Lie Detector

Dear Mongoose,
My uncle and my dad are the biggest story tellers in the county, and that's sure  saying something.  Dad asked me to go to my uncle's and see about some bear tracks he found in his yard, in the snow.... so I left work and headed over, apparently it was a pretty big emergency.
They said this was a bear, no doubt, 100%. When I got there and saw the tracks for myself, and saw all hundred of them... It was hoof, it was deer, pretty big ole buck best I could tell...... but my point is this: if I hadn't gone and looked for myself, then explained what they were, both of em would've been telling all over the county about this big bear. They both have told stories like this for years, and now it's not funny. How can I politely stop this without just telling them both their full of it??

Dear Lie Detector,
The skinny hippy fellow that painted all the soup cans said " that in the future, everybody in the world would be famous for fifteen minutes".  Whether you're seeking fame, fortune or both, blame it on our ancestors.  The same is true throughout the animal kingdom as well, watch an ole Tom turkey strut around in the spring, puffed up twice his size making all the hens cackle and the jakes scared.  It doesn't matter if you were sitting in a cave bragging about inventing fire and killing the last wooly mammoth or describing your death defying leap over Green River,  the root of all exaggeration is the desire to have all eyes on you even if all for a fleeting 15 minutes. Be sure and tell your uncle and your dad to check out this column, they won't get 15 minutes but, there's no such thing as bad press.