Do you still use old catch phrases that clearly mean nothing to either the yoof or even the not so yoof?
My go to greeting is “Hi De Hi” which hasn’t graced our screens for 36 years and now just receives a blank look and I can’t resist adding “the rock steady crew” if anyone says “hey you”… a chart smash of 41 years ago.
My dad often said “I remember the day war broke out” while rubbing his face Rob Wilton style and both of them now outdate that.
Much of my entire language and cultural reference was set by 1980. My wife barely understands it, let alone anyone under 55.
Mrs F was raised in France, so anything before 1983 is just noise to her. My mouth came out with “Oooh, I could crush a grape” on holiday, and I had to show her YouTube clips to prove I wasn’t going (even more) senile.
My grandmother had a couple, which tend to attract tumbleweed these days.
1. It’s as black as Newgate’s knocker.
2. Ooh girls, never trust a policeman.
From my own youth: I could murder an Indian.
Given the recent history of Met officers like Wayne Couzins, I’d say number two has been making something of a comeback
Loads. Too many to list here without wasting an hour or so collating them.
Oddly, nay worryingly, I’ve recently adopted a Charlie Drake voice to say ‘yaiss, quait naice’ instead of ‘yes, quite nice’
God knows why.
What we’re Phil Collins, Sandy Denny and Peter Gabriel thinking?
Interesting article about PG’s time in Charlie Drake Land from the splendid Comedy Chronicles website
https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/when-peter-gabriel-met-charlie-drake/
I think Mr Drake shows great potential as a prog vocalist. Surprising and a great shame that he didn’t take it a little further and record a whole album of Genesis.
No there’s an intriguing line of thought. What would it have sounded like if the great British comedy stars of the 60s and 70s had gone into rock music?
Ken Dodd sings Trout Mask Replica! An instant winner!
@Beezer
A question you’ll have plenty of time to ponder when your new boss Mr.Pugh starts next Monday
@Jaygee Hello, my darleeen! 😁
This week I have been mainly using outdated catchphrases that no one understands. I also have an irritating habit of talking in song lyrics that absolutely no one but me appreciates the cleverness of.
I’ll get me coat.
or responding to an unremarkable phrase with the name of the artist, year of release, and label it was on
(I’ll get me coat too)
The more arcane the better. I also like to insert the outdated sentiments into print, buried in surrounding text, for no reason than my personal vicarious pleasure. Likewise song and album titles, just cos I can’t get enough.
“Sure – I’ve got two hands” in response to being asked to do almost any task, however minor.
See also “Well that’s just nitpicking”.
During the West Ham v Aston Villa game at the weekend, when the commentator said “Areola’s out”, I found myself automatically saying “for the lads”..
My entire conversation on any day will be peppered with puns – and within those will likely be puns that rely on some sort of (hopefully) shared reference, cultural or otherwise. Some falter because said reference is not as widespread as I might have assumed.
I’ve just recalled an instance from my youth, in the 70s/early 80s – a local convenience store owner often received money over the counter with this rather nasal, strangulated noise: Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyethangggggggyeeeuuuuwwww. Years later, probably having seen some B&W film on TV, I realised he was using an Arthur Askey catchphrase from the 1940s.
A warning from history right there…
What did Horace say, Winnie?
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Which was nice
Or even.
You best buds with Charlie? I used to like his old band The Higsons. Their album The Curse Of The Higsons is good and I saw them live a couple of times.
Also the subject of Robin Hitchcock’s groovy tribute, Listening to the Higsons*
* The come from East Grinstead
And his remake of “Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)” went down well in these parts (well, I liked it).
@Gary I was the original Ted until he threw me off for Whitehouse or brick Shitehouse as I call him, not that I’m bitter.
As Unlucky Alf would say “Bugger.”
Oi don’t know about that, sorr……
WOW!! This was something that my Granny said, whenever there was an inaudible bit of chat.
Pardon?
Which brings us back to @davebigpicture ‘s I heard that, pardon?
Bit of a cock-up on the catering front
The world and his wife, not quite on message these daysq
Basil! I cry when the herb of the same name is mentioned.
Whoever heard of a Bost Office?
Please try to understand before one of us dies.
Infinite supply from the Fawlty Towers scripts.
No, it’s a P
P Off
“Specialist subject: the bleeding obvious” – I use that one too often
We had The Goon Show on today, at one point I said Needle Nardle Noo, one minute later Moriarty said Needle Nardle Noo.
That’s me, down with the kids.
“I’m free” said in a Mr Humphries voice
“Good moaning” – often heard, but I sometimes wonder if everyone is aware of the Allo Allo provinance
When rain was imminent, my Dad always used to say ‘It’s black over Will’s mother’s”.
When the rain clouds start to clear, I have heard (and now use) the phrase “not enough blue up there for a pair of sailors trousers”
(no, I’ve no idea where it comes from)
With regard to hanging washing out to dry, my mum’s rule of thumb was that it would be fine, if there was enough blue in the sky “to patch a Dutchman’s breeks”.
Mine too or if you’re late did you stop at Wills mums.
Before or after dropping the kids off at the pool?
These references and quotes are a dog whistle to the cognoscenti. I have been at academic conferences where someone observed “the least we can do is wave at each other” (VdgG album title), and another where a slide of Gabrielle Drake in UFO was used to illustrate a scholarly point..ln both cases, an enjoyable discussion was enabled. The family may not get it, but our cool gang does.
Gabrielle Drake in UFO always gives me a scholarly point.
I’ve mostly managed to learn to hold my tongue at work, because I was getting tired of all of the funny/blank looks I got from the MUCH younger coworkers…and the customers too.
My family still use all the old sayings that I grew up with, like “Lucullus dines with Lucullus” (when the food is particularly awful – the famous quote is in this case taken from a favourite chapter in “The Three Musketeers”), “Wait for us, Uncle Donald” (when anyone rushes ahead the rest), or “You are correct, therefore you should be hanged” (when someone else proves you wrong – the use of this quote predates my existence but I believe it has something to do with the French Revolution).
At home I’ll mutter out-of-date/immortal quotes to myself at any moment, usually triggered by some word or name I hear or read. Thankfully nobody’s here to hear it.
EDIT: I now realise that the OP asked for catchphrases, and my exemples are probably not in that category…apart from the Disney quote perhaps…oh well, never mind.
‘We were always working to hairline tolerances’
A line from the glorious ‘Tutti Frutti’ spoken by the dodgy Eddie Clockerty, manager of The Majestics and played by Richard Wilson.
Delivered with a sigh as his tawdry venture fell apart around him.
I use it at work even now whenever things go wrong. No one ever recognises it. It may elicit a sympathetic nod from a colleague but nothing else.
One day…
But @beezer it doesn’t matter that no one has recognised it! It’s more than enough that you get enjoyment out of your utterance.
@Freddy Steady Just thought of another one.
‘Cor. Wants a bleedin’ menu now’
A muttering from Ronnie Barker as the truculent waiter in The Complete Rook sketch from The Two Ronnies
I mutter this under my breath when I feel put upon. But not put upon enough to be genuinely annoyed.
Did you book?
Well, I suppose I can fit you in somewhere
A show PACKED with wonderful lines, many thrown away casually.
When The Beat Poets finally park the surf wagon for the last time, we have agreed that our obituary will be “We were always working to hairline tolerances”.
I have watched this several times since the DVD came out, and EACH TIME it is both darker and even funnier than I remembered.
Oh my goodness yes.
Fud O’Donnell. Should be up there in the pantheon with James Jamerson, Jaco, Geddy Lee, Stanley Clarke, Lemmy and Paul McCartney.
I bet they never mistook yoghurt for hair gel. Or wondered if an offered drinks coaster was a McVities Digestive biscuit.
‘Have ye no’ got any Penguins?’
“I’ll give it foive.” spoken with absolute confidence that everyone within earshot will immediately get what I’m referencing especially when I happen to be holding forth enthusiastically about The Necks or Stars Of The Lid etc.
My dad, who is 82, still greets people with the ‘Allo ‘Allo-based catchphrase “Good moaning!’. This means nothing to my teenage nephews and nieces, who nod politely and grimace like Giant Haystacks ripping up a Yellow Pages.
“Can we come in for a gloat?”
“Oh, you heartless gloaters!”
Not always easy to lever into normal conversation that one
(although I did manage it last week at a work meeting. One colleague smiled knowingly, and another nearly spat his coffee out)
Another one I use is when talking about an abundance of something … he’s got more xxxxxx than Soft Mick.
Borat ‘is very nice’ gets a regular outing
“Can you hear me mother?”
(a relatively common one with the advent of Teams and Zoom)
Two alternatives to use when hearing a distant police siren:
“He’ll never sell any icecream going at that speed” (Eric Morecambe)
or
“Ah. The sound of young Islington” (Mark Ellen)
I was only once able to legitimately say, while on the sound desk for an amateur string quartet, “They’re playing all the right notes” I didn’t get to finish the line as I was drowned out by several colleagues, eager to finish it for me.
If someone says “Okey Dokey”, my immediate response is “Pig In A Pokey”
I think only twice has someone got the reference, mainly just blank looks or shuffling away to avoid the weirdo
“Everything’s okey dokey in the Okefenokee” is a phrase some friends and I often used, back “then”.
It’s from the theme song of a Burt Reynolds movie, “Gator”, about a whiskey moonshiner, sung by Jerry Reed.
@Rigid-Digit
Or steal your pens
Pens are friends Mickey luv…..
How are the massive feeling today?
Tickety boo or not so pucker?
I didn’t get where I am today without remembering the myriad catchphrases from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
Happy Families … Not so pucker, I’m afraid. My cars getting rusty because my Grandfathers died
Great!
Super!
Must just jump in here: it’s “pukka” from the Hindi word meaning good, nice, well done etc. Hence the famous pre-cooked meat pie brand.
Mahat, ma coat. As no one else says anymore.
One of WC Fields’ funniest alter egos was Mahatma Kane Jeeves
When politicians try to cruise the zeitgeist. When I saw this photo I though mutt hancock was auditioning for the Fast Show.
Ooh where’s mi washboard?
hancock makes a bid to join the Fast Show team after claiming the catchphrase as his own.
I heard that, pardon?
Not now, Arthur
(And I mean that most sincerely!)
I was thinking of I Didn’t Know You Cared. However,….
“Thank you for coming to my little show tonight, I love you all!”
Uncle Mort
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
Spookily , just read of the death of John Clegg whose Gunner Graham was often on the end of Windsor Davies more withering putdowns on IAHHM
“Mr Lah-di-Dah Gunner Graham”
I use that one a lot either to fellow football fans or my children. Very few recognise the provenance even though I do a fine Windsor Davies impression. My children are 5, 8 and 9, unusual names but I love them all the same.
Oh, well *played*!
This one is a true loss.
I use it all the time
I mentioned this before but I had a year of paid leave before I retired and at a small gathering to mark going on leave I was asked what I was going to do and I responded, “I declare this the Summer of George.” Only one person of the dozen or so present got the reference and that’s from Seinfeld which only dates back to the 90’s. How would they go with my numerous Benny Hill references?
At the sight of any obnoxious tory / royal / billionaire: “Come the glorious revolution they’ll be 1st against the wall”.
Followed by bop bop bop.
Knickers, knackers, knockers.
Les Dawson as Cosmo Smallpiece.
Goes without saying you couldn’t get away with that today.
Anyone seen Moose?
A charity shop near me used to be very inconsistent about the pricing of their CDs & they would change from week to week. I remarked on this one time but added in a Bruce Forsyth style “Higher or Lower, what do you think?” The young girl serving was not amused – Just as well I didn’t add “You’re so much better than last week”
You probably know this but episodes were filmed in pairs hence the reception for the phrase so much better than last week.
Several of Brucie’s phrases have stuck in my response reflexes – Nice to see you, to see you nice … etc.
I still involuntarily blurt out “Didn’t [s]he do well!” when someone gets something right – to odd looks from everyone. Similarly whenever the wife and kids are wearing some new item of clothing I can’t stop myself from saying “give us a twirl…”.
All this despite the fact that I never liked The Generation Game.
Brucie was very much the master of the catchphrase. “I’m in charge” came about when contestants on “Beat the Clock” resumed the game before he said so – & it just took off with the public; while “Good game, Good game” was said because the game was anything but.
Gen game also had the “Here Kitty” shout which arose from a contestant having a deaf cat.
He was one of the impressions that everyone used to do “I’m an entertainer” & Spitting Image had a sketch (couldn’t find it on YouTube) of him searching for a new catchphrase – “Catchphrase new a for searching”
I wish I didn’t retain this stuff but I recall Larry Grayson taking over the Generation Game and trying out a new catchphrase “what a lot (s)he’s got!”. While he was the equal of Bruce in terms of catchphrases (e.g. “Shut that door!”) – he couldn’t make that new one stick.
Not a catchphrase but the (now) five year old had a soft toy a few years ago, a horse that had a rattle thingy on it. It went *everywhere* with him.
I called it Shergar, and it stuck.
@ivan
Shergar would surely only be appropriate if Ivan Jr’s equine companion went missing, never to be found again
My father would say Flippin’ Kids which I found out much later was from Educating Archie and said by T Hancock in the role as tutor.
“Can I do you now Sir?” and “Don’t forget the diver ” from ITMA I still use.
There was a sketch on I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again which set out to prove that any word or phrase repeated often enough could become a catchphrase and used the word “Teapot” so I still occasionally use that.
“Another episode included characters randomly blurting out the word “teapot” in the hope that the audience would be conditioned to find it funny. And by halfway through the episode they were.” From TV tropes.
Old school. Nothing wrong with that.
My long-departed mother would sometimes have us all in kinks with her ridiculous impression of Jimmy Durante and one of his catchphrases.
‘Hatcha-matacha! My nose is like a saveloy!’
Do you do that thing with a paper cup … sitting at my piano the other day
Just me then …
Doesn’t everyone?
I have a photo of my dog doing that
Post it, man!
You can’t say things like that and leave us hanging.
What about catching the invisible ball in the paper bag?
I do that one all the time. My dog is always so impressed…
I’m doing it now. May aswell. There’s nothing on telly..
At one of the places I worked, a girl always used to say “Flippin’ Heck” to which I would add “Tucker”
I say that quite a bit too. Usually in response to something that most people would react to with sexual swear words.
‘Twenty Twelve” and particularly “W1A” are good sources for catchphrases in our family.
‘Cool, yeah, no worries’ (from the dozy intern Will in W1A)
‘I’m not being negative or anything but…’ (Tracy the comms woman in W1A)
‘Very Strong’ (Jason Watkins’ annoying Director of Strategic Governance in W1A)
Virtually anything said by nightmare PR person Siobhan Sharpe (‘Here’s the thing yeah’ etc)
“Do you want a toffee, officer?” – something my dad would say every time he saw a police officer out and about. Sourced from some old radio comedy show, possibly Al Read.
As long as they didn’t have to fish it out his pocket…….
“Roll on Christmas!” promptly followed by “Let’s have some nuts.” is one my Dad (and now I) use frequently. He also says “see you on the ice” when we part ways, which I’ve never quite found the derivation of.
Smashing Super Great
Jim Bowen claimed he never actually said the phrase but was an invention of impressionists
(like Mike Yarwood putting “Silly Billy” in Dennis Healy’s mouth)
Look at what you could have won…..
It’s a speedboat. Great prize, unless you live in Wolerhampton.
Either way, you can’t beat a bit of Bully
I always say “Hold the line caller” when passing a phone to someone else…my kids always find that amusing/mad
Also, I was at work last week and said to a much younger colleague “You have two hopes mate, no hope and Bob Hope”…the virtual tumbleweed crossed between us as he looked at me as if I was talking Chinese.
Often when Mrs F asks me the time, I do the “the time sponsored by Accurist will be… pip… pip… pip…” thing.
25 years married next month. There’s no escape for her now.
On a related line, a friend of mine a.ways answers his mobile with a chirpy “Hello, who’s calling The Golden Shot?”
Bernie the Bolt?
A handbag?
Re all the above:
I don’t get it!
Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch.
The Mrs always asks me if I have these as I leave the house!
See also: “keys, money & fags” (from Line Up by Elastica). Except I don’t smoke.
Not sure if it was ever a catchphrase but my parents used to say “suits you being ginger”, which made even less sense given that none of us were ginger.
“Suits you, sir!”
A favourite is “I was very very drunk..”.
And courtesy of Faux Geordie, who I assume got it from somewhere, “Trebles all round!”
@Mike_H
“Trebles all round” was from the Private Eye cartoon strip about the BBC
Yes, indeed! Little bit o’ politics…
It is absolutely essential to drawl or write “Oh, I saaaaaaaaaay!” inna Leslie Phillips stylee in response to any vaguely risqué content one may, er, come across.
“Language, Timothy” has a similar use.
Another of Leslie’s most louche lines was “ding, dong!”, as when he
encountered the splendidly named Miss Allcock. The second half of
the line seemed to get longer and longer as he aged
His “helllllllllloooooo” was also a wonder to behold
Thanks Jaygee! Leslie Philips just brightened my evening enormously.
Ding Dong indeed!
They don’t make ‘em like Leslie anymore.
If Leslie was a bit of a bounder, Terry -Thomas excelled
at playing utter cads.
TT’s great catchphrase:
Thanks again @Jaygee. Another gem that amused me no end.
There’s a lot o pleasure to be from watching these old clips
When these films were made society was actually full of cads, bounders, rotters, ne’er-do-wells, nincompoops and Neanderthals.
Not to mention floozies, minxes, jezebels, trollops, tramps and women of easy virtue.
All now extinct. Or very endangered species.
You might find a cad in Clacton in 2024!
“society was actually full of cads, bounders, rotters, ne’er-do-wells, nincompoops and Neanderthals.” or the Tory party and reform as we know them.
As the Clacton cad is about to have his third stateside visit I think Clacton is the last place you’d find him.
No worries, @kaisfatdad
If you’ve never seen this, take the phone off the (proverbial) hook and sit back while you enjoy one of the funniest of the many classic comedies Britain turned out in the 1950s.
Thanks a lot @Jaygee. I look forward to watching that a little later.
Really enjoyed that @jaygee. I think there’s a role for the actor Kevin Eldon as the “I suppose I’m sacked again” guy if they ever do a remake..
Cheers, S
Wonderful movie, can’t believe it’s not better known as it’s one of PS’s best and has the added bonus of a caddish TT and the late great Dennis Price at his oleaginous best.
Remember seeing TNT as a late-night movie the first time I went to the US in the mid-70s. Didn’t see it again for the best part of 30 years. So glad it’s regularly on Talking Pictures and there on YT for everyone to enjoy
Much as I love Kevin Eldon – possibly the most versatile and under-rated comic actor in the UK right now – I hope they never remake TNT (or Kind Hearts and Coronets for that matter)
@Sewer-Robot
Rewatched TNT last night and see what you mean about KE.
He’d also have been pretty good playing Sonny and his numerous alter egos
Shirley Eaton.
*vigorously rubs thighs*
If someone says something that might deviate from the truth I’ll comment “Is that true Colin?”
A line Vim Fuego says to Colin in “More Bad News”
No one apart from my brother gets this
Colin’s line before it: “I’ve never moved my arm so vigorously before”
Language Timothy ! I use that regularly , even though I am known to use the C (nut) word an awful lot
On a similar tip, I’ve adopted Andy Zaltzman’s “Family Show” whenever I hear a swear (or, even better, when I hear a double entendre), despite the fact that I am not Truman Burbank and my pedantic mates are quick to confirm this..
A few more that I still use:
I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more
You Plonker
Lovely jubbly
Stupid Boy
Don’t Panic
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Following just about anything – “as the actress said to the bishop…”
Americans say “that’s what SHE said” to achieve similar laughs.
Or vice versa depending on the context!
Whenever someone was checking they had everything before leaving the house my Dad would say “got your bag of peanuts?”
If I say it to anyone these days it might get a little chuckle.
I have the whole of Blackadder at my disposal, such as
Fortune vomits on my eiderdown again – when things don’t turn out how i wish
There are two things you need to know about the wise woman
Wetter than a haddock’s bathing costume
Some beams and some beans make….. some beans
And thousands more
One I liked was:
This is the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect, got stuck on a sticky bun.
Bob
For reasons too tedious to go into, for my first year at university I acquired the nickname Bob. Got used to exaggerated “Bob” pretty quickly. Happy days
I was also called Bob in college by a woman who is still a friend of mine. At the time I found it very annoying so I told her I would inform our friends that it was the nickname I had for my penis.* That was the end of that
*it was actually “Eveready”. 😉
More tea, vicar?
If someone is being pedantic. about spelling there is always
“Aye, and there are two G’s in bugger off”
(from Local Hero.)
And Now for Something Completely Different I notice that some of these catchphrases are quotes from films or TV programmes and only used once in the programme/ film. Do they then become a catchphrase if used by several people outside the context of the film or is it just a quote?
I’ll “get in the back of the van”
From Me Mum – “You’ve made your bed – now U lie in it” – generally meaning “You Caused it etc”
From Me – “You Can’t Put Brains In A Statue”
Where Was You In The Q – when Brains/Skills was being handed out?
“If It Had Been A Dog It Would Have Bit You” – Lost & Found
“Pick Me A Winner” – Snot Job Picking
“You Never Forget What You Remember, Do You” as said to me by an Old Boss as I reminded him.
“How Do You Eat An Elephant? a piece at a Time – process learning/Teaching
From Dad “Do I look Like I came down In The Last Shower?”
“If Your Auntie Had Balls – She’d Be Your Uncle”
Don’t Piss In My Pocket
‘
The closest he gets to exercise/his idea of a workout etc is a rub down with a copy of Sporting Life
No idea of origin (nor has Google) but meaning is clear.
Only heard a few times but always makes me laugh
The closest he gets to exercise/his idea of a workout etc is a rub down with a copy of Sporting Life
No idea of origin (nor has Google) but meaning is clear.
Only heard a few times but always makes me laugh
My dad used to say, “Stopping long?” when he caught someone unpacking their trunk.
That reminds me of some famously useless advice when I had misplaced a crucial piece of paper and I was searching for it.
“Don’t look where it should be…look where it SHOULDN’T be!”
A few days later I thought of a great answer “what…like rammed up your big flabby arse?” but it would have been ineffective to do if then.
L’esprit de l’escailer (the wit of the staircase) as the French say.
I know the feeling well.
Mrs Malc and I lapse into Alan Partridge quotes at times. Probably the most common is the last line of every chapter in his autobiography, i.e. “needless to say, I had the last laugh” which applies to a few people we know. This has now morphed into “needles to say…” after his interview with Julia Davis’s character in one episode, followed by much eye-rolling from the younger members of the household.
Back of the net!
Two others come to mind:
“Well, I’ll go to the foot of the stairs” (usually after some surprising news)
“I’m a fool to myself”
There doesn’t seem to be any mention of catchphrases from adverts.
“Don’t forget the fruit gums mum/chum”
“Everyone a fluffy one”
“Cooee Mr Shifter” etc.
Or public information films
“Charlie says”
“Parking like Reginald Molehusband”
“Wish I was as clever as you Brian”
“According to Mummy, I’m going to be a proper little madam”
Sir Isaac newton told us why…
When they say “Do you know [something bleedin’ obvious]?”
The reply should be “You hum it son, I’ll play it”.
Course you can, Malcolm
I take great delight in confusing young people with the words ‘Where’s me washboard?’
….which was of course an affectionate pisstake of the kind of catchphrase a wartime comedian might have. We’re getting nostalgic about nostalgia now.
Ahhh .. Nostalgia about nostalgia. That brings back memories ..
In my mind I hear Dennis Norden on Looks Familiar saying “If you’re one of those people, who remembers…”
Mystified callers to Kirk Central are oft greeted with “You’ll have had your tea?”
My pal Chris used to answer the phone with the statement, “Hello, Polbathic lighthouse”.
Polbathic is an inland village in Cornwall.
I’ve just picked up a refill for my floor cleaner which is made by… Bona. Sadly, the 23 year old assistant didn’t say it was bona to vada my jolly old eek, and I thought she would be baffled by any compliments on her riah. Perhaps I should have been bold.
Does it clean a big big carpet all for less than half a crown?
That was done by the creative guys who founded an agency called Allen Brady and Marsh. Initially famous for their jingles in the 60s (Cyril Lord was another of theirs) they went on to even bigger things in the early 1980s,
.
Their audacious winning pitch for the British Rail account is regarded as one of the greatest presentations ever
https://admatic.ie/2022/09/15/the-greatest-pitch-of-them-all-abm-for-british-rail/
ABM were unashamedly populist and flash. The team wore white suits, Marsh drove a rolls and was married to Pat Phoenix.
Reviled in the agency world, big spending tv clients loved them.
When people ask me if they can do something, I tend to reply, “‘Course you can, Malcolm”
When people are in disagreement I tend to say “We have a difference of opinion here, Geoffrey”.
When setting off on a walk, cycle ride etc., people sometimes say, “Here we go…” I usually respond “2, 3, 4”
Unless @thecheshirecat is there and gets in first
“Dave’s not here”
When someone is persistently misunderstanding the situation.