The insular family bubble of weirdness...
I am rather enjoying the stories of weird sayings in family units. They've made me realise that Los family Doofus have an enormous amount of them...and they probably shouldn't be revealed on teh web. Oh well...

When I was a young thing I used to say "I git bin" instead of 'excuse me', which makes absolutely no sense. I also used to call Fireman Sam 'Fibey Dodo'.

My Dad upon his return from work every evening, without fail, would exclaim, "It is I, the father of the house" (He still does this.) He also has a habit of sometimes answering my mum's questions in a pretend gibberish language, such as, "Shnig mafabi" much to her (total) annoyance.

My older brother when he was a youngster had a bizarre loathing of the word "Blood" so we would refer to it as 'blah' instead. Upon growing out of this, he developed an irrational hatred of the word 'chap' and would instantly replace it with 'bloke', under his breath, in conversation, if someone dared to use it.

My younger brother, when he was small, would refer to my mother's little finger as her 'tootie' and would ask to hold her 'tootie' on days out - but only her finger was known as the 'tootie' - not his. Weirder still, he had names for all my mum's digits but I can only remember the name of one other... 'Mimi with a shoe'

Yes, go figure that one out. More stories to come children…
(Eldoofus, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 22:08, Reply)