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In short, based on all I have read, your husband was simply a good yarn-spinner who read some VN books to get sketch information, but if he were alive today he could go to prison and be heavily-fined for violations of the Stolen Valor Law enacted in
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Their best hope is Mike Huckabee, the “Keane-eyed” Arkansas yarn-spinner who while holding a crowd rapt, cannot help but make you shudder about that worrisome flash behind those big, vortex-like eyes of his.
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Their best hope is Mike Huckabee, the “Keane-eyed” Arkansas yarn-spinner who while holding a crowd rapt, cannot help but make you shudder about that worrisome flash behind those big, vortex-like eyes of his.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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I read that JAWS 'infamous shark - hunter and yarn-spinner Quint was based on Montauk's notorious "monster" fisherman Frank Mundus.
Tom Gregory: Frank Mundus -- The Old Man and the Sea (VIDEO) 2009
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I was amused at some of the stories he told, Steve had a story for just about every situation, and he had written so many he was a great yarn-spinner.
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I was amused at some of the stories he told, Steve had a story for just about every situation, and he had written so many he was a great yarn-spinner.
Archive 2009-02-01 rob! 2009
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In 1943, it was sold at Sotheby's in London to Frederick Arthur (Mike) Mitchell-Hedges, a well-to-do English deep-sea fisherman, explorer, and yarn-spinner extraordinaire.
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That storyteller might be a real yarn-spinner, or he might be a dry, dusty historian type.
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These stories, from sources as well-known as The Saturday Evening Post and as forgotten as Mystery Book Magazine, show that Rogers, like Brand, was a first-class yarn-spinner.
Pulp-a-Palooza Ed Gorman 2007
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These stories, from sources as well-known as The Saturday Evening Post and as forgotten as Mystery Book Magazine, show that Rogers, like Brand, was a first-class yarn-spinner.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ed Gorman 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word yarn-spinner
See also yarb-spinner.
June 3, 2009
yarb commented on the word yarn-spinner
Oi!
June 3, 2009