The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for October 24, 2014

Billy the Squid“I hear he sold out to Bic.”

@Chris, while some tales are definitely based on real people, their accomplishments get embellished over time to the point they become tall tales. Think of an inter-generational game of “telephone”.

At the risk of offending some, in the days before writing Noah was likely some farmer who put a few animals on a raft when the Tigris and Euphrates flooded and before long, the story kept getting bigger and bigger, until it became a world wide flood with a single boat with every animal in the world on it.

For some reason, I’m not getting the Molly Catcher one…help?

Pecos Bill directed the great Texas hamster drive

Either Pecos Bill somehow time-traveled, or his accoutrements were all 14-karat gold.

Thank you – I never heard of Molly Pitcher and didn’t know what to search for.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Pitcher

There is a Molly Pitcher rest stop on I-95 NJ turnpike…until now I didn’t know of her heroics. Thanks, Bruno.