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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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sobeyondthehills · 20/07/2017 15:35

Bollocks, I remembered that thread and managed it, and have now forgotten

sobeyondthehills · 20/07/2017 15:34

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ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 20/07/2017 15:33

I think MNHQ would kill me if I said too much as blank posts can upset Tech quite a lot. Its just a certain combination of symbols that post up as blank.

There was a thread ages ago when people had first discovered how to do this that was full of random symbols and blank posts as people tried to work out how to do it. I think that thread nearly broke the site.
MNHQ came and told us off.

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faithinthesound · 20/07/2017 15:22

How?

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ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 20/07/2017 15:09

MN in-joke ^^
There are secret ways to do blank posts

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 20/07/2017 15:08

YesEinsteinsMumDid · 20/07/2017 14:56

*can't remember.

must remember mn does not have edit feature and to double check
who am i kidding I never remember

YesEinsteinsMumDid · 20/07/2017 14:56

Also do we still have any posters who came from that forum (can remember what it was called) which we ended up adopting/keeping?

sobeyondthehills · 20/07/2017 14:55

ChazsBrilliantAttitude

I would go look for that one as well, as I seem to remember it, but instead of doing the cleaning, I have just spent the last hour reading about 2 horses and a massive MN's party in Wales

YesEinsteinsMumDid · 20/07/2017 14:54

I remember when we broke the mn time continuum, that was fun.
Also when one poster decided they wanted coloured posts and changed it for all of mn rather than just them, and then mn relented and gave us coloured posts (and then when they tried to limit the colours and there was nearly a riot)
Anyone else remember having to bribe tech/pass tech Wine?

And Honeydragon - yy to being reminded the time and being suggested good to sleep.
Grin

DoubleNegativePanda · 20/07/2017 14:52

If no one has yet mentioned it, River of Sweetcorn has always been my favorite.

Close second is Poo Cubes

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 20/07/2017 14:43

sobeyond
There was another similar one before which had the poems - this was cute furry animals one - both great.

Smug git gets arse handed to them on a plate threads are fun.

HoneyDragon · 20/07/2017 14:14

I do miss it being a Tuesday night and someone sensible pointing out it's 2am shouldn't we all be in bed on mnet Grin

OverTheHammer · 20/07/2017 14:12

I agree with Scrowy - the mumsnet of today is nothing like it was when the majority of these mad threads occurred. Take Sharon and the wasp for example - that spawned a number of hilarious replies (funnier than the OP!) and carry-on threads and was comedy gold.

These days it would read like this:

DH threw wine at the wall and didn't clean up the wasp because Sharon was listening to erasure with Adam on fruit and veg and the bikers went for cake in the tea room but the seagulls were there and I had chips for tea

...... followed by ....

Hmm Biscuit "Reported" Hmm Biscuit "1/10" Hmm Biscuit "I'm reporting this" BiscuitHmm "is this supposed to be funny?" Biscuit "these threads bore the shit out of me, reported".

It is sad because I used to sit up crying with laughter on a night when I couldn't sleep but these days a thread like this wouldn't last 5 minutes before it was deleted, "reported" or basically died of biscuit overdose.

HoneyDragon · 20/07/2017 14:09

No one flounced as a result of NYE.

I thought it was hilarious. Especially when the shut down didn't actually work

sobeyondthehills · 20/07/2017 13:52

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/child_internet_safety/a2307274-I-am-everything-you-hate-about-people-on-the-internet-I-am-here-to-help

Found it. Now I should go and continue cleaning

sobeyondthehills · 20/07/2017 13:50

ChazsBrilliantAttitude

It was beautiful, I saw it again a few months ago, but I have just spent ages looking for it and can't find it.

However I have gotten lost in classics, so that delayed me a fair bit

FruBayerischOla · 20/07/2017 13:48

That NYE catastrophe was awful - I only caught up the following morning after sanity had been restored. A plus point was that the 'well 'ard' MNer flounced for good!

YetAnotherSpartacus · 20/07/2017 13:39

I still wanna know how/when the Mumsnet chicken was spawned.

Lweji · 20/07/2017 13:36

Thr Dove thread is gone, this one was the follow up after deletion.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2589988-The-deleted-Media-Requests-thread

Lweji · 20/07/2017 13:26

Oh, the requests.

One by Dove on "imperfections" and others for your standard DM sad face.

Which reminds me, how did the sad face meme emerge?

Gowgirl · 20/07/2017 13:11

Are we still not mentioning NYE it was maybe the strangest night on mn everGrinGin

CoffeeWithMyOxygen · 20/07/2017 12:59

You beat me to it faith, 'Sex lube and a fish slice' is my absolute favourite - I HOWLED with laughter! Wanted to use it as my username but was beaten to it!

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 20/07/2017 12:37

sobeyond
From memory he got a full on MN sarcastic poetry attack. Death by haiku.

sobeyondthehills · 20/07/2017 12:17

One of the ones I always laughed at, was the guy who came on here to explain how computers and the internet worked and if any women needed any help to just ask. MNetters went on a field day with that