My very own meme

[brixtonbrood]

Here are the answers to the "Things We Say that May Baffle Visitors" memette.

1. If it's tonic water you want, it's tonic water you'll get.
Nobody knew this - it's Mr Jolly Lives Next Door; Withnail without the subtlety, what Stephen Frears did before he got all la-di-da, and the funniest thing ever broadcast on British TV (including John Redwood's attempt at the Welsh national anthem). We (and all our previous housemates) can recite this - nobody else has ever seen it (or they've seen five minutes and quit in disgust).

2. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Princess Bride of course, probably the most quotable of its many many quotable lines.

3. Dark for dark business.
Well spotted white_hart, it's one of The Hobbit's less well known lines, but it stuck in His head at an impressionable age.

4. Sensible policies for a happier Britain.
Blackadder the Third of course (the election episode).

5. None more black.
Spinal Tap

6. The Gaffer's delight, and rare ballast for a hungry belly.
Lord of the Rings - Small and Tiny's Gaffer is indeed particularly partial to taters, and will only eat a meal without them under protest, so this line crops up a lot round our way.

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.
Absolutely - this one really brought them out of the woodwork - I guess Absolutely fans don't get much opportunity to share the love nowadays (but where were you two when Mark's Mr Don and Mr George-based routine in NTEP's Swamp Thing was dying on its arse?)

8. Oh the noise, noise, noise, noise!
Nobody recognised this as How The Grinch Stole Christmas

9. There's only one way to settle this...
Harry Hill's TV Burp

10. Unlike you Professor, I no longer have the luxury of toes.
Nebulous. You can, of course, replace "toes" with any body part which you feel to be appropriate - liver, eyes, head, body, etc. It's funny in context. Honest.

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[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door was on More 4 last night: have not watched it all yet but it is very Milk and Cheese.