Do you and your other half have funny in jokes that no one else gets but it makes you laugh every time you think about it?

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When DH and I were dating we watched the reduced Shakespeare company and it really tickled us so we were texting each other lines from the Othello rap, (how cool were we 😆).. we continued this kind of ritual if either one of us was having a bad day etc. it makes us laugh a lot.

for our 10th wedding anniversary I got a bench for our garden and I thought it would be funny to have it engraved, but the benches I found were very expensive so I chose a memorial bench because it was cheaper, now when people come over to our house for a bbq we inevitably get questions about who the bench is in memory of and honestly it’s the funniest thing ever and it will forever be part of our marriage and life. I’ve added the lyric for one of the verses 🥰

Here's the story of a brother
by the name of Othello.
He liked white women
and he liked green Jell-O.

Had to NC for this, but once a year we celebrate DeWalt day. It's the anniversary of when DH had a foot injury at work, needed sorting in urgent care, and the nurse practitioner asked him what boots he was wearing (to assess possible damage, were they steel caps? Reinforced soles etc.) DH answered: DeWalt

Yes! We have lots of really ridiculous in-jokes that would make no sense to anyone but us

😆😆 I love that!!

No. But I do have this with my sister.

I’m single, btw. Couldn’t be with a humourless man 😁

God no I’m with you on that one !

I have loads of in-jokes with both DH and my friends. Many of them seem to come from crazy autocorrects.

DH once tried to write muahaha to me but it changed to Mugabe so now we say Mugabe Mugabe in texts when we’re laughing about something.

A friend and I have a long running thing where we send pictures and even personalised birthday/Christmas cards with John Fashanu on them to each other. All because I tried to write “that’s so fashionable” to my friend and it autocorrected to “that’s so Fashanu”.

Although last year we stepped away from the Fashanu cards. I had been watching Masterchef and paused it to leave the room. When I looked back at the screen all you could see was John Torode with a weird expression on his face and the subtitle said “I want a flappy chip”. So we’ve had a thing about saying flappy chip to each other and also used that image on Moonpig cards to each other for our birthdays. Friend’s birthday is just over a month before mine so she was really confused when the card she thought she had ordered for me arrived without an envelope. Then she opened it and realised we had ordered the same card for each other at the same time because of Torode and his flappy chip.

The flappy chip photo (may take a minute to appear with the new MN pic settings).

I love that!

Trajan that is exactly my sort of humour 😄

we have in jokes as a couple, and as a family but mostly about random people we know who we give Nick names (not nasty or unkind ones, just very random ones that stick, we also invent back stories for people, we are basically about 12 years old…)

My H and I have one from another forum I used to be on, it still tickles us now.

woman in queue in a Home Bargains type shop, with a load of single toilet paper rolls in her arms, jiggling them as they might fall.
queue moving slowly
woman next to pay
woman moves up to till, flustered, drops most of loo rolls
man, at the back of the queue “Oi, shitty arse, get a move on”

its awful and juvenile I know but just tickles us.

everytime one of us goes shopping and we need toilet rolls the other is always reminded “oi, shitty arse”

Many in jokes with DH and I.
one stems from having my niece to stay, with my brother. She’s now a teen but when she was about 2 or 3, my brother asked her to put here shoes on. He had to remind her several times as she was getting distracted by our dog. On the final time, she spun round to my brother and yelled, “ alright, alright, alright”. My DB had to reprimand her for being cheeky and following instructions but DH and I had to leave the room we were laughing so much. Now whenever we have to remind each other to do something, we’ll yell to each other “alright, alright, alright!” To anyone else, it might sound like exasperation but it’s hilarious between DH and I.

My DH once was in hospital and they were preparing an injection for him and asked him if he was allergic to anything. He said “cat hair” 😂 so now whenever he takes a pill or any medicine we always say “check the box to make sure there’s no at hair in it.

Years ago MIL lost the car park ticket and had to pay £25 to get her car out of a shopping centre multi storey. Several hours later she felt some uncomfortable and found it in her bra.

To this day, every time we go to a multi storey with one of those systems (largely replaced by ANPR and app payment these days) DH, tells me to "Put this in your bra"

We were in Majorca in summer and there was that divine smell of the sea, pine trees and dusty heat. DH speaks Spanish fluently and I a bit.

i said “hmm pinas caldas” - was trying to say “hot pines” but it was completely wrong - should have been “pineta caliente” or something like that. “Pinas” is pineapples.

So now if DH wants to be suggestive he says in a sultry voice in Spanish accent - hmm can you smell the aroma - hot pineapples ,,, hmm

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This made me laugh out loud 😂

Many. Our favourites include one stemming from a telling off I received at work over something ridiculous. The other is from a night out where I said I needed to stop drinking wine. No wine. So please get me a wine. I think that one will never die!

Loads. Some going back to our honeymoon. They would make no sense to anyone else though.

DH once tried to write muahaha to me but it changed to Mugabe

@Tarkan I'm properly LOL at this

That reminds me of when I wrote a post about Jacob Rees Mogg and it was autocorrected to Jacob Rees Mogadishu.

🤣🤣

Me too - and I couldn't either.

Ds and I don't have in jokes as such but he’s autistic and extremely literal so over the years he’s come out with some hilarious things that still tickle us to this day (he’s now 20).

I'll name change after this but sod it. I don't know if anyone is familiar with I Can Haz Cheezeburger but my husband and I found it so funny when it first came out that we started making jokes about what our cats would say and somehow over time it evolved into us speaking like grammatically incorrect cats over text. It stayed, happens every day. Now it's normal. This is what we have become.
There is also TURBOT but that would take longer to explain.

We refer to "the splashery" for a bathroom or toilet, which always makes us laugh. It's because they're referred to as such in the Chalet School books, which we love, and we've never seen "splashery" anywhere else, not even in a dictionary, or on Google.

We tell people that DH likes to wrap my birthday and Christmas presents in front of me. What we don't mention is that I am blindfolded while this happens. But if we did mention that, I think many people would be equally confused.

DP and I always fall about laughing if we get in a lift made by the company Schindler (there are quite a lot around), because it sounds like Schindler's List, as in 'oh look, it's a Schindler's lift'.