A Whale of a Tale

There are some people in this world who if thrown into a midden would still come out smelling of roses, and this is just such a case. I always believed that the term was the luck of the Irish, but it seems that this now has to be changed to the luck of the Australians; no I agree it doesn't seem to have the same ring about it. I mean you go off on a fishing trip and wind up something like £165,000 richer, now that is either one lucky fishing trip or a yarn as big as the one that got away...