Lawyer Wins Best Fib Contest

Here’s the poop: A Wisconsin lawyer’s whopper of a tale about dirty diapers has won a contest for the best champion lie of 2008.

Garth Seehawer of Oconto Falls says his legal background gave him no advantage, the Associated Press reports. His winning yarn: "My grandson is the most persuasive liar I have ever met. By the time he was 2 years old, he could dirty his diaper and make his mother believe someone else had done it."

The 71-year-old lawyer says he came close to winning the same competition 12 years ago with a story about a winter breeze so strong that it blew off his brother's bald spot, leaving him with a full head of hair.

He explained his fib formula to AP this way: "A good lie isn't just a tall tale or exaggerating. You have to have something fun, not believable but impossibly true."