Literary and cinematic references

Dammit. "I carried them on my wedding day…" with that wonderful long ahh, not bore.

"Bit of a cock up in the catering front!" Reggie Perrin's brother in law, Jimmy.

Youngest daughter frequently asks when fidgety if I would 'take a turn about the room with her' is that P & P as well?

A colleague used to ask me if I would be 'incommoded' if she went home early.

DH has an 'elegant sufficiency' after meals.

When someone really annoyed me and I felt like slapping them I said "Under normal circumstances, if I can remember such a time, I have a sweet and loveable nature but....." This was from Blackbeards Ghost and for some reason always stayed with me!

From Hancock:
'That's very nearly an armful' and 'At least my mother's gravy used to move about'

Thank you Lovebeigecardigans for reminding me of "Cracking toast Gromit".

When referring to my cakes, my DS Once said they were "untouched by human hands - my mother made them!" If I could have reached his ear, I would have clipped it.

Yes TeeTime that quote is from Pride and Prejudice. Sounds like a fun thing to do, eh?, when there's not much on the telly.

Greyduster, was Snudge's phrase "You 'orrible little man" when addressing Bootsie?

DH always greets his morning cuppa with 'A cracking cup of tea, Gromit'.

Teetime - I found your quote! It goes, "So keen were Rome's foul myrmidons against thee " from 'The Lake of Geneva' by By Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges. (It is a heck of a long poem, two volumes!)

Sadly, I cannot quote two of my East End childhood favourites 'keep that up and you'll come to under the organ' - a warning of my Nan's - and 'you look like Annie off the kartoffel boat' which was family code for 'you look a right mess' because using either seems to indicate to others that I'm not quite right in the head.

Greyduster the quote I remember from Sgt Major Snudge was "I've got my beady eye on you" and he would glare at the miscreant with one eye wide open and the other almost shut.

Other favourites in our household are:

"I have a cunning plan" (Blackadder)
"I see nothing" (Schultz from Hogan's Heroes)
"Confused? You will be!" (Soap)
"Good Moaning" (Allo Allo)
"Leeson very carefully, I vill say zees only vonce" (Allo Allo)
*I see no ships" (I think this is a corruption of what Lord Nelson said when he held his telescope to his blind eye and said he couldn't see a signal, but not sure)
"We are not amused" (supposedly Queen Victoria)
"My lips are sealed" (provenance??)

Pollyperkins re your "from the sublime to the ridiculous", I have no idea where this comes from, but we always say "from the sublime to the cor blimey"

My Mother used to say 'shall we take a turn around the room' ( of course, large Georgian mansions had rather bigger rooms than our council house.
She always had her nose in a book, as did all of our family.

I prefer my "Blackadder" provenance

"Frondo: What news of the foul Marmydons?
Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder: Scattered to the nine vectors, m'lord.

I guess the Blackadder writer ( Richard Curtiss?) was remembering his classics .Very funny anyway,that scene, wasn't it?

Nobody's perfect! (Some Like it Hot)
Good moaning + several others ('Allo, 'Allo)
'I couldn't possibly comment' (Yes, Minister)
You must have a portrait in the attic (Dorian Grey) - frequently prompts a puzzled look

'He's fallen in the water'; 'You've deaded me again!'
'Put the kettle on, Min!' 'But it doesn't suit me, Henry!'
'Balham, gateway to the South' (all from The Goon Show)

"Bal-ham, gateway to the South" while recorded by Peter Sellers was not a Goon Show sketch.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balham,_Gateway_to_the_South

It is a gem though and I hope this provides a link to it!
(PS being picky, I maintain "You may think that, I couldn't possibly comment" was Francis Urquart in the original House of Cards, played by Ian Richardson)

Oops! Not what I meant.

"Balham, Gateway to the South" is a comedy sketch parodying a short travel documentary about the South London suburb of Balham. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden for the short-lived BBC radio series Third Division. It was featured in the second edition on February 2, 1949. It compared the area (in postwar austerity) to faraway exotic locations shown in travelogues of the day.[1][2] One memorable part of the sketch is the pronunciation of Balham as "Bal-Ham" in an American accent, instead of the British pronunciation "Ballum".

The original sketch was performed by Peter Sellers as narrator with others such as Benny Hill and Michael Bentine contributing other voices. The script features the narration of exaggerated claims regarding the attractions of the area. The sketch was later performed solo by Peter Sellers, in a parody of the American newsreel-travelogue host James A. Fitzpatrick, on the 1958 Parlophone record The Best of Sellers, produced by George Martin.[1][3][4] The sketch was scored by Ron Goodwin, and that led Alfred Hitchcock to engage him to do the score for Frenzy.[5]
The sketch was expanded in 1979 to form the script of a short (21-minute) colour film of the same name directed by Micky Dolenz. Starring Danny Schiller and Judy Gridley as American tourists and Robbie Coltrane in several roles, including those originally voiced by Sellers. It was narrated in an English accent, by David de Keyser and was released for broadcast in 1981.[6][7]

Was that beautiful downtown Bal-ham?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTWk9QIKS0

At last I hope.

If I suggest to DHthat we go our for the day he says 'Barkuss (sp)is willing'

'Don't tell them your name, Pike'
'You stupid boy!'
'They don't like it up 'em'
(Dad's Army, of course)

'Make it so'. Captain Picard aka Patrick Stewart
'Live long and prosper' - Vulcan greeting
'Two to beam up'
(Star Trek)
Apparently no-one ever said 'Beam me up Scottie'.

Thanks for the link MawB.