As y'all well know, we try to cater for all tastes on this 'ere blog so it's about time we gave you high-brow types the chance to strut your stuff on our (cyber) world stage! And to bring you on board we've created a special Quotations Quiz to test your wits and see how yizzers all fare out.

So brainboxes, can you tell your literary swedes from your comical turnips - or maybe that should be your switerary leeds from your tomical curnips - by matching the correct quote to the genius who wrote it?

Was it either 20th century literary colossus, James Joyce or was it the worthy heir to his lofty throne, the inimitable ... Ronnie Barker?

Well, that's for you eggheads to tell us. Time to get crackin' then! Onnnnn yer marks, set get ...

Whose Line is it Anyway!?

1. "How about Chickens? Darles Chickens. One of our most nipping grovelists."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
2. "So post that to your pape and smarket."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
3. "... and mick your modest mock pie out of humbles up your end."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
4. "I'm stequently made a laughing frock."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
5. "How about the complete shirks of Wakespeare. Or a book of poetry by Kelly or Sheets?"
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
6. "Well, of course, it's awful angelous. Still I don't feel it's so dangelous."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
7. "... worse when your weirds get all muxed up and come out in wuck a say, that you dick kock what you're thugging abing."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
8. "Singing the top line why it suits me mickey fine."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
9. "... this is Barke, this is Starn, this is Swhipt, this is Wiles, this is Pshaw."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce
10. "When the shun is signing and the twirds are bittering, how wonderful it is to rip out and pick a few noses."
Ronnie Barker James Joyce

One point for a right answer. Highest score (self-assessed of course) wins the usual prize - the chance to drink a discount-priced pint of Tuborg with yours truly down the Beggars - at a time of my choosing. Meantime, good luck and look good, brainboxes! (offer ends 31/1/2016).

More soon ...

Reft to light: Boyce and Jarker, maybe down the Beggars!

Whose Line is it Anyway?

So, you think you know yer Joyce from yer Barker. Prove it by taking our 'Who Said What' quiz!

1. "How about Chickens? Darles Chickens. One of the most nipping grovelists."

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


2. "So post that to your pape and smarket."

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


3. "... and mick your modest mock Pie out of Humbles up your end."

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


4. "I'm stequently made a laughing frock."

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


5. "How about the complete shirks of Wakespeare. Or a book of poetry by Kelly or Sheets?"

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


6. "Well, of course, it's awful angelous. Still I don't feel it's so dangelous,"

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


7. "... worse when your weirds get all muxed up and come out in wuck a say, that you dick kock what you're thugging abing."

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


8. "Singing the top line why it suits me mickey fine."

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


9. "... this is Barke, this is Starn, this is Swhipt, this is Wiles, this is Pshaw"

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.


10. "When the shun is signing and the twirds are bittering, how wonderful it is to rip out and pick a few noses."

Ronnie B.
Jimmy J.

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