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!

This thread is making me properly lol!
My favourite so far has to be KurriKurri with 'We also do a thing where we tilt our hips forward and our heads back, sashay along like models and say 'pleased to meet you' to each other in a kind of strangulated Janet Street Porter voice. I don't know why we do this.

We also give the dog a gruff little voice and make him say 'I'm a boy you fuckers, I've got a wink-wonk'. Again - I don't know why.'

Whenever I come in the front door (even if I have just been taking out the recycling) I have to yell "Hi honeys I'm hooooome!"

Always "honeys" plural even if there's only 1 other person at home have been known to do it in an empty house too

@LemonRedwood that's from a program called "On The Up" - it had a housekeeper who was always willing to have a drink, but "just the one".

A few years ago my little boy said to my husband and I . We love our cheddar instead of we love each other . We always say it now and for as long as I can remember saying ooooooh faaaanccy to anything remotely nice

Apparently I missed the 2nd page where a few people already said it was On The Up!

my mum said sammidg for sandwich or sammy

Thank you to all the PPs for the "On the Up" memory jog - I remember it now! Will have to tell DM and DSis

When ever giving directions. Always say in a Welsh accent.
"See those 2 houses over there, mines the one in the middle" unsure why must be off tv or something.

If say going shop. If the corner one. Its always "local shop for local people." Nothing for you here. A la league gentlemen again.

If someone asks me if I know about something my reply is 'not a sausage'

Not an idea where that comes from

Red cabbage is always the answer to a question we don't know, this comes from a Victoria Wood sketch tho, but we've said it for years.
'Red Cabbage how much, red cabbage no I idea'

If me or DW are crowding a space, (we live in a tiny terraced house, so happens quite often 😉)
We say, 'Move your Boutros'
When we first got together, the war in Bosnia was constantly in the news, and Boutros Boutros Ghali was such an amazing name, it really caught our attention.
Sadly it has become a term for one's butt, with no malice intended.

We say lots of Archers related things, like, Hello Tiger in a sexy drawl, Braan, and Joe's way of giving everyone their full title, Good Morning, Susan Carter!

If DW cleans my spectaculars, when she returns them, I have to sing, It's a whole New World, with much emotion
If I say, it's cold, I then say cold as ice, and we both sing, willing to sacrifice!

There are tons more, they are almost unconscious now!

Love these stories!

Oh is that where Po.Tay.Toe comes from

When Dc ask me what time it is, it is always bedtime (wishful thinking) in our house.

And if they are giving me lippy attitude I'll say "it's good but it's not the answer we're looking for" (Roy walker)

We still pronounce basil (the herb) as bay-sil after a visit to Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas many years ago and that was how the waiter pronounced it.

After accidentally paying 5 euro each for bottled water on a family holiday in Berlin, we now all get extremely excited when drinking water and make lots of noise about how 'delectable ' it is.... we're fucking idiots though.

You'll all die laughing about the time my brother was in a restaurant gesticulating about how he nearly hit the waitress on the bottom accidentally and then actually did accidentally hit a waitress on the bottom whilst saying it... don't think I've ever laughed so much in my life, surprised we didn't get thrown out .... needless to say that one comes out every time we visit that restaurant.

Also, in Berlin actually, my children decided that any time anyone did something impressive ( walk several miles, make good food choices) they'd say "you know why, cos she's a steam boat".... it caught on, a lot....

Whenever a random name comes up. Stranger, famous person or even a collection of syllables that sounds vaguely "name like" I say "Oh I know him, he used to chew bread for our ducks."
DD and DCat are often greeted with "Ey up McGuffin." (I know what a McGuffin is. I just like the sound of it)
When expressing thanks, the term is usually "Thank you very glad".
And the strangest one of all (and I completely blame my DM for this one) is that whenever someone says "All of a sudden...." I feel compelled to finish it with a daft rhyme that continues as:
"A dirty great puddin, came flying through the air.

It missed my brother and hit my mother,
And knocked her off her chair."
I have no idea where ANY of this comes from.

Before dinner used to say "BONER petite" instead of "bon appeitite" to dp which soon became me just saying "boner" to him at the start lf every meal.
Also we great each other in a high pitched squeaky voice saying "HERRRRRRRROOOOOO" and sometimes just have entire conversations saying it back and forth to each other with different intonations.

This year I am mostly wearing Issey Miyake/ Armani - Jesse's shed.

And "I'll get me coat" - same actor - Father Brown now I think of it.

This is funny!

I also reply to anyone asking whether I want a tea or coffee, "I'll have a tea please Bob". Blockbusters of course.

Me and DH do the "Carooooollllll" in a Yorkshire accent too, and the " you're my wife now Dave".

My dad and I work together and if ever a discussion looks to be getting too serious, one of us will defuse it with the "this isn't an argument" line from Monty Python, leading us into about 5 mins of back and forth with the "yes it is" "no it isn't" 's.

We have a thing where one of us will randomly sing a cheesy love song, but replace the word "love" with "gloves" and other assorted things.

So Streisand's "Woman in Love" becomes
"I am a woman in gloves, and a hat and a scarf"

Or Bonnie Tyler becomes "eclipse of the fart"

It's silly and I have no idea why we started it, but we've been doing it for nearly a decade now so it's unlikely we'll stop.

I love these!

My poor kids have to put up with all sorts of random comedy catchphrases from me. As they've got older they've watched them and understand more.

No visit to a department store is complete without a visit to the lingerie department where I tell my kids "It's Irelands biggest lingerie section, I understand"

Also "what would you say to a cup of tea?" "Feck off cup"

Mine love Father Ted now.

I also send them to the shop for I can I can't.

Lots of stuff from The League of Gentlemen. I'd forgotten the orange juice one, I'm going to shout that at DS1 when he comes home as he loves orange juice!

I also made up songs for all of them, with silly nicknames I gave them, and like to sing them when out and about.

When they ask what's for dinner I always say mashed pants and sock pie. And then sing a song about it!

Thought of another. At bedtime, whoever says "turn off the light" always gets the reply "and then?". Which is from the chinese takeaway scene in Dude where's my car? But I can't remember why we do it with the light!

Also when DS was little we'd pass him to other who would then "run off" cackling "I have the baby!" a la Willow the Wisp.

And we do the "My wife now" thing.

Years ago before smart phones we had a hilarious evening where my aunt was retelling an awful story about an operation she'd had and had nearly died. My cousin, who has always been at the forefront of tech stuff ran upstairs and managed to get radio 2 "our tune " on his phone... he ran back down shouting "wait, wait, wait!!!" So we all shut up. Then he started playing that music it's over 10 years since that night and every single time were together someone gets the tune ready for the most inappropriate moment when someone is pouring their heart out. Such terrible people but thankfully we're all the same. I'm crying laughing at this at the moment.

our family do the "im asthmaticcccc" mock of that woman from wife swap who smoked about 200 a day then claimed to be asthma, there are many more but i can't think!