That Bear Ate My Pants! Quotes

“And then came the three-toed sloth. Stupid sloth. It was a crazy-looking beastie, all arms and bristling grey fur; its body was a blob, the kind of shape a six-year-old would draw for a pig, and its face was flattened like a racoon that had run full tilt into a brick wall. A triangular stub of a nose jutted out at an angle beneath a fringe that must have been difficult to see through. In fact, from side-on it looked disturbingly like John Lennon.”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants!: Will Boy Become Man? Or Will Boy Become Breakfast...

“This is a cunning double bluff used by many males of the species, giving rise to two possible scenarios; either losing badly, and therefore being proved both right and honest, or winning handily and being proved both skilful and modest about it.”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“just how much of our conversation he could eavesdrop on.”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“I was in Ecuador.”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“what the hell was I doing in Ecuador?”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“Alas,”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“wanting and buying and working and paying, before”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“kinkajou.”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“Osita is a contraction of the Spanish ‘oso’ (for bear) and the diminutive ‘~ita’ (meaning something small and cute).”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!

“I thought about this for a few seconds. “I’m not very good though,” I admitted. This is a cunning double bluff used by many males of the species, giving rise to two possible scenarios; either losing badly, and therefore being proved both right and honest, or winning handily and being proved both skilful and modest about it. “Nah, me neither,” he lied.”
― Tony James Slater, That Bear Ate My Pants: A Hilarious Travel Memoir... with Teeth and Claws!