For example, I’ve been; listening to a lot of Irish radio stations lately. Each time they give an Internet address, it ends in “.ie” (for Eire) and I immediately think of Hadji in Jonny Quest going “AIEEE, JONNY!”
My wife is a big reader of ingredients. When we’re at the grocery store she’ll sometimes ask me what’s in something and I’ll say “It’s…Polish chemicals”.
I may well be the only person to take catchphrases from Fifteen Storeys High but it amuses me.
Two of the most frequent are “No coffee” and “It’s been a long day”, both of which cause me to sing show tunes from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
My first thought was “surely”, but that’s common.
At the beginning of Law and Order they usually end the opening with a humorous quip. On one they found the murder weapon which was a trophy. Lennie said something like, “they should have given her a plaque”.
Whenever there is a trophy, plaque, or even plaque psoriasis, I will give a variation of the Law and Order line. I adjust it based on the circumstance.
There are a lot of Malcolm Tucker quotes that have worked their way into my vernacular.
An exasperating situation usually elicits a “Christ on a bendy bus…” from me. When I met Peter Capaldi I told him this, and he wrote it on the headshot he was autographing.
We curse a lot at my office, which can take newbies by surprise. After we ended a conference call one day, I said to my long-time boss, about the dingbat security manager who’d been running the call, “Well he’s as useless as a marzipan dildo.” and the new guy in our office had a look on his face like, okay things are different here.