Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Site stuff

Join our Innovation Panel to try new features early and help make Mumsnet better.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

MNHQ

Your top Mumsnet memories/moments of the last ten years - post them here

520 replies

JustineMumsnet · 13/01/2010 16:49

As some of you may know, this is our tenth year in existence and we thought it would be nice to put together a list of the top ten MN moments during those ten years - obviously not all of you are as old in the tooth as me but everyone's thoughts welcome.

So by way of a starter for ten here and distinctly off the top of my head (so don't shout if I've missed you out!) are some of our most memorable moments/mn events...

Feel free to violently disagree add your own - am sure, being so decrepit we've forgotten loads.

In no particular order...

Christening of SWMNBN and MP's apology for rockets gag
Mile 4 Maude
First live birth
Christmas appeals generally
Biscuitgate
bottom butter
tim dowling and wife - hammering it out on MN
David Cameron's massive panniers
AIBU generally
Pirate sex
Misdee and Peter and the heart transplant
Is that UCM?

OP posts:
PortBlacksand · 13/01/2010 22:14

The ghost at the window - was that the one with the house for sale that had a victorian looking lady in the garden? - spooky

and which MNer was it has ghostly footprints on the stair carpet...

whomovedmychocolate · 13/01/2010 22:12

Dunno, only remember it made me laugh so hard I spilled hot coffee on my foot.

SqueezyIsStartinAResolution · 13/01/2010 22:11

UCM

morningpaper · 13/01/2010 22:10

oh wasn't that Hobbgoblin? That WAS funny

whomovedmychocolate · 13/01/2010 22:10

Did I dream it or was there an incredibly funny one about a mum who bathed her baby in - was it cinammon - and basically made him into a christmas cake by mistake the got a visit from the health visitor?

LeninGrad · 13/01/2010 22:09

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

LowLevelWhingeing · 13/01/2010 22:09

Olivia, THANK YOU! Some links!

daftpunk · 13/01/2010 22:09

The Daily Mail threads...

They were brilliant...

bibbitybobbitysantahat · 13/01/2010 22:08

I'd love to see WigWamBam's christmas present from mil thread.

And the Tim Dowling one.

beachyhead · 13/01/2010 22:07

No-one has mentioned the Ballymory thread - loved that soooo much!!!!

And Judge Flounce...

Am I showing my age.

crumpet · 13/01/2010 22:02

Nutty's new house

ThisCharmingFlan · 13/01/2010 22:01

The thread in Style and Beauty where the OP couldn't do a link to save her life and got progressively more furious was ruddy hi-la-ri-ous. I may have done a small wee reading that.

TrinityIsFuckingTrying · 13/01/2010 22:01

bobble plate

cube of poo

peter and his heart

the penguin date

is that you UCM

and the most memorable for me ever the whole world was finding out that MN was the family that I had always felt it was to me

I couldn't have coped without you at my darkest moments
you are fucking amazing

frasersmummy · 13/01/2010 22:01

What about the bereaved mummies threads

I think they really epitomise the heart of mn. Feedmenow bravely posted about her darling daugher Eris being stillborn. 18 months later there are loads of bereaved mummies all supporting each other.`

For a lot of us its the only place where we can talk about our kids without feeling awkward or daft

Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 13/01/2010 22:01

forgot about ghost at the window

BlackYellowRed · 13/01/2010 21:59

Ghost at the window on Google Streetview
Misdee & Peter
The knicker elastic from MIL
Pirate sex
Cod's Potty Training Bootcamp
UCM
Cod's lost tampon

MamaG · 13/01/2010 21:57

BWA

lilibet · 13/01/2010 21:55

No, I mean the stuff that wasn't on the thread??

She was also 'seeing' my dh's mate

I set them up on here!

stleger · 13/01/2010 21:55

Shopping lists.

FimBOW · 13/01/2010 21:54

Who was it that wanted to leave their new born baby and going off skiing or to the Carribean or some such?

scottishmummy · 13/01/2010 21:52

the career women make bad mums thread

Katisha · 13/01/2010 21:50

As well as those mentioned I was agog when MN saw off Sheherazade...
It was suggested that she should be replaced by Ray Mears...Or Sportacus...

CMOTdibbler · 13/01/2010 21:50

The ones that have kept me checking MN to find out what was happening was OJ and Steve/Misdee

Zombie plans is the one that DH always brings up

Best webchat was Chris from DoodleDoo, who really seemed to get into MN.

Shiney's penguin thread was fantastic

FimBOW · 13/01/2010 21:50

Didn't Sophable lose a case somewhere in Scotland and a MN'r went to retrieve it?

fairywithflowers · 13/01/2010 21:49

herbie - that thread with small ships and her DH was just a bloody classic.