Gather here famous MNetters for some of ye are famous

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Article in the Independent r.e "The thirteen best (worst) things that have ever happened on Mumsnet"

Link: indy100.independent.co.uk/article/the-thirteen-best-worst-things-that-have-ever-happened-on-mumsnet--b1p_uZfIZW

I honestly still can't get my head around the bullshit that was Penis Beaker!? How did that come to define the site considering what a pile of shite it is.

PB was just Not Funny

Sinister Easter Bonnet however - now THAT was funny

PS I miss Franny and her wnaky baskets

Oh look! A rip off of the subreddit r/bestofmumsnet (at least acknowledged) which has about 12 things on it and none of them recent.

Although it does have a rather gratifying post stating that they hoped they could laugh at us, but after seeing our posts rather wanted to join us.

Is this modern journalism? For I too can rehash a few posts from a subreddit.

Which, incidentally, certainly does not contain the "best of Mumsnet".

Doesn't even mention Maui.

Or the hot new contender, street drug that's actually a mint.

I'm on there.
I'm fierce.
I'm crying with laughter.

Urgh. How did they narrow down 16 years of threads to those?

Are they all in Classics?

What a load of mince. Pippa and her HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL EVENTS AGENCY isn't even included.

I missed the one about the DH recording his farts but it has just made me cry laughing!

Not a single mention of Maui or the elderly Korean lady. The cake one is proper famous though

Hello, dhalinks

I didn't get the lemon drizzle thing at all. Penis Beaker was ridiculous.

Paul: what's the events agency thread? I've been here a couple of years but it's the first time I've seen it referenced. I love a good classic...

Oh this is brilliant

I want to read the fart one now.

Just about the first thing we did when I got my first ever cassette recorder in 1975 (first of my friends to have one! so proud!) was to try to record burps and farts.

My DSis drank a whole can of brown ale left over from Christmas in aid of the cause and boy was it worth it, got a window-rattler of a burp. I very carefully managed to preserve it for years by record all my Sunday-night-Top-Forty sounds round it so you'd have a song, Tony Blackburn's sodding yapping all over the end, DSis's gargantuan belch, a reaction cackle, then the next song.

Ah happy days.

Without Elderly Korean Lady or Mexican House Thief it's just not worth it

BuffytheReasonableFeminist I wondered that too , I put it down to me having only been a member for about 4 years so maybe I'm not 'in' on all the jokes...

We have a whole subreddit?

They weren't even the best threads. No bobble plate. No poos in weird places. No random acts of kindness. No FOOC threads. Pfft. Shoddy research.

Actually this wasn't as bad as I expected. I mean, there's no mention of the elderly Korean lady or Maui but not the worst

I wish they would start a thread and ask us to contribute to our fav threads ever. I wouldn't pick half the crap that ends up in classics

The weasel one made me laugh but they missed out on some great stuff imo. Not sure why penis beaker always gets mentioned when anyone writes about MN but I thought it was a bit limp if I'm honest.

I do sympathise with weasel physics. I blame The Animals of Farthing Wood.

Spoonyfucker is much funnier than most of them...