The cute --weird-- rituals/jokes you do with your DP...

[YouBetterWerk]

Here are just a few of the personal little in jokes and rituals we have, but the more I think about it the less I think other couples have them!

1. Puffins. Obsessed with them. Don't know where it came from, but we have notepads, cards, nicknames, all surrounding these bloody Puffins.
   
2. 'Sunday Morning Face' - The blank excited stare, pushed right up against my face every Sunday morning.
   
3. 'Bobble Hat Song' - Every time we see someone with a bobble hat on, we sing a song. I would post the lyrics but it is copyright.
   
4. 'Stair Necessities' - Here we have a song we sing to the tune of 'Bare Necessities' every time I go up the stairs to bed. He will also change the lyrics to reflect what we've done that day, giving it that lovely personal touch.
   
   This is just a small example, there are dozens more. We are both grown adults.
   
   I asked my hairdresser about hers the other day and she looked at me like I was crazy and said 'Sometimes I guess we say goodbye in a funny way'
   
   Please reassure me it's not just us!

[loveareadingthanks]

We do quite a lot of Blackadder 'Bob's and Flash's 'Woof!' with pelvic thrust as well.

[holmessweetholmes]

Brilliant thread! We have loads, but my favourite started over 10 years ago. Dh spilt a pint of water and shouted to me to bring something to mop it up with. I brought a tea towel with a picture of an owl on it. He stared at it and shouted 'Owl tea towel! Owlty towel! Owlty towel! Owlty towel!' because it sounded funny.

Ever since then, we have a) inserted the words owl tea towel into conversations and particularly song lyrics and b) had to buy any other owl tea towels we see.

It's amazing how well 'Owlty towel' fits into songs. My favourite being Blur ' s Parklife 'All the people, so many people, and they all go 'Owlty towel, Owlty towelty towel' Parklife!'.

I'd say we are weirdos, but clearly you all are too!

[OnlyLovers]

We also have a strange thing going on with secretary generals of the UN. One of us will exclaim Boutros Boutros Ghali out of the blue and it becomes a competition.

This has really made me laugh.

[t3rr3gl35]

Have read the whole thread and found it very amusing.

We have our share of "things" too - DH thwacks my leg with his fun bits first thing in the morning, which always makes us giggle like idiots.

Every creature in our home has feets, not paws or hooves, or even in the singular, just feets - have no idea where it came from but think it must be from when the children were tiny.

I always have cold hands and feet, and love to warm them up on DH when he comes to bed. When he squeals in indignation, I put on my most innocent face and ask "doesn't he find it erotic".

My stomach constantly rumbles and can make some quite alarming noises at times - DH lifts an eyebrow on these occasions and asks "Is that right?" - doesn't sound funny written but it cracks me up every time.

My daughter always calls DH her most favourite stepdad in the whole world, which always leads to groans of "oh, no - what's wrong with the car? Are you moving house? Whatever it is, just take it..." again, not so funny written but it makes us all laugh.

[MrsPnut]

OnlyLovers it makes us laugh as well, especially when I play the Ban Ki Moon trump card.

We must sound like loons :o

[OnlyLovers]

Ban Ki Moon would be my trump card too he's the only one I know apart from Boutros Boutros Ghali

[BodleianLibrarianook]

How do I nominate this thread for classics? It's such a cheerful thread!

[Momagain1]

You use the report function on the OP andn your report you suggest the move.

[stayanotherday]

Crimewatch is on Thursday, will sing along!

[SwirlyThingAlert]

Not as good as some of these, but we do tend to quote the sparring couple in Father Ted to each other when the kids aren't about.
So to oblivious passer bys/flies on the wall they'll probably think we hate each other's guts.
Mary: Ya stupid bastard! You've really done it this time.
John: You started it, you slag!
Mary: The next time i'll finish it!

[BackCrackandNappySack]

I think Ban Ki Moon and Boutros Boutros Ghali are the only ones anyone knows aren't they? That would be a very short game in our house.

[YouBetterWerk]

When me and DP are holding hands and have to extend the hand holding over anything, like a post or small child, we do a 'arm wave' starting with me and he body pops it out. We don't even realise we're doing it anymore!

[BeccaMumsnet]

Hi everyone

We can see there's a lot of love for this thread, and we can understand why!

We're going to be popping this over to Classics where it can bask in its own glory until the end of time.

[YouBetterWerk]

This is the happiest day of my life.

[HomeIsWhereTheHeartIs]

Congrats, YouBetter

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

oh lovely thread

[MrsTrentReznor]

Hooray! This is such a happy thread.

[PeaceOfWildThings]

Anyone joining in with Talk Like A Shakespearian Actor day (it being Shakespeare's birthday) with their DP/DH? I was greeted with a 'good dawning to thee' text first thing. I replied 'shall I compare the to a furry cat? Thine thumbs art opposible and thou art less fluffy...'

Or is it just us?

[IhavenevermetAnthonyHead]

just you I think Peace

[OnlyLovers]

Just you, Peace, although I do wish I'd thought of it.

Classics! Congrats, OP.

[IhavenevermetAnthonyHead]

I have quite big sort of puppy dog eyes that droop downwards at the corners and a small nose with a flat bridge. If I raise my eyebrows and pull my mouth and nose downwards DH swears I look like a seal pup. He adores this face for some bizarre reason and often asks me perform it on demand. I don't mind when it's in private but he has been known to ask me on many occasions when we are in polite company. He says 'Don't you think she looks like a seal pup? Go on, show them, do your seal pup face, let everyone see how cute it is.'

WTF? I'm telling you now, it's not fucking easy to do it across the dinner table of a posh restaurant with four other bewildered adults looking at you expectantly. Also, while I appreciate it might have been quite cute when I was 24, it's a bit weird now that I am 49.

[PerfumedGal]

This is really the loveliest of threads! I live with my DH and sis and we have lots of these that fill our days with fun.

• When walking and we see a discarded piece of dirty clothing, half eaten kebab, bag of dog poo etc on the pavement we have to mention it by saying 'there's your bag of dog poo' then the other has to say how grateful they are that you found it but they will get it on the way back
  
• we use renumber instead of remember as one of us got it wrong once. I even said this at work as it is so normal
  
• instead of good night we say 'see you on flip side mutha f@cker'
  
• if I want naughties I say 'hop on baby' and we always high five afterwards
  
• if one person is in a room with a closed door, usually the bathroom, the other will stand outside making a growling bear face and making their hands into claws. The challenge is to keep your face like that for as long as needed and not laugh. Then when the door opens you let out a massive growl to shock them or staying silent works too
  

-I cannot drink my tea until someone tells me it's ODT (optimum drinking temperature) however sometimes they forget
-If you are asked a question and someone doesn't believe the answer they will ask you 3 times. On the third time you HAVE to tell the truth

• We always say 'while you are down there' when one is bent down in front of the other. However my DH is foreign and sometimes gets it wrong which makes me giggle even more. Once I was head bent down, vomiting on his shoes, he said 'as you are there already' and it cheered me up no end
  

We have lots more and I cherish each one!

[NorbertDentressangle]

Another one to add to this great thread:

-when we've stayed anywhere away from home and are packing up to leave one of us announces they're going to do an "idiot check" (ie. going to check that we haven't left anything behind anywhere) but as the person doing the check walks into the room of any family member they have to say "I've found one!"

[Fairenuff]

Years ago dh made up a bedtime song for the children which he still sings now even though they are teenagers. It's 'Buenos noches poco ninos, hasta manana' sung to the tune of Little Donkey

[spancake]

Only I have things I do to my poor husband. He on the other hand is a boring old fart with a limp sense of humour. I like to:
Poke his bum hole through his clothes when he's not expecting it
Sing really really loud in the car and watch him squirm with embarrassment
Make straining noises to him through the bathroom door when he's 'taking a while' and coaching him to push.
Use our biggest and cat as a weapon against him using the laser pen
Send him hugely inappropriate text messages whilst he is at work

We do like to use baby sign actions that our ds adopted when he was tiny like squeezing our hands in the air (think milking a cow) to signal we would like a drink

There are other better ones I'm sure. We are a bit odd. I spose I make up 95 per cent of our oddness quota and he's relatively -boring- sensible.