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[brixtonbrood]

Gacked from e_pepys, the nearest and dearest references meme. This version gives you the top ten references that a visitor is most likely to be baffled by in an average evening's conversation chez Brixton Brood. If you recognise the reference, demonstrate it with an appropriate quote of your own.

1. If it's tonic water you want, it's tonic water you'll get.

2. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

3. Dark for dark business.

4. Sensible policies for a happier Britain.

5. None more black.

6. The Gaffer's delight, and rare ballast for a hungry belly.

7. What's this man won? Bugger All. This man won the World Cup. And he won the World Cup because he had a proper bloody haircut.

8. Oh the noise, noise, noise, noise!

9. There's only one way to settle this...

10. Unlike you Professor, I no longer have the luxury of toes.

Comments

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

2. TWU WUV!
7. That's how you do it!
9. Come on Mars, get in there!
10. There's only one way to kill a cactus.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

2. is of course correct. 7 and 10 are probably right though the precise quotes are unfamiliar to us. 9 is right, but I have lost a large personal bet with myself, because I would have put good money on you saying "You've got to have a system".

[rufusfrog.livejournal.com]

I got 2. but not this response. (I thought it was an acronomym, like a ROUS for example, but then it clicked. Looks suitably embarrassed.)

[white_hart]

2. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

3. Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

6. Per-tay-toes

9. Are the badgers groomed for the badger parade?
(Not sure I'm thinking of the same thing as you here!)

4 is also very much on the tip of my tongue...

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

All correct. 4 is obscure unless you can recite the entire bloody canon (like we can), but one of those phrases which comes to mind a lot (especially when visualising John Redwood in a blender).

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

7 He may have murdered six million, but you could take him home to your mother!

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

We discarded that one on the grounds of taste, but yes indeed.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

7. What do we want? We don't know! ... What do we want? Well nothing much really but if you were to push us we wouldn't say no to a blender. ... Alright move along! [When the p'lice arr-ived the de-mo was dis-banded...]

2. Prepare to die!

4. I have unfortunately become Prime Minister right in the middle of my exams.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Oh! 5. You can't dust for vomit.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Yes to all except 7, which may well be right, but which we don't recognise (though frankly it would be a difficult original quote for you to have misidentified - it's pretty specific, so let's assume you're right).

Onsteybridge

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Well I can sing Sensible Hair if you like but generally I prefer the sketches to the songs... :)


I can probably quote more or less the entire series, which is quite scary.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Yes. Second sketch on this page.

Now with added 'bloody hell that's Nick Hancock' moment missing from original viewing.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

"What do we earn?" "Plenty thanks." "When do we get it?" "Monthly."

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Don't tell him!
No, we (er) won't...

[gingerelanor.livejournal.com]

I've come to this months late, clearly, and I am commenting without reading and of the other comments (honest!) so...

3. Struck by lighting, struck by lighting! Would you like some tea? Seed cake? Ale? Porter? They're all in my larder.

6. Po-ta-toes. Preferably with some thyme, some bay leaves, and a little coney.