When I get in the bath and it's a bit hot I always

[HoneyDragon]

Sing the end bit of International Playboys. Can't help myself, it just comes out.

Go on then people. Out irrational odd habit that one....

Ours are:

[at bedtime]
me: can you lock the doors
DH: and hope they don't have blasters
From Starwars EP 4

[when playing Monopoly and landing on the chance square]
Take a chance, take a chance, take a, chance, chance (ABBA)

When someone says nachos , we have to say' that's not yo cheese' in a faux Mexican accent

Haven't read the whole thing but:
The never-ending laundry. Aah aah aah.

Oh my god, I knew I had a tendency to quote but I didn't realise how many things I quoted constantly until I read this. Beyonce, Parklife, Flash Gordon, Donald and his troosers, Python. BOB. Do I ever have an original thought?

I also have NSFW kneejerks. If someone says The roof, I spend the next couple of minutes trying not to let the motherfucker burn out loud.

See, the thing is, we have SO MANY and they are so woven into the fabric of my life, it is going to take a while to untangle them.

Any carton of mango juice gets the Red Dwarf song
We have quite an elaborate dance to the Bones theme tune
Someone has to say 'all aboard the Skylark' when we get into the car
Jaguar cars get 'I like driving in my car...it's not quite a Jaguar' (madness)

Coming back later with some more, but meanwhile a huge THANKYOU honeydragon for FAB thread

Any chocolate cake ..."and if Ferdinand decides to make, a chocolate fudge banana cake, what do we do, for goodness sake....."

Marking place!

DH and the DC all shout "MINT SAUCE!!!" if we drive past a field of lambs. I have a bit more sensitivity and compassion so I don't join in .

DH is another who sings along to the Coronation Street theme but his words are: "Whaaaat a **ing load of shiiiiiite...." Not if the children are there, I should add. He's not a Corrie fan.

Anyone who's described as "the man/woman" gets the Blackadder treatment
Me: "The window man's coming today"
DH: "Two things, my lord, must ye know of the window man..."

Also whenever one of us gives the other some money, it has to be accompanied either by "here is a purse of monies which I'm not going to give you" or, if it's under a fiver "get yerself summink nice, treacle" in horrific sub-Eastenders faux cockney

Singing "dinner time, der der derrrrr, dinner time, der der der der derrrrr" to the A-team theme tune.

Plus many, many of the above ...

Getting DC dressed: hands up, baby, hands up, baby your heart gimme gimme your heart gimme gimme. All three of us in beautiful cacophony harmony.
Also most of the above.

I just remembered - we have movement-activated lights at work. I have to say, "she said, 'Let there be light! ' And lo! There was light." Fortunately, if other people are around, the lights will be on anyway, so no one's caught me at it.

Loving you...

Is easy cos your boobs are new

( Vic and Bob)

Or

Loving you...

Is easy cos you smell of poo/ need a poo / are a tool

(Afterthegoldrushand Mr Afterthegoldrush)

We also have 'Winchester conversations'

It's for Shaun of the dead where they talk about going to mums, killing Phil, getting the car etc etc etc

With us it's - get up at a certain time, go the cafe for a breakfast, tootle round town, come back with booze and goodies, put a film on and crash out ready for the evening ... How's that for a slice of fried gold

You do know 'im then, moreshit? :)

Does anyone remember the Spitting Image song "I've never met a nice South African". Truly awful and inappropriate (although it was during the height of other countries protesting against apartheid) and it runs through my mind whenever I hear "South African" or the accent. Thankfully I have never sung it out loud (and have met lots of nice South Africans!)

And, quite frankly, I f you don't go A-aaaahhh on hearing the word flash there is something wrong with you. Or you are too young.

Oh I'd forgotten that. Now it's my head!

Yy to partridgisms!! Sooo many make their way into my everyday speech. 'Jurassic park!' and 'back of the net'
are standard response for me. Any smuttiness has to be met with 'they're sex people!' in panicked tones. 'One flush - all gone' after flushing the loo, and every time I go over my parents I have to shout excitedly 'yes! It's an extender' when I walk past their table (they have not the foggiest why I do this, and have never asked ). If i get woken suddenly I HAVE yo shout
'FIGHT YOU!'. So many!!!

When I'm knackered after work I come hom eand announce (even if no one else is there) "Dying, Egypt, dying" which is what Rumpole used to say when he was ill.

And if anyone asks 'have you seen so and so' I'm compelled to shout 'WE DIDN'T BURN HIM' a la tubs from league of gentlemen

Soup - I always thought it was 'I've never met a white South African'. Oh well...

After reading this yesterday not only did I realise how much I seem to think/talk in other people's song lyrics but also that I seem to have messed up my DD... Picked her up from school yesterday and suggested we have a snack when we got in as I was hungry. Her response= 'Like a wolf?'.

always thought it was 'I've never met a white South African'. Oh well...

Going by the rest of the lyrics, no!

It's quite difficult to hear jazz without pointing both index fingers and saying 'Nice..'; or hearing the word 'concession' without adding 'and that's the only concession these guys will be making tonight!'

I also feel compelled to sing 'texture like sun' whenever hearing about Gordon Brown

OMG I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT ONE. Strangely not well known in South Africa and clearly people are too polite to sing it to me. Actual howls of laughter here. No, I know very few nice South Africans either. But I do like Breytenbach's poetry.