1. He wowed his colleagues after hours with tall tales.

2. Exaggeration is what makes a tall tale.

3. Joke and tall tale tellers play with language.

4. A tall tale is a story about a person who is larger than life.

5. Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero.http://

6. For those of you who love a tall tale, the list of genetic variations that determine human height has just experienced a growth spurt.

7. Today we tell a traditional American story called a "tall tale."

8. The tall tale has here, one may think ( as in the Nevada atom bomb ), reached its ultimate.

9. The essence of the tall tale was that it was told.

10. McGowan argues that much joking and tall tale development involve the tellers playing with these four maxims of Grice's cooperative principle.

11. So one day he told his wife a tall tale about their daughter's car breaking down out there and how they needed to meet her at the car dealer.

12. No Baron Munchausen would have dared to imprison his saga within the limits of a tall tale.

13. And yet all his life, his integrity warred with a flair for the theatrical, a fondness for tall tales.

14. Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale.