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.

Schindler’s Lifts makes me laugh too.

Yes we have loads, usually sayings from television programmes. We have some we've forgotten, we know they existed but we don't remember the full thing or where it came from.
The best thing is now our adult dcs use one of the jokey insults against us, it's so funny to hear them with our same words and tone, they think they're being so clever and funny.

As a child, my brother liked to be a large ham actor about many things. One act of his was pretending to be a teacher, swishing a garden cane, yelling "Get on with your work!!!!"

Another one was "Don't give me that PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" He would say this when pretending to be an evil overlord listening to pathetic excuses from his minions.

Both of these have been parroted many times over the years.

I have thousands of these. My hot tip - get Alexa to say some of them at unexpected times. Alexa just asked my dh to stop honking like a goose while he was eating lunch. It never gets old. We also like to add inappropriate emojis to messages. 'What's for dinner? 🦴' and so on.

Yes definitely 😊😊. We have some one liners like the pps, but we also both find jokes about language really funny. We're a bilingual family so there's lots of room for funny mistranslations/unusual ways to express oneself etc which are always hilarious, and we keep repeating them for years afterwards. The other day I saw an English mistranslation and pointed it out to the friend I was with and she just didn't think it was funny at all, which made me appreciate that my husband and I are really on the same wavelength!

DH and I have nicknames for all the neighbours. Earliest one is 'humpy', young lad that strutted about trying to look 'hard' with his shoulders round his ears and hunched up back, 25 years later he has straightened up but will forever be known as humpy.

We also have 'Mini Man' who once probably 25 years ago owned a Mini car when they first came back into production.

Other more recent neighbours include Bellend, Can't park Brenda, Feral Brats, Drug Dealer and Child Finder. (Child Finder is a child minder but never cuts her lawn, pretty sure crawling babies get lost in the hay field).

When my husband and I were at a 'a la carte' Chinese restaurant, there was a couple next to us. One had ordered the lemon chicken. As they were eating it, they said 'this chicken is kind of lemony'. We had to stifle our giggles because obviously the clue was in the name of the food.

From then on, if something is too strong e.g too much garlic, we say that it is 'kind of garlicky'. We say it in front of other people too much to their confusion 😂

We had to leave the local garden centre propping each other up and weak with laughter, after having taken a short cut through the aquatic section and discovered a pretty blue pond fish called a 'Blue Orfe'....... It's been nearly 20 years since and it still makes us snigger!

Similarly, our dear neighbour, (the local farmer) when enthusiastically discussing his plans for the bottom fields, left us not daring to look at each other and both with visions of a very unusual crop waving gently like wheat in a breeze!

DH and a kitchen salesman giggled like schoolboys after we looked at a kitchen island and were invited to pull up the rather nice solid wood bar stools to discuss costs. As the salesman went to sit down, his barstool wobbled a bit, to which DH commented " Hmm, a loose stool? - no thanks!"

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This reminds me of something. DH and I were walking in a local park and as we passed 2 women feeding the birds, one of them, sounding genuinely surprised, loudly exclaimed "ooh how funny, the pigeons like the duck food!".

I stifled my giggles until we got to the other side of the pond, when I mimicked the woman's comment and accent, followed by "well, no shit!" The wind obviously carried my comment in exactly the wrong direction because the 2 women gave me the most angry look across the pond.

Now when someone says something a bit dim or states the bleeding obvious we'll say ""ooh how funny, the pigeons like the duck food!" which cracks us both up.

We also have an Eddie Stobart jingle which we sing every time we see one of their lorries on the motorway.

That’s amazing 😂😂😂

Love this too 😂

Yes I love this sort of thing. We have a plaque hanging in our kitchen with a quote on it, similar to your bench quote and people don't get it and then they ask and you kind of half explain it and people don't really get why we find it so funny but we do 😂 we camouflage a lot of our jokes around the house as well. We have a coaster that looks exactly like all the other coasters apart from one detail and people almost never notice but it tickles us.

Yeah. On holiday in Edinburgh I turned the light on so I could find my way to the bathroom. My DH shot upright in bed and said “oh no!” In the manner of Harvey from Family Guy.

now every ti I watch it I giggle and so does he. You had to be there

Yes, we've been married 40 years and we've always laughed a lot. We have nicknames for each other that even DC don't know about but they make us laugh every time we say them.

Me and my boss used to laugh at this too. I once whispered it to him in an important meeting and we both got told off for laughing. Our ( senior) boss demanded to know what we were laughing at which just made it worse

I’m laughing now

Me and my adult daughter always shorten words, I can't remember when it started but think along the lines of mons instead of money and dins instead of dinner etc. We always called prawn cocktail crisps prawn cock and recently we were on a night out and after bought some snacks, she had a bag prawn cock and I had prawn crackers, so I said 'cock or crack love'? Lol

My son was diagnosed as T1 diabetic a couple of years ago. When the doc was doing the initial chat and getting a medical history he asked about allergies.

Me: no medical allergies

DS (half-dead, drowsily): YES! Guinea pigs

We all burst out laughing.

Your story reminded me of this and made me smile.

i love this!