If you stop for a beverage atBridge Innin Holmrook , England , in November , you ’d do well to take everything anyone say to you with a grain of salinity — or possibly even a whole mover and shaker . That ’s because every fall , the Bridge Inn hosts the World ’s Biggest Liar competition .
Entrants are given five minutes in the public eye to tell the biggest and most convincing whopper they can muster . The winner is take by a jury of judges .
Though George Kemp of Maryport , Cumbria , was suffering from a chest infection , he bring off topower throughwith a yarn about the time he " terminate up bumping into Donald Trump and his married woman in an underwater hotel . " The night notice hisfourth winin the competition .
" It was a tale about establish a diminished submarine out of my papa ’s sure-enough house of cards car , " Kemp enjoin . " We have the house of cards car on a trip to the Isle of Man and we bumped into several renowned the great unwashed in a Scottish U-boat made out of shortbread tins . [ Scottish pol ] Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond sold some of these elephantine shortbread tin pigboat to the United States of America . " The even ended with Kemp and the president - chosen watching an Elvis tribute human activity called " Shellfish Presley . "
Trump himself would n’t have been able to get in the competition , by the means — politician and lawyers are censor from the competition because they are " too well poetise to apply . "
Held since the nineteenth century , the World ’s Biggest Liar competition owe its bloodline to a public house owner namedWill Ritson , who was know for the fantastic stories he would evidence to keep his frequenter entertained — and drinking longer . One of his most famous Trygve Halvden Lie was that turnips implant in the neighborhood uprise so big that people had to " quarry " into them for their Sunday luncheon , and afterward , the mammoth beginning vegetable were used as shed for sheep .
Other first - place fibbershave told talesabout eating peanut vine butter and mayonnaise sandwiches with Prince Charles , traveling to work via camel due to spherical thawing , and fracking for jam .
Kemp donate his booty money to charity — and that ’s no Trygve Lie .
