What's all this cock'n'bull?
cock-and-bull story noun 1. ( informal ) an obviously improbable story, esp a boastful one or one used as an excuse. I like telling stories. I get this from Roger Major, my Dad, and Mark Twain. Twain said "there are no bad stories, only bad story tellers" (or something like that). Dad, on the other hand, lived an unbelievable, somewhat pliable, truth. The nice thing about stories is that anything that happens is simply a story; the perception of what happens is subject to the observer; though we both can witness the exact same thing at the same moment, how we convey it will be different. So here's a story of why there are 12 hours on a clock face and 60 minutes in an hour. Take the tip of your thumb of your left hand and touch the tip of your pinky finger on that hand. That's counting 1. Below that joint you have another part to your finger; 2, and then the third joint, 3. Continue to each finger now counting 4, 5...