Can anyone help me with the author of this famous Spoonerism?

[earlgrey]

All I can remember is
"You will leave Oxford by the next drain town"

TIA

It's the "town drain" - ie, "down train" - and was said by Spooner himself.

here's a site with some more examples on.

it was attributed to spooner but has since been downgraded to apocryphal

lol, having read the description on wikepedia, was just about to add that, zippi!!

pretty sure i saw something about this on dictionary.com or somewhere...or wikapedia...?

'You have tasted two worms and should leave Oxford by the town drain'?

can't find the Ox Dic of Quotations online at the moment

Thanks everyone. I'm pretty sure that in my teens a now non-existant restaurant had the whole thing displayed. Or am I dreaming, and those two sentences are just it?

Maybe "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain"

I heard is was:
'Sir, you have hissed all my mystery lectures and tasted the whole worm.'

Dr Spooner was said to have only ever made up one Spoonerism accidently, after that Oxford 'delighted in making them up for him'. Apparently he did also sometimes make them up himself for special occasions (in Latin).