Best humorous exaggerated comparisons
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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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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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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