Rudyard Kipling/Funny

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 * 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!"