Raymond Briggs would have good grounds for feeling every bit as grouchy as he likes to appear.

Certainly as grouchy as the Bull McCabe, although John Hayes is more deserving of the nickname, Anthony Foley remains a cult hero down Munster way.

Why, Agrippa even has a college named after him in Sparta now, which, given that he is as grouchy as a Spartan, seems entirely appropriate!

"I'm not as grouchy as you," she said, shrugging.

"Cantor seems to have let up on you, apart from being as grouchy as he knows how to be," Danny Grin observed.