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1. • Hopkins
   • "I'm going for a bath, do you want my water?"
   • [15:34 on 22/10/08]
2. • Jack
   • err dont remember hearing that, i think we had a tap though
   • [15:35 on 22/10/08]
3. • mike
   • "Time for bed now, turn off your light."
     
     "Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiichaaaaaaaaaaaaelllllllllllllllllllllll, tea tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime"
     
     "Do you want a cup of tea?" (I make most of mine, Linda thinks its a massive deal to make me one)
   • [15:37 on 22/10/08]
4. • Hopkins
   • Jack Dickinson says:

     err dont remember hearing that, i think we had a tap though
     
     
     We were poor, or as they used to say "We're not made of money" or that money didn't grow on trees
   • [15:42 on 22/10/08]
5. • JenTheHen
   • My mother's a looney. Here are some of her favourite lines:
     
     "Do you want a walter hottle bottle"? (hot water bottle)
     
     "I'm off for a wingdings" (nap)
     
     "Doug, get me beds down" (instructing my father to bring her the duvet as she watches TV)
     
     "Hello, Persian cat and carpet company" (when answering the phone)
     "Hello, hay and feather bladder blowers" (also answering the phone)
     
     My mother and father also have little plays that they recite with one another (written by themselves) which get added to over time. I could try and remember one.
     
     Alison: You been stealin' 'ot water
     Doug: Cor blimey guv, you got me bang to rites
     
     OK, I can't go on....I can't remember and it's too weird anyway.
     
     Yup....
   • [15:56 on 22/10/08]
6. • mike
   • Thats brilliant.
     
     My Dad often says these-
     
     (In a Hull accent, he lived there two years)
     "I like that cat, its got nice feyarce"
     
     "YEBOAH!" (as in Tony, the former Leeds player)
     
     "Git Kekkle on"
     
     One more, only makes sense in our house.
     
     Pointing to each person in turn,
     
     "Tea? Tea? Bringing one up... tea?"
     
     
   • [16:01 on 22/10/08]
7. • bad admiral
   • - general griefery
     - trance music
     - red hot chili peppers
     - cattle
     - tears
     - virgin radio
     - children
     - wasps' nest between the wall
     
     i never had any form of ritual with anyone i grew up in a house with and, therefore, nothing appears between inverted commas.
     
     
     
   • [16:09 on 22/10/08]
8. • Jack
   • your parents make my parents sound normal and trust me they aint
   • [16:10 on 22/10/08]
9. • Carey
   • "squirrig" for squirrel, "par cark" for car park, "little lambsie-tivies" for lambs - all with dim and distant origins. my gran used to call some things by their swahili names from when she was an evil colonialist in Kenya.
   • [16:13 on 22/10/08]
10. • JenTheHen
    • "Little lambsie tivies" surely comes from that rhyme:
      
      Mares eat oats and does eats oats and little lambs eat ivy. Kids'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?
      
      No?
    • [16:20 on 22/10/08]
11. • Carey
    • JenTheHen says:

      "Little lambsie tivies" surely comes from that rhyme:
      
      Mares eat oats and does eats oats and little lambs eat ivy. Kids'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?
      
      No?
      
      
      i've never heard that before, but it sounds like a very likely origin. is that a northern rhyme? maybe my grandad taught it my mum.
      
    • [16:21 on 22/10/08]
12. • JenTheHen
    • Wiki
    • [16:23 on 22/10/08]
13. • MORRELL
    • mike says:

      
      
      
      
      "YEBOAH!" (as in Tony, the former Leeds player)
      
      
      
      
      
      I like the man already.
    • [16:23 on 22/10/08]
14. • Tim Holehouse
    • "Ok who at the last cookie!" usually weirdly the dog...
    • [18:16 on 22/10/08]
15. • Jack
    • My parents once tried to accuse me of phoning sex chat lines until they realized that the computer was doing it with one of those dialer virus things. Another reason why dialup was crap. They kind of casually dropped it into conversation ,
      
      'like er have you phoned any er expensive phone lines'
      er. no!'
      'u know like sex chat lines based in the carribean'
      ' er, nooo!'
      
      As if i'd do something like that and not think oh hang on this might not end up on the phone bill my parents open every month.
      
      Dont get that now I'm not living at home
      [Edited by Jack at 19:07 on 22/10/08]
    • [19:06 on 22/10/08]
16. • Rob Himself
    • This thread is the best in ages.
      
      Jen, your parents are clearly mental.
      
      I can't really remember anything family-specific, but my Dad's answer to everything is "I expect so". Both my grandmas are mad, but no real catchphrases to speak of.
    • [19:12 on 22/10/08]
17. • noone
    • '' you're going to have to move out I just cant deal with this any more! ''
      '' KEVIN! what are these marks on your sister's arm! ''
      '' did you drink my bottles of wine? ''
      '' does this look like a bin to you? ''
      '' ask your father and that woman he's shacked up with for some money ''
    • [20:25 on 22/10/08]
18. • Ollie
    • I think jen's parents may actually live inside some bizarre long forgotten 70's sitcom.
    • [20:29 on 22/10/08]

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