Hitler, the Suez Canal and the Duck
It is well-known that parents and grandparents tell their progeny bizarre lies for reasons best known to themselves. We even had a question on it not so long ago. A good friend of mine recently moved into a flatshare with a chap whose grandfather clearly had quite an active imagination.

This poor chap apparently believed for quite a number of years that his beloved grandpappy:
- Was the man that shot Adolf Hitler. On a bridge in Argentina. In the late '70s.
- During the Second World War, had rescued none other Marylin Monroe and Fred Astaire after they were inadvertently caught up in the middle of a skirmish on the Suez Canal.
- Had once ripped a duck in half with his bare hands, lengthwise.

He'll be telling us Grandad drove a Honda Accord next...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 14:38, 2 replies)

Top marks for "ripping a duck in half lenthwise"!

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 14:44, closed)

Click
just for 'lengthwise'...
(stubbledchin, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 16:55, closed)