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Original poster

To be a bit confused about Mumsnet Classics?

181 replies

Sparklingbrook · 15/09/2013 22:04

A lot of threads have gone into Classics, but really that's because people get swept away with it. At the time. The thread may have been funny and those posting had a day or so of laughing, but why does it need to be in Classics?

Does anyone ever look in Classics? Apart from maybe to find the unfunny Pom Bear thread? Confused

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LadyBeagleEyes · 15/09/2013 22:35

Unfortunately some of the milder troll threads are the funniest, particularly the replies but they always get deleted.

Weegiemum · 15/09/2013 22:36

My favourite is by far and away the Guinea Pig Funeral Poetry thread!

There was an arse-clenchingly funny and ooo oww one where a mn, calling herself the "Amateur Arse Doctor" tried to remove her own haemmoroid with an elastic band and some anusol.

Anyone mentioned Hamster Stew or Semen in Hair yet?

VivaLeThrustBadger · 15/09/2013 22:36

I've nominated a thread for classics before which MN didn't agree with. So they don't put them all in.

InLoveWithDavidTennant · 15/09/2013 22:38

the dead cat one had me laughing for ages... wasnt expecting that outcome at all Grin

NoelHeadbands · 15/09/2013 22:39

See the Sharon threads just make me want to punch myself in mine own eyes aargh

I'm going to go look for the St Moriz thread >>

muminthecity · 15/09/2013 22:40

Personally, I am not a big fan of pombear-type threads which are really just one funny anecdote spun out over pages and pages. I much prefer threads which start with "What's the worst dinner party you've ever been to?" Or "What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done at work?" Or something like that, where you get a good 100 funny anecdotes all compressed into one thread.

Mintyy · 15/09/2013 22:42

Another timeless one is MorningPaper's piss-take of Netmums. You'd absolutely never get away with that now as Mn is far too po-faced. So, that thread is classic in another sense; a little glimpse of Mn when you could get away with murder.

Greythorne · 15/09/2013 22:43

OP - I quite agree. And loads of the "classics" don't even make sense as the OP has flounced or been banned so their OP is deleted.

Stupid.

Mintyy · 15/09/2013 22:44

And, yes, agree, Threadie's dead guinea pig thread is also great. So much poetic talent on show!

Original poster
Sparklingbrook · 15/09/2013 22:44

Right- then I did raise a chuckle at the Penguin thread Viva. Grin

I have been on MN 2 years nearly Mintyy, did I arrive after all the best bits?

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MrsOakenshield · 15/09/2013 22:46

I shall go and have a browse but is that thread, which turned out to be made up but was very funny nonetheless, about someone who was upset because her DH had eaten cakes from the condemned pile (she claimed at one point to live somewhere where there were no birds, which I think was the trigger for people to start realising that perhaps this was all a bit of a porky pie) - is that there?

usualsuspect · 15/09/2013 22:48

I've been on a thread that was nominated for classics and didn't get in.

It was moved to other subjects though.

HoneyDragon · 15/09/2013 22:49

I luffs the penguin that's a Guilemot thread

NoelHeadbands · 15/09/2013 22:50

Angela Hernandez was what made me join I think

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 15/09/2013 22:50

But the Fifty Shades of Mumsnet, the Brian Cox odes, and the Cutted Up Pear are just so funny - I can go and reread them and they still make me smile, even on the most miserable darkest day Grin
A thread I started wound up in Classics, and I am still not sure why - people seemed to like it and said lovely things, but all I started it for was a bit of advice about making some toy accessories, and then it just sort of grew. It took on a life of its own in the end, but whether anyone who "wasn't there" so to speak would enjoy it now, I don't know.
Some of the Classics are truly classic and are funny forever, and others are "of their time" and only funny "cos I was there" so to speak Grin

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Sparklingbrook · 15/09/2013 22:52

I will accept the fact it may be just me though. I never read a book twice, and there are a handful of films I will watch more than once. Maybe that's it.

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HoneyDragon · 15/09/2013 22:52

Some of the Classics are truly classic and are funny forever, and others are "of their time" and only funny "cos I was there" so to speak

I guess that's a pretty good explanation of what makes Classics, well, Classics.

SPsTotallyMullerFuckingLicious · 15/09/2013 22:57

I've been here a little less time than you Sparkling I think we did miss alot Sad

SPBisResisting · 15/09/2013 23:01

Can someone explain T-rexing to me? I was on the Sharon threads and think they relate to that but missed T-rexing

LeGavrOrf · 15/09/2013 23:01

Trip advisor is brilliant.

Rebranding is also funny. I remember howling with laughter at the time at some of them. Pringles! I remember dd asking me what I was laughing at and I couldn't explain.

There is also a brilliant one in aibu where the OP called us a sad, fat lot and then loads of us talked shite. That was my funniest ever thread which is not in classics.

Crap Tips in classics was great but now all the links don't work so it makes no sense, which is a shame.

There was also a great one about mum's snazziest recipes from the 70s and 80s which also doesn't make sense as it has deletions iirc.

LeGavrOrf · 15/09/2013 23:02

Prangles not Pringles.

Oh it made me laugh anyway.

AlaskaNebraska · 15/09/2013 23:05

Snazzy recipes was me. Im deleted in it too.

MrsOakenshield · 15/09/2013 23:06

oh, which is the cutted up pear one, I see that referred to so many times? (just been through classics and didn't spot that one)

AnneUulmelmahay · 15/09/2013 23:08

There was one where the OP typed like

AnneUulmelmahay · 15/09/2013 23:09

Wasn't in classics, forget why

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