To ask why Maui is a standing joke on Mumsnet?

[SabineUndine]

sorry to seem slow but there are all kinds of situations where Maui is the answer and I have never seen any suggestion why!

jobrum I think was pippa

*that

Thanks Paul.
My favourite thread was the one about the bobble falling behind the loo

Queen was the decadent spa a Jamie something?

Maui was brilliant. I'd forgotten about the cruise as a hen do. And the wedding had to be in Maui, regardless of who the OP was getting married to, infact that bit seemed to be a bit irrelevant.

There are loads of MN standing jokes

And Maui has reminded me to give you all ...... TONGA

TONGA! Haha I had forgotten that 😂

OMG the £8 Artisanal Crackers! I had forgotten about them! Naughty Nanny...

It was hilarious. The more that people were Googling/searching/trying to find the blessed book (all power to many lovely MNers) the more she kept shouting TONGA

Can someone link to one of Pippa's threads??

Ooo what was tonga? Before my time but Pippa, Cheque, and Maui are recent popular slang as I was on or lurking on all of the above and I only joined in March.

Advance search pavolvapippa.

pavlovapippa even!

'So I told MIL she was the carcass'

carcassgate was hilarious, but I don't think it was a troll.

Was she the one who wanted to be the local May Queen or something? Despite the fact it was usually a fifteen year old?

was Pippa the one who didn't work but was angry her DH wouldn;t take a day off work to take delivery of the very expensive marble table?

I liked her she was a classic troll !

Jeez I misread upthread and thought she got dressed up as Princess Anne to sing at parties.

Am wheezing at the thought!

Ah, excellent trolling. Come back Hailey!

I miss Yoni man.

I miss Pipa, come back!!! She provided endless entertainment!

Oh I miss Pippa.

ghostyslovesheep Yes!!!

TONGA! was rather convoluted. IIRC, the OP (or the OP was posting on behalf of a 'friend'), was trying to find a book which was generally about the history of Tonga, but, apparently, it had a chapter about some naval battle which the OP's (or her 'friend's') ancestor had fought in, as a naval captain, near Tonga.

The OP/friend had lived in Tonga many years ago (her DH had been a British diplomat there) and she had loaned the book to a Princess of Tonga. The PoT never returned the book to her and subsequently moved to Switzerland (or somewhere?!). All appeals, for the return of the book, to the Princess and Tongan royal family had fallen on deaf ears. Unfortunately the OP/friend actually couldn't remember the title or author of the book.

Of course, there were suggestions to keep trying the Tongan Princess and the Tongan royal family for the return of the original book. But also loads of clever MNers did their best to try to find/Google this book. All responses were met with increasingly loud "NO, I said TONGA" etc.

I've found this zombie thread about it after the original thread was zapped www.mumsnet.com/Talk/what_were_reading/2286950-Wheres-the-Tonga-book-thread-gone

This thread has sent me on a loop and I just managed to post on a zombie thread. I was weeping again at Sharon.

DH and I wanted to get married in Maui (or 'Maui'd' if you like) but our money didn't stretch that far.