The best lies?
NZPA-Reuter Burlington, Wisconsin How dark was it? It was so dark, Sam Achward wrote to the Burlington Liars’ Club, that he had to strike a second match to see if the first one was lit.
That entry by Achward, of Dossu, the Bahamas, was one of those cited by the club in its annual world’s best lies contest. Here are a few others:
Hickory Bill Simmons, of Madisonville, Kentucky, told the club of a winddriven hail storm that was so severe it stripped all the barbs off the wire fence. Charles Dunlap, of Phillips, Wisconsin, wrote: “We had so much rain last summer in the northwoods that there were times when there were puddles on the lake.”
Lloyd Legtied won recognition for reporting that “things are getting so bad around here that the ladies’ dark wigs are turning grey from worrying.”
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Press, 2 January 1979, Page 4
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