But the lawyer for the detainee, Omar Khadr, said those were the words of a scared and wounded child whose interrogators frightened him into giving a false confession by making up a tale of a young boy gang-raped and killed in prison.
One lawyer, Dennis P. Wixted, described Mr. Jenoff as "an oddball and eccentric," so desperate for attention he would make up a tall tale for 15 minutes of fame.
Later Broderick was pleased to receive a request to make up a collection of his tales to be put into a handbook for U.S. soldiers stationed in the area.
For example, when Brooke (the husky-voiced baritone Daniel Belcher) is tapped by Beth to play Rigmarole, a parlor game in which you must make up an adventure story, the tutor's tale of a questing knight is like some impassioned Italianate aria that has been dropped in from a Verismo potboiler.
Someone else, evidently a child, made up a lovely short tale about a fictional woman named Empress Alamonda, who hated her husband's chambermaids.
And during the 80-some years covered in "Mr. Burns," that tale made up of other tales will evolve into other shapes until, at the end, we have come full circle.
How the Kratts got from box turtles in the backyard to where they are today is a tale made up of a lot of perseverance and a little happenstance.
But get this: Michael Gove will be thrilled to hear that for all the weed smoke, shoplifting, minor gang wars and serial misbehaviour that make up her tale, Tulisa is in complete agreement with those who want to rewind Britain to around 1952.
At times, even a difficult job isn't enough to keep your brain quiet, and a person alone in a ditch for eight hours a day has a lot of time to make up tall tales and stories for himself.
