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Mumsnet Talk: Quote of the Week - Suggestions Wanted

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AbbyMumsnet · 18/05/2006 14:25

Hi all,
We thought it would be fun to include a "Quote of the Week" from Mumsnet Talk in our weekly newsletter, as a sort of celebration of all that is LOL funny - if not slightly surreal - and unique about Mumsnet. Please post your suggestions here. (And do try and keep 'em clean )

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FrannyandZooey · 13/07/2006 11:57

this one's from Greeny from the maggots in the bin thread

"Please, have the whole house encased in lead and dropped in the middle of the Pacific. Today. NOW. "

As usual I love her sophisticated use of understatement.

JackieNo · 13/07/2006 13:10

I vote for FrannyandZooey on this thread

"Cod! COD! Read my potty training thread! I have trained the fucker at last and I want some recognition RIGHT NOW"

Made me laugh.

Caligula · 13/07/2006 13:18

Here's a classic:

"I saw the other thread from the new person who wanted to say how nasty MN is. I lurk as well, was going to start posting properly and I won;t be bothering either. You're all such mean mums!"

That should scare off the riff-raff.

FrannyandZooey · 17/07/2006 20:44

These are all posts I have loved this week, but I don't expect the first two are soundbitey enough to be usable, they are amongst the best advice I have ever read on MN though

Zippi:

"I think you will gradually learn that having a baby is a reliquishment of control..

once you can freely and unequivocally accept that then you will relax and feel more contented yourself

and even if having a baby doesn't convince you then having a child will! "

Blueshoes:

"It is not a race to achieve good behaviour. It is about nurturing self-motivated resilient adults who internalise our values."

and the last one just made me laugh:

Mrsdarcy: "My boys? (aged 6 and 5) bedroom is a revolting tip and I have run out of ideas for how to make them take better care of it ? I?ve tried helpful Mummy, very firm but calm Mummy, raging wildebeest Mummy etc etc"

plus there were some blinders on dumbfluff's dirty sex jokes thread, but I am buggered if I can be bothered to trawl through it again to find them.

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AbbyMumsnet · 19/07/2006 10:03

Get your nominations in - newsletter being put together as I write. Well, not actually as I write because then I would be writing two things at one time which would be impossible... but you get what I mean.

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Carmenere · 19/07/2006 10:11

My nomination is from SherlockLGJ on 15 July
"The guilt.............well once you deliver the placenta, they insert the guilt"

CaptainFlameSparrow · 19/07/2006 10:17

Gotta be Dumbfluff "I have gone but people keep talking to me "

Reginald · 19/07/2006 10:18

I second the Sherlock one - brilliant! Which thread is that one from though?

Piffle · 19/07/2006 10:24

I'm pondering futile Piffledon from Don Marquis....
I'm with Sherlocks as well
BRILLIANT!

Piffle · 19/07/2006 10:27

just read the rest of this thread and it is evident why we all keep coming back you lot are genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am crying with laughter

Carmenere · 19/07/2006 10:50

It was on the I spent £80 on myself thread on the 15th.

hunkermunker · 20/07/2006 22:24

"also, we were at the beach the other day and we found a rather attractive circular piece of driftwood... now, can that go in? how the hell do i clean the undoubted litres of pollution off it? i'm not too paranoid abuut cleanliness but i do draw the line at sewage."

by aitch71 on this thread discussing what to put in a treasure (wnaky) basket for her baby.

MrsBadger · 03/08/2006 09:01

ok I know it's soppy and doesn't involve poo, sex or wnaky baskets, but it does hit the nail on the head...

thekidsmum

lionheart · 04/08/2006 19:59

This is good, too, (but for different reasons).

SenoraPostrophe on interpreting the small print on dating sites:

"You don't have to be a religious nut to be against pre marital sex, no, but I really do think think anyone who calls it 'impurity' is several wafers short of a communion."

Tommy · 04/08/2006 20:07

This made me LOL today - it's Flamesparrow describing how she likes to look on a night out:

"I wear what is clean and hides the lumps."

pangolin · 06/08/2006 12:49

"holidays...ahhhh....the only time you can be shitfaced with kids and social services dont get involved!"

That custardo is a genius, she is.

Flossam · 26/08/2006 20:20

Don't know if you are still doing this anymore but this tickled me from singingmango here

'I am not your average piece of totty.'

lionheart · 26/08/2006 21:15

"Piggy has it coming good and proper," is Suzy Wong's contribution to a dicussion on Lord of the Flies.

Funnier still in the context of a site on parenting.

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AbbyMumsnet · 06/09/2006 10:36

Get your votes in now for this week's newsletter. Ta v much.

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AbbyMumsnet · 06/09/2006 11:46

bump

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AbbyMumsnet · 13/09/2006 11:43

It's that time of the week again... so come on, get your votes in or I won't get to put one in the newsletter.

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