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

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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?

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LowLevelWhingeing · 13/01/2010 20:56

Some of you are just having a lovely chat and not doing any links. Now it is nice to have a lovely chat, but WE NEED LINKS! What's lisalisa's thread?

And I vote for [[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/708124-to-not-want-to-see-someone-blow-drying-her-MIN GE AIBU to not want to see someone blow drying her MINGE in the gym changing room?

scottishmummy · 13/01/2010 20:50

the blow job tutorial

ShutUpandDrinkYourGin · 13/01/2010 20:47

i love how some of the funniest threads are the most unexpected - like the mango one

Hassled · 13/01/2010 20:47

Cunting Sainsburys.
The horsey PTA woman who accosted someone in a car park and demanded tablecloths.
MartianBishop.

Probably loads and loads more.

CoteDAzur · 13/01/2010 20:46

I just read the entire penguin thread. What a monkey

Bumsex threads
The one where OP found her DH with kitchen utensils (my all time favourite!)

NinthWave · 13/01/2010 20:46

Definitely the If your name is Linda... thread. Fab example of collective MN genius there!

TheButterflyEffect · 13/01/2010 20:45

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PussinJimmyChoos · 13/01/2010 20:43

Can we have a link to the British Gas one?

Cicatrice · 13/01/2010 20:41

The Bunting Cupcake thread
Zombie plans
Tim Dowling. Now the man is a phrase. Its celebrity of a sort.

scottishmummy · 13/01/2010 20:39

mouldies
blow job for macdonalds
hamster dinner

morningpaper · 13/01/2010 20:36

ellaroo's river of sweetcorn

the netmum's stylee thread still makes me laugh

christmas 2008 disappearing into a moldie vortex

Daisy Goodwin. Always funny.

PureAsTheColdDrivenSnow · 13/01/2010 20:36

we need links for all of these!! I've only been here 2 years, so don't know many of them/

can someone link to the bat thing?

purpleturtle · 13/01/2010 20:33

Pouch of Douglas is the first thread I thought of for this. Am surprised it hasn't been mentioned more than it has.

PixieOnaLeaf · 13/01/2010 20:31

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Lulumama · 13/01/2010 20:27

what to do with a mango thread in food

reallywoundup · 13/01/2010 20:27

oj and steve and the trifles,
misdee, peter the new heart and then dd4!,
the hilarious one recently about the mistaken identity of 'the other woman' who had clothes dumped on her doorstep!
obv the community spirit with regards trinity and martianbishop
childbirth thread was hilarious
cubes of poo

pagwatch · 13/01/2010 20:26

No one else ever remebers butthere was a fairly short thread a few years ago about a woman who had found a dead squirrel in a paddling pool in her garden.

It was my first 'spitting all over the computer laughing' moment on MN and I was hooked.

cariboo · 13/01/2010 20:25

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misdee · 13/01/2010 20:22

Mr Oj and Mr MB

strawberry, who i think reappeared behind the washing machine.

the hamster stew

oh yes, the blue tree, and the clay penis

johnworf (sp) prem baby.

the bat

regular trolling by lav and her dh.

bellavita · 13/01/2010 20:18

a fabulous mooncup thread

treedelivery · 13/01/2010 20:15

I've only been here just over a year but...

Peter and the heart [I read it and cried, even though I knew what happened]
The Penguin Thread
WorzelMummage and the PROM thread.

My egg donation thread ..joke...joke...

elliott · 13/01/2010 20:14

the bat!
judge flounce - I think it was the first really convincing trolling and I think everyone was really shocked by the denouement.
SWMNBN
pregnancy brian

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WingsTHEangel · 13/01/2010 20:12

The thread about the Fanjo and cheese.

OJ and Steve
Misdee and Peter
The coffee shop
The Bar
The Pirate noises
The MN's having an affair with Carl someone