The Whispering Land Examples Of Humour Part 1

“Buses and cars vied with each other in the time-honored Buenos Aires game of seeing how close they could get to each other at the maximum speed without actually crashing.” (Gerald Durrell, p. 15)
“the massive building that looked like a cross between the Parthenon and the Reichstag in whose massive interior lurked the most formidable enemy of sanity and liberty in Argentina: the Aduana, orCustoms.” (Gerald Durrell, p. 16)
“for some reason known only to the Almighty and the scintillating brains in the Aduana,” (Gerald Durrell, p 16)
“being passed from office to office with a sort of clock-work-like regularity which was so monotonous and so frustrating that you really began to wonder if your brain would last out the course.” (Gerald Durrell, p. 16)
“there is no-thing i like betterthan to get up on a lovely morning like this and to feel that i have the whole sunlit day lying ahead in which to get on more intimate terms with the Customs.” (Gerald Durrell, p. 16)
“To the best of my knowledge we have seen at least fourteen Señor Garcia in that building in the past three weeks.” (Gerald Durrell, p. 17)
“I should imagine all the baby Garcias are born with a tiny rubber-stamp intheir hands,” (Gerald Durrell, p. 17)
“`As christening presents they receive faded portraits of San Martin, so that when they grow up they can hang them in their offices.’” (Gerald Durrell, p. 48-49)
“`What, and deprive me of the pleasure of continuing my genealogical investigation of the Garcia family’” (Gerald Durrell, p 17)
“`if I really voiced my thoughts the whole building would go up inflames’” (Gerald Durrell, p. 17)
“For the last three weeks we have done nothing but struggle with these moronic individuals in the Customs, none of whom appears to be able to say anything except advise you to go and see Señor Garcia down the hall.” (Gerald Durrell, p. 17)
“I’ave never crash you yet , no? she asked. (Gerald Durrell, p. 18)
`No, but i feel its only a matter of time.’” (GeraldDurrell, p. 18)
“`Blurry Bas-tard,’ said Josefina tranquilly. (Gerald Durrell, p. 18)
‘Josefina!You must not use phrases like that,’ I remonstrated. (Gerald Durrell, p. 18)
‘Why not?’ asked Josefina innocently.You do.’ (Gerald Durrell, p. 18)
‘That is not the point,’ I said severely. (Gerald Durrell, p. 18)
‘But it is nice to say, no? she said with satisfaction. ‘And I’ave learn more;I knowBlurry Bastard and...’ (Gerald Durrell, p. 18)
‘All right, all right,’ I said hastily. ‘I believe you. But for Heaven’s sake don’t use them in front of your mother, other-wise she’ll stop you from driving me.’” (Gerald Durrell, p. 18)
“ ‘Señor Garcia, God blees his blue chin and eau-de-cologne-encrusted brow, was about as much use as a beetle in a bottle. (Gerald Durrell, p. 19)
“Only a man witha name like Dante would be able to survive in that Infierno of Garcias.’ ‘And you nealy spoilt everything,’ said Mercedes reproach-fully, ‘asking him if that was a picture of his father. You knew it was San Martin.’ (Gerald Durrell, p. 19)
‘Yes, I know, but I felt if I didn’t say something silly my brain would snap like a pair of ancient elastic-sided boots.’” (Gerald Durrell, p. 19)
“ It’ssort of animal, about as big as a pony, with a long nose. It looks like a small elephant gone wrong.’ (Gerald Durrell, p. 19)
“‘Yes, I told her it was a little animal with far.’ (Gerald Durrell, p. 20)
‘Not exactly a zoological description. What’s she going to say when I turn up with something that’s nearly bald and the size of a pig?’ (Gerald Durrell, p. 20)
‘Once it’s here, it’s here’” (GeraldDurrell, p. 20)
“’Who’s Claudius?’ asked Mercedes, puzzled. (Gerald Durrell, p. 21)
‘The tapir. I’ve christened him that because with that Roman snout of his he looks like one of the ancient Emperors.’” (Gerald Durrell, p. 21)
“I reprmanded him, put on his new and stronger leash (strong enough, one would have thought, hold a dinosaur)” (Gerald Durrell, p. 22)
“’What with the Aduana and...