I just said "Sausages"

[SlightlyJaded]

So, yeah...

I just said "Sausages" in the stupid, growly "That's Life" 'talking dog' voice (you'd have to be old to know what I'm talking about) to the Ocado delivery man, and now I can never order from Ocado again.

I don't know why I said it. I don't think I've ever said it out loud in my life before. I was about three when it was on TV and didn't even know I'd stored it in my brain.

I glanced in a bag and saw some sausages and it just came out.

Delivery man was quite young and fit and looked at me very briefly like I was mad. And then didn't react at all - which was worse. We both sort of pretended nothing happened.

"Sausages". In THAT voice.

FFS

I'm just remembering a friend's story about a class he was teaching. One student had offered an answer to his question and he said "In the words of the great Whitney, it's not right but it's OK". Cue blank stares from all the students.

I want to be .... a tree!!!
(Was that Pru as well?)

@Glittertwins yes it was, you beat me to it! 😁

Truprint!

All my illusions shattered.

Just heard on the radio that Esther Rantzen has said that the dog saying "sausages" was fake 😳

Even 45 years ago, "they" planted fake news.

I am sad now.

Exactly this 😁😁 including the muttley laughter 🤣

Thanks for this - was the sausages bloke on it?!

please get this post deleted and I'll pretend I never saw it. All those years in actual wonderment.... :(

I'm just listening to The Reunion on R4 and it's the team from That's Life. There has just been a discussion about Prince saying "sausages". Gold!

Whenever I cook sausages the dog lusually ooks very interested and I say "sausages" like that to her every time (often several times). Last year DS(25) asked me why and I explained the That's Life reference and he said "yeh I thought it would be something like that"

This was in my inbox on MumsNet Weekly Roundup. Sorry, I laughed, and then Googled Talking Dog sausages.
I'd heard of this but didn't know it was from 1979.
That's before I was born, but I also sometimes say "sausages" in that dog growl voice 🤣
I think I heard it in the 1990s.
I've just found a video clip on Google, where Sandi Togsvig (I apologise that I'm not sure how to spell her name 😅) and Alan Davies were reminiscing about it though.

Oh could be worse 🤣I was caught singing the Matt Lucas baked potato song 🎵 AND I also do the sausages thing when my dog is sat begging for sausages if we have them for dinner
PS I’m quite old 😂

Crying laughing 🤣 think I’ve found my people on this thread

I love this…I absolutely always say (and think!) ‘sausages’ in that voice 😂 (I’m 60!) And ‘Basil!!’ like Sybil…and obviously a plan will always be a ‘cunning plan’ to which people need to listen, because you will ‘say this only once’. Etc etc 😊

I was sent this thread by email in a Mumsnet Roundup today . It's soo refreshing to read something that made me laugh .

I never seem to find these funny threads , just the ones where the DH forgets to load the dishwasher or dares to leave a cup out and there's a chorus of LTB from all the posters .

The only similar thing I used to do was , if I put a shepherd's pie on the table I would sing 'for mash get smash' . I would get funny looks from everyone , which didn't stop me and now I do it deliberately , just because I want to !

@SlightlyJaded nice to see this thread revived.
I didn't know the reference, so just googled it. OP, the delivery person must've thought you were mad! 😮😂
Here's a link to it:

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1265232461119840256?lang=en

I do the "baseel!" too and occasional 'cunning plan'. Also "don't call me Shirley" when appropriate and "your not the Messiah you are a very naughty boy!" when jokingly ticking off one of my sons.

Yes 😂 me too ( Shirley/Messiah! ) Oh and the ‘no no,no,no,no..yes’ from Vicar of Dibley…I’m sure there are more!

How about "language Timothy"?

Ah lovely that it made the roundup.

I have been pondering this and realised we do lots of random 70s/80s TV culture quoting in our house. It's no bloody wonder I said 'Sausages'. In fact it's a miracle it's taken this long!!

We do

Baaaasil / don't mention the War

'Jimmy Hill' (whilst scratching chin to imply that you are skeptical that you are hearing the truth)

Good Moaning

Don't panic Mr Mannwering

You CANNOT be serious

and DH and I to annoying teens when they are whining "but am I bovvered though? Do i look bovvered? But am I though?" They have no idea what we are talking about but it makes them go away.

And when I am in a lift, if someone says 'Ground Floor' my brain automatically continues "...perfumery, stationery and leather goods. Going up"

@SlightlyJaded we do almost all of those too, I am especially fond of Good Moaning 😂

Plus

"Oh dear. How sad. Never mind." from it ain't half hot mum

IF someone has asked me or my husband a question, we invariably say "don't tell him Pike".

And a lot of the phrases mentioned above. It's like Pavlov's Dog - we are powerless to resist 😅

Sat here grinning! Most of those get used in our house. Now got the theme tune to Are you being served? running through my head.
You've all done very well 😁

And “I don’t believe it!” a la Victor Meldrew.
These were all great catchphrases!