Gather here famous MNetters for some of ye are famous

[AdrenalineFudge]

Article in the Independent r.e "The thirteen best (worst) things that have ever happened on Mumsnet"

Link: indy100.independent.co.uk/article/the-thirteen-best-worst-things-that-have-ever-happened-on-mumsnet--b1p_uZfIZW

I honestly still can't get my head around the bullshit that was Penis Beaker!? How did that come to define the site considering what a pile of shite it is.

[DonkeyOaty]

PB was just Not Funny

Sinister Easter Bonnet however - now THAT was funny

PS I miss Franny and her wnaky baskets

[honeysucklejasmine]

Oh look! A rip off of the subreddit r/bestofmumsnet (at least acknowledged) which has about 12 things on it and none of them recent.

Although it does have a rather gratifying post stating that they hoped they could laugh at us, but after seeing our posts rather wanted to join us.

Is this modern journalism? For I too can rehash a few posts from a subreddit.

Which, incidentally, certainly does not contain the "best of Mumsnet".

Doesn't even mention Maui.

[MetalMidget]

Or the hot new contender, street drug that's actually a mint.

[BaronessBomburst]

I'm on there.
I'm fierce.
I'm crying with laughter.

[Sparklingbrook]

Urgh. How did they narrow down 16 years of threads to those?

[BaronessBomburst]

Are they all in Classics?

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

What a load of mince. Pippa and her HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL EVENTS AGENCY isn't even included.

[BolshierAryaStark]

I missed the one about the DH recording his farts but it has just made me cry laughing!

[FlyingElbows]

Not a single mention of Maui or the elderly Korean lady. The cake one is proper famous though

[Shakey15000]

Hello, dhalinks

[Sparklingbrook]

I didn't get the lemon drizzle thing at all. Penis Beaker was ridiculous.

[Binglesplodge]

Paul: what's the events agency thread? I've been here a couple of years but it's the first time I've seen it referenced. I love a good classic...

[TheFormidableMrsC]

Oh this is brilliant

[BalloonSlayer]

I want to read the fart one now.

Just about the first thing we did when I got my first ever cassette recorder in 1975 (first of my friends to have one! so proud!) was to try to record burps and farts.

My DSis drank a whole can of brown ale left over from Christmas in aid of the cause and boy was it worth it, got a window-rattler of a burp. I very carefully managed to preserve it for years by record all my Sunday-night-Top-Forty sounds round it so you'd have a song, Tony Blackburn's sodding yapping all over the end, DSis's gargantuan belch, a reaction cackle, then the next song.

Ah happy days.

[SuffolkNWhat]

Without Elderly Korean Lady or Mexican House Thief it's just not worth it

[AdrenalineFudge]

BuffytheReasonableFeminist I wondered that too , I put it down to me having only been a member for about 4 years so maybe I'm not 'in' on all the jokes...

[BeatrixBurgund]

We have a whole subreddit?

They weren't even the best threads. No bobble plate. No poos in weird places. No random acts of kindness. No FOOC threads. Pfft. Shoddy research.

[Queenbean]

Actually this wasn't as bad as I expected. I mean, there's no mention of the elderly Korean lady or Maui but not the worst

I wish they would start a thread and ask us to contribute to our fav threads ever. I wouldn't pick half the crap that ends up in classics

[pigsDOfly]

The weasel one made me laugh but they missed out on some great stuff imo. Not sure why penis beaker always gets mentioned when anyone writes about MN but I thought it was a bit limp if I'm honest.

[DiseasesOfTheSheep]

I do sympathise with weasel physics. I blame The Animals of Farthing Wood.

[ThroughThinkandThing]

Spoonyfucker is much funnier than most of them...