“He lassoed a whale with dental floss. True story.”

“Well, I heard he killed a pride of angry lions with nothing but a nail file and two cups of plaster of paris, then defended the carcasses from scavengers using naught but a few stones and sheer force of will.

In three days time, not only had he stripped and cooked the entire kill, but had opened a fashionable, but reasonably priced, restaurant, which, unfortunately went under, being in the middle of the Serengeti.

Luckily he survived, ready to provide fresh corn, camp pies, and the know-how and generosity of spirit to scale and bone a couple tiny fish at a moment's notice with only the vaguest reassurance that "somebody" will eat it.”