From time to time phrases creep in
to the BFG vocabulary. If you don't see your favourite tell us.
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| Let's
play something nice |
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That
was too fast - let's play a slow one. |
Oh
my God
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David
wants to sing. (An audience quotation - you'd better believe it.)
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It's
all Grant's fault
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It's
all Grant's fault. |
| Its
all Aly's fault |
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It's
all Grant's fault but he's not here |
It'll
be alright on the night
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There's
a gig tomorrow really? or This is
going to go hopelessly wrong. or Learn
those tunes now! |
That's
a nice tune leave it alone
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I used
to like that tune so shut up.
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| Haven't
played that since Pontius was a pilot |
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I've
forgotten that one again.
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| Lets
play thingy |
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Due to
drink my memory has begun to let me down |
| The
youth of today |
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Young
people are irritatingly good at this stuff |
Smile
you ............
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Please
smile the audience prefer it
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You
bunch of ..............s
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This
phrase is now so well used as to be considered to be a term of
endearment.
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| Do
or do not there is no try. |
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Self
explanatory. Can name the film the scene and the character though?
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| The
Horrid People |
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You
know that we know who you are and you play too fast.
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| The
Ne'er-do-wells |
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Well on
the way to joining the horrid people |
| The
High Council |
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Way
past even aspiring to be horrid but also yielders of wisdom and power
(Yeah right!)
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The
Rest
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Undecided
about their futures? |
| Keep
your hair flat! |
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Keep
your hair flat. (Advice on bowing or a presentaional issue?)
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Pumpkin
Time
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I've
run out of select from the
following (energy tunes patience enthusiasm beer) and I'm going
home to bed
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Help!
Take me to bed.
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I'm
an OAP get me out of here - your music is making me feel ill. (Another
audience quotation - how perceptive.)
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Wibbles
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Diddums
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Unauthorised
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A
tune that the High Council don't know.
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Someone
has to do it.
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A
cushy job, with free food and drink but for the sake of others
I'll do it - just this once!
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We
never liked you anyway.
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Suit
yourself. (Or Exactly what it says on the tin.)
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Old
Farts
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The
High Council and their associates.
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The
Ensemble
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Respectable
people who have mistakenly become involved with BFG and may live to
regret it.
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Being
a girlie
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Making
those urgent calls just when there's packing up to do. |
Doing
a Mosley
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Is
that the time?. Can I leave you to clear up? The young uns really need
their beds.
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