I was going to start this off by asking if anybody here on DTR belonged to the Liars Club, then realized what a foolish question that was because everybody here does not tell any fibs or exaggerate.
Here is what prompted this:

The winning entry in a liars’ club contest may have been the best, but it wasn’t original.

David Milz, 49, of Bristol, Wis., was named the top liar of 2010 with the line about love lost to clairvoyance. The school superintendent said he came up with the line – "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met" – while joking around with colleagues over the summer. However, an online search turns up numerous instances where the line is attributed to comedian Steven Wright.

“I don’t know who he is,” Mr. Milz said. “I came up with it independently. I’m sure it’s original to him but this was original to us.”

The Burlington Liars Club, which began in 1929 as a lighthearted way to honour the creativity and humour of good exaggeration, said it received almost 500 entries this year.

Club vice-president Ed Impens said he and two other judges sifted through the entries this week and each made a Top 10 list. Mr. Milz’s entry was the only one that made all three lists, he said. “It had all three of the things we think are important: It’s fairly short, humour is very important, and it’s timely.”

The runners-up include “My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying” and “My neighbour’s scarecrow was so good that the crows brought back the corn they stole last year.” Neither of those lines is original either. Online searches find dozens of references to the cemetery quote and several variations of the scarecrow line.

But Mr. Impens isn’t concerned it the entries aren’t original. “We don’t have the resources to check every entry to see if someone has said it before,” he said. “We’re not going to worry about it.” He reaffirmed that Mr. Milz will keep the 2010 title.

It’s no big deal, said Mr. Milz, a Liars Club member for three years. The club is about lighthearted fun and passing on good humour, not being constrained by strict regulations.

The liars’ club is based in Burlington, Wis., a town of about 15,000 about 56 kilometres southwest of Milwaukee. It has almost 2,500 members around the world, president Joel Weis said.

Mr. Milz is the superintendent of an elementary and middle school district in southeastern Wisconsin. He said he was proud of his win and joked that he wasn’t worried that his lying might encourage his students to stretch the truth themselves.

“I’m going to work it the other way — ‘You can’t pull wool over the eyes of a champion liar,”’ he laughed.

A message left with Mr. Wright’s agency was not immediately returned.

 

I thought you were gonna post something political about the democrats...

 

That is correct. As an Eagle Scout, I honored the part of the motto that said "I shall not tell a lie unless I get into politics".

 

We have a neighbor, that the other neighbors claim that he such a lier, that he has only told truth once in his lifetime and he then lied his way out of it.