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

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HoneyDragon · 26/04/2016 19:17

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....

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flower76 · 30/04/2016 22:29

I do the Tetris one too! But when I cross the road!

flower76 · 30/04/2016 22:30

Every time I cross the road!

flower76 · 30/04/2016 22:34

And 'pyjama time' in the style of mc hammer 'hammer time' !

Fiderer · 30/04/2016 22:42

I go up & down loads of flights of stairs a day at work, spend more time on my feet than sitting.

As the day goes on when I'm climbing the final flight I often start singing:

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

(Velvet Underground)

PerpetualMotion · 30/04/2016 23:22

Whenever Hugh Jackman is mentioned, DH will prompt me with "what's an Ackman?". The correct response is (in an Australian accent): "I dunno, but his is huuuuge".
If DH isn't around I'll tell it as though it's a joke. Don't think anyone's laughed yet.
Except me, obviously.

winningticketholder · 01/05/2016 00:55

I am compelled to use "to me, to you" whenever manoeuvring stuff, have frequent mentions of yipeekiyay, Schwing, and whoop whoop (da sound of da police) in my inner monologue.

Have trouble resisting the urge to say "faster faster" to runners coming from the opposite direction and think "hey must be the money" to any hint of whinginess. Often ask "who leeves in a house lika theeese" when we get home

Everyone in my house has their own song made up to the tune of Copacabana, 3 is the magic number, the saturday song features widely especially on saturday - it's a saturday (etc).

DD knows the correct response to "I used to shout across the room to you" complete with air guitar, I regularly walk in through the out door and you know I was born ready mother fucker.

The music in my head never stops so there is a lot more but it is getting a bit much seeing it written down...

winningticketholder · 01/05/2016 00:57

Oh I also use the benny hill soundtrack to ease tension when in midst of rushing about or traffic craziness etc.

winningticketholder · 01/05/2016 01:09

Anyone else find Technotronic's Pump up the Jam fits the supermarket check out beat perfectly?

Doinmummy · 01/05/2016 02:52

If anyone says 'I've got a feeling ....' I am compelled to give a wooooo hooooo as per the Black Eyed Peas.

At work I have to take a reading of the Exposure Index which we shorten to EI . I cannot say it without adding EI EI O.

AintNobodyHereButUsKittens · 01/05/2016 05:14

I resisted the urge to ask Hugh what an Ackman was when he came on for a webchat. Took quite a lot of effort.

Wheresthattomoibabber · 01/05/2016 08:24

Whenever we sit down for dinner with the in-laws and everyone's deciding where to sit I always have to say "how about we go boy, girl, boy, Maggie (mil)". From Peter's Friends.

Wheresthattomoibabber · 01/05/2016 08:33

Also do some from Radio Active (which no-one has ever heard of). When moving furniture "up your end jim". When planning a trip "look out for the mullioned windows".

Also whenever anyone says "I can't hear you" my family respond with "there's a banana in my ear". Can't remember what it's from though.

chunkymum1 · 01/05/2016 08:43

wheresthat- I also do the 'banana in my ear' thing. I think it was an old joke but I can't remember how it went. I once said this to DH when we were about to eat at a wedding (he was trying to tell me something which was probably utterly irrelevant but I couldn't hear him over the chat/music). A small child nearby heard me, walked around me staring intently (presumably to check both my ears for evidence) then (I assume when no bananas were found) gave me the filthiest look I have ever seen. This has only made me say it more.

LifeOfBriony · 01/05/2016 09:11

Lots of these here, too. Anyone else sing "Arsene Wenger" (Lion King)? And we do "Don't tell 'im, Pike" and "I have a cunning plan".

EBearhug · 01/05/2016 09:22

I have heard of Radio Active, Wheresthattomoibabber. (Don't think I have any automatic responses from it, though.)

Wheresthattomoibabber · 01/05/2016 17:23

I asked my dad today where we got the banana thing from and he said it is a tv trope but we specifically got it from a broadcast about acting by Tony Robinson!

Sparrowlegs248 · 01/05/2016 19:55

We have 'what would you say to a cup of tea?' 'feck off tea!!'

It's a 20foot cock and balls man!! Whenever we can get it into a conversation (remarkably often)

(in a northern accent) " do you like (whatever) Dh?" can't remember where that came from.

There's loads, many already mentioned.

VerbenaGirl · 01/05/2016 20:39

When Hello by Adele comes on DH and I both have to sing "is it me you're looking for" in a Lionel Richie stylee...

kelda · 01/05/2016 20:41

Good thread.

Whenever I tell ds aged 7 to stop, he tells me to 'wait a minute' and if I complain I'm too hot, he tells me to call the po-lice and the fireman.

kelda · 01/05/2016 20:42

yy to 'hello' by Adele. Can't even say the word in my house without someone bursting into song.

Fiderer · 01/05/2016 20:54

My children get told "Language Jerry"

And "You watch your phraseology"

Caffeinator · 01/05/2016 22:11

If DP mentions going to the shop I say "This is a local shop for local people, we'll have no trouble here".

Sparrowlegs248 · 01/05/2016 22:16

Oh yes, one of our cats knock-on the cat flap. Me and dh prance around the kitchen singing 'theres somebody at the door' we used to make the kitten dance with us but we have ds now so he has to.

If anyone asks how many 'twelvty'
When the 'new road' was being built it didn't have a name. Now it has but it's still the new Road. It goes to Lon Don.

mimiasovitch · 01/05/2016 22:42

This thread is marvellous! We do so many of these things - Fast show and Alan partridge quotes especially. This will out me completely, but as a family we will all, every time we go through a particular motorway tunnel, wind down the windows and yell MINT!!! As soon as we're out of the tunnel windows are up and we carry on as normal. We also share with my parents and siblings a Parmesan song, which we sing on applying cheese to pasta. In one restaurant we had to sing it about 8 times as the waitress went around the table, grating it for us. I bet she wished she'd just left it with us Grin

Caffeinator · 01/05/2016 22:58

When he has seen something surprising DP always, always says/sings "You certainly wouldn't expect to see that!" á la Harry Hill

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