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!

@Coffeetasteslikeshit
Everytime somebody is talking and they say the words 'and then' my family do the 'and theeen' from dude wheres my car. We carry on doing it after they finish their sentence too.

I also have a habit of replying "I am having a fag" when anyone asks me what I'm doing. In a Waynetta voice obviously.

usernameavailable that's brilliant! I've never met anyone else who'll even admit to watching the film so find it difficult to explain why me and DH find it so funny!

Oh and if something costs £1 my sister will always incredulously shout 'how much?' Every single time

I have to say the word pound in the same way Mr fiddler from carry on camping did.

DH is Irish, and not long after we got together, my brother sent me a link to a podcast ripping the piss out of a terrible, terrible YouTube tutorial on how to learn to speak with an Irish accent

The podcast tried to use the phrase 'I'll be fine with all this oil' to get you to practice the accent ("oil be foyne with all dis oil") which is absurd because it neither teaches you an Irish accent nor is anything anyone would ever say. DH found it both bizarre and hilarious.

Whenever DH or I are cooking with any sort of oil or getting some off the shelf in the shop, or putting some in a bath, one of us has to ask 'are you going to be ok with that' and the other has to reply "I'll be fine with all this oil"

I started making my brothers do it as well but only one of them understands why...

When my best friend and I are out for a drink (even a cuppa in the cafe) we always do cheers, clink cups and say "health ,wealth and herpes "

Its been going on for so long neither of us know where it came from...

Disclaimer: neither of us have ever had herpes

My mum and I never say beans we say BAAAAEEEENNNNSSSS. No idea why!

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!

Oh we do the "bacon is good for me!" From the American wife swap with the bacon loving boy. I do love bacon.

My brother only has to say "shoe horn" to me in a particular voice and I fall about laughing. Neither of us remembers where it comes from.

My brother has a long-running silliness with my mum surrounding the word "bouillon". I think it started years ago when she asked him to get something out of the cupboard and he saw some stock cubes with "bouillon" written on the side. He can't say "bouillon" without putting on a silly voice and wiggling his bum.

DH and I will often say "going to town to buy some pants" when one asks where the other is going.

Oh and ds1(12) and I say "I kill you!" (Aches the dead terorrist) When one or other of us is doing something irritating, One of us will say "please stop that" and the other will say "what you gonna do if I don't" and the response is always "I kill you!"

If either of us are being a bit dim witted, one of us will say, 'These cows are small and those cows are faaaaar awaaaaay.' Also 'language Timothy'.

Achmed!!

Sparechange - reminds me of Alan partridge "deres more to oireland dan dis"

BackieJerkhart - is that the Gavin and Stacey one? Cos that's all I could think of!

Loads of these in our extended family, yes to more tea vicar, and just the one Mrs Wembley. One I got from my parents that they can't remember the origin of is "Good parking Reginald" whenever anyone fits the car in a tight spot. Anyone?

Dh and I only ever say Bacon in a Jamaican accent (say 'Beer Can'). We've done it for years and I can't remember why!

BackieJerkhart - is that the Gavin and Stacey one? Cos that's all I could think of!

Which one?

We say 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you'
The answer to the question 'Who's that?' is always 'Alex Oxlade Chamberlain'

Dh and I only ever say Bacon in a Jamaican accent (say 'Beer Can'). We've done it for years and I can't remember why!

We say it Eric Forman style. "bayyCON"

In our family we say toe-ast for toast and choc-OL-atty for chocolate after the Two Ronnies sketch.

'Dust' when on a diet

We have loads, including one that I know was picked up from one of these threads years ago, but the DC have no clue: going to the garage for petroleum Bonaparte.

When DP are trying to do things and it gets a bit tense we start talking in Aussie accents and call each other Bruce and Sheila. No idea why.

Whenever DP pretends to speak a foreign language he does a Del Boy saying "mange tout mange tout" and I give him a withering look.

Operaha - I love that! I also have an 'our tune' related one. Years ago (as in about 20 years ago) it was on the radio at my boyfriends house. The story being told was predictably tragic and the DJ sneezed during a particularly harrowing bit - but he obviously tried to stifle the sneeze and it came out as a weird, elongated eeeh-huh - and then he just carried on like nothing had happened! So whenever me and my then boyfriend hear that tune now, we have to do a loud and dramatic eeeh huh. We must sound mad.

@echt this afternoon I are mostly spending 11 minutes and 18 seconds watching

We trot out 'this week I will mostly be eating...acorns' and people look bemused Disclaimer do not try this at home.
I don't remember there being so many different sheds.

We also use the reply 'NUTTHIN' in the flat Midlands monotone, which we stole off Mark Williams when he did The Link quiz show where no one ever seemed to win anything. That gets puzzled looks too.