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TV quotes that you MUST get in at work....

42 replies

Winenotttea · 19/07/2019 21:41

I’m just watching Agatha Raisin and she has just said that she is ‘waiting in for someone to trim her thatch’ 😂
I don’t have a thatched roof but no one at work knows that, I am SO going to try to get that into conversation or a meeting at work next week.
Does anyone else have some great expressions that you would love to get into a conversation at work?

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RedHatsDoNotSuitMe · 20/07/2019 00:42

It goes up to 11

It's a film quote, not TV. Am I still allowed it? I have used it.

Iamtheworst · 20/07/2019 00:46

“These are good biscuits, they cost £4!”

Pinkarsedfly · 20/07/2019 07:21

‘Have you tried turning it off and on again?’

Purplehammer · 20/07/2019 07:45

If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike.

Winenotttea · 20/07/2019 09:57

It goes up to 11 can certainly be used, it’s from one of the best films ever!

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JoyceJeffries · 20/07/2019 09:58

Let us raise a toast to the whirlwind that is your life

jackparlabane · 20/07/2019 10:06

The highlight of my civil service career is saying "That would be a brave and courageous decision, Minister" to a Minister, and have him take it as intended.

I have so wanted to say "Minister, if you must do this bloody stupid thing, for the love of God do not do it in this bloody stupid way", but my boss wouldn't let me attend the relevant meeting in case I did. She returned saying she wished she had said it...

VioletLeaf · 20/07/2019 10:13

I try to get in "one does not simply walk into Mordor" whenever talking about the kitchen at work, but no one ever gets the reference, sadly!

BalloonSlayer · 20/07/2019 10:22

Not a work one but my sister recently moved into a new house and the boiler wasn't working. There were throngs of us helping her move in and I lost count of the times I heard someone bemoan that there was "no hot water "

EVERY time, I absolutely longed to burst into song with ". . . means cold SHOWERS, next thing you know your kids will be on CRACK (this makes SENSE!)"

But I didn't as it would have been too hard to explain. Only Crazy Ex Girlfriend fans would understand. Grin

onedayiwillmissthis · 20/07/2019 10:37

'Charlie' was the name of a perfume in the 70's

LadyOfTheCanyon · 20/07/2019 11:53

"Awww honey, I've got a fake laugh with your name written all over it."

I love Karen Walker. I often say Talk To The Boob.

MagneticSingularity · 20/07/2019 12:11

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to stop listening to you.” Dr Sheldon Cooper.

I’d love to say this to some of the people at work and on the phone. Oh and:

“Let’s just assume that everything you have done up to now is wrong.”

ContactLight · 20/07/2019 13:02

4cats I say that too Smile

ContactLight · 20/07/2019 13:06

Stupid boy!

wanderings · 20/07/2019 15:43

Also from Yes Minister. When the PM newly appointed minster thinks he's about to be sacked, Humphrey says "Well, the Prime Minister giveth, and the Prime Minister... taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Prime Minister."

Little Britain: "We have a noooooooooo member." Also the moment when Marjorie violently overturns a table laden with cakes, when she realises she's not invited.

Vicar of Dibley: "No no no no no no no no no no no no no no yes."

When Richard O'Brien hosted the Crystal Maze in the 90s, he was a goldmine of quotes, I used to repeat them at school.

"He was very gay, he was very jolly, but that's not to say that he actually was... gay."

"I think he's making a dog's breakfast of this, but who am I?"

(Re a fireman struggling to climb ladders) "I hope he doesn't bring a ladder round to my house, especially if I'm in the attic, screaming help help."

"Now children, if you're playing with nuclear waste, be very very careful. The disadvantage is that you're gonna die. The advantage is that you'll be very easy to find in the dark."

CrispbuttyNo1 · 20/07/2019 15:59

Lovely bit of squirrel.

Im a chef.. It scares the kids at work.. Wink

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 20/07/2019 16:05

I work in a field where the Conjoined Triangles of Success from Silicon Valley would fit right in if I dropped it innocently enough.

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