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!

YouBetterWerk she's a perfectly normal grown-up home-owning lawyer who just happens to be obsessed with Frozen to the point of forcing it on her family and friends, tyvm. We had to do a Beauty and the Beast one for BIL's bday They're well-suited at least!

Great thread! DH and I have quite a few of these strange rituals.

We have a lego man who is never mentioned, but constantly gets moved and hiden around the house. It is an unwritten rule that you never ask where he is so it can be weeks before he is found and moved again. I was worried when we moved house that he was lost, as I hadn't packed him, but on the first day in our new house he was "found" hiding in the bathroom cupboard! This tradition has been going on for about 13 years!

We have 30 years worth of bonkers phrases or actions
If I stick my boobs in his face, he has to honk them, when I'm engrossed in reading etc. I will look up and his bare bum will be in front of me waiting to be bitten
Any mention of potatoes has to be countered with "what's 'tatas, precious"?
Badly behaved children are "filthy little hobbitses".
We sing "let's go die" to any scary film/programme where someone goes into a room without putting the light on.
Lots of quotes from random 80's films/Star trek/Star wars/Blackadder.
We delight in telling each other when we've done a really huge poo.
if Dh says something I mildly disagree with I say, "you sir are a BUFFOON!" Extremely loudly,
He whispers "Haaarrrry Potttterrrr" in my ear in his best Voldermort voice at random moments and if I sarcastically praise him if he happens to mention doing the dishes/whatever, he will say "mistress has given Dobby a sock".

Previously HAHAHAHA

We have a secret phrase in case one of us gets cloned and we need to know which is the 'real' you.

won't the clone also know the phrase ?
We have a secret phrase so that when one of us dies, the other will go to séances and see if the medium gets the message 'from the other side' (like Houdini & his mum...)

Would a clone know the phrase? Oh bugger, there goes that one. But it will be ok in other sci-fi related scenarios won't it.

lol - we also have a code word in case one of us gets kidnapped ( have read too many Enid Blytons where George writes her name as 'Georgina' to alert the others she is acting under duress .
The other day my DH posted on FB that I must have been kidnapped, because when he texted me I texted back that I was busy cleaning the oven, so he knew I must be sending a coded message....

no way. dp and I have just had a conversation about our code word and also our rendezvous point should we get into trouble and have to run away!

My mum and I have a secret code too!
She said that if any of us were kidnapped and were allowed a phone call we had to ask 'How is Lady?' Lady is our dead dog.
The other day I tried it out on her to see if she remembered.
'What are you TALKING about?? Lady died twenty years ago.....WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU??'

So that didn't work and meanwhile I lie dying in a cellar somewhere.

YouBetterWerk, that's hilarious.

I'd be all indignant saying 'I could be lying dead in a ditch!'

DH & I met in northern Nigeria, so several Hausa words and phrases have become in jokes. Also, if I refuse to do something, he'll threaten to "Send me back to DF for insubordination", a common practice there then. I would just love to see the bemused expression on DF's face if DH did ever follow through on this one!

I fear there will never be a thread as good as this

When dh asks what's for dinner and I say "no idea" he shouts "blind venison for tea again kids"
If I say 'I beg your pardon' he immediately sings 'I never promised you a rose garden'

Damn right Goady

Damn right.

I answer the phone like the local Indian takeaway - "good evening, tandoori palace, can I help you?" To DH. He will then speak in Bengali and I will reply (we both know a little). When we run out of words we know, we make random sounds at each other before one of us him says "when you're ready to be a grown up.." Before we both giggle

If I am annoying him he offers to teaspoon me - this means putting a teaspoon in a freezer then putting it under the clothes and onto the skin of the unsuspecting person. He did this once when my drink was spiked and I passed out, but I remember it felt horrendous!

He dances and sings to the emmerdale theme

We sarcastically use over the top soppy phrases
DH "aw I love you babes"
Me "oh you're such a honey"
DH "you're my bestest friend. Love of my life"
Me "I love you infinity Hun"
And on and on until one of us comes out with "that's enough for today. Rub my feet/cook my tea/give me sex" and we both fall about laughing.

The other one I can think of is in bed. we lie watching something / reading etc and he will at some point start prodding my arm. This has somehow become his sign for "I'm tired. I want a cuddle, roll over." If I don't do this fast enough, he will prod and give me the most rediculous puppy dog eyes and sometimes a whine until I give in

We are so lame

Thats the beauty IsItI. Its not lame at all

Our family motto, "We're a teaaaaaaammm!"

We do dance offs and dance something silly, our toddler recently joined in our dance offs.

We sing, "The coconut nut is a giant nut"

DH calls our DD Tinyfarts because "she made tiny puffs of wind when she was a baby."

Whoever does 'cheers' says "cheers big ears" and the other has to say "fuck off Noddy"

DH and I do the 'Boop Bump'- we puff out our stomachs as far as they'll go and bash each other, sumo-wrestler style.

Sometimes when he gives me a hug, he does this little wriggle. I then pat him on the back and say in my most patronising tone "Aww. Do you feel satisfied now?"

In a restaurant, if he reaches over the table to hold my hand- it turns into an arm wrestle.

And he has to do the 'doo-doos' to certain TV theme tunes (Bones springs to mind). If he fails to do them, I shout in an injured tone "You didn't do the doo-doos! Do the doo-doos!". If he does them, and I don't acknowledge them, he shouts at me (in injured tones) "You don't appreciate my doo-doos!"

Incidentally- I knew that his family were my kind of people when he told me that when they enter a lift, they all stand facing the back of it, to the bemusement of other lift-users. They all have to maintain poker faces while doing it or lose points...

1. we sing 'wimberwe, awinbewey, wimberwey awimberway
   In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight' while in the presence of anyone wearing animal print.

2. We discuss things pretty argumentively. We don't mind. We each understand it needs to be done.

3. if asked if we want tea or coffee we say 'yes'. If it's tea, we say 'tea tea' (as opposed to herbal).

4. we use sign language and a wierd selection of facial expressions we've invented. Sometimes DH pretends to not understand me... If there is a safe distance and a thick sheet of glass between us.

We have a particular pitch of whistle (funny because DH claims he is tone deaf but still manages this) and an ansering one. Used when separated in large supermarkets.

Thank god it's not just us

Yup because you're so special and extra ordinary as a couple that it's only the two of you that have in jokes.

Oi Jared, take your face elsewhere. This is not the time or the plaice.

That reminds me. Fish puns. Dp hates my fish puns, but I do it just for the halibut

We will often grab a cat, turn it upside down and look sorrowfully at its paws. "This kitten still has no fucking mittens".