He look like a what?!

    "No doubt Stanwood began by telling your father all about the Stoker, and your father, not to be outdone in the courtesies, told Stanwood all about the cook. Not being aware who he was, of course. In these casual encounters in bars names are rarely exchanged. Until I introduced them, Stanwood had been to your father merely a pleasant stranger who looked like a hippopotamus."

    "He does look like a hippopotamus, doesn't he?"

    "Much more than most hippopotamuses do."

(from Spring Fever, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)