To ask for a round up of all the little MN in-jokes?

[faithinthesound]

Mods, feel free to delete this if it's not okay!

I've been here some months now, and I've noticed a lot of little in-jokes around that come from old threads, some of which are in Classics, etc. Usually when I come across a reference that I don't recognize, someone is kind enough to explain it to me (and sometimes even link the original thread!) but I thought it might be nice, and kind of fun, to gather together as many as we can in one thread!

I'll start. The one that always sticks out to me is the one about the Mexican house thief. That's from this thread.

The other one that had me in absolute stitches was the saga of Sharon, the wasp, and the wine that never reached the carpet, which starts here, and apparently continues here with someone "t-rexing in the Asda"... Hysterical, I tell you.

I'm really hoping some long-time MNers will be along to link to such joys as "cancel the check"; "pom bears"; "Maui"; and the one where everyone MumsNetted as their toddlers :D

(I'm sorry if this is against some unwritten rule. It's not REALLY a thread about a thread, it's a thread about a lot of threads...)

So... where was the wedding? Because it sounds like the bride was super tightlipped about it...

Naice is a brilliant one. What's the Mumsnet Museum of Toddler Art? And toilet brushes and Zoflora? and immac???

NEW RULE FOR THIS THREAD: if you can't link it, you have to explain it, however vaguely and "long-lost memory"-ish you do it!

Thank you op as I have been looking for the Mexican house thief and couldn't find it !

Oh dear lord, I am reading the Yoni massage thread for the very first time, I am dying here, my jaw aches as does my stomach absolutely hilarious!!

Here's the toddler art one.

Still funny. It was AGES ago, though. Makes me feel old.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a1255683-The-Museum-of-Modern-Toddler-Art

Oh this is fabulous, thank you, I LOVE the Korean lady thread!

The spray painted pigeon was amusing iirc. The op didn't notice the pigeon whilst she was spray painting her fence and the poor sod got painted. I'm sure that was mn.
Didn't somebody turn their dog blue too?

Brilliant thread!!

Can people elucidate on the in-jokes if they're not linking?

I've never known what Maui was all about, or Penguin Bollards.

Sorry, x-post OP.

Re Naice Ham, I think it wasn't that the list said "naice ham", just that it said

Random item
Random item
Ham
Random item
Random item
Random item
Nice Ham

And MNers were wondering what the difference was. "Naice" isn't a MN thing (although it's most common on here), it's just to indicate a Rather Hayacinth Bu-QUET pronunciation.

Center parcs bum sex

I loved the elderly Korean lady I want one too!!

Brilliant thread op, well done. Reading the 'Pom Bear anyone' comments I thought the actual joke couldn't be that funny but it was

Still a bit confused about the naice ham though. Did they write that on purpose it was it a spelling mistake?

One that's become a part of the MN culture is that everyone loves a good parking thread (ie a thread involving a dispute between neighbours).

More recently, it has become an in-joke that you can't start such a thread without a diagram showing road layout etc.

Paradise - I don't think the original source spelt "nice" as "naice", that's just more an attempt to parody a posh pronunciation, as in "You have a Waitrose? Oh, how vair naice for you!"

I've noticed that, @DadDadDad. A concerning trend is that some posters are no longer asking for a diagram, or delighting in a diagram when one is forthcoming, but demanding one. I think some people forget that it's supposed to be all in good fun, letting the OPs let off some steam!

faith - I've taken the demands to be tongue-in-cheek. You're right that it's become an expectation - although I don't suppose anyone would boycott a juicy thread just because there was no diagram.

Similar to the Maui thread, what about TONGA?!

Can't link as the OP had it deleted in the end. But she was looking for a book about Tonga, a copy of which she had loaned to a Princess of Tonga many years previously but it had never been returned. IIRC, there was a chapter about a naval battle which one of her ancestors had been involved in - plus she mentioned something else historical. But she couldn't remember the title or the author.

Many kind MNers were madly Googling books about Tonga, but none of them were correct, according to to OP. It was decided that she might be conflating two different books, but she was having none of it and just kept yelling TONGA all the time

Toilet brushes are somehow a MN no-no but I have no idea where this originated or why.

Zoflora seems to have become trendy but again no idea of the origin.

I saw someone referring to "you're the carcass!" Earlier - id totally forgotten about that! It involved an argument between op and her MIL in which the MIL kept going on about the carcass at Christmas or something and the OP got pissed off snd accused HER of BEING a carcass.

There was also Willy Willy Willy - a woman felt it necessary to shout this at some builders who'd looked at her funny or something.

I think it's hilarious that the yoni thread is always referenced as being by 'Brian of Hull'. I'm pretty sure he never gave his name but one poster said she imagined him being called Brian. Personally, I imagined him more as a Graham.

there was a very funny one with mock exam questions for teenagers along the lines of "If a teenager has 12 pairs of trainers and they are all left in the hall what is the possibility that
a) people will fall over them regularly
and
b) that teenager in question needs more trainers.

I thoroughly recommend the saga of auntie tantrums and the toddler - it's in classics somewhere. It's one of my favourite threads!

A friend is also an MNer and serves Pom bears at every social occasion so she can work out who the other MNers are!

Two topics that for some reason have generated very heated discussion on more than one occasion:

1. Is the expression "you've got another thing coming" or "you've got another think coming"?

1. After using the loo, do you stand up or stay sitting to wipe?

Answers are:

1. it's think (although I am someone who heard it as thing for most of my life)
2. who bloody cares?

It was honeydragon who immac'ed the baby (and the dog?)

And dyed her baby blue too. No idea where the threads are though