People are sharing the dated cultural references they use – how many of these 29 do you remember?
15.
Phone call with my Dad. Poor signal. “You’ve gone a bit Norman Collier”.
— Duncan Wainscott (@folkyvale) September 14, 2018
16.
If someone says they can’t do a thing, replying “Course you can Malcolm!”
— Andrew Skinner (@ndrewskinner) September 15, 2018
17.
Saying ‘It means nothing to me’ whenever Vienna is mentioned. Goes well over the heads of the younger work colleagues.
— Angela (@funkarooney) September 15, 2018
18.
“Who do you think you are? David Bailey?” to anyone using a camera of any kind.
— squeever (@squeever) September 14, 2018
19.
I’ll just get my coat, or today I will be mostly eating…… or scorchio for the hot weather! #lovethefastshow
— Jo Erith (@jonorfolk) September 15, 2018
20.
Phantom Raspberry Blower.
— Dave Skinner (@dave_skin) September 14, 2018
21.
Made a Byker Grove reference during a talk on eye trauma to our juniors.
Blank stares all round, followed by 10 minutes of trying to get a YouTube video to play on an NHS computer https://t.co/QuQn0IeVuJ
— Jonathan Taylor (@doctorjonny) September 15, 2018
22.
“Doing a Harvey Smith” meaning flicking someone the Vees (which I notice people have eschewed in favour of the American middle finger these days).
— James Hendrie (@jameshendrie) September 14, 2018
23.
When someone swears (unnecessarily) “Language, Timothy!”
— Chris Murphy | Críostóir Ó Murchú (@ChrisMurphy201) September 14, 2018
24.
“that’s very nearly an armful” whenever I give blood.
Every
Single
Time.
— Gareth Edwards, not the Comte de Saint Germain (@GarethDEdwards) September 14, 2018
25.
If someone’s a tad intelligent – ‘ooh, Bamber Gascoigne over ere’
— Jeg (@jegaboo) September 14, 2018
26.
“I can’t reach that, I’m not Stretch Armstrong!”
Of the stuff written before I was born, probably Marx Brothers – take your pick
— Samuel West (@exitthelemming) September 14, 2018
27.
I still say “Don’t tell him Pike” as often as I can.
— Retep Retals (@retalsp) September 14, 2018
28.
Referring to any man in a woolly hat as looking like “Benny from Crossroads”. Also anyone small and Scottish as “Shuey MacPhee”.
— Lydia Jane (@LydiaJane13) September 15, 2018
29.
Brilliant thread! I say I’m no Percy Thrower to explain my lack of gardening prowess.
— Jen (@belfast_jen) September 15, 2018
Unless writer @DMcGachey is a lot older than he looks, his cultural reference of choice predates him by decades.
I’m not sure my co-workers have the first idea who Wilson, Keppel & Betty even are, but I remain undeterred.
— Daniel McGachey (@DMcGachey) September 14, 2018
