Champion liar yet again
Last updated 19:29, Thursday, 27 November 2008
SILLOTH farmer John Graham has been named the World’s Biggest Liar for the seventh time.
John, known as Johnny Liar, beat off tough competition at the annual event, held at Santon Bridge last Thursday, with his story about his trip to Whitehaven.
The veteran fibber claimed that he only came up with his tall tale the night before the competition.
He said: “I don’t practise; a lot of people think about it all year, but I don’t because I don’t have time. I am always in the fields.”
He said that his success was down to confidence, gripping the audience and bringing in a few local issues.
In his story, he was chased by six police cars, as his pony Daisy, pulling him in a trap, got scared by loud noises and bolted through the streets.
When John and Daisy arrived at The Beacon in Whitehaven, they found crowds of people lining the streets, who they thought were waiting for him. In fact they were greeting the Queen.
John continued: “Some fool called Tommy (Mattinson, Aspatria’s world gurning champion) grabbed the collar off Daisy and pulled funny faces at the Queen and scared her out of her wits.”
He then got arrested, but was later released because all the cells in the police station were packed with Status Quo fans.
John then got into a wheelie bin and was pulled by Daisy along the seabed, past Robin Rigg wind farm to Scotland, collecting fish along the way.
John, 70, added: “I will always come back to defend my title, so as long as I keep winning, I will be here.”
