to ask for your familyisms?

[yawning801]

I'm wondering if it's just my family that does silly things that nobody else does!

For example, one person will turn off the car radio and say "Shut up.". One of the other passengers will pause for a second and then add "Silly person."

Is it just my family that is weird? Please MN, help me out here!

A lot of Fawlty Towers quotes between us is mine and my dad's thing

Bounce-a-line=trampoline
Fizzinator=soda stream
Hoover=Micheal
All adopted by the family after the various kids named them in error

LordTrash’s Zadok has reminded me. If we are out - usually cycling or walking- and we see a place babe made up of 2 words on the map eg: Stonebridge, Fallowfield - we’ll say “But how will we know when we get there?” And we’ll answer “there is a bridge (field)..... and it is made of stone (fallow)”.

In fact “there is a bridge.... and it is made of stone” is our default answer for most questions that begin “How will I know.....”.

Cattle Grid - cow drain

Dressing gown = dressing down

I sing “so don’t your fret, my dear {dc name} I don’t feeeeel any pain, a little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now” (from les mid) to my baby and toddler if they are crying or fussing! DH and I sing a lot more of les mis in our house full stop

Many quotes from The Princess Bride... "buh, buh, buuuh look who knows so much" - whenever someone gets an obscure answer right on a gameshow, is but one.

Lullabyes are known as Love-a-byes courtesy of DD. Helicopters are known as helicoppopters and when you are adamant about something you have to say defi-loutley ala DS3.

Quak - Les Mis is applicable in so many situations, right?!

I took great pleasure is blasting out "One Day More" on Christmas Eve after months of being asked how many days till Christmas.

Cornelius Beefingdon 🤣🤣🤣

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I think "Rewengay" is from Blackadder, because that's a stalwart in our house ( "...and I shall week my rewengay!")

"please accept my AppleOgeys" and
"inconweenience " are two others that our family uses which are from the same episode. We had a VHS and too much time on our hands in the 80s!

We use "waffer theen" in the supermarket when looking at cooked meats, from monty pythons meaning of life. If someone try to sell us something we all say I'll give you one dollar, from the cricket song. That started when on holiday (17yrs ago)after being asked to buy ride photos, and we'd all been singing along to 10cc.
Also it's just a flesh wound for any injury, monty python again.
And whenever we play any game not just trivial pursuits someone will answer Reykjavik comma Iceland fullstop (filthy rich and catflap) lots of friends quotes the main one being you left the chair area.

we had a local cheap household shop that we could never remember the name of, it was either, Out there, In doors, your home, something like that, so became Up yours,
we also use lots of quotes from monty python and holy grail
best one is 'the money is the juicer'. We were given some cash as a wedding present, and didn't have time to pay it into bank before honeymoon, so hid it in the least likely place, (inside the jiucer), dh then texted ; "the money is in the juicer" to me (s0 he thought) but had actually randomnly sent text to another friend of his, who was completely bemused.

When we're bored, we will frequently go on an adventure to 'gobbers knob' which basically means we get in the car ad drive until someone comes up with an idea.

just remembered we also have to say "he's fallen in the water" in high voice, if anyone falls over, (I think from Goon show?) altho this has now become hes fallen in the wardrobe since dh actually fell into the wardrobe and had trouble getting out

We say joynama queen instead of drama queen since the time we called DS it and he misheard.

We also day milch instead of milk, all crisps are called 'tayto chris cheese and onyion' trampoline is 'tampyween'.

Whenever anyone put too much of a condiment on their food we should 'aw (my brothers name)'

If anyone asks do we want tea the answer is always 'I'll take a wee drop in my hand'

We also greet each other by saying 'what about ye baby?'

If anyone is accusing someone they are always met with 'it's a lie' a la Cliff from home alone 2. Another one from home alone is when someone enters our house we say 'I smelt u getting off the elevator'

I call DH 'Babycakes' & he'll respond 'you just don't know' even if mid conversation. I don't even like that song.

DH is always making up songs & leaving the last word for me to fill in. Drives me mad! He will stop & look at me until I do it.

We call our 2 cats 'the kittens' even though they are all grown up. Guests get quite a shock when 2 huge cats walk in.

Oh and whenever our football team scores DH has to high 5 my foot. That might be the weirdest one!

In our house if anyone says the word ‘stop’ everyone else shouts ‘collaborate and listen’. OH and I call dd Chuffy La Roux and she has her own song (to the tune of the Flipper theme) ‘they call her chuffy, chuffy..etc’
When any of us say goodbye we have to do a wave over our shoulder and say ‘bye-bye’ in a deep sexy voice. No idea where either of these come from! If someone tells a dull story the other person will ‘unsubscribe’. We are constantly telling our 5 year old that ‘science isn’t dull’ and to drink her ‘lovely milky milky’ thanks to the Mary Whitehouse Experience. A chippy is always a JP’s (OH’a hometown chippy) unless it’s actually from JPs - then it’s a ‘Disco Chippy’

When someone says 'stop' in our house the response is 'Hammer Time'.

I love these threads. They make me feel almost normal.

We have a tea? dance. When one of us has put the kettle on and wants to know if the other wants tea, we don't speak - just find the other person and perform the dance. Every now and again we perform the dance for our dd just for fun.

Many phrases from Bottom: any suggestion of what we might have for lunch is likely to be met with "what kind of sandwiches do you do? SANDWICHES!"

If you mention a number of items, there are two possible responses. I can't articulate the rules which determines which is the correct response. You just know. e.g...
DH: Two mince pies!
Me: And one DJ
(beastie boys)
or
Me: Two spoons...
DH: What could be more natural?
(Emily Howard, Little britain)

When the kids are in my way I instruct them to 'back up, back up, and give your mother room'. They have No Idea Why.

Loads more. It's a wonder we're able to communicate with the outside world.

If something goes wrong in our house, you say (in a bad Spanish accent) mahoovmant (movement) and the response is always baaaaahlance! (Balance) from our terrible snowboard instructor years ago

Or

In a bad Deep South US accent 'the dawg did it'

It's all about the bad accents for us

@EvilDoctorHogmanayDuck helicopters are COOOOEEEEEES in our family, as my sister used to shout it at any that flew over.

My two Dsis and I have animal names attached to us - I'm Bat (because when I was younger my voice used to get quite squeaky when I was arguing with someone!), my middle sister is Bear because, well, she's a big bear! And my little sister is Donkey because she used to be really grumpy like Eeyore. When we answer the phone to each other (or when our parents answer to one of us) we do it with either an eek eek, a roar or a hee-haw! That's raised some eyebrows on the bus or train, I can tell you

And we now call our utility room the 'futility room' because that's what my DS thought it was called!

If we discuss the weekend plans one us might say
“So at the weekend let’s go to the beach” and the other will always respond in a high pitched aristo voice “what’s a weekend?”
Feet are tootsies
Bottoms are peaches
If someone says “it’s not fair” the correct response is “fair shout gravy”
When we have friends round my DH will ask me what we are eating and I say in a Spanish accent “I cook a chicken” even if it’s not chicken.

We have so many. Some from film and TV and some just from life.

Milk is always called 'Nilk' in our house .. Its the law. our children are adult now but the DGCs are fast learning the Lore

We always fly from Gatport Airwick... I have even found myself asking for train tickets there before i have remembered its not really called that

Dual carriageways are George Cabbageways

Tweezers are Nee Naws ( as in sirens) because sometimes you need to get them urgently to take out an unexpected unsightly hair