Dun dun duuuuun
My dad has many strange quirks (we call him Captain Mannerism) including saying 'shirtly' instead of 'shortly', singing stupid songs to me even though I'm 20 ('Hippity hoppity hippity hop... flippity floppity flippity flop' doing bizarre bunny-like dancing), calling me 'poppet', 'sprocket' and 'chick-pea' despite aforementioned age. And so on. But the one that goes furtherest back is when any sort of soap or drama ends and the credits roll, he'll announce to the room

"AND ON THAT BOMBSHELL."

He will also do it after The X Factor.

In a similar vein, my grandmother warbles her way through the soap theme tunes (Emmerdale is particularly excrutiating), made funnier by her incredibly strong RP accent.

On the other side of the family, my great aunt - 95 this year - has soft toys called The Creatures. These are two vile teddy and bunny things (with another teddy addition a few years ago around her 90th) who are about 40 years old and haven't been washed. They're pretty grim. When we go to see her she feeds us year-old cake - "I can't rememeber whether this was made last November or the November before..." IN MARCH - and makes us kiss The Creatures. We, seasoned veterans, know not to actually kiss them as they're probably poison. My aunt's* fiance didn't... I'm surprised he's still alive.

*That's a different aunt. My great aunt is not a gereatric bride.
(Judge Society would be a pexagram, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 22:09, 1 reply)

my mum whistles the theme tunes
from emmerdale and corrie.
badly.
i've told her that, if she doesn't stop it, i'm going to either kill her or spray her lips with WD40 to stop the horrendous squeaky whine she produces.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 22:25, closed)