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...)

This thread is a fantastic idea, I'm meant to be working but I can see I'm going to be mn-ing instead!

I also loved 'Penetration Man' and any thread that involved Marmalade Twatkins in all her forms!

I am absolutely loving this thread (although concerned that it will immediately be used by trolls/newbies to credibly claim false insider status - you know "NC for this but have been here forever, penis beaker, Gluezilla, toddler art etc") and have spent the best part of my day on it, in both senses of the phrase.

Also delighted to be able to do some fellow Kiwi-spotting on the thread, particularly anyone who can do WCW poem satire!

There are actually... I think five, threads in the Sharon/wasp/wine on the wall saga! I linked the first two, but there are apparently others. MN collective, can you find the other three???

'Bunty' from the name threads. And the suggestions of what she might be called at school. Did the OP ever say if she used the name?

YY to others linking the other threads!! That's my day sorted then..

Sean, Daniel or Balonz

Poo Pouffe

This one is apparently Cube of Poo, or at least contains it (that's a thing, right??

I found the bobble plate!

And "your minge!" is gone (darn Chat) but I found a thread where it was copy-pasted in its entirety, so here it is:
"this has been on here before but it is my most shamefilled moment and i burn red thinking about it...
32 weeks pregnant with dc3 we went swimming, i had put my tankini on at home so i could see if i had a bad bikini line hanging out the bottom of my bottoms.
we went to the baths,dp got dd2 changed and gave me the armbands and rubber ring to 'sort' and so i just took my out door clothes off and 'met them on poolside' i was dutifully inflating the barbie rubber ring\armbands when dp started advancing down the side of the pool mouthing frantically 'wtf are you doing i can see your minge' i was puffing up the inflatables glaring at him as he gestured and mouthed 'your minge,i can see your minge' i looked on the little chair by the poolside and there,neatly folded,underneath the rubber ring were my tankini bottoms.
i don't know why i took them off,but i was stood inflating shit,by the pool while 'family swim' went on beside me."

Here is the one about the person who embarked on a campaign of fridge warfare using courgettes after her colleague threw her sushi in the bin (handy follow-up thread supplied by Mumsnet edit within OP).

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2629482-My-colleague-has-thrown-my-lunch-in-the-bin

Oh my goodness, I've never read the wine on the wall or T-rexing in Asda, I'm glad I'm in the office on my own today as I was crying with laughter!

We need to find the parking thread that involved Miss Jolly (Mrs. Jolly?)

Also, is it worth including WORKzilla and Shagzilla here for posterity?

army dad.
miss jolly
both recent.

can't believe gluezilla was so long ago.

I am still curious about the bathroom light switch and why it was clicking

And while I've been on the hunt for other things, I stumbled across Sex Lube and a Fish Slice. I lost it at "See, the thing that really had me puzzled was that to me a 'fish slice' is a slice of fish. So here I'm imagining OP having a go at this welded on pot with some KY Jelly and a naice slice of turbot."

NAICE. I'm adopting it. I have found my people. COME TO MY ARMS, MUMSNETTERS.

Just spent the morning reading the Jeffrey the Hacker thread I am now adopting the phrase "Calm Down Jeffrey"

One of the ones I always laughed at, was the guy who came on here to explain how computers and the internet worked and if any women needed any help to just ask. MNetters went on a field day with that

sobeyond
From memory he got a full on MN sarcastic poetry attack. Death by haiku.

You beat me to it faith, 'Sex lube and a fish slice' is my absolute favourite - I HOWLED with laughter! Wanted to use it as my username but was beaten to it!

Are we still not mentioning NYE it was maybe the strangest night on mn ever

Oh, the requests.

One by Dove on "imperfections" and others for your standard DM sad face.

Which reminds me, how did the sad face meme emerge?

Thr Dove thread is gone, this one was the follow up after deletion.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2589988-The-deleted-Media-Requests-thread

I still wanna know how/when the Mumsnet chicken was spawned.

That NYE catastrophe was awful - I only caught up the following morning after sanity had been restored. A plus point was that the 'well 'ard' MNer flounced for good!

ChazsBrilliantAttitude

It was beautiful, I saw it again a few months ago, but I have just spent ages looking for it and can't find it.

However I have gotten lost in classics, so that delayed me a fair bit

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/child_internet_safety/a2307274-I-am-everything-you-hate-about-people-on-the-internet-I-am-here-to-help

Found it. Now I should go and continue cleaning

No one flounced as a result of NYE.

I thought it was hilarious. Especially when the shut down didn't actually work

I agree with Scrowy - the mumsnet of today is nothing like it was when the majority of these mad threads occurred. Take Sharon and the wasp for example - that spawned a number of hilarious replies (funnier than the OP!) and carry-on threads and was comedy gold.

These days it would read like this:

DH threw wine at the wall and didn't clean up the wasp because Sharon was listening to erasure with Adam on fruit and veg and the bikers went for cake in the tea room but the seagulls were there and I had chips for tea

...... followed by ....

"Reported" "1/10" "I'm reporting this" "is this supposed to be funny?" "these threads bore the shit out of me, reported".

It is sad because I used to sit up crying with laughter on a night when I couldn't sleep but these days a thread like this wouldn't last 5 minutes before it was deleted, "reported" or basically died of biscuit overdose.