It's all in service of
a tall tale being told by an ancient Indian (Johnny Depp) who may or may not be Tonto, a sideshow attraction who spins this yarn to a little boy (Mason Cook) wearing a Lone Ranger get - up in a fair in 1930s San Francisco.
Not exact matches
Because someone dear to the beliver
told them this fairy
tale and they can't handle the truth that their religion
is fictional
tall tales because they think, most likely their parents would
tell them something that isn't bogus but it
is.
Zealous prosecutors claimed to
be stamping out an epidemic of abuse, child - abuse experts coached and coerced young children to
tell tall tales, psychologists peddled fantastic theories to juries, and judges caved in to pressures to «protect the children.»
I've
been looking for proof since I
was six when my parents put into church and
told me to believe in all these religious
tall tales.
Anyone who says otherwise
is telling a
tall tale.
That evangelist
is probably still traveling around
telling his
tall tales and whipping up fervor and offerings.
The folks living in the Roman Empire
were not above
telling tall tales.
Chad Point
is, people tend to
tell tall tales about famous people.
But I
'm not just
telling you
tall tales over here, gloating about this great new cookbook that I have and you don't.
Grandpa
was born in the Southwest in 1901 and he loved to
tell tall tales of how he'd
been a cowboy in his younger days.
We never found any sign of that duck though there
is still a
tall tale told that she lives in the wild of the woods on our property.
Except... when we
're so exhausted that we can't possibly remember what it
is we wanted to do the next time our child climbed on the counter, pulled the dog's tail,
told a
tall tale, or just wouldn't go to sleep!
i guess the only people interested in listening to Mr. 9 -1-1
are southerners, prob» ly the last group buying the
tall tales he
tells.
You'll
be amazed at the
tall tales we've
been told in the name of «healthy eating.»
You may
be tempted to exaggerate or
tell a few
tall tales but think about how you'd react if the situation
were reversed.
He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it
was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for
telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him,
was an instant hit.
That
's not just Zelnick
telling tall tales, either.
The story
tells the
tale of a family of four - inch -
tall people, called Borrowers, who live hidden about the humans or beans as they
are called in the film.
Landing a second job as a TV personality on Showtime (where his boss
is played by Teri Hatcher), Erik
is enjoying his newfound respect — especially the look in the eyes of his adoring son Teddy (Dakota Goyo), to whom he
's told more than a few
tall tales (such as
being buddies with John Elway).
Italian Spice — Gavin Farmer tries out a 1959 Lancia Appia Zagato that spent nearly 40 years in America before
being rebuilt in Australia / Ground Breaker — Douglas Blain slips into the cockpit of a priceless Type
S Grand Prix Delage / Stoop'
s Sebring — Michael Bowler looks back at 10 years» ownership of one of the three historic Frazer Nash Sebrings / Ripple Over the Water — Malcolm Tucker
tells the story of a Rolls - Royce that might have
been / Atlanta'
s Golden Apples — Further reminiscences of Richard Gaylard Shattock about his Atlanta racing days as
told by Anthony Pritchard / The Grimsby Giant — Michael Worthington - Williams
tells the
tall tale of the Lloyd made in Grimsby / Ballot Breeding — After the Great War Ernest Ballot embarked on a racing programme to promote his proprietary engines.
He explains in the book that this place has
been described to him and an assistant he calls his «boy John Clement» during a diplomatic mission by a sailor who likes to
tell tall tales.
His parents
tell him exciting
tales of the time when he will
be «strong enough and
tall enough and brave enough» not only to leave the burrow, but to sleep in the sea and find friends.
The author
is the novelist
telling the story, the better the storytelling the better the novel reflecting the
tale — some
tales are taller than others.
Women
are more likely to often
tell «
tall tales» to their parents than men (43.6 percent vs. 37.4 percent), but men more often fib to friends (44.1 percent vs. 38.3 percent).
Rather than playing games with their imagination, they
're playing games with living creatures, charging big prices for their results and
telling some pretty
tall tales to justify it.
Saturday night
is always a blast around the campfire
telling tall tales, meeting new friends and experiencing the best lifestyle on the planet.
Tall tales are a feature of the Outback, where a «yarn» (Australian slang for a story) can get bigger in the
telling.
Whilst many other travellers
are hanging around in traveller bars
telling tall tales about how they like to go places where travellers don't, we
are there, taking shots and doing more for the local economy by making the odd contribution to locals for taking their pictures.
If you have ever wondered what the end of the world will look like, then hopefully it will
be nothing like the
tale told in Extinction: a story about the last member of an order formed to battle against mystical 100ft
tall Orc beasts known as Raven» ii.
Rare's newest trailer
is a little light on actual details, merely hinting at things to come, and takes the form of a
tall tale told by «grizzled old soul Merrick» - the pirate whose portrait recently appeared in the ship wreck found on the uncharted island at map coordinates L14.
(Note that the Joker
is a sailor — the one who usually
tells tall tales about what he
's seen at sea.)
People
are tired of this constant bickering, and
tall tales, and childish name calling, and
being told not only what to think, but how ti think.
With little or no hard evidence, and the size of the waves often growing with each
telling, there
is little surprise that scientists long dismissed them as
tall tales.
Be aware that those jobs figures you hear floating around
are the stuff of thoroughly - debunked myth, and that the GOP politicians who
are telling the
tall tales have a direct, vested interest in spinning those yarns.
It made no sense, but that
's the story that got
told — that
's the
tall tale we
're still living today.
When I ask how Bannon even found SCL, Wylie
tells me what sounds like a
tall tale, though it
's one he can back up with an email about how Mark Block, a veteran Republican strategist, happened to sit next to a cyberwarfare expert for the US air force on a plane.
Lying that
is probably not a serious problem: Young children (ages 4 - 5) often make up stories and
tell tall tales.