This is no tall tale — April the Giraffe is pregnant again.
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But as it turns out, the tall tale was the actual hoax.
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And the locally revered figure told a tall tale about each one.
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This tall tale, like Ms Obreht's first, conjures a mythical, supernatural world.
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All week long, news organizations chased down one Trump tall tale after another.
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But so far, at least, the $35,000 Model 3 is essentially a tall tale.
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Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Café, $11.99 (exclusive to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party)
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It's the sort of story that sounds like a tall tale, a hagiography, a myth.
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But from this tall tale, S-Town turns into a character study of John himself.
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The tall tale-telling of Tyson Fury has sent media around the world into overdrive.
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At this point, a surprise gatefold opens to reveal that Ramsey is telling a tall tale.
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Tall tale or not, I can conclude that Robert Zimmerman has allegedly excellent taste in stools.
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All these issues would inevitably raise questions about the anti-Trump tall tale of collusion with Russia.
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"Sarah" is beholden to the "tall tale" aspect of King's work, and his fascination with American folklore.
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It turns out that they might also bring home a tall TALE of the fish they caught.
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In this tall tale, the consultant left her job to follow her dreams, as the cliché goes.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was intended to be a tall tale within the narrative, rather than fact.
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The pair caught her in her tall tale when they showed up with their "get well soon" flowers.
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Every technological rift has an iteration of the tall tale, because humans seem inclined to believe ghost stories.
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The already tall tale grew loftier over the centuries, and few of the tellers are to be trusted.
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Davy Crockett has become an American tall tale, but he was a real person and member of Congress.
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" As for Mr. Birnbaum's own tall tale, she said: "I understood the reasoning and I thought it was funny.
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The investigations found that Crisman and Dahl sought payment from the media outlets who wrote about their tall tale.
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PLAY "Bella: An American Tall Tale" (Performances start May 19) THE DETAILS See where she puts her I dot?
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It's more tall tale than series at this point; actual video of on the show is hard to find.
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For almost four decades, American voters have been fed a tall tale by anti-tax politicians and their allies.
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By rewriting legend and myth, she invents an enchanting world where gender's basic function is cast as a tall tale.
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If festival reviews are any indication, the film is poised somewhere between a tall tale and a provocative social commentary.
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To find the challenge, head to the Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe in Frontierland between 3 and 6 p.m.
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Just don't make the mistake of thinking the apocalypse — or, if you prefer, Howard's apocalyptic tall tale — is just scene-setting.
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But this is almost certainly a tall tale, and makes little sense (as mermaids don't have legs, and also don't exist).
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He found a tall tale about Mexico planning to call back its citizens from the United States if Mr. Trump won.
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That was such a tall tale that it was named "Lie of the Year" in 2009 by the non-partisan Politifact.com.
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But it is interesting to trace how Trump has embellished this particular tall tale since he first told it on September 16.
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Except maybe a tall tale of deep, inhuman—though metaphorically representative of a part of humanity—threat facing an old-timey kingdom.
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Was this man's tall tale based on a long-established, starkly black-and-white narrative about China, its daughters, and international adoption?
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This is a nice change from the norm, and it's emblematic of Eisler's humane and grounded approach to writing a tall tale.
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Not so with Biden's most recent attempt to combine several different personal experiences into one tall tale of an Afghan war story.
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If this doesn't sound like the Tall Tale of the Texas Miracle of just a few years ago, that's because it's not.
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Lost Constellation is a tall tale that nests itself within the world of another game, Night in the Woods (due out in 2017).
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Through a system whose magic will not be revealed here, he greets gobsmacked children by name, and tells a tall tale or two.
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In fact, Ms. Ojih Odutola functions as much as a storyteller as a visual artist, spinning a fantastic tall tale around the images.
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" His rescue was loosely the basis for "Saving Fats," a tall tale in Sam Shepard's 2010 short-story collection, "Day Out of Days.
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In the earliest extant versions of the tall tale, the commode is an outhouse and the man drops a match after lighting his pipe.
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But the hazards of the genre are worth it, because for all the imaginative thrills of a tall tale, nothing beats a true story.
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Roger played John Henry in the 1995 movie 'Tall Tale,' and tells us he doesn't have a problem with The Rock stepping into his shoes.
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The story has the apocryphal patina of a much-told tall tale—but if true, someone liked revenge served blindingly hot and with ample pepper.
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To travel on Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Escape, the fifth-largest cruise ship in the world, is to become a master of the tall tale.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a tall tale about death, a murder ballad about us, trapped in a universe that is mostly unreasonable and nonsensical.
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The Giants' only runs on Wednesday came from a ninth-inning Conor Gillaspie homer that couldn't have been timed better for the sake of the tall tale.
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There is one tall tale, however, that ought to inspire a great deal of skepticism: I will be able to pay for myself in my old age.
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Smith's tall tale flattered, in its way, every leader, institution and approach currently failing the city, in ways that those in charge had trained themselves to miss.
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The lying face emoji is, clearly, meant to evoke the nightmare tale of Pinocchio, a fibbing puppet boy whose nose grows every time he tells a tall tale.
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By way of example, I offer a tall tale from 1895 about a "Canadian woodsman," a moose and their encounter in Mecunoma, a long-vanished village in Muskoka.
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So, he approached the people guarding the door at the facility, pretended he knew Highsmith and told them a tall tale that Highsmith had asked him to attend.
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Mr. Guske had two goals: to persuade the rumor's progenitors to publicly disavow their claims, and to find whatever kernel of truth had grown into the tall tale.
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"Little Women: LA" star Christy Gibel is telling a tall tale by claiming her marriage to Todd was sexless ... at least according to Todd, who says they definitely banged.
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I came across this tall tale over and over again in recent years while studying how dud American cluster munitions often killed American and allied troops during Desert Storm.
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The tall tale unraveled when McDonald's provided video footage that proved its employees had not written anything on the cup, Mr. Hornaday said at a news conference on Monday.
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Also on the program are the dazzling holiday musical Bon Bon Parade (1935), the very meta Popeye short Cartoons Ain't Human (1942), and the stereotype-filled Tall Tale Teller (1954).
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One of them, Salman Rushdie's "Shame," an extravagant tall tale set in "not quite Pakistan" and laced with first-person authorial intrusions, rearranged his ideas about what writing could be.
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But if demand were sky high, if tenants could scrape together the funds, and if they can get over the suspense of living suspended, maybe it's not just a tall tale.
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Ms. Kelley (who appealingly played the title character in Kirsten Childs's "Bella: An American Tall Tale" last season) doesn't manage to reconcile the ambivalence with which her character has been written.
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By the time Hyden entered Archer's social circle, Julian's story had been passed around so often that it became a tall tale, a tattered legend — not something a person actually takes seriously.
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" And in an early chapter, the narrator notes that a "golden story" in Roman times "was a figure of speech that denoted a tall tale, a wild conceit, something that was obviously untrue.
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The tale of conspiracy that it weaves is a tall tale indeed, and it will be difficult for the DNC to win over the court with its arguments — if the lawsuit even endures.
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Instead, Jack Horne's voice is a high and husky affair, and you yearn—sadly, in vain—for Fuqua and his screenwriters, Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk, to furnish Horne with a tall tale.
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The two were connected by the Tall Tale Agency, which represents the tallest people in the world, and Brown began the digital shoe creation process to make the world's largest 3-D printed shoes.
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Many scientists thought it was just a tall tale, but a new paper lends credence to Humboldt's account of eels aggressively leaping up and stunning the horses with a series of high-voltage discharges.
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Agalarov told BFM he "doesn't really know" publicist Rob Goldstone either and he says the notion that Goldstone asked Trump Jr. to contact him about some dirt on Hillary Clinton is a "tall tale".
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Though the composer Kirsten Childs ("Bella: An American Tall Tale") has molted a few more times since this semi-autobiographical musical opened in 2000, it ought to be fun to slip back into it.
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Still, despite not minding being the subject of the occasional tall tale, it doesn't mean the ladies are thrilled with gossip culture as a whole, especially since so much of what they read is inaccurate.
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Jasper Rabbit and his tuft of curly hair return for a tall tale that owes a spiritual debt to Dr. Seuss's "What Was I Scared Of?" and that story's irrepressible if empty pale green pants.
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Embarrassed by the lack of pizzaz in her life, Olive tells her best friend that she lost her virginity — a tall tale that a school bully overhears and relays to the rest of the school.
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As Guendelsberger observes, Blair resembles John Henry, the mighty, tall-tale figure who raced against the new steam drill, blasting through mountainside with only his hammer—winning, but dying with his hammer in his hand.
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Half slave narrative, half tall tale, it concerns a behemoth of a man, known simply as the African, who arrives one day on a slave ship, cradling a baby boy in the crook of his arm.
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She may have been a novice when she wrote "Bubbly Black Girl" — her subsequent musicals include "Miracle Brothers" in 2005, and "Bella: An American Tall Tale" this season — but she knew inerrantly what she was after.
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It certainly seems like a tall tale, and Snopes is quick to point out that the Great Depression and changing fashion trends might have had more to do with a change in undershirt sales, if one happened.
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And wrapping up the season in May will be Ms. Childs's "Bella: An American Tall Tale," a madcap Western musical in which the title character seeks to escape her most-wanted status and reach her Buffalo soldier beau.
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After causing an international incident, Lochte on Saturday apologized for his "immature behavior" and said he "overexaggerated the story," without seeming to realize that his knuckleheaded tall tale was the seed that grew into these Olympics' biggest scandal.
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Having lost her job at a tire store, she's merrily sunken into a state of cheerful denial about her insolvency, preferring to unleash another preposterous tall tale whenever her daughters try to jostle her into facing the situation.
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It's also a classic clickbait tall tale, a Christian spin on the Joe Schmo who discovers a cure-all, and "now doctors hate him," or a "single mom" who finds a secret income tax hack that baffles experts.
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Sissy Spacek is Jewel, the widow who captures Tucker's fancy while not quite buying his tall tale, and Casey Affleck is John Hunt, the Texas detective determined to bring Tucker and his grizzled cohorts (Danny Glover and Tom Waits) to justice.
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But Kirsten Childs's "Bella: An American Tall Tale," a musical about the eventful travels of a wide-eyed beauty in the 1870s, sprawls in so many directions — with changes in tone to match (or mismatch) — that it collapses into inertia.
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We would spend our days looking for salvageable logs that didn't powder at the touch and trying to dig back sand to make ditches only for it seep back in, as if Paul Bunyan had confused his tall tale with Sisyphus's.
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It may be an oversimplification to say that the Civil War was fought solely over slavery, but a tall tale in which Confederate forces are on the right side of history, their wives the victims of monstrous Union soldiers, has noxious implications.
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The right-handed Gibson was the folk hero, all staggering physique and tall-tale feats; he swung a 40-ounce bat alleged to have once sent a homer 580 feet out of Yankee Stadium, besting Mickey Mantle's quasi-mythic 565-foot blast.
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In season 8's second episode, when he finally reunites with Brienne of Tarth, who he's been nursing a crush on for a while now, he tells her what sounds like a tall tale, claiming it's the true story of how he got his nickname.
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It sounds like a tall tale — two random New York teenagers listen to the ribald socialist podcast Chapo Trap House, learn about Gravel, and then literally call him up and ask him to run for president — but that is more or less what happened.
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In Disney's "Tall Tale," a white boy befriends mythical men like Pecos Bill (Patrick Swayze), Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt) and John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the formerly enslaved folk-hero he-man, who saves the kid's life when he stops a train with his bare hands.
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In Disney's "Tall Tale," a white boy befriends mythical men like Pecos Bill (Patrick Swayze), Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt) and John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the formerly enslaved folk-hero he-man, who saves the kid's life when he stops a train with his bare hands.
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Dolemite Is My Name tracks how, in the 1970s, Moore reworked the tall-tale, rhyming shit talk of his local neighborhood vagrants into a hilariously profane comic persona, and then used the proceeds from his popular comedy records to bankroll a feature film based on his act.
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Regarding your teeth, this tall tale seems to stem from a 2002 laboratory study that found that when extracted teeth were exposed to flavored seltzer for 30 minutes, there was more erosion in tooth enamel compared to when the teeth were exposed to orange juice, which is very acidic.
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Bentz, 212; Conger, 21; and Feigen, 26, who kept the truth to themselves for more than 72 hours after Lochte told a tall tale on television about their night out, were handed four-month suspensions, which will not cause them to miss any major domestic or international competitions.
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It is also going to require women who — rather like Bella, the defiantly ebullient heroine of Kirsten Childs's gorgeous Wild West musical "Bella: An American Tall Tale," recently at Playwrights Horizons — will insist on their right to occupy traditionally male terrain, and won't reshape themselves to fit it.
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It reminds us of that bygone age of boundless possibility, when the distance between tall tale and reality was shorter, and a poor immigrant boy like, say, Andrew Carnegie could rise from lowly factory worker to industrial titan, eventually becoming, in 1901, the richest man in the world.
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Private prisons - which are now on the outs The Justice Department's decision in August to stop using private prisons was a monumental victory for prisoners' rights activists, but barely made a blip in national media due to a more sensational story: Ryan Lochte's tall tale about a robbery during the Rio Games.
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There was Donald Trump Jr. (played by Mikey Day) and Eric Trump (Alex Moffat) reprising their comedy partnership with jokes about Donald Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer to get dirt on Hillary Clinton -- and Donald Trump's help in crafting son Don Jr.'s original tall tale to the American public about the meeting.
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One tall tale claims that de Gaulle wrote his famous June 18 appeal here and even though I knew that wasn't true, the pub's old-fashioned atmosphere — with its wooden bar, paneled walls papered in black-and-white photos and low-wattage globe sconces — did make me feel like I had stepped into the 1940s.
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Yet, the American left, which has had only two military heroes since 9/11 (Bergdahl and Chelsea Manning), continues to embrace Bergdahl's very tall tale that he only meant to stroll a dozen or so miles through hostile territory to the next military base so he could report on conditions is his unit—which Bergdahl found unsatisfactory.
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By choosing to spin a tall tale in literally the laziest way imaginable—by weaving references and names together that he's pulled from flyers hanging on a wall behind the officer's desk—Söze is being, as Stormy Daniel's lawyer Michael Avenatti might say, "very undisciplined," and hence a gift to those looking to nail him down.
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That's one reason the French animated film April and the Extraordinary World is so surprising and satisfying: it takes up the outsized creativity and puckish humor of the best French fantasy comics, but couples it with a straight-line plot that makes surprisingly logical sense, at least for a tall tale featuring lizards in robot suits and an immortal talking cat.
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