I was hugely amused to read in the Daily Mail an article acusing us Britons of being rather dumb, illustrating the point with a number of humerous anecdotes taken from radio phone ins or television quizzes.
One of the snippets was a question from Ulrika Johnson, to a hapless contestant:
UJ: Who wrote Lord of the Rings
Contestant: Enid Blyton.
At which point, I'm afraid to say, I cackled. And not, because of the poor contestant, who, thankfully remains nameless, but because of just how cool LOTR would have been had it actually been written by Enid Blyton!
For starters, there'd have been a hell of a lot more ginger beer!
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