starting singing pixies' mr greives at work, then remembered an hour earlier i'd sent a catalogue off to a mr greaves!
also without knowing often hum the fawlty towers theme in the presence of germans?!
Do you do anything like this - or am i an alone-loon?!
My wife used to do this- WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT- so, id get yourself checked out if i were you.
I did once board a bus up from the town center and instead as saying 'one to ore' to the busdriver, shouted 'DALEKS!' at him.
But in my defence, i was 13 and very excited about 'the five doctors'.
SBT
Quote from: zombemybabynow on 19 May, 2011, 02:24:57 PM
also without knowing often hum the fawlty towers theme in the presence of germans?!
Do you do anything like this - or am i an alone-loon?!
As long as you dont mention the war you should be alright.
Quote from: Peter Wolf on 19 May, 2011, 04:59:30 PM
As long as you dont mention the war you should be alright.
I did once, but I think I got away with it.
I had a colleague who absent-mindedly said, "Mmmmm-HMMMMM!" to himself about once an hour. It was hilarious and, of course, I shamelessly copied him when he was still in the room.
He's retired now but we all still do the noise from time to time. Last night, five of us were enjoying it.
- Trout
We had a young(ish) lecturer who used to drawl "Ohhhh-kaaay, sooo" after almost every sentence. Counting how many times he said it in a session became a compulsion, soon followed by pools and league tables. He's now a head of department, and having heard him speak recently, he's completely eliminated it from his repertoire - so instead I spent the whole lecture imagining the moment of realisation (possibly even an intervention!) and the years of intensive speech therapy that must have followed.
Incidentally, I accidentally said 'arsom!' in polite company the other day. I was not amused.
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 May, 2011, 11:09:14 AM
Incidentally, I accidentally said 'arsom!' in polite company the other day. I was not amused.
For shame! :D
We had a physics teacher who said "sort of" several times per minute - we once passed a boring double-physics lesson by keeping count - I think we gave up when we got into triple figures.
I cannot listen to music radio when I first wake up or whatever song is playing gets imprinted on my brain for the day, and it can be quite embarassing to be caught absentmidedly singing Jedward or somesuch on the morning commute.
Certain words or situations trigger songs too - I can't read or hear Andrew Lansley's name without singing that marvellous rap to myself ("Andrew Lansley/Greedy Andrew Lansley/TOSSER"); and when leaving work it's either "I gotta get out of this place" or the opening lines to 'Tie a yellow ribbon'.
My username came about in a similar way - as long as I can remember I have been unable to hear the name Dan Dare without a little inner voice saying "but what if Dan DON'T dare?" (I've no idea why it's always 'don't' rather than 'doesn't', as I'm usually a grammar pedant!)
Humming however is another matter - I sit oppsite a guy who hums constantly and it drives me potty, even though he denies he's doing it!
I've been possibly guilty of speaking to myself on the bus. Not internally. I can never be entirely sure, but I'm fairly certain.
M.
If i every buy a daysaver ticket the Beatles Daytripper is stuck in my head for the rest of that day
If anyone talks about or references blinds in my presense I have to very quietly say "Nice tits, love"
Drove my ex nuts during the installation of her new kitchen.
Quote from: Dunk! on 20 May, 2011, 12:13:24 PM
If anyone talks about or references blinds in my presense I have to very quietly say "Nice tits, love"
I have a few quirks like that. One is triggered by the word "Jamaica" and the other by "Alaska".
Also, every time I see a meringue I ask, "Is that a cake or a meringue?"
You have to be Scottish to understand that one. :D
- Trout
The Blind man is one of my favourite jokes. Well done.
And Trouty, I do the obvious Jamaica one also.
Another of my own personal insertion of a jokes punchline is whenever somebody says they's done something twice. I swiftly follow with: "First time he was sick, second time his hat blew off."
When I was marathon training (a very long time ago), I always used to shout "We're on our way home (welcome to the Pleasure Dome)" when I passed half way point.
I cannot drive a car in the rain without compulsively tapping the beat to 'Diamonds on my windshield' on the steering wheel. On long holiday drives my wife has been known to say "you're doing it again" while apparently asleep in the passenger seat.
On the subject of colleagues with little self-awareness, nothing will ever beat the moment when, at the end of a long shift, an eccentric man in his 50s stood up, stretched and declared, "I think I'll go home and get a ride aff the wife."
He then left the room, while several speechless colleagues looked at one another in mute horror.
- Trout
I do the meringue thing too. Also, if anyone asks if something's tickin, I have to say no, it's turkey.
Also the key/secret thing. I'm not proud.
M
Both this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trhsw_BxT_k) & this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd2yyT__EDM) all the time at work.
Quote from: King Trout on 20 May, 2011, 12:38:45 PM
Also, every time I see a meringue I ask, "Is that a cake or a meringue?"
It took a while, but the penny eventually dropped (to be quickly snaffled up by one of you lot).
I once had a decorator doing some work for me and i specified that i wanted 2 coats of undercoat and the guy who was doing the decorating said "2 cunts of overcoat" by mistake .
Quote from: Mikey on 20 May, 2011, 01:52:00 PM
Also the key/secret thing. I'm not proud.
Nope, I get all the others (and do a lot of them) but this one has me baffled.
Every so often if i am listening to the radio at work a certain track/song appears in my mind out of nowhere and then its played on the radio.This concerns tracks that are oldies that are not on the playlists regularly or hardly ever.Either that or i think i really want to hear a certain track that is hardly ever played on the radio and then its played on the radio.
I know someone that used to say "You know" at the end of every sentence which was annoying so i had to point out that it is somewhat unbecoming of an educated 52 yr old to have a grammatical inflection that you would normally associate with a teenager.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 May, 2011, 04:50:23 PM
Quote from: Mikey on 20 May, 2011, 01:52:00 PM
Also the key/secret thing. I'm not proud.
Nope, I get all the others (and do a lot of them) but this one has me baffled.
This lot had the key to the secret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-Tji1DueU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-Tji1DueU)
I can't see or hear the word Istanbul without being sideswiped by They Might Be Giants http://vimeo.com/6746927 (http://vimeo.com/6746927)
I don't know if this belongs here but,
I often quote Star Wars quite a lot and whenever the Millennium Falcon was mentioned I would follow it with A-Chimminy Skadooooo (from when C3P0 was storytelling to the Ewoks).
When the wife bought me the Millennium Falcon one Christmas (many moons ago) she actually asked for a Millennium Falcon A-Chimminy. The only reason I ever found this out was that she tried to say my mum said it so she wouldn't look so foolish, that was until I tried to take the piss out of my mum.
V
Quote from: staticgirl on 20 May, 2011, 08:51:35 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 May, 2011, 04:50:23 PM
Quote from: Mikey on 20 May, 2011, 01:52:00 PM
Also the key/secret thing. I'm not proud.
Nope, I get all the others (and do a lot of them) but this one has me baffled.
This lot had the key to the secret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-Tji1DueU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-Tji1DueU)
I can't see or hear the word Istanbul without being sideswiped by They Might Be Giants http://vimeo.com/6746927 (http://vimeo.com/6746927)
Ah I get it now. And ditto on the Constantinople thing!
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 May, 2011, 10:48:27 PM
And ditto on the Constantinople thing!
I think that particular one has become hardwired on the human genome at this point. Imagine the horror of living there, you'd have to gouge out your eardrums to stop yourself going mad.
I'm humming it
right now, thanks very much Staticgirl!