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Minnows And Whoppers

Everybody likes to hear fish stories, the wilder the better. I expect we'll have a lot of them after our fishing campout next month. We enjoy them because they're funny, and nobody is fooled into thinking they really happened.

But some people tell fish stories all the time. They're not usually funny stories. In fact, they're really lies. i call these minnows and whoppers.

Minnows are little lies that just shade the truth. For instance, maybe a guy is playing Skish and says he hit a target fifty-five feet away when it was really only forty feet. No serious damage is done, except to the guy's own character, from a minnow like that.

The trouble is, if you get used to telling minnows it becomes easier to tell whoppers - the big lies that might hurt somebody.

The best thing to do is stick to the truth. Minnows have a way of growing into whoppers.

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