two

Stacey @xstitcher (39061) • Petaluma, California 10 Jun 22

Tales Just seem to get Not smaller, but Taller and Taller: And when one is Telling Tales about themselves, not many want to listen. © Stacey Uffelman 6-10-22

not many listen

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The Coffee Table (A Little Miss Tale)

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 18 May 19

Little Miss had her snack earlier, so I told her she may eat in the living room as long as she had it at the Coffee Table, so she goes on to tell me that the Coffee Table was to hot because it was shooting out coffee, and spitting...

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Are lies ever alright?

Faye @FayeHazel (40230) • United States 26 May 17

Inspired by @JolietJake - I decided to write about lies. Lies are an interesting subject. I've done a lot of thinking about lies. See - I used to have a compulsion about lying. Even over little things - things that in no...

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Barefoot, both ways, across the snow.

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 27 Jan 17

I am not sure if this fabled tale would be something other areas of the world would have heard from their own grandparents. I do know, atleast as it relates to the Southern States, that many of us would have heard this told to us...

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Before I Croak

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 19 Aug 16

Before I Croak The equivalent of Chicken Little's hollering, "The sky is falling." That's kind of what I may be looking at, and so I'd best get it on and put some of my doggy doggerel together under virtual covers and then do...

doggerel rhymes

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Do You Listen to Your Dad and Mom's Life Stories?

mysticmaggie @mysticmaggie (2498) • United States 8 Feb 10

I remember Mom and Dad telling me about growing up in the Depression, or Dad proudly talking about something that happened at the plants where he was Maintenance Supervisor. Mom loved to read stories she had written. Both were so...

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Need help with a seven year old.

gangus2 @gangus2 (373) • United States 24 Sep 08

I am a mother and grandmother, but this is something new to me and I am wondering if there are any mother's out there who can shed some light. My seven year old grandson went to school today and began to use sign language. Now he...

imaginary friends

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TALL TALES: Top this?

redyellowblackdog @redyellowblackdog (10629) • United States 8 Dec 07

World Record Whitetail Buck taken. Here's a picture of the new world record whitetail. It was taken by the cousin of a co-worker's sister's uncle's best friend's son-in-law's cousin while on furlough from the county jail for non...

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how did you find out that Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny wasn't real?

ranitam22 @ranitam22 (1146) • United States 19 Aug 07

i think I was probably about 5 or so. I had an older brother and sister too so that kind of aided in the giveaway. I remember my mom had sent us to bed on Christmas Eve and I had woke up to use the restroom. I saw her coming with...

Do you know any good "tall tales", any real whoppers?

gardengrrl @gardengrrl (1445) • United States 30 Jul 07

"Tall tales" are great, big, whopping lies told expressly for entertainment. A classic example can be found in the movie, "Fried Green Tomatos". The character "Buddy" spins for us the following: There used to be a big old lake,...

big thumping lies

What's the weirdest thing your parents ever told you...

gardengrrl @gardengrrl (1445) • United States 13 Jun 07

... and expected you to believe? Here's mine: I grew up in a very white town. I can only remember seeing two black people before I went to grade school. I knew nothing at all about race. The only black person I knew was a man...

lying to your kids

why do people say this stuff to kids

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I am looking for some good jokes for my collection. GOT ANY?

chunkers @chunkers (1050) • United States 8 Dec 06

As I said in a previous post, I am a traveling salesman. I've heard MANY jokes! For some reason, customers seem to think they MUST tell me a joke before I leave their home. If you think you've heard one I've not heard before,...

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