Rudyard Kipling/Funny

"And twenty stone from a height discharged
 * Precisely where the Crowning Moment of Funny falls in 'A Code of Morals' depends on the reader.
 * "The General swore. Was ever General Officer addressed as 'dear' before?"
 * And a Crowning Moment of Awesome for General Bangs, who never took revenge on the heliographing Jones: "All honour unto Bangs, for ne'er did Jones thereafter know/ By word or act official who read off that helio."
 * In "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone":
 * A Hindu bureaucrat describes his killing the title character as "by High Education brought pressure to bear." In fact, the obese clerk accidentally fell on top of the poor bandit prince:

Are bad for a Boh with a spleen enlarged."


 * "So you kept that jade earring!"
 * "Municipal" is a bureaucrat explaining that the death rate in his district is lower than others because he makes sure the sewer system is in good order. He became interested in sewers after an elephant freaked out and chased him into one ... and he found it was clogged, so he couldn't get as far away from the beast as he'd like. After having "been a periwinkle shrinking coyly up a sewer" for "twenty reeking minutes" with "the trunk feeling blindly for a purchase on my toes," not to mention an earlier moment when he felt "the brute's proboscis fingering my terror-stiffened hair," he'd developed something of a complex on the subject of blocked drains.