Roy picked up on my use of the phrase "scary biscuits" in a post from Sunday. This is a phrase I picked up from my friend Jo at uni (I think!) and which Rowan has adopted, apparently, to the interest of people at HER uni! It's a phrase I've used occasionally over the last few years but which has featured a little more in the last year, no idea why!
Other than "my friend Jo" I have NO idea of its origins. Anyone got any ideas?
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Hi Sarah,
When I was at Uni it was a phrase I too used with reasonable frequency. I got it from a friend who lived in the area. For many years I had people staring at me strangely but I like to think it was because I used 'scary biscuits'. I don't know where it came from originally though.
I don't suppose you also use 'he's got tickets on himself' do you? That's something else others don't seem to understand.
It comes from some 80s (?) tv show or film i believe. I'll double check it and let you know.
Scary biscuits! heh. Any ideas on funky noodles?
it was said in a 1920s style murder tv drama, someone had been killed and someone said 'scary biscuits' that is the origin of it for my friend patrick.
I picked up 'scary biscuits' from an old girlfriend. I always got the impression it was slang local to her area. She was from Suffolk.
I know that this is a really old thread, but Scary Biscuits comes from the 1998 TV drama, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries: Speedy Death, staring Diana Rigg. In case anyone was still wondering.
Greensheen, if it was in the original novel perhaps but my friend Jo was using it before 1998!
I was using this at Uni (in St. Andrews) way back in 1995 or thereabouts. I have no idea where it came from -- it was certainly uncommon enough that when I used it people often asked me about it or gave me strange looks :) I'm pretty sure I must have picked it up from a friend..
I originally come from Elgin in NE Scotland and we were using it when I was a teenager in the early 80's. I have no idea where it orginated, but, we all used it to mean feigned terror. It was always preceeded by a sarcastic "Oooooh".
As in "I'm going to batter you!"
"Ooooooh, scary biscuits!"
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