URY Memes

An in-definitive list of all URY Memes and in jokes.

Memes

Meme	Explanation
Christmas on my Face (A terrible case of Xmas)	A smash hit URY christmas single from 2008 written by Rob Watts and Steve Gardner [1]
Christmas Endeavours in general	They are so numerous there's a whole page about them. Basically we embarrass ourselves every year in the name of Xmas
'There's no News'	[quoting Anthony Williams] 'Came from a Roses where the news fader had been re-purposed for something. Helen M came in to do handover to the OB (this is when you had to read out the news intro text yourself), and it went something like this... "*this* is URY News.... there's no news!"
Wives	The name given for our roll up banners. Originally known as 'Station Manager's Wife' as it is the only thing an SM can be trusted with at an OB
DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ?	From a failed OB of Vanbrugh Jazz in 2014 where Alex Light accosted innocent people
'Black Christmas'	At the same Vanbrugh Jazz OB as 'DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ' the jazz band decided to do a rendition of 'White Christmas' but reworked as 'Black Christmas'. It was a bit racist. We had to fade down the feed.
'News is Happening'	How every News and Sport update must begin at Station Meetings, started by George Lane.
Superb Owl	Live coverage of Super Bowls, by people who do not know anything about American Football. Usually involves way too much nudity that is generally acceptable for radio.
Alex Light	The biggest meme of all
Talkback	Someone will finish this eight year old engineering project so we can talk to the office and studio 2 from studio 1 soon, I promise. In the meantime, mad, occasionally violent gesturing through the window will have to suffice.
Anthony William's Flute	From an infamous Alex Light house party where Anthony consumed way too much alcohol through a flute.
Ainsley Harriot	A station wide obsession instigated by Qumarth Jash. Ainsley's face would frequently appear as the background to guest pc and an emoji was even made for him when we made a ury slack.
Biscuit News	How did this win an award?
Unbelievable Scenes	A phrase constantly said by Joshua Kerr to describe sport, antics and anything happening at all, ever
Other [insert branded item here] are available	We take impartiality very seriously here at URY
EWA (Engineers Without Attitude)	When a band bailed on URY Sessions, Jed Fulwell, Marco Bolt, Peter Rogers and Sam Merryweather stepped up to the plate and performed arguably the worst/best session in URY history. They also returned for a surprisingly excellent come-back at the Cover Your Ears event.
Michael Eats Kids	We really don't know where this started. Someone just said it and it stuck.
Alex plugs stuff	If he's on air, he's plugging his shows (he does so many), and if we're off air, plugging production meeting.
Kermit the Frog	Station manager Ben Allen could do a really good Kermit impression, including singing live on air on multiple occasions.
In Other Gravy News	On a Newshour episode, there was a story of a woman storing loads of money in gravy tins, which was found by the recycling people. Beth then went on to continue the show by saying "In Other Gravy News". Admittedly, the next clip was about chips cheese and gravy.
Hppenong	An end of term special 12 hour show of just absolute chaos. Moving through the night there is often pizza, a need for air-fresheners and an hour of just playing songs called Go.
Rob 's House	This is a joke that was filled in on a fill-in-the-blanks. It wasn't that funny, but we couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes.
Let's Buy Chairs	The chairs in the studio are awful. You sit on them, and they just sink and get lower. As of May 2024, we finally got some more! They're probably a bit less squeaky.
Yeah No	Station manager Ben Allen can never make up his mind, and always says Yeah-No. We made https://yeahno.xyz
broken - WAT!	Don't say broken. People will be angry, and shout WAT!, because we're too lazy to add the h to "what".
Colin's Unemployed	Literally everybody else got a job after graduating during the pandemic. The BBC still haven't replied about the One Show job. (Update: they got a job. Not at the One Show.)
ROB5 Out	A meme that was created at Roses 2024 by Sam Randewich saying it in the middle of another conversation.
"The Transition" from Freshers OB 2023	A very funny link done at the aforementioned OB where Crab Rave was played just before the news. When the beat drop happened, instead of allowing the news to take precedence, the presenting team rickrolled everyone nearby James Beach. After that, they played Buddy Holly by Weezer. Not the most notable meme, but certainly hilarious.
Carol? Who's she?	A pun on URY's annual coverage of Carols at the Minister. By 2023, some members of URY had found a mug with Carol on it at the Minister. It now resides in the studio.