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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 11

There is a Liars' Club in Burlington, Wisconsin, United States, where Ananias •would look like an uninspired amateur. The club’s rubber medal for 1934 has been ! awarded to Mr B. Ceresa, of Langeloth, Pasadena, for stretching the truth with ; the following yarn:—“My grandfathei i clock is so old that the shadow cast by 1 the pendulum as it swung backward ana i forward has worn a hole through the back of the clock.” Mr Ceresa won the lying ; championship from 2500 contestants. The runner-up was no less ingenious. His story was that: “A fog which blanketed his home one dav while he was tiling the roof was so thick that he laid tiles on the fog 10 feet beyond the edge of the roof without knowing it.’’ Another unblushing stranger to the truth reported that he remembered the winter of I&C3 when, he said. San Francisco Bay froze over so fast that all the frogs were caught (in the ice with their legs up. He bought a lawn mower, mowed off the frogs' legs in two hours, shipped 75 shiploads to . France, and made a net profit of £3,000,000 0s 4d.