Phrases/words that you love

[ardcarp]

While Titian was mixing rose madder,
His model reclined on a ladder.
Her posture to Titian
Suggested coition;
So he leaped up the ladder and 'ad 'er.

[kernelbogey]

Perhaps we should start a Limerick/Clerihew thread, before this gets out of hand....

[ardcarp]

Isn't it well and truly out of hand already???

[Nick Armstrong]

Isn't it well and truly out of hand already???

[amateur51]

Back on-thread ...

Insouciance

Sprezzatura

[kernelbogey]

Isn't it well and truly out of hand already???

Indeed - and a dedicated thread would be the primrose path to pre-moderation, methinks.

[kernelbogey]

Back on-thread ...

Insouciance

Sprezzatura

Especially 'Una Sprezzatura d'arancia, per favore'.

[kernelbogey]

'A ridge of high pressure has settled over the UK.'

[Stillhomewardbound]

Discombobulation ...

[EdgeleyRob]

There should be a prize for anybody who can fit Mercia's word into a limerick.

You really shouldn't encourage me.

Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
I've read them I'm still none the wiser
If you are really unsure
How to get from floor to floor
See a health and safety advisor

[Stillhomewardbound]

Out of Order sign left by a lift engineer of sophistication ...

"This Otis Regrets It's Unable to Lift Today"

[teamsaint]

You really shouldn't encourage me.

Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
I've read them I'm still none the wiser
If you are really unsure
How to get from floor to floor
See a health and safety advisor

Great stuff ER. Poetic style,And with a helpful message. What more could we ask for ?!

[Karafan]

Out of Order sign left by a lift engineer of sophistication ...

"This Otis Regrets It's Unable to Lift Today"

Love it!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Out of Order sign left by a lift engineer of sophistication ...

"This Otis Regrets It's Unable to Lift Today"

- GENIUS!!!

[kernelbogey]

Going off slightly on a tangent, I guess we all have had favourite catch-phrases at various times of our lives. I think often these secure a common cultural reference point. When I were a lad, people would sometimes still joke with Tommy Handley's ITMA Mrs Mop's line 'Can I do you now Sir?'. I'm occasionally known to do Eccles or Bluebottle voices with lines such as 'You dirty rotten swine, you have deaded me'. And who has not at some point rehearsed a Monty Python sketch...?

Many families also have catch phrases that recall some amusing, embarrassing or mythical event that the members enjoy repeating, and I think they also represent some common point of reference. 'Do you remember the time when Dad...' may become abbreviated to the punch line of the story, and everyone know what is being referred to.

This might be a bit sociological, but I'm guessing some of the words and phrases posted in this thread might well have origins in fondly remembered events.