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When I get in the bath and it's a bit hot I always

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HoneyDragon · 26/04/2016 19:17

Sing the end bit of International Playboys. Can't help myself, it just comes out.

Go on then people. Out irrational odd habit that one....

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Palmtree · 29/04/2016 15:26

BowChickaBowWow I feel so comforted to have found my people! Grin

(p.s. "Flash, Saviour of the Universe", was played on Radio 2 this morning just before 7am. I immediately thought of all the lovely loonies on this thread .....)

OnlyHereForTheCamping · 29/04/2016 15:25

Every time someone mentions Cairo

BowChickaBowWow · 29/04/2016 14:44

Surely everyone does that Palmtree?! Not weird at all. I'd love to work in a carpet shop so I could say it all day long!

LittleBootsTheBabe · 29/04/2016 14:23

When the occasion calls for it (not often), I sing "lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar" to the tune of "rock the casbah".

Palmtree · 29/04/2016 14:06

Oh blimey just thought of another ridiculous one; if (for whatever reason) someone starts talking about carpets and underlay, etc, I have to say "anderlay, anderlay" with a dreadful faux Mexican accent. I think it was from some awful 70s pseudo-spanish song?

NorksAreMessy · 29/04/2016 14:03

oh, happy memories of NotThe Nine O'clock News :)

We sing "We like chicken, we like chicken, we like chicken and we like to cluck" to the tune of "We like truckin' " from NTNO'CN

moreshitandnofuckingredemption · 29/04/2016 12:40

Just remembered - if anyone says "fillet of fish" either DH or I have to say "for my vife" like the man in the 1980s McDonalds adverts

moreshitandnofuckingredemption · 29/04/2016 12:23

Piff we also drop an occasional "tin tharsand krugerands" when asked how much something is.

Piffpaffpoff · 29/04/2016 12:18

We also do 'take a chance take a chance take a ch-ch-ch-chance" in Monopoly.

Talking about that South African song, mention anyone South African and one of us will generally say 'deeeeplowmatic eemuniteeee"from Lethal Weapon 2. Which is then correctly followed by the other person doing Patsy Kensit's simpering 'Offisar Reegs' (apologies to all South Africans)

vladthedisorganised · 29/04/2016 12:03

GinBunny genius! Grin
We sing that a lot when DD forgets to bring home her school one.

MooseAndSquirrel · 29/04/2016 11:26

fuckyouchris best SpongeBob song ever! Grin

Sparklingbrook · 29/04/2016 10:40

I say one which I think is Rik Mayall (Maybe Kevin Turvey) related. If I walk in and DH hears and says 'is that you Sparkling?' I say 'No it's the Dave Clark 5!'. Grin

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 29/04/2016 10:35

If my family are ever travelling somewhere following each other's cars my brother always text me from the car he's in to say 'looks like we got ourselves a convoy boys!'

or else we text back and forth quotes from when they're in the cars in Jurassic park.

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RosaliesGinBottle · 29/04/2016 10:31

OMG I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT ONE. Strangely not well known in South Africa and clearly people are too polite to sing it to me. Actual howls of laughter here. No, I know very few nice South Africans either. But I do like Breytenbach's poetry.

vladthedisorganised · 29/04/2016 10:24

It's quite difficult to hear jazz without pointing both index fingers and saying 'Nice..'; or hearing the word 'concession' without adding 'and that's the only concession these guys will be making tonight!'

I also feel compelled to sing 'texture like sun' whenever hearing about Gordon Brown

SoupDragon · 29/04/2016 10:04

always thought it was 'I've never met a white South African'. Oh well...

Going by the rest of the lyrics, no!

chunkymum1 · 29/04/2016 09:55

After reading this yesterday not only did I realise how much I seem to think/talk in other people's song lyrics but also that I seem to have messed up my DD... Picked her up from school yesterday and suggested we have a snack when we got in as I was hungry. Her response= 'Like a wolf?'.

originalmavis · 29/04/2016 09:16

Soup - I always thought it was 'I've never met a white South African'. Oh well...

bomfunk · 29/04/2016 09:16

And if anyone asks 'have you seen so and so' I'm compelled to shout 'WE DIDN'T BURN HIM' a la tubs from league of gentlemen

Fiderer · 29/04/2016 09:13

When I'm knackered after work I come hom eand announce (even if no one else is there) "Dying, Egypt, dying" which is what Rumpole used to say when he was ill.

bomfunk · 29/04/2016 09:06

Yy to partridgisms!! Sooo many make their way into my everyday speech. 'Jurassic park!' and 'back of the net'
are standard response for me. Any smuttiness has to be met with 'they're sex people!' in panicked tones. 'One flush - all gone' after flushing the loo, and every time I go over my parents I have to shout excitedly 'yes! It's an extender' when I walk past their table (they have not the foggiest why I do this, and have never asked Grin). If i get woken suddenly I HAVE yo shout
'FIGHT YOU!'. So many!!!

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HoneyDragon · 29/04/2016 08:23

Oh I'd forgotten that. Now it's my head!

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SoupDragon · 29/04/2016 07:04

And, quite frankly, I f you don't go A-aaaahhh on hearing the word flash there is something wrong with you. Or you are too young.

SoupDragon · 29/04/2016 07:03

Does anyone remember the Spitting Image song "I've never met a nice South African". Truly awful and inappropriate (although it was during the height of other countries protesting against apartheid) and it runs through my mind whenever I hear "South African" or the accent. Thankfully I have never sung it out loud (and have met lots of nice South Africans!)

AskingForAPal · 29/04/2016 00:25

You do know 'im then, moreshit? :)