Old sayings that younger folk won't get any longer

[scottsdad]

8 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Prank calling people with silly names was a good laugh although in retrospect i feel sorry for the Reverend Dick. 

I did this a lot with a mate of mine. 

"Is Mr Walls in? What about Mrs Walls? Are any of the Walls there? Then what's holding up your roof?"

 

[tamthebam]

Ah, the catchphrases of yesteryear

"You wouldn't let it lie"

"That's you, that is"

"How ye diddlin'? Well bloody sod you then" 

"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only one"

Spoiler

Any  young buggers reading this:
Vic Reeves' Big Night Out

Newman and Baddiel's "History Today" sketch

Bobby Chariot in Alexei Sayle's "Stuff"

Michelle of the Resistance in "Allo Allo" 

Also pretending to jump/run in slow motion while doing the Six Million Dollar man theme- it was usually done ironically to slag someone off

 

[buchan30]

On 09/01/2023 at 21:23, Molotov said:

I bought a holiday on teletext.

Booked it, packed it, fucked off.

On 10/01/2023 at 11:45, jimbaxters said:

On another note, I was unaware until recently about the fact that there are various closing lines to this song...

 

Stop the bus, I want a wee wee

Stop the bus I want a wee wee

Stop the bus I want a wee wee

A wee wee....

 

Complete as you remember it being in your part of the country.

 

Need a wee wee drink o’ juice

[Oscar P]

53 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Prank calling people with silly names was a good laugh although in retrospect i feel sorry for the Reverend Dick. 

Are you Lyon in Kerse Road?

Well you better get up quick, there’s a bus coming.

[dee_62]

Getting annoyed because it always seemed to be you getting told to get up and change the channel on the TV.

Not so much a saying but, if you were lucky enough to have 2 TVs in the house, the second was always a black and white portable with a circular internal aerial stuck in the back.

 

Edited January 11, 2023 by dee_62

[Brother Blades]

53 minutes ago, dee_62 said:

Getting annoyed because it always seemed to be you getting told to get up and change the channel on the TV.

Not so much a saying but, if you were lucky enough to have 2 TVs in the house, the second was always a black and white portable with a circular internal aerial stuck in the back.

 

Second paragraph very much so, ours was in my sisters bedroom on the proviso I could use it if she wasn’t, of course she wanted to use it EVERY time I wanted to. 
Related, having a stereo system that looked like a fucking sideboard! 
 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 hours ago, coprolite said:

Prank calling people with silly names was a good laugh although in retrospect i feel sorry for the Reverend Dick. 

There was a boy in the Dundee phone book called Dr M Daft.

Grown men in my local used to phone him up from the bar,  the poor c**t. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

The Walls one is a classic.

Mate of mine and I used to record them on a dictaphone device.  He was on the second phone upstairs.

THere was always a few Smellies in the phone book that got it as well. 

[coprolite]

1 hour ago, tamthebam said:

Ah, the catchphrases of yesteryear

"You wouldn't let it lie"

"That's you, that is"

"How ye diddlin'? Well bloody sod you then" 

"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only one"

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Any  young buggers reading this:
Vic Reeves' Big Night Out

Newman and Baddiel's "History Today" sketch

Bobby Chariot in Alexei Sayle's "Stuff"

Michelle of the Resistance in "Allo Allo" 

Also pretending to jump/run in slow motion while doing the Six Million Dollar man theme- it was usually done ironically to slag someone off

 

I often draw a blank look for using Del Boy style French malapropisms. They probably just think I’m really bad at French, but mange tout.

[Shotgun]

1 hour ago, dee_62 said:

Getting annoyed because it always seemed to be you getting told to get up and change the channel on the TV.

I used to tell my parents that the only reason they had me was so they wouldn't need to change the TV channel themselves.

[Arthur daley]

“There is a new Argos catalogue out “ 

[scottsdad]

15 minutes ago, Arthur daley said:

“There is a new Argos catalogue out “ 

I prefer the Littlewoods one

[Arthur daley]

40 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

I prefer the Littlewoods one

The littlewoods index catalogue/shop was pish but ,shop ran at a loss for the whole time it was open. index was a poormans Argos . 

[dee_62]

"Give us a liftie over Mr"

[DA Baracus]

2 hours ago, coprolite said:

I often draw a blank look for using Del Boy style French malapropisms. They probably just think I’m really bad at French, but mange tout.

References to someone being a 'Del Boy' or similar will draw blank looks.

Although to be fair, Only Fools and Horses was absolutely shite.

[Antlion]

2 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:

References to someone being a 'Del Boy' or similar will draw blank looks.

Although to be fair, Only Fools and Horses was absolutely shite.

Correct. Although I may be biased because as a kid I seem to recall my parents having discovered some combination of cable channels which meant they could watch nothing but this fucking garbage all evening, every evening.

[Fullerene]

2 hours ago, Shotgun said:

I used to tell my parents that the only reason they had me was so they wouldn't need to change the TV channel themselves.

Is that why they call you remote?

Oh dear.

[Fullerene]

There are probably a whole list of phrases to do with using the operator to deal with a call.

My favourite is an old Laurel and Hardy sketch where they enter a room and the phone rings.  Laurel answers and says "It certainly is" and then hangs up.  Hardy looks at him and says "Who was that?".  Laurel replies "somebody on the phone said 'it is a long distance from Australia'". 

[Venti]

5 hours ago, coprolite said:

Prank calling people with silly names was a good laugh although in retrospect i feel sorry for the Reverend Dick. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

We used to do it to unsuspecting trainee counter clerks in the DHSS. Mr Jars...Hugh Jars. Or Theresa Green, there was more I'm sure but can't remember them.