if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull

In lieu of concrete facts or exceptional wit, you can convince people with artful, flowery, or misleading speech. ("Bull" is a slang term meaning something utterly untrue or wildly exaggerated, short for the rude term "bullshit." ) The phrase is popularly attributed to actor W.C. Fields. My dad loved telling the most ridiculous tall tales. His real life had always been pretty unremarkable, so he adopted the motto, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." There no way any of Paul's adventures actually happened. He seems like a real "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull" kind of guy. "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"? Seriously? No, I don't want some wild yarn, I want the truth!