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Original poster

Oh do I have a new low in wedding poems for you...

620 replies

Weddingpoet · 21/07/2014 09:43

This is so going to out me but I actually don't care. I went to a wedding this weekend. We had to buy our own evening meal and the invitation said "no presents please, cash gifts only". There was a wishing well at the reception to but cash into (ringing the bell as you did ). This morning I received this corker which, obviously, I needed to share with you at once...

Cash we asked for because cash we need
For our kitchen to proceed
Having checked our wishing well
We think some people might not have rung the bell.
If you’re one who has forgotten
Don’t sit at home feeling rotten
Just use the bank details at the end of this ditty
And you can still contribute to our kitchen kitty

OP posts:
Thumbwitch · 27/07/2014 12:34

Great job EllenMN - can you please reinstate my hidden post now, after you've changed the name in it, ta?

Thanks again and good save - it would have been such a shame to lose all the brilliant poems here!

MNHQ
EllenMumsnet · 27/07/2014 12:31

Hi again
Just finished working through the lovely Thumbwitch's list of reports. Many, many thanks ThanksThanks to her. Will check out what Pandasrock has posted here, and get back shortly

PandasRock · 27/07/2014 12:29

Brilliant that your name has been changed in the thread, OP, but it still shows up in Active Convos as 'started by' your username. Iw I'll report this post to get MNHQ on the case

Original poster
Weddingpoet · 27/07/2014 12:27

Thank you to all those who PM'd me to warn me and to Thumbwitch for reporting all the posts with the original username in.

Thank you also to MN for changing my username to preserve the collective MN poetic brilliance.

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Thumbwitch · 27/07/2014 12:05

xposted Ellen - cheers! ThanksBrewWine

Thumbwitch · 27/07/2014 12:04

I've reported every post that had the old name in - no one needs to get their posts removed unless they want to - MNHQ can change the name within the posts.

MNHQ
EllenMumsnet · 27/07/2014 12:03

Afternoon all. We've been in touch with Weddingpoet this morning, and are on the case

Fluffycloudland77 · 27/07/2014 12:02

Done.

WallyBantersJunkBox · 27/07/2014 11:59

Fluffy Perhaps request that your post be removed also?

(and anyone else who named the OP?)

Would they be Guardian readers though?

cod · 27/07/2014 11:55

btw - Mn dont SEND this to journalists. They are just people. I know! They read mn

cod · 27/07/2014 11:55

CHRIST OP
you need to get this nixed pronto.

Thumbwitch · 27/07/2014 11:51

Right, I've reported every post that had the old name in - please no one use it now, and please MNHQ get on to changing the name in every post where it appears as quickly as poss, ta.
Thanks

fackinell · 27/07/2014 11:29

Does MN own the copyright? I have thought the owner of the post and each individual poster did (of their own words.) Either way if no permission was granted then isn't it considered plagiarism?

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 27/07/2014 11:17

I think it's ok if MN gave permission but it wouldn't have asking too much for them to just let the OP know so she could ask for her username on this thread to be changed. I'd have said that's just common courtesy tbh. Nasty manners MN.

Fluffycloudland77 · 27/07/2014 11:14

Or mumsnet gave permission to up the advertising revenue.

I'd rather pay a tenner every year to join and have no ads and no journos outing people.

Lazy girl.

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 27/07/2014 11:11

Bogey I thought they had copyright of the stuff on here and one of the MN staff was mentioned in the article. So is it true that any old hack can print anything we post without the permission of MN?

ThePearShapedToad · 27/07/2014 11:11

Sorry op, was a brilliant thread till the journos ruined it Sad

wantacatplease · 27/07/2014 11:10

Just read this in The Observer. Shock

fackinell · 27/07/2014 10:59

ShockJust caught up with the last few posts. I can't believe they've used that exact poem. Yup they need to pull the plug on this.

SiennaBlake · 27/07/2014 10:58

If they were asked, it's not like they'd say no in the face of potential media interest.

Bogeyface · 27/07/2014 10:53

I very much doubt MNHQ was asked permission. Its a public forum so it can be read by anyone.

Thats what happened with penis beaker. And its a salutary lesson about not posting identifying info on the internet.

SauvignonBlanche · 27/07/2014 10:53

Just reading it in the Observer now. Angry

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 27/07/2014 10:51

Did MN really let them print that without giving you prior warning Weddingpoet? Dear god that's rude.

Fluffycloudland77 · 27/07/2014 10:21

Is there a tradition of telling grabby brides to fuck off? Is it too late to start one?

fackinell · 27/07/2014 09:53

Hahahaha!! Brilliant. The nerve of some people.

I went to a wedding where they had a box for donations. Fine when it was just sat there but later the bride went around the room asking people directly to put money in there and then Shock

She also did an 'old Scot's tradition' where the men pay for her to lift her dress up and the women pay for her to put it down. (Not one I know of despite me being Scottish.)

We had already paid to haul ass to France and cabs to the backarse of beyond. I gave absolutely fuck all!! She then afterwards asked us all how much we'd given so she could thank us.

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