Pinocchio: "My Nose Grows Now"
Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. Selfish and obnoxious, he is prone to telling lies and making up stories. Pinocchio's nose grows when he tells lies.
It turns out that when Pinocchio says "my nose grows now", his exact statement can be neither be true nor false, and hence it creates what is know as The Pinocchio Paradox. This would be true also for real-life Pinocchio's if their noses grew with each lie. I only wish...
There are many ways to tell a lie: bad faith, barefaced lie, big lie, bluffing, bullshit, butler lie, contextual lie, economy with the truth, emergency lie, exaggeration, fabrication, fib, half-truth, haystack answer, honest lie, jocose lie, lie-to-children, lying by omission, lying in trade, lying through your teeth, minimization, misleading and dissembling, noble lie, perjury, polite lie, puffery, view from nowhere, white lie, and more.
