Comedy phrases you use round the house.

Feels like a thread that has already been started - but if it hasn't , it should be.
I'm talking about phrases, words etc that you use in everyday conversation, with the family etc that are sourced from comedy.
I don't mean impersonations or exclamation - like shouting "AhHa!" or "Yeah but, no but, yeah but" or "Doh!"
I mean stuff that has been absorbed into your own common parlance.
I'll start.

Like many people, I'm sure, a thin slice of anything is always referred to as Waffer Thin"
The internet is regularly called The Ilfracombe
A horrible noise, or any sort of unpleasantness is described as most discordant
(There's a lot of Count Arthur for some reason)
Similarly with "There was no fruit" when talking about the past and pronouncing satsuma Satsyooma
If my wife wants to know what we're watching on the box she will ask what I am proposing for the televisual feast
I also whistle the middle-eight from" Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the manner of Richard Briers - but I'm not sure that counts.

I'm sure there's others - but that'll do for now.

Not quite the same (not a comedy phrase or at home) but at work we have files , 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B and EVERY TIME - yes EVERY TIME I use 2B I find myself saying 2B or not 2B.

When my neighbours discuss their bloody ubiquitous loft extensions I often want to reply "I want my loft to convert to Judaism instead."

"I stand corrected [said the man in the built up shoe.]"

When I'm making jelly for my son I often sing "I don't think you're ready for my jelly." Also, food related - "let's get ready to crumble - let us wreck the Mike, let us wreck the Mike, let us wreck the Mike - psych!"

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Too hard to name them but I generally use a funny word for everything I can think of at home and to people who know me at work, and occasionally to some who don't, which leaves some thinking I'm a looney. Broadband is always broadbean and surely all chess players say prawn, horsey, queenie, knighty knight when you nobble their horsey, or 'stop bashing my bishops' (M Monkhousean euphemism) if they're targeting them. Not that I play much anymore. (chess that is).

"nice little feature" when describing something has become common round my yard. It's from the days of Knowing Me Knowing You and the photo copier.

Whoopi Goldbergs copper kettle

Quote: lofthouse @ 16th August 2023, 10:06 PM

Whoopi Goldbergs copper kettle

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I thought it was Angela Lansbury's copper kettle as mentioned in S1 of the UK version of The Office?

What about Ken Dodds' dad's dog's dead?

If answering the phone to someone I know, I will often say Good mauning -Rene Artois style.
Plenty Doh's when making a mistake and lots of 'my arse.

Quote: MrsLogicFromViz @ 16th August 2023, 10:13 PM

I thought it was Angela Lansbury's copper kettle as mentioned in S1 of the UK version of The Office?

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No no no!! Stop getting Partridge wrong!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hZTTp3kJWgg

Quote: lofthouse @ 16th August 2023, 10:31 PM

No no no!! Stop getting Partridge wrong!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hZTTp3kJWgg

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OMG - you're so right and I am wrong. I totally forgot about KMKYWAP.

If I've achieved something to my satisfaction I say "Piff Paff Poff"
The only thing I remember from "The High Life"

and I pronounce "calibre" like Hancock.

As long as you're not quoting Blackf**kingadder.

Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 17th August 2023, 6:37 AM

As long as you're not quoting Blackf**kingadder.

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As if we would?

I go around quoting Father Ted. When Master Logic used to attend church parade as part of his cubs/beavers duties I used to sit in the pew and "concentrate on looking holy."

Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 17th August 2023, 6:37 AM

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That reminds me of a line from Blackadder that's become very popular in my town. Wherever you go people are always saying "the long winter nights must just fly by". Even the vagrants and orphans that have never seen Blackadder say it and I think a few deaf orphans created a musical rhyme with glockenspiels that won an international award. The line is also very popular among the British prison population as a light hearted way of accepting that options for recreation are limited.

"What are you doing today?"

"Just popping in to the exercise yard for an hour and then reading a few chapters of Vera Drake in my cell"

"The long winter nights...."

Quote: Definitely Tarby @ 17th August 2023, 8:56 AM

That reminds me of a line from Blackadder that's become very popular in my town. Wherever you go people are always saying "the long winter nights must just fly by". Even the vagrants and orphans that have never seen Blackadder say it and I think a few deaf orphans created a musical rhyme with glockenspiels that won an international award. The line is also very popular among the British prison population as a light hearted way of accepting that options for recreation are limited.

"What are you doing today?"

"Just popping in to the exercise yard for an hour and then reading a few chapters of Vera Drake in my cell"

"The long winter nights...."

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Of course, Vera Drake was referenced in my favourite episode of Extras, the one with the Dullard.