UPDATE: answers at bottom.
It is said that friendship is forged of a fund of common jokes that might be QUITE opaque to strangers. If this is true, my family is very friendly with each other, as we by and large all like the same books, movies, comics and various other things and have collected the same fund of jokes.
1- Tonight my older son told me he dreamed he was in a restaurant and couldn’t find the egress. To which I told him, “Of course not, you don’t eat _____ _______ . I think they’re on the protected species list.”
2 -The correct reply to a family member saying “I’ll have something light on a cracker” is “Like for, for instance, this ________ ______”
3 – “Lacking in practice, Monsieur D’Artagnan had a most extensive _____”
4 – When someone in my family says “this is called bad luck” they’re referring to ___________
5 -Beware of strong drink because?
6- And without garlic they taste like?
7 -If you tell someone at the table that you’re under a geas, the correct answer is “Funny, I don’t see any __________”
8 – While I might have a certificate saying I’m sane, WHO has a character saying he’s human? (And should my younger son have one?)
9 – “Bzzz Bzzzzzzzz” is a quote from which famous poet?
The appropriate answer to “I now understand English?” is?
10 – From whence comes my husband’s favorite response when, usually late at night and in a snowstorm, the rest of the family decides we MUST go to Denver and have dinner at Pete’s Kitchen? The response is “And yet, I am unmoved.”
11 – When your computer breaks down and you’re an SF geek, regardless of your religion, the appropriate response is “Saint ______________ ora pro nobis.”
12 – When my husband says “Mrs. Hoyt, Life holds few distinctions, but I can say here sit two of the geekiest boys in the US” he’s referring to?
13 – Hint, it is the same thing I’m referring to when I’m tired and trying to convince my husband to go to Denver for a weekend, and say “I want to go to BRIGHTON!” (Usually followed by “And yet, I am unmoved.”)
14- If it weren’t nailed to its perch it would be?
15 -“Lord,” groaned Don Camillo, clasping hands and looking up at the crucifix, “My hands are made for blessing but ____ ____ ____”
16 – A truly easy one: “he is only mostly ______”
17 – Also, when speaking about my politics in conjunction with my career, quasi ante, when it all had to go through the establishment, my kids were likely to break into which which Monty Python skit?
18 – AND for bonus points, and those of you who have read Kate Paulk’s ConVent, when I’m shopping for clothes and my older son tells me, “No, mom, no DEMON wear” what am I trying to buy?
1-female eagles (Pratchett)
2 – wild boar (Asterix)
3 – theory
4 – Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck. (Robert A. Heinlein.)
5- It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. (Robert A. Heinlein.)
6 – snails (Pratchett. I shall wear Midnight.)
7- Beth got it close. “I don’t see any geese around here.” (Pratchett)
8 – Speaker has it, it is Pratchett. Nobby has a certificate saying he’s human.
9 – Shakespeare (Hamlet.) Right up there with “Now, die, die, die, die,” from Midsummer’s Night Dream
10 – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, though in the A & E mini-series format.
11 – Saint Leibowitz, ora pro nobis. (Canticle for Leibowitz. He was the patron saint of gadgets.)
12 – Pride and Prejudice.
13 – Pride and Prejudice again.
14- pushing up daisies. (The dead parrot skit, Monty Python.
15 – but not my feet. (The Little World Of Don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi.)
16- Speaker has it again “mostly dead.” (The Princess Bride.)
17 – The albatross skit.
18 – Oddly no, Drak. You see, demons have no fashion sense and whey they try to dress fashionably, their taste gravitates to sequins and spangles.
According To Hoyt 
St. Vidicon, protect us from Finagle!!
That’s the only one I can think of right now. [Wink]
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As for the “Demon Wear”, I suspect that’s a very very sexy dress. [Grin]
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Geas… Feathers? :)
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Don’t eat female eagles.
Light bulb on a Ritz.
Without garlic they taste like chicken?
And Pterry has a character (Nobby Nobbs) with certificate saying he is (most likely) human.
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Two spectacularly wrong, and yet you’re the closest. :)
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Also – Only mostly dead (all day).
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Had to get your quota of Jane Austen in. Good girl. And now despise me if you dare.
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No, no. The green one.
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I am going DOH that I didn’t get the cracker reference, as I can now visualize the exact panel from that issue.
A few others become obvious “why didn’t I get that!?!” answers, too!
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Fabulous.
My nephew is getting married and I was uncertain about her until she used grok and ponfarr together in the same FB update.
“One of us! One of us! ONE OF US!” I started chanting.
Oh and Kudos on the preference for the A&E version of P&P. I can’t stand any other.
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Ah, I remember the “poor taste” in Demon’s clothing but I was thinking of what type of Demon your counterpart is/was. [Smile]
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Oh, backatcha!
When I lived in Westwood, the name on my mailbox was George Jackson Saunders. Who was I?
What is it that hurts hidjous?
Where and what is great, gray-green, and greasy?
Who was it who ever so many times graciously waved her tail?
A ___ of very little ___.
Who’s missing what? “1-2-3, where’s your _____?”
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Um… scarilly, none of them are familiar. I suspect we’re lower brow :)
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I believe the tail waver would be a cat, walking by herself … although my visits to those environs have been long long ago.
As to the “___ of very little ___” I cannot fill all the blanks, leaving me saying: “Oh, Pooh!”
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“Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you. ”
“Their ringer just spotted our ringer.”
“Why a duck?”
Yeah, we watch movies together. Deal with it.
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Oh, and we also are wont to comment …
There’s glory for you.
Just a little weak tea and toast done just so.
I don’t know. THIRD BASE!
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Oh, there’s just one more thing…
You keep using that word.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
All right Finch, what is your idea?
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Yeah, and “it involves a turnip.”
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I have a cunning plan.
Should we even get started on household song cues, esp. if your household, like mine, is a fan of vintage Broadway musicals?
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mmmm . strike “Why a duck”, insert “… and two hard-boiled eggs.”
Really, there are too many lines from the Brothers Marx, it is an embarrassment of richness. Hardly qualifies as “personal and localized” because they’re so widespread. Same thing with Monty Python — “It’s just a flesh wound” or “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” — the fan base is so large. Now, if anybody identifies “Nick Danger, Third Eye”, can quote Spike Milligan or assert “I’ve got nothing against your right leg” … they’re entering the inner rings of Esoterica Hell.
In fairness, further entries in this chain should probably require identification of an entry before posting a challenge, but the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat.
My work here is done.
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@Mark
I assume you’re referring to the great gray-green greasy Limpopo River, all hung about with fever trees? From the “Elephant Child” story in … Kipling’s? … “Just So Stories.” The following question is from a different story, but the same collection.
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You’d think I’d get that, considering Robert listened to a set of Kipling books on tape from the age of two till six more or less continuously till I had to hide them in self defense and to preserve my sanity.
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They’re all from stories read by mothers to children across several generations.
Winnie ther Pooh lived in the forest under the name of Sanders. There was a sign over his door with the name “Sanders” on it, and he lived under it. And he was, of course, a bear of very little brain.
The others are also Just So stories — Mother Jaguar (The Coming of the Armadillos) ever-so-many-times-graciously waving her tail, and the Zebra and the Giraffe said to the Leopard, “1-2-3-, where’s your breakfast?” in How the Leopard Got His Spots.
Of course there are many more, ranging from Shakespeare and Howard Pyle to Broadway musicals and comic opera. But Kipling and Milne were always favorites.
::wanders off singing::
O-o-o-h A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the Walloping Window Blind….
M
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Oh, yes. OF course. I was thinking adult lit. Head>desk. The Pooh ones. And I read them to the kids, too. Also Thomas Tank Engine and William Allingham, of course.
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The Delightfully Deranged Daughter has passed the quarter-century mark and Beloved Spouse & I can still recite Goodnight Moon from memory. Along with Moo, Bah, La-La-La and others. When I say the child literally devoured the first couple Moo, Bah, La-La-Lavolumes we owned I am using the L-word correctly, unlike so many who literally don’t these days.
Beloved Spouse had the Cyril Ritchard recordings of Alice as a child and can, nearly half a century later, given ANY line from either book as a prompt, recite the next three without pause or reflection.
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