Do you ever work Fall titles or phrases into conversation? You may sneer,but I have a sly love for doing so. For example:

"Let's get a taxi." "Yeah! Let's Cab It Up!" "Uh, sure."

"Did that shop keeper just try and short change you?" "Yes. But McGinty had not accounted for the psychic nose." "Is that his name then?" "No."

And, to my eternal smug amusement, I once apologised to a pal after a bust-up, with "I lost my temper with you. Mocked you,and treated you with rudeness, in vulgar and arrogant abeyance, to what was untrue beneath [sic] our parlance."

He accepted, mostly out of weirded-out bemusement.

So, how about you? Ever ruined an Xmas morning by getting up and yelling "OPEN THE BOX-S-S-S-S-S-S" every few minutes? I haven't. Yet.

My favourite way of doing it is by saying certain celebrities are fans. "Melvyn Bragg? Big Fall fan you know" people bite more often than not.

I can say that I do often do that, but it is really annoying though, don't you think? by the way, what is Cab It Up talking about?

What an excellent thread! This should become a new sport amongst forum members.

Once in the USA playing poker with friends the max bet was 10 cents, which my mate referred to as 3p. Being pissed, this became C3p0 (as in Star Wars robot), which of course led me to 'serial number c3p0 54129, going down to the dance, baggy black pants, SHAKES in the chemist whilst buying his bits'. Subsequently my mate lost the game and decided to wear a shower hat as a forfeit.

At work the Capital Programme we use to build, repair, and maintain houses is called the Housing Investment Programme or HIP

So its very easy for me to lapse into HIP, HIP, HIP Priest at the drop of a hat.....other than a certain Councillor who is a Fall fan nobody has a clue what I am whittering on about

I will admit to having done this recently, somtimes to Number 1 son. He has a well worn bemused look.

I am tempted to teach my daughter some phrases too. I had considered Mit Dem but am unsure what it means and whether I want to be called one. :(

I think with myself it is more about blatantly nicking catchphrases than working lyrics into conversation.

I am especially partial to "notebooks out plagiarists!"

:cry: All the time! My worst offenses are "yer er, great" and "hey there fuckface".

Ha! I love that. I'm going to have to start doing that from now on, definitely :D

Although, saying that,did you know that Anne Widdicombe has said that Room To Live is a favourite of hers? :rolleyes:

Huge bootleg collection I heard...

I often ask our IT people at work "what's a computer?".

They just give me a funny look.

totally wired is easy to use coz its a not uncommmon xpression

ive not been unguilty of using it

I'm always saying "Never knew had so many friends till Venue. In awe." to my boss. To which he always replies "still bowing to "mythical thingy" then?"..


Oh if only my life was really like that..

I don't work stuff into conversations, but I find that most days something makes me say "There's a Fall song about that".

Dan

An easy one to slip in is the "see yer mate". If your friend is a fellow fan you can repeat the "see yer mate - yeah, see ya mate" until you get bored of it.

On the same tip, I often use the expression "the Sunday morning loud lawnmower" and have been known to drop in "Winston Chruchill had a speech imp-p-pediment" at innopportune moments.

I have found greeting people with either "hey you horror face" or "hey there f*ck face" doesn't get a particularly positive response. Therefore I rarely get to say "see yer mate."

if mrs freeranger is out and i take a call for her when she returns i shout "message for ya! message for ya!"

when i meet som eone for the first time i have a habit of saying "charmed to meet ya ""

In our late teens, me and my friends would cover our mouths and preface any observation with the phrase "I also discovered..."

Mrs Elderford is now unable to refer to Chechnya as anything other than:

Ch-Chet-nyAH (from 2 Librans I believe)

Always a good gambit in salary negotiations - start chanting 'Check the record, check the record, check the guy's track record...'

i do this all the time it drives people crazy.

I'm always working The Fall into conversations. Well, 'working' is probably inappropriate. Somebody will be talking about something that has been on telly for instance, and I will say 'The Fall once did a track about an aphid!' or similar.

That is basically why I come to this Forum. Hopefully, no-one will ever tell me to 'shut up about the f*c*ing Fall!'

I like to refer to other people's children as crummy spawn.

Aaah! I'd love to do that!!
If only my friends were fans :(

Arrivals of taxis in my area tend to be greeted with the cry ‘taxi for Mr Nelson!’ I once knew someone (not called Nelson) who would order taxis under that name so that it would be uttered by an unsuspecting taxi driver.

‘Made with the highest (British) attention to the wrong detail’ is a phrase I try to use whenever possible – a couple of times on this board at least.

The real challenge would be to include Fall lyrics into documents at work – no success yet.

people say that i talk about them all the time and that they are the only thing i talk about

"Stone toilet backgarden"

I worked that one in about holidays in the arse hole of rural france.

Went down well with non-Fall fans.

when i mention the fall to people i have never met before they say who are they or never heard of them.

I'll admit to purloining and using an MES quote, from a 'summer' issue of the NME, in which they interviewed various artists about their favourite summer records. MES said (roughly), "I tend to stay indoors in summer because people come out like dogs", which stuck with me, for some reason. I think he said he just locks himself indoors and listens to 'White Light/White Heat' on repeat, which is possibly the easiest thing in the world to imagine.

I've just introduced this forum to my colleagues by showing them Divvey's "fat kid" avatar. General hilarity all round.

" I've never felt better in my life "

Predictable I know but this is one I am using a lot when people ask me how I am. Also good to sing to yourself when walking home pissed from the pub.

My wife is interested in ancient history and dragged me along to the British museum once. Only bit of fun I had all day was singing "I'm a mummy!" whilst amongst the crowds of german and japanese tourists. Oh how I laughed ... :lol:

when in at disneyland or world or euro disney sing disneys dream debased

I'm a teacher and have successfully used a Fall lyric as a revision mnemonic with a class of Year 11 GCSE students.

There are two main Islamic festivals : Eid Ul Fitr which follows the fast of Ramadan and Eid Ul Adha which forms part of the Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage) celebrations.

So Eid Ul Adha gets 'added' to the Hajj while you have to 'Eat Yourself 'Fitr' after Ramadan.

I did point out to them that 'Eat Y'Self Fitter' was John Peel's favourite Fall song as he'd recently died and they knew about him.

The result? Probably nowt in terms of improved GCSE grades leading on to enhanced School League Table Position. But one of them bought TNSG in the HMV sale and another downloaded (and liked) 'Hands Up Billy' from somewhere or other.

"You teach!"
Two possible Fall fans.
I'd call that a result.
Nice one Sir...or Miss :applaud:

When did Peel say Eat Y'self Fitter was his fave?

I'm constantly getting bollockings from my non-Fall friends for talking about them.

A personal favourite is 'ehr.. reconstuctions, ah like tha'!'

'I didnae! I didnae!' etc often crops up.

'So drunk I can't stand or sit!' comes up quite a lot.

'Get out of my city you mediocre pseuds.. And take those red-tie bastards with you!' was an election favourite.

Could go on forever.

I can't remember when or where John Peel said 'Eat Y'self Fitter' was his favourite Fall song. But I'm sure I haven't imagined this and there's partial confirmation near the bottom of this link:

http://www.vacant.org.uk/interviews/peeldid.html

I do this WAY to often. My Mothers disowned me ;)

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