Common words or phrases that immediately make you think of other words, because of so

[WOM]

That brings things back - my grandmother's was to respond to "I see," with, "said the blind man to his deaf daughter."

Yup. Our was "I see, said the blind man to his deaf wife, as he picked up his hammer and saw..."

[Hot Pepsi]

If you ever said "guess what?" to my father, he'd reply "cold potatoes aren't hot."

If anyone ever says to me "listen" my immediate reply is "You smell something?"

Where I'm from the response to "Guess what?" is "Chicken Butt!" Not sure where the comes from. A an eight-year-old taught it to me, but it's pretty common.

[Hot Pepsi]

"Stop..." collaborate and listen...

"Bass (or base)... "How low can you go? Death row, what a brother knows Once again, back is the incredible The rhyme animal The uncannable D, Public Enemy Number One Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb Can I tell 'em that I never really had a gun? But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun Now they got me in a cell cause my records, they sell Cause a brother like me said, "Well Farrakhan's a prophet and I think you ought to listen to What he can say to you, what you wanna do is follow for now" Power of the people, say "Make a miracle, D, pump the lyrical" Black is back, all in, we're gonna win Check it out, yeah y'all, here we go again.

"Shit..." If it's gonna be that kinda party, I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed patatahs.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Another one of Granny's:

"Come in..." (to the garden Maude, for the black bat night has flown)

[Sits]

"It's..." triggers the Monty Python theme, sometimes out loud depending on the company, otherwise in my head.

[Hot Pepsi]

"It's..." triggers the Monty Python theme, sometimes out loud depending on the company, otherwise in my head.

Absolutely.

[WOM]

Through relentless repetition, I now have both kids saying "Rice is great when I'm hungry and want 2,000 of something" whenever we have rice. Mrs WOM isn't laughing any more.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Ah, Dinnertime:

My Mother: "Their are three million Chinese children who would be thankful for that."

My Sister & I in unison: "Name two!"

[Crystal Staples]

"You see [something, anything]?"
That's you that is. That's your mum.

[Logan Mountstuart]

"Bass (or base)... "How low can you go? Death row, what a brother knows.

Everybody knows that's" Death row, water buffalo".

Watching the derby tonight,I'm reminded that every time Adam Lallana is mentioned, I repeat his name to the tune of " 'ave a banana!"

[Sits]

Whereas I go into:

“Lallana” (you don’t love me you don’t love me)

As with “Ben Mee” (shape me any way you want me)

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Wandering into arcane sayings rather than completing sentences I know, but any reasonable request as to the whereabouts of something in the family home - e.g. 'where's my coat?, would elicit the response 'up a cows arse in America'. I've no idea whether this was specific to our family, and I'm not googling it to find out.

Meanwhile in thirty years time one of my kids will get into this sort of reminiscing and say oh yeah my dad used to think it was hilarious whenever one of us asked 'where's the bin', he'd reply 'ah's bin to work'.

[Artificial Hipster]

Yup. Our was "I see, said the blind man to his deaf wife, as he picked up his hammer and saw..."

My dad's was "I see, said the blind man waving his wooden leg."

There are a couple of people in my office doing some work at the moment with an organisation called Doctors of the World. Or Doctors of the World, spice up your life as I know them.

[johnr]

'What did s/he die of?' is always followed by 'lack of breath' by me, just because my dad always said it, regardless of whether they were family or celebrity, and what they died of. I said it in response to somebody asking me about him a week after he died.

Ms johnr gets really annoyed by it, so I've tried to stop. But I think it.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

'What did s/he die of?' is always followed by 'lack of breath' by me, just because my dad always said it, regardless of whether they were family or celebrity, and what they died of. I said it in response to somebody asking me about him a week after he died.

Ms johnr gets really annoyed by it, so I've tried to stop. But I think it.

Similarly, a 'how did they die' question from the kids elicits 'they stopped breathing' from me.

'How long is the train?' will prompt 'ooh dunno, about 200 metres?', which does their heads in completely on train-based holidays.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Watching the derby tonight,I'm reminded that every time Adam Lallana is mentioned, I repeat his name to the tune of " 'ave a banana!"

"Adam Lallana, munch-munch" in our house, every time

[Haddock]

word association football

[Gerontophile]

As with “Ben Mee” (shape me any way you want me)

I have to say that I am really struggling to think of anything that uses the words "Ben" and "Mee" in a row. Other than, "shape me anyway you want me".

[Patrick Thistle]

Whereas I go into:

“Lallana” (you don’t love me you don’t love me)

As with “Ben Mee” (shape me any way you want me)

I do Ave a Banana.

Also Bacuna Matata.

Years ago there was a kids show called Yoko Jakamoko Toto. The theme was just those three words repeated. I sing it with Bakayoko in the middle when he gets mentioned.

[wiblflibl]

Hey-ho. Flint.

[Hot Pepsi]

We often use the classic from Airplane?

“The Hospital? (or whatever) What is it?
“It’s a big building with lots of sick people, but that’s not important right now.”

[Patrick Thistle]

Happened last night.

Mrs Thistle: "I feel like..."
Me: "Chicken tonight!"

[Eggchaser]

"It's..." triggers the Monty Python theme, sometimes out loud depending on the company, otherwise in my head.

Classic FM play The Liberty Bell March every morning just before 8 a.m. I am compelled to blow a raspberry at the appropriate moment.

[Pérou Flaquettes]

'What did s/he die of?' is always followed by 'lack of breath' by me, just because my dad always said it, regardless of whether they were family or celebrity, and what they died of. I said it in response to somebody asking me about him a week after he died.

Ms johnr gets really annoyed by it, so I've tried to stop. But I think it.

Similarly, a 'how did they die' question from the kids elicits 'they stopped breathing' from me.

'How long is the train?' will prompt 'ooh dunno, about 200 metres?', which does their heads in completely on train-based holidays.

Death is a delicate subject but it's also a fertile ground for good wisecracks (and thank God, gallows humour is not dead).

I’ve sometimes heard people wondering aloud, in sheer disbelief, if such or such deceased (and definitely deceased) person really snuffed it. They may say things like: "He’s not dead, is he?", or: "So, is he really dead then?"

I always feel like replying: "Well, I hope for his sake that he did die because he was buried last week".

[Gerontophile]

The other famous reply to that one kev, is "well, they don't fuck about at the crematorium."