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04/26/2003 Archived Entry: "Hear the One About the Mayor Who Wanted to Ban Lying?"

I CAUGHT A FISH, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME, THAT WAS THIS BIG!: It appeared a couple of days ago but I only saw it today but there was a funny little article in the New York Times about the mayor of Mount Sterling who wants to ban lying. Jo Hamlett is tired of hearing the whoppers told over a cold beer by hunters and fishers.

There was the guy who killed a dozen deer with a bow and arrow. A dozen!

Just last week, a couple of hunters trapped a mouse in their cabin so fat its tail weighed three pounds. A three-pound tail!

And then there was the boy who, after a bullet whizzed past his head in a field, traced its path through the fog back to the muzzle of the man who shot at him. "We better put him in the Special Forces," Bob Clayman said this morning, laughing over breakfast with his buddies at A.J.'s Bar & Grill.

Liars, all of them, according to Jo Hamlett, the mayor of this tiny Fox River town just north of the Missouri border, who fills many a day soaking up the stories spun around the long table here at A.J.'s. Tired of the extra-tall tales, and always on the lookout for cash to pave the town's roads, Mr. Hamlett has proposed an ordinance to ban lying here.

Read on.

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too funny

Posted by Jeremy Lott @ 04/27/2003 01:02 AM EST