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Word: skorpea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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...John Hopley, 48, of San Antonio, won the title of World's Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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