I can't get to Texas that week. Anyone know if these stories are recorded? I'd love to hear the top 3.
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George West, TX 78022
Phone: 361-449-2481
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Bob Phillips at http://texascountryreporter.com will probably be there to record a show. I believe he makes it every year. I attended about three or 4 years ago and it was worth every minute.
LAUDABLE LIARs
Honest: Former English professor is state's official liar
SCOTT REESE WILLEY
The Progress - She’s been named the biggest fibber in Austin for three years running and was named the biggest liar in Houston last year.
On Saturday former English professor Donna Ingham officially became the biggest liar in the state of Texas.
Ingham told her winning whopper during the first-ever Texas State Liar’s Contest, held at the George West Storyfest.
“It’s a dubious honor, but I guess as far as liars’ contests go, this is the pinnacle,” said Ingham, one of five fabulous fibbers to compete in the tall-tales contest. “I guess you’ve reached the top when you’re named the state’s biggest liar.”
Ingham, of Spicewood, won the first-place plaque for fabricating a story about her father’s penchant for growing oversized fruits and vegetables and her step-mother’s ride in one of his man-sized watermelons.
Dee Cee Cornish of Houston earned a second place plaque for his fib about a weight-loss plan.
Doc Moore of Canyon Lake, Texas, finished the contest in third place for a tale about a pet rattlesnake.
“It was a lot of fun, a very entertaining experience,” said Allan and
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Donna Fogle of San Antonio. “They were excellent storytellers.”
Each of the five contestants appeared by special invitation and were given 15 minutes to share their fabrications.
Some of the contestants had competed in liars’ contests before.
Ingham won liars’ contests in Austin and Houston in recent years. She said she took up the, er, craft, around 1995 after retiring as an English professor. Her secret: each lie contains some truth.
“I mix a little truth with a little bit of fabrication and before long you have yourself an interesting whopper,” she explained after Saturday’s performance.
Ingham said her father always enjoyed growing vegetables and fruits, particularly the large variety. Her stepmother was always canning and entering her delicacies in the county fair. It just so happened that one time her father grew a man-size watermelon. Her mother wanted some of it for the county fair. The Black Diamond melon was so big and thick that she had to carve a big hole to get past the arm-length rhine. She eventually stepped inside and when she did the melon broke loose, rolled all the way to town and split open at the county fair where the juice-drenched canner won first place, Ingham recalled.