Literary and cinematic references

All the time. Not just in the family. I often see blank looks on people faces when I drop a quote into the conversation.
Just recently was turning out 7 year old grand nephews pockets after a day at school and said "What has he got in his pocketses?" Was thrilled to bit when he came back with "Nothing, my precious."

H will often quote The Goons (said in a suitable voice) "he's fallen in the water" when someones had a mishap of any kind.
I'm sure there are others we use too.

" I can see perfectly" Donald Pleasance in The Great Escape

DH trots out Carry On or Goons' quotes as appropriate....or not!

In jeopardy? But I don't want to work abroad!
Put the brake on Min!
Infamy, infamy! They've all got it infamy!
Sinister dexter, sinister dexter.....

You get the drift! I do a mean Vulcan salute with my 'Live long and prosper' goodbye!!

DH ans I still use "he's fallen in the water" when we aren't quoting chunks of The Blood Donor. And "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" fits many situations. I think DD's favourite is "That's not a knife - THIS is a knife" (Crocodile Dundee) with any suitable implement substituted.

From Pretty Woman (after the snobby shop assistants are mean to her and she returns loaded with shopping from another store) "Big mistake, huge!"

From Victoria Woods "Shoe Shop" sketch "Are you Taurus and can't stand cabbage?" "I brushed up against him in sports jacket once" "Flatter now" - I have seen this sketch many, many times and it ALWAYS makes me laugh

I get this habit from my father & grandfather, it can slightly irritate DH, but as Lord Peter said '[using quotations] saves original thinking'
I say now, of too many things:
'all sound and fury, signifying nothing'
or 'a portrait of a blinking idiot'
and of too many young women of my acquaintance:
'Oh, mine Oberon, what visions have I seen, methought I was enamoured of an ass'

At work, in an endless meeting, I would sometimes say:
'An if 'twere done, twere well done quickly'
but then learned it only prolonged the proceedings whilst people looked blankly at me!

Indeed I wonder how many subconscious things we pepper our conversations with and as some have said people often look at us blankly when our points of reference are not theirs. Nothing quite like it for underlining an age gap. My sister and I still greet each other on the phone with 'What news of the foul Marmedons' to which the proper response is 'None my Lord' - anyone guess where that's from?

Teetime neither H or I have a clue

"You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment" is one of my favourites.

"Frondo: What news of the foul Marmydons?
Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder: Scattered to the nine vectors, m'lord.
Frondo: And the Sheepsqueezers of Splatticon Five? Have they been suckcreamed as a Qvarnbeast's nobbo?
Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder: Well they're dead, if that's what you mean.
Pigmot: Plus Commander, did you vanquish the Nibblepibblies?
Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder: No, my lord Pigmot, I did not vanquish the Nibblepibbles because you just made them up"

Jaws, "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat"

Monty Python "is this a 5 minute argument"
"I saw your advert in the bolour supplement"

Paul Shane "you rang melord"

OH is famous for all his silly sayings..

"No more curried eggs for me!"

"What we have here is a failure to communicate" from (I think) Cool Hand Luke.

sunseeker yes it is.

Whose coat is that jacket?
And there it was - gone!
(Apologies to Welsh grans!)

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
Beam me up Scotty (I told DH no-one said it but he likes it)
She stands, like patience on a monument
Yeahbutt nobutt
And, of course, Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy! Katek

So many of our everyday expressions come from Shakespeare don't they!

Oops forgot to add mine: "Tomorrow is another day ..." from ?

Gone with the wind

"There is death in the pot." I was never very good at cooking and my children used to say it often.

DH has many in fact just about one for every occasion .
His favourites are from Zulu.
We usually just roll our eyes
But today he met his match!
Unfortunately a car pulled out in front of us
DH was driving & cursed exclaimed loudly
Our 2 year old grandson piped up from the back of the car
" Crunch His Bones Grandad! "

My DH is always doing this. If we are out with friends and two of us order soup as a starter he does his Julie Walters waitress impression of the 'two soups' sketch. He says 'the thick plottens' instead of the plot thickens'. More tea vicar? is a favourite. Lots more which I can't think of at the moment!

From The Goons, one of our favourites is "the wick in the engine's gone out", and courtesy of a long ago friend, " no bout adout it", for no doubt about it.

And, of course, frequently used in our house:

'I know nothing'!

"Lions, Tigers and Bears...Oh my"

Said by me and DGC (from one of their most favourite films).