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

[CredulousThickos]

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!

Oh yes, just the one mrs Wembley is from a 70s sitcom. Can’t remember which so it counts. We also say ‘language, Timothy’ which I think is from ‘Sorry’ but I actually picked up from my parents.

Mrs Wembley is still remembered in my house, too. It was a television programme with Dennis Waterman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Up

Oh, and in restaurants we always ask talk about asking for the William.

In our household an object must be balanced on one's head (cushion, remote control, book etc.) as an expression of cringe when the other person is doing or saying something particularly daft and you are embarrassed for them.

NO IDEA how it started but it has endured.

DP always uses a particular plate and, too bloody often, one of us will say 'I've got a scam going with a big plate' (from Alan Partridge).

CatastropheKate is that from Come Dine With Me?

Oh god, Lego, not only do we do that but we also laugh and say, oh no we’ve got one! while pointing at DS2.

Cringe.

@choccyp1g that is one of my DDS favourite poems! A potato clock 😂

Credulous, but that's the only bit I know

'Read all abaaat it. News of the World, News of the World, News of the World' etc. In monotone. '''Twas ever thus.

It's probably not even you in your living room, it's me (thinking I'm perfectly reasonable) 😂

We used to live in a one bedroom flat. A guy used to knock on our neighbours flat every night and shout dave through the letter box. Now whenever me and dh need each other we always shout dave.
Pair of idiots we are.

Ha! There’s probably —thousands— dozens of us doing the same terrible destruction of the song every Friday night...

The orange juice one is from the league of gentlemen. There's an actress auditioning for an advert, and the director asks her to say "excuse me, has anyone got any orange juice?" and she inexplicable bellows "orrrraaaange juuuuuujuuuuice" back at him.

Each morning our key to the world comes through the door
More than often it's just a comic, not much more
Don't take it too serious, not many do
Read between the lines and you'll find the truth
Read all about it, read all about it
News of the world, news of the world
Read all about it, read all about it
News of the world, news of the world

Just because I have pedantic tendencies

I wonder if we can pin down where th3y all come from?

When I was first with DH i thought he was the quickest and most hilarious man I’d ever met. I still think he’s funny, but now I know most of his fodder comes from Bottom and Reeves and Mortimer...

Elephant, now imagine that whole song with some twats singing newsoftheworld newsoftheworld newsoftheworld over the whol3 thing, in a flat monotone.

Why,why, whyyyy?

It's all coming back to me Hobbe ! Thank you

Sorry about the 3s. I think my iPad hates me.

Credulous what's the 3 instead of E thing going on? Are you on a withdrawal programme from 'E's?

DH and I get haddocks instead of headaches. No idea when or why that started.

We've also got a few others which get funny looks from other people but they come from when my sister was a toddler and couldn't pronounce certain words properly. For example, we were in the supermarket once and he asked if we needed cummerboo (cucumber)

If DP shouts on me repeatedly from the other room we both end up shouting CAROL in a Yorkshire accent.

This dates back to an episode of Wife Swap where the guy was a total git and shouted for his wife to get his porridge.

My nan always says 'I will have a bit o punge' if she is offered cake after something my late aunty once said. Now she is in her 90s it makes her sound a bit ga ga but its an in joke.
My dh always intones a nickname version of my maiden name at me if I'm seen doing something risky, the kids have no idea what he's on about. I'm not sure how that came about but it dates from before we were married obviously. We have lots of silly sayings etc but most are just TV catch phrases

Ha! No, the new iPad keyboard wants you to pull keys down to shift. So when I type I thing I must pull down the e at speed. Annoying. Although if that’s the worst of my typos you should feel lucky.

Ooh it auto corrected a few but wanted a 3 in5 the ‘the’ there.

Ha, that last one was an errant T.

my grandad usd to say iv got a haddock instad of headaches!

sammidges = sandwiches