I played The Ark once back in the early eighty something. Did it with Sandy Ives, a famous Maine folklorist. If you want to hear a really tall tale, I recommend Beginners Luck by me.It's on my new CD.

I knew a woman who was so fat, she ran away from home, and the cops made her take the truck route.

Mooseturd Pie is an authentic Maine lumber camp song from the Wild River area of western Maine. Jigger Jones was a real Maine tall tale teller. I got the story from Joe Hickerson, formerly of the Library of Congress.

Rodney Dangerfield said his wifes cooking was so bad, the flies in the yard took up a collection to get the screen door fixed.