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* "Slag" is one of [[The Mighty Boosh|the Hitcher]]'s favorite insults.

** He also said "me China" a lot.

* Jamie Hyneman on [[~~Myth Busters~~]] used "Bob's your uncle" as coda to his description of the function of a pneumatic cannon in the Killer Soda Cup myth. Narrator Robert Lee followed with "So Robert's your mother's brother" in the narration.

* Jamie Hyneman on [[MythBusters]] used "Bob's your uncle" as coda to his description of the function of a pneumatic cannon in the Killer Soda Cup myth. Narrator Robert Lee followed with "So Robert's your mother's brother" in the narration.

* In ''[[Porridge]]'' (which is slang for doing time, itself), a classic 1970s sitcom, Ronnie Barker popularised the term "nerk," used as a substitute for "berk" to keep the censors happy (as back then it was a far stronger curse than it is now).

** They also used (and popularised) "Naff off". The show had to get around the problem of portraying prisoners reasonably convincingly (even though it was a sitcom) but without having them swearing (as it was shown before the 9pm watershed). HRH Princess Anne hit the headlines in the 1970s having told photographers to Naff Off but it is debatable whether this was the actual phrase she used.

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