One day, my son Ali was studying for the end-of-term exams, and my wife and I were chatting when he yelled from his room: "Please be quiet, I want to study." This instantly reminded me of Hamm yelling at his parents Nagg and Nell to be be quiet. I told my wife and later Ali about the similarity between Hamm, Nagg and Nell and us. As a result of my continuous references and mentioning of Beckett in my house, the man has become a household catch-phrase