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Arl arse
Oh dear, I do loads of these things as well.

I'm quite a young Dad so for a long time I thought it must be cool for my son to have such a hip and with-it father. However, my music tastes are stuck in the 80s and whenever my lad is watching Top of the Pops or whatever it's called nowadays (see?) I do the old Mary Whitehouse Experience sketch of dancing badly and saying "What's this? It's got a good beat." Although you lot prolly don't remember that Hugh Dennis was funny before he became a doctor in My Hero. I also call all boy-bands "Take That" and expect the poor bugger to understand the joke. Worse still I never fail to point out when a song is a cover version (even if it was a cover in my youth as well).

My own Dad has pretty bad humour as well, which tends to be of the 'you had to be there' variety. Like whenever I say "that's funny" (meaning strange) he'd laugh out loud, or if I meant funny-funny he'd say, "yes, odd, isn't it?"
(Wed 10th Dec 2003, 12:32, More)