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_* *

I’m well too thank you! Hello!

There were haikus about Gary & his agency, weren’t there? I think I wrote one.

Mexican house thief.

I can’t find the image of the Sinister Easter Bonnet!

Thanks for the buzzkill on a lighthearted thread. Smh.

One of the first threads I got totally riveted by was the lost hair booble plate that went down behind the toilet. Cue everyone wondering what a booble was (it was a hair bobble plate) then others wondering why you would put your hair bobbles onto a plate (and why you would put the plate on top of the toilet cistern) and then the OP was using a fish slice trying to push the booble plate out all in real time and coming back and updating us in an increasing state of distress. Her DH came home and gently held her in his arms and said he would get the booble plate out and all of MN swooned at the romantic hero.

It finally came out- I think some dismantling of walls was involved and then a triumphant photo of the retrieved booble plate.

I can't find the thread now.

Snapped and farted should be there too!

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You’re kidding, right?!
EMIN was an absolute legend and a brilliant foster mother - too right she should be remembered on such an occasion as MN’s birthday - Earth Mother, one of the finest

I joined Mumsnet when I was pregnant with DD who’s now 24, so I’ve been here a while under different names…

Some of my favourite threads that didn’t make the list include the Mumsnet Rhapsody, the cutted up pear and if my toddler was on AIBU.

Thanks for your company all these years Mumsnet and Mumsnetters, for the handholding, the laughs and even the tears. There were a few brilliant trolls as well…

Haply birtfay Munsnet.

25, holy moly!

Happy birthday MN! 🎂

From the proud OP of one of your chosen ones. Possibly my biggest achievement in life.

There was a thread on here recently about living your life as if you were in Country Living magazine. It was silly and brilliant, like MN of yore.

This is what got me hooked on MN:

Everyone scarper, the rozzers are coming | Mumsnet

I had to take regular breaks from reading it, to wipe tears away/take in some oxygen/give the intercostal muscles a rest😂

Me too actually

this must surely be one of the best titles ever ever

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh I have LITERALLY twatted a spider to death

This one I have recommended to many who are in the throes of unrelenting toddler/preschool parenting 😁

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1852343-Well-That-went-well-didnt-it

Oh poor Internet Man ;) He rather went about being helpful in the wrong way didn't he!

Is there a way to uncover the photos of items mentioned in the various threads? I've no idea what the Easter bonnet hat or the unfortunate clay item look like and searching on the Internet Archive under a thread's current (with /mumsnetclassics/ in it) or assumed old thread URL (without /mumsnetclassics/ in it) hasn't brought anything up.

Thanks, and happy birthday.

Jo
P.S. I'm here because of penis beaker. I laughed so much at it on the train home that the man sitting next to me got up and moved away haha.

Oh the twatted spider. I went on that thread all prepared to say sharp things about the misuse of the word 'literally' and then realised poor HoneyDragon meant - well literally.

Sorry about the quality but this thread had me howling at the time.

I’ve just read the Well That Went Well. So funny!!!
The thread that made me actually cry with laughter recently, was the crazy spelling of some names and the poster who said about a spelling she’d seen and countless posters told her it was actually Polish and she replied calmly to every single one of them. Another poster mistaking wrote floats my goat too and another who said her child was called Pledge because he was polish. Honestly, I was sat crying! 😂

@EmpressaurusKitty there were haikus aplenty. Some very funny. Most deleted because of their references to Gary’s penis, I seem to recall! He was very cross with us!

Are any of these actually entertaining/funny? I just picked one at random which was the BBQ one, and I don't get why this is one of the top threads ever?

I love the endlessly resurrected carpet fitter one.

And RunningInTheRain's two threads. Different UN on the first thread

I've been slowly working my way through Classics for a while now. I think my absolute favourite (so far) is Elderly Korean Lady

I've recently read this one which had me chuckling https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3166936-Apparently-Im-Dead

And this one which is hilariously bonkers! https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2788166-Someone-has-nicked-my-username

No screaming in the Sistine Chapel??