He's also got a penchant for a nasty, funny story.
We journalists sat around the hotel coffee shop, swapping nasty stories.
Did the Iraqis keep track of all the nasty stories I'd written about them?
Before I fell out with your father, he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home!
By the way, this is not a nasty little parochial story about two New York teams.
But he drank a good deal, and there were some nasty stories told of him and a girl down at the fishing village.
He adds that the paper doesn't actively ask for "nasty stories".
I have no desire to pass on nasty stories about other people, not even when I know the facts of the case.
But children shouldn't make up stories - especially nasty stories.
Your sister was encouraging Laurel and her friend to tell more of their nasty stories.