Does anyone else say "spring rolls, spring rolls" in the style of Leonard rossiter?

[StealthPolarBear]

It can't just be me

It might be!

However I still use 'Badger in a junction box at New Malden' as an excuse if I'm late for something.

Yeeeeeeeah
What? :o

We have:

Use a sausage as a breakwater.
Wolves did it!

Um. I have the feeling that about 60% of our conversations are comedy quotes, but my mind's gone blank.

No, but I didn’t get where I am today by saying anything about spring rolls.

@BestIsWest

No, but I didn’t get where I am today by saying anything about spring rolls.

Haha. Not that one but we only ever eat
"mangetout Rodney- mangetout" never just simple mangetout.

The kids were whining about having to do something the other day and got a "needs must when the devil vomits in your kettle" which is Blackadder. Constantly doing various bits of Father Ted. And "have you turned it off and on again" from IT Crowd. And 'i know it's yours because it's got your name written on it' from Cabin Pressure.

We made the kids watch Allo Allo so they might get some of the other references- 'I shall say these only once' and 'Good moaning' but they couldn't get the hang of it. I think they think we just are a little bit mad.

I realised that dh and I communicate in a combination of things the kids used to say as toddlers which we found funny and sitcom from the 90s. We're not the people you want at parties.

Me and my DS say "Hold on there, Bald Eagle" in a Texas drawl, from an 1980s tv ad and "You're good kid, real good, but while I'm around you'll always be second best, see" a la Edward G Robinson in an old b&w film.

When I'm being silly or laughing at my own jokes, my oh always says, Stay off the drugs, from Coming to America. And whenever we are ranting to each other my sister and I always say, ohhh I knowwww, like Sybil Fawlty.

@StealthPolarBear

I realised that dh and I communicate in a combination of things the kids used to say as toddlers which we found funny and sitcom from the 90s. We're not the people you want at parties.

I'll see you and raise you 'Having conversations with the dog, in which either one of us may provide the voice of the dog'. We are also not invited to parties.

I do oooooooh I knoooow but I think I'm the only one who finds it funny.
D you also twirl your hair and smoke while holding the phone?

I can't add basil to any dish I'm cooking without shouting, in the manner of Sybil "BASIIILLL!"

Ah yes that too. And talking about ratatouille even if I'm making pasta.

Dialogue from Cabin Pressure makes up at least half of our domestic conversations

‘I’m absolutely sure it’s going to be fine, but it’s just that I’m not100% sure it’s going to be fine’

@StealthPolarBear, I love Sybil 😂😂. My sister and I also say, when we don't know what our other halves are harping on about....I don't know, Basil, she could be 12....😂.
We were brought up on Fawlty Towers.

@StealthPolarBear

I realised that dh and I communicate in a combination of things the kids used to say as toddlers which we found funny and sitcom from the 90s. We're not the people you want at parties.

I could have written this! Most of our conversation is quotes from Father Ted, Bottom, The Office and Alan Partridge. Also not invited to many parties.

So if you ever say "oh dear" is it followed by "the fridgidaire appears to have fallen on your bonce"?
Also dh says something unrepeatable whenever he uses the word 'firm'
I remember the "she might be 12" line but can't remember what it was in relation to

@StealthPolarBear

So if you ever say "oh dear" is it followed by "the fridgidaire appears to have fallen on your bonce"? Also dh says something unrepeatable whenever he uses the word 'firm' I remember the "she might be 12" line but can't remember what it was in relation to

I think it's Cybil expressing annoyance at Basil's speculation about the age of the psychiatrist's wife in The Psychiatrist.

Dds and I still do some P&P-speak.

‘This is all extremely vexing!’

‘THE most horrid, disobliging...’

‘Have a little compassion on my nerves!’
Etc.

@BestIsWest

No, but I didn’t get where I am today by saying anything about spring rolls.

🤣🤣🤣

"Don't panic" in the style of Jonesey from Dad's Army.
If anyone mentions a plan for something, we jump in with "a cunning plan..."
And if anyone mentions anything to do with a pantomime then it's mandatory to contradict what they said with "Oh no you didn't"

@StealthPolarBear @Amdone123 I do ooooh, I know but sometimes change it to ooooh, je sais.

I remember comic relief doing Eastenders and Dot said Bennett de Gordon. We still use that phrase.

Another one from Fawlty Towers - "Pretentious? Moi?"

Bear with, bear with