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Look, it's perfectly simple: there is a great deal of difference between Ashley Cole and Linda Lovelace.
Neither is there any resemblance between James Bond and Ronnie Barker.
Simple.

I believe both are correct: but yours sounds more couth.
I will check with the Authority, Mrs JJ, when possible.
And please don't mention Murray Walker again in polite company.........

I do: but I can't be arsed to get up- so I'll ask her when I get a mo. Besides, a dic. wouldn't necessarily give the correct USAGE: for that, you need Fowler or something, which I haven't got.

I won't warn you again about MW. I'm sharpening the machete...........

Behind the 'jocular facade' I am in fact rubicund, cheery and well-disposed to humanity in general. I recognise that there are in English often several ways to put a particular phrase, so am pretty relaxed about either version above- there IS no right or wrong, I suspect. But yes, I'll get an Official ruling later......
And we weren't taking the piss out of Harry- we were taking the piss out of YOU.....besides, I get more sense out of him usually. he'd certainly win a fight (unless I got his goolies early on......): but I could beat him in a spelling-bee with one hand tied behind me back. The only word he knows is 'woof', and he can't even spell that. But dogs aren't required to know English, you see (well, it might not have seeemed obvious to you), just the stick-chasing Thing, and the rubbing-up-against-trouser-legs Thing, and scoffing everything Thing, and Advanced-level Barking etc etc............

Now you're trying to goad me a second time by 'pointing out' that you were only joking, when that was already patently obvious- which is why I replied in like vein. As you know full well, it takes a great deal to offend me: say, having my knob cut off, or being given the wrong change in Tesco's, or being forced to eat my greens.
Dogs respond to tone of voice, certain syllabic combinations, and non-verbal clues like gestures and possibly olfactory cues: the jury is still out on whether dogs are capable of conceptualising the complex notions behind even simple commands such as 'sit'. And no dog has ever written a book- except Barbara Bush's dog: and even that was mostly ghost-written.