I love funny comparisons in newspaper articles or other texts.
I am talking about things like "exciting like a winter morning" (except funny - I don't know any good English ones).
What are the funniest or best ones you have come across?
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Douglas Adams has numerous examples. "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." "[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick." |
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P.G. Wodehouse is a master of this. "Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces." "It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." "His demeanour was that of a Napoleon who, suffering from toothache, sees his way to taking it out on one of his minor marshals." |
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Read Pterry (Terry Pratchett), he's got lots. One I like is how he states the difference between erotic and pornographic: it's like using a feather instead of the whole chicken. |
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