'Shirley'...

[whitevanman88]

Seems to be a commonly used word on these forums. The first time I noticed it I had to re-read the sentence in which it appeared a number of times to make sense of it.

Would someone confirm if this word constitutes 'surely'?

[pilchardthecat]

I believe it was Leslie Nielson who coined the phrase

[Menguin]

Shirley this should be in the Lounge?

[Famous Graham]

Yup. Never seen "Airplane!" ?

[Davi]

"Surely you can't be serious"

"I am serious, and don't call me shirley" from the Airplane film staring Leslie Neilsen. Yes it means surely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPVw-Vl1ow

Edited by Davi on Tuesday 30th June 15:54

[Carl_Spackler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSRmemHxlo&fea...

[whitevanman88]

Famous Graham said:

Yup. Never seen "Airplane!" ?

The only thing that remotely constitutes a film (which I suspect this 'Airplane' of which you speak is) that I have ever watched is Topgear.

[Famous Graham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPVw-Vl1ow

[Mr Whippy]

Shirley you are joking?

[Famous Graham]

everyone posting the same link

[james_tigerwoods]

whitevanman88 said:

Famous Graham said:

Yup. Never seen "Airplane!" ?

The only thing that remotely constitutes a film (which I suspect this 'Airplane' of which you speak is) that I have ever watched is Topgear.

You've never seen 'Airplane'? Philistine!

[Davi]

Famous Graham said:

everyone posting the same link

does it give you a clue to what link appears first in google if you search for "don't call me shirley"

[Carl_Spackler]

On plane......

Nervous?

Yes.

First time?

No, I've been nervous lots of times before.

[james_tigerwoods]

You got a letter from headquarters this morning.

What is it?

It's a big building where generals meet, but that's not important.

[julian64]

The deployment of the autopilot was the first time I can remember laughing so hard my chest hurt afterwards.

[Snake the Sniper]

julian64 said:

The deployment of the autopilot was the first time I can remember laughing so hard my chest hurt afterwards.

But him deflating is just as good!

[Agoogy]

james_tigerwoods said:

You got a letter from headquarters this morning.

What is it?

It's a big building where generals meet, but that's not important.

The woman in row 16 is sick and she needs a hospital

What is it?

Its a building where sick people go to get better but that not importnant right now...*





not 'script accurate' but you get the point

[james_tigerwoods]

My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.

When will you be back?

I can't tell you that. It's classified.

[Pigeon]

whitevanman88 said:

Seems to be a commonly used word on these forums. The first time I noticed it I had to re-read the sentence in which it appeared a number of times to make sense of it.

Would someone confirm if this word constitutes 'surely'?

There was once a film which included a gag based on the vague similarity of sound between the words "surely" and "Shirley".

This leads a staggering number of people with all the humorous originality of a mongoloid jellyfish to replace "surely" with "Shirley" at every available opportunity under the misguided impression that it is amusing.

HTH.

[FTJoe]

Shirely this isn't what constitutes a thread nowadays?