MNHQ: AIBU to share 25 of our all time favourite classic threads to mark Mumsnet’s 25th birthday?

[BeckyAMumsnet]

As you might have heard if you were listening to the Today programme this morning, it’s Mumsnet’s 25th birthday! To celebrate, we’ve scoured the classics board and consulted with the team at MNHQ to select this list of our all time favourite classic threads for a bit of Mumsnet trivia. 🎉 Think you know your naice ham from your penis beakers? Your lemon drizzles from your T-Rexing in the supermarket? Why is everyone shouting 'cancel the cheque?' And who on earth is Soupy the Bat? 🤔 Test your Mumsnet knowledge by guessing the missing words on some of the most unforgettable thread titles. Let us know how many you get right and don't forget share your favourite Mumsnet threads below.

1. Someone has renamed their wifi – “My neighbour’s a ___”
2. Help my son just touched a __
3. Ds1 has made a large __ cock
4. There is a tiny elderly __ lady in my garden
5. Center Parcs and _ __
6. Household objects that are ___
7. People keep having sex in my __
8. Why do_ need so much help?
9. Can I make ice cream from _?
10. I just spent the night nursing a __ ___thinking it was a baby hedgehog
11. AIBU to think you can't get past _ _ in a relationship?
12. AIBU to be traumatised by my own _?
13. AIBU to say no to visiting __for Christmas?
14. A ___ has fallen down the back of the loo
15. AIBU to throw water over a __ i've just spray painted?
16. He has eaten a _ __
17. ___ condensation
18. Is ____ a virgin?
19. ____ Easter bonnet?
20. AIBU to put big 'No ____ ' signs in my bathroom?
21. AIBU to avoid church because of DH’s ____
22. "Let's have a __" said no woman ever
23. __ noises during sex?????????
24. Delia’s pancake batter recipe smells exactly like ___
25. Please help me find the invisible ___ before I go mad

Answers below - how many did you get?

1. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1283109-Somone-has-re-named-their-wifi-to-My-neighbours-a-cunt_
2. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/160076-help-my-son-just-touched-a-working-class-boy_
3. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/576025-help-ds1-has-made-a-large-clay-cock_
4. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2154580-There-is-a-tiny-elderly-Korean-lady-in-my-garden-and-I-want-to-go-out_
5. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1385104-Center-Parcs-Anal-sex_
6. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3058228-household-objects-that-are-pricks_
7. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3288349-people-keep-having-sex-in-my-hedge_
8. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/4578634-why-do-sheep-need-so-much-help_
9. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/4607290-can-i-make-ice-cream-from-shrews_
10. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/4178349-I-just-spent-the-night-nursing-a-cushion-tassel-thinking-it-was-a-baby-hedgehog_
11. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3784524-To-think-you-cant-get-past-the-ick-im-a-relationship_
12. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/4611825-to-be-traumatised-by-my-own-undercarriage_
13. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3756317-To-say-no-to-visiting-pigs-for-Christmas_
14. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/636548-A-plate-has-fallen-down-the-back-of-the-loo_
15. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1465377-To-throw-water-over-a-pigeon-Ive-just-spray-painted_
16. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2017083-He-has-eaten-a-fat-ball_
17. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2775925-Fanny-condensation_
18. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2576179-Is-Voldemort-a-virgin_
19. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/937597-Sinister-Easter-bonnet_
20. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3007694-To-put-big-No-Wanking-signs-in-my-bathrooms_
21. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3280403-AIBU-to-avoid-church-because-of-DH-s-flatulence_
22. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2957480-Lets-have-a-BBQ-said-no-woman-ever_
23. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/115727-pirate-noises-during-sex_
24. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/1970414-Delias-pancake-batter-recipe-smells-exactly-like-semen_
25. _https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1665088-Please-help-me-find-the-invisible-duck-before-I-go-mad_* *

@EmpressaurusKittyit was my old pal @tigerdriveriiwho turned up on my behalf to watch him stand there dressed in black and white as requested …

Happy 25th. I wish Mumsnet (and the internet) had been around 40 years ago when I met my ex and had never heard of red flags.

Happy birthday Mumsnet!!! Thank you and long may you continue to inform and entertain us ❤️ 🥂

Number 2 title cracked me up 🤣🤣🤣

Screaming at the Sistine Chapel was a maternity leave highlight for me:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3178898-DH-embarrassed-by-my-sensitivity

What about "I'm Angela Hernandez" - I can't remember the title of that one, but it was one of those threads that just got funnier and funnier.

I knew 15 exactly and roughly remember several more.

I need a hobby.

Some of my favourite threads weren't funny. PinkPeter and the walks for ggglimpopo's lovely girl Maud and EMIN and Aillidh. Too many sad ones. Those are the ones I remember. And BoF. Always BoF.

Some bloody funny threads mind. I've been here for 20 odd years.

Happy Birthday Mumsnet 🎂 🥳

I've been here 18 years. I googled something when I was pregnant with DS, and MN came up.
I had a bit of a nosey around the site, and here were are.
DS turns 18 this year, and it's been a part of my life since.

Looking forward to re-reading the old classic threads.
There's one that I remember from years ago, about M&S furniture for 50p - does anyone else remember that one?

Penis beaker for all time laughs 😂

i cannot remember the title but there was a classic about a woman watching a young couple living in their car through her window? Several updates over a few days. It fascinated me at the time. Can’t find it though 😖

Penis beaker introduced me to mumsnet!!

happy 25th mumsnet same year i got married

some great threads heres to manymore

There was a thread on AIBU, I think, about camping, I think, where the end of the AIBU sentence was a peculiar jumble of nonsense words, that all the subsequent posters ran with and included in their responses. Had me crying with laughter!
If anyone knows it I would love to see it again!

Happy Birthday MN

I knew about half of those! And vaguely remembered a few more…

I’ve been here since 2006 - one of my favourite long-running threads was the From Our Own Correspondent (FOOC!) on the Living Overseas board.
they were epic - vignettes of life from literally all corners of the world, really showing how far flung and international MN is

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/living_overseas/576865-can-we-make-our-own-from-our-own-correspondent?reply=12499051

I hoped center parcs would be on here.

"Take it up the arse at Center Parcs" had me absolutely howling

I loved that one, makes me laugh even now.

I also enjoyed Balonz in Baby names, sometimes the troll threads are the funniest.

Happy 25th Birthday!

I can’t remember what the thread title was but “snapped and farted” makes me laugh whenever I think of it.

One of my favourite threads has sadly disappeared. No-one, including MNHQ has been able to track it down. It was the one about how we transported horses to the Olympics. It was so funny.

But there was a whole series of threads relating to No. 6 in the list on the MNHQ timeline, Fighting sexist advertising:

Mumsnet successfully challenged a £1.25m billboard campaign that declared, in one of a series of deliberately provocative statements intended to demonstrate the power of outdoor advertising, that "career women make bad mothers." The poster was replaced with one that said "Sexist advertising is bad for business."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jan/06/outdoor-advertising-career-women-billboards#:~:text=One%20of%20more%20than%20450,what%20else%20I%20can%20do.%22

It was a truly hilarious run of threads, brutally taking the piss out of Gary (and his agency) who had created these truly dreadful ads. Most/many of our posts got deleted, because Gary really didn’t like us taking the piss out of him, or suggesting that he might have a too-small manhood.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/baby_names/2197937-Help-Difficult-choice-of-boys-names-Sean-Daniel-or-Balonz?page=1

Love all the classics but I think my fave must be OMG think my mugshot must be pinned to the counter in Boots.. makes me laugh every time

The ones I shall always remember are the heroin-addicted baby and the proud grandfather skipping about in elephantine fashion. Both were extraordinary and delightful in completely different ways.

I can't remember all the details, but the one that had me engrossed for days was the family whose holiday home had been 'borrowed' and the trespassing family wouldn't leave without compensation . Ate all the food etc, big electricity bills. A neighbour/ caretaker gave the interlopers his key and was charging rent I think?

Happy Birthday Mumsnet! I remember most of them. Going to enjoy reading them again.

Rivers of sweetcorn anyone?

Oh I remember the horses one!

Happy Birthday. Placemarking to read threads later.