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To ask for a round up of all the little MN in-jokes?

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faithinthesound · 19/07/2017 11:01

Mods, feel free to delete this if it's not okay!

I've been here some months now, and I've noticed a lot of little in-jokes around that come from old threads, some of which are in Classics, etc. Usually when I come across a reference that I don't recognize, someone is kind enough to explain it to me (and sometimes even link the original thread!) but I thought it might be nice, and kind of fun, to gather together as many as we can in one thread!

I'll start. The one that always sticks out to me is the one about the Mexican house thief. That's from this thread.

The other one that had me in absolute stitches was the saga of Sharon, the wasp, and the wine that never reached the carpet, which starts here, and apparently continues here with someone "t-rexing in the Asda"... Hysterical, I tell you.

I'm really hoping some long-time MNers will be along to link to such joys as "cancel the check"; "pom bears"; "Maui"; and the one where everyone MumsNetted as their toddlers :D

(I'm sorry if this is against some unwritten rule. It's not REALLY a thread about a thread, it's a thread about a lot of threads...)

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Iwannasnack · 22/07/2017 22:31

Brilliant thread. It's taken me 3 days to read!!
Was Mrs Jolly the one with the rugby team?

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 22/07/2017 20:32

That was the bizarre story MN clique accusation there's ever been.

Loved Chaos' Twat phone. Remember someone starting a thread asking if she was OK and to 'post once for yes, post 12 times for no'

The Olympic horses thread was in Chat I think and so disappeared. I managed to miss that one totally.

HoneyDragon · 22/07/2017 19:25

Tbf MNHQ turned up because I didn't think it was fair to not share it with everyone by placing a link in a thread entitled ooooh everyone come here and look at this.

And still some dickheads turned up and complained it wasn't nice to have a secret thread Hmm

If I was mean I'd would've kept it a secret and invite only.

An underground secret Mumsnet within Mumsnet would've been cool though Grin

FruBayerischOla · 22/07/2017 19:01

Oh yes, HoneyDragon (if it was her, not sure) nearly broke MN with that one!!

I remember when Chaos first got her (in her words) twat phone, she was posting multiple posts. Not just two or three, because she couldn't see they'd posted, but in their 10s and 10s.

I remember one day I'd seen one of her posts, I'd gone out for a couple of hours, returned and the thread (totally innocuous) suddenly seemed to have 600+ posts. I asked what had happened and someone said "Fru, just have a look at Chaos's multiple posts on this thread!!!". There were pages and pages of the same post from Chaos. And then pages and pages of subsequent posts from Chaos saying, something along the lines of, "oh fuck, what's happening - I've got this stupid new twat phone". Grin

aliasjoey · 22/07/2017 18:46

There was a time when someone (maybe honeydragon ?) found out how to create hidden threads, and they didn't show up on active or search results or anywhere

And we spent several pages amused by our own cleverness, before MNHQ turned up asking "what the actual fuck is going on here then?"

And then honeydragon (if ''twas she) was forbidden from ever doing anything like that again, as it took Tech so long to fix.

SheSaidHeSaid · 22/07/2017 18:36

Out of all the parking threads, Nicolarse was my favourite

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2824124-Nicolarse-and-Cuntaline

SheSaidHeSaid · 22/07/2017 18:34

Mrs Jolly thread was deleted as it was outing. Basically I think the DP got assaulted and the police got involved

Oh my goodness! I remember that one. Shock

Polter · 22/07/2017 18:01
Grin
HicDraconis · 22/07/2017 18:01

:) thankyou Polter

HicDraconis · 22/07/2017 18:00

justanotheryoungmother · 21/07/2017 23:47

Haven't read all the comments so I don't know if it's been said but the thread with Dawn Doctor and Dean and his small shirt had me in stitches Grin

BeyondDrinksAndKnowsThings · 21/07/2017 22:19
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ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 21/07/2017 21:53

Land and horses
I think the poster was FuckYouChris

Chris being one of the annoying people with the horses.

Polter · 21/07/2017 21:40

SteppingOnToes · 21/07/2017 21:35

Mrs Jolly thread was deleted as it was outing. Basically I think the DP got assaulted and the police got involved.

HicDraconis · 21/07/2017 21:08

Bother. I only ever knew one way to make blank posts and they've fixed it!

HicDraconis · 21/07/2017 21:07

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HicDraconis · 21/07/2017 21:07

I found Army Dad but I can't find Miss Jolly anywhere. It was a stonker of a parking thread.

OverTheHammer · 21/07/2017 21:06

Anyone remember (and this is going back years!) a young girl who pretended she was rich and would constantly go on about her "brand new golf GTI" and the boyfriend arriving at her mansion via helicopter etc etc ... that one was weird as hell.

Then there was another young girl (or was it the same one) who's premature baby turned out to be a teddy bear? (And this was only noted when she posted a pic of "baby" in a sling and a mumsnetter noticed that the baby's leg was sandy brown, fury and paw shaped??! 😂

Lweji · 21/07/2017 20:49

I'm pretty sure Hyacinth wouldn't go barefoot at home. In fact, I can imagine her face if asked to take her shoes off. Grin

To ask for a round up of all the little MN in-jokes?
SteppingOnToes · 21/07/2017 20:14

Oh there is a new one that needs to be added to this! Although it is very new it's going to go down in history!!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2985702-AIBU-to-say-I-dont-want-to-see-a-cock-and-balls-when-conducting-a-job-interview?msgid=70602147

asprinklingofsugar · 21/07/2017 19:13

Pretty sure the one with the land and the horses is in classics - either that or there is a link to it from the mexican house thief thread! (maybe both?) I wasn't around then but wasted a weekend a couple of months ago reading it. Sounded like the party would have been very entertaining - shame it didn't happen Grin

wanderings · 21/07/2017 18:38

There are endless threads about wearing shoes indoors, and asking tradesmen to take them off. I'm sure Hyacinth Bucket is on here, or makes her husband do the posting for her.

"Now, dear, I need you to log onto that website again - what's it called, Netmums?, and spread the word that it is most ill-bred to wear shoes in the house, only tradesmen stoop as low as that. You must keep writing this until there is nobody left who disagrees. Be scathing, Richard! Crush them."

To ask for a round up of all the little MN in-jokes?
Igneococcus · 21/07/2017 18:32

I loved the mango juggling thread, need to see if it's still available.

Persemillion · 21/07/2017 18:12

This one worth a read.

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