Ridiculous ‘in jokes’ that you no longer know the provenance of.

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Have just sat down to watch tv with DH. Mock the Week is on. So we’ve both gone, ooh muuuurch the weeeerk and then sang over the theme tune by singing ‘newsoftheworld newsoftheworld newsoftheworld’ over all the actual lyrics.

We must have been doing this for about ten years now and I’ve no idea why.

We also pluralise/apostrophise and butcher celebrity names (Kylie’s Minogue, Liza Starbucks etc) and try to make a long chain of celebrity tenuous and fictional links, like Bruno Mars is Freddie Mercury’s nephew, who in turn is Freddie Krueger’s brother, who is married to Diane Kruger...

Tell me your frankly insane couple or family ramblings to make us feel a bit normaler!

DP and I love words, we do a lot of crosswords and a lot of our 'in' jokes come from there e.g I was once stuck on 'hamper' (6) and spent a great deal of time agonising... delay? Impede? Etc. It was basket 😑. So now we use basket as a synonym for delay, impede etc. Lots of things like that.

Also Brian badonde (YouTube him) has a lot to answer for if my son grows up with speech problems 👀

We say 'he's puncturing the tyres Ted' any time someone points out something glaringly obvious.

Whenever we make each other a hot drink we always say tea or coffee in a Dalek voice. I think it came Alan partridge.

QuackingHell Buffy fan?

Stiffy cocky pudding did actually make me 😂!

It definitely 'junglist massive'. I danced on stage to a live pa back in the day.

Backie - we always say the "bacon is good for me" thing. Ds has said it since he's tiny and when he does it in restaurants dh and I are in fits of childish giggles.

Whenever we see road works we all scream "digging up the road - MOOOOO!" I think we always will.

itchy back plastic it took me a while, but I got it! Blue Peter? 😂

Thanks to a friend of mine, stating the obvious is a naval commander. A friend of his said, "James Bond was a naval commander - in the navy." My friend told me, now the 2 younger DC say it too! I often forget that other people don't say it!

Fernanie My dad used to say after someone said I see...."said the blind man following the dustcart cos he thought it was a wedding" - is it a Lancashire thing?
And every time we asked where are you going - "there and back to see how far it is"
Loving this thread!

league of gentlemen orange juice sketch

When dh spiffs up I say "ooooh! Suits you sir!" He's American so doesn't have a clue.

We call the remote control "Rodney", as in "who's got the Rodney please turn the sound down". Not sure why.

Brazil nuts are banned chez Drone as DP WITHOUT FAIL will say "In Brazil they are just called nuts" in a tone of voice suggesting that he's telling you something wise and important. It makes me want to hit him over the head with a 12oz lump hammer.

Lots of ours come from either Blackadder or Red Dwarf. If anyone wants toast they get the full Talkie Toaster soliloquy (buns, baps baguettes and bagels etc...) Another favourite is if someone trips or stumbles a little we have to say the ground was "deceptively flat and unimpeding" from Rowan Atkinson's Curry House sketch.

"Don't call me Shirley" is in almost daily use too.

If someone is giving me directions I immediately think of Victoria Wood and her "two ways to Urmston" and saying "I saw the Lions at Longleat, I lost my dentures at Alton Towers" has led to DP baring me from going to either place again

And DS' favourite is whilst using a zebra crossing he has to walk in the style of Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality and say (with faux New York accent) "I'm gliding here". But he is only 9 and may grow out of it

If anyone knocks a pea off their plate at dinner time we have to say "You peed on the table!"

If anyone drops salad when they're serving themselves, we have to say "It's a drop leaf table."

And I live with six footers - so if anyone knocks their head on the lampshade I take great delight in asking if they're feeling lightheaded after their accident.

Does anyone else sing The 20th Century Fox theme tune like Ralph Wiggum?

No, but we sing the Universal theme tune like minions!

when I wear rubber gloves, DH sneaks up behind me, grabs both hands, claps them together for me and we both shout arf arf arf like a performing seal.

DD2 will also say she has the chills, to which the obivous response, of course, is "are they multiplying?"

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I love "I love you to the stairs and back"

Whenever I'm preparing peas for dinner, DH will inform me that we have to "give peas a chance". And if one gets dropped, "You know what that is, don't you? It's an escape-pea..."

Oh, and if something surprises us - "Well, I'll go to Boxley." I think it must be the Kent equivalent of, "Well, I'll go the foot of our stairs."

We also have a thing that started years ago with a typo of 'Okey Dokey'.

We now deliberately mistype it, so it could be 'Okey Donkey', 'Wonky Donkey', 'Don Quixote', 'Oaty Dopey' etc etc...

when DM got married, there was a typo in their wedding service: so from then on in she was married to her "hubsnab". I always liked that.