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Your top Mumsnet memories/moments of the last ten years - post them here

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JustineMumsnet · 13/01/2010 16:49

As some of you may know, this is our tenth year in existence and we thought it would be nice to put together a list of the top ten MN moments during those ten years - obviously not all of you are as old in the tooth as me but everyone's thoughts welcome.

So by way of a starter for ten here and distinctly off the top of my head (so don't shout if I've missed you out!) are some of our most memorable moments/mn events...

Feel free to violently disagree add your own - am sure, being so decrepit we've forgotten loads.

In no particular order...

Christening of SWMNBN and MP's apology for rockets gag
Mile 4 Maude
First live birth
Christmas appeals generally
Biscuitgate
bottom butter
tim dowling and wife - hammering it out on MN
David Cameron's massive panniers
AIBU generally
Pirate sex
Misdee and Peter and the heart transplant
Is that UCM?

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MrsMattie · 14/01/2010 01:05

Oh God, all of the above. Had forgotten about some of these. Pirate sex. ah ha ha haaaa

I quite like the long running 'If your name is Linda you are a secretary' one, too.

TanteRose · 14/01/2010 07:12

From our own correspondent shows just how global MN is.

Oh and I did like Kerrymum's Halloween stories here and here

differentnameforthis · 14/01/2010 08:00

LiegeAndLief saves mum & baby with advice on pre eclampisa symptoms

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/440848-omg-heartburn-from-hell-advice-please

posieparker · 14/01/2010 08:38

Probably been said but the poster who put semen in her dd's hair....

posieparker · 14/01/2010 08:44

The oj and Steve, and Trinity threads both broke my heart and showed true kindness and compassion.

posieparker · 14/01/2010 08:45

Just read the ucm is that you, and i am crying with laughter.

piscesmoon · 14/01/2010 08:46

I seem to have missed all the best bits! I have never heard of the penguin thread and I didn't read about the moldies-thinking it was a housekeeping thread about getting mould off the walls!

LeninGrad · 14/01/2010 09:15

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daftpunk · 14/01/2010 09:22

Shame UCM isn't here anymore, she seemed like a good laugh...

sockmonkey · 14/01/2010 09:22

Another vote for the penguin thread.
The christmas appeal too.

There have been so many funny ones it's hard to recall.

DelGirl · 14/01/2010 09:43

Not read the whole thread but has anyone mentioned LV*R or rrrrrrrr

DelGirl · 14/01/2010 09:44

that didn't come out right. L..V..D.R

DelGirl · 14/01/2010 09:48

WWB knicker elastic. Peter & Misdee,. Kewcumber. Is that you UCM. Mile for Maude. Who was it that played the wooden xylophone in the woods with her dh. That was class Malory towers>??>

2010aQuintessentialOdyssey · 14/01/2010 09:54

oliviamumsnet I am still miffed that you deleted my midget thread. Now I am the only one who remembers it..... sniff.

Blackduck · 14/01/2010 10:02

The one where someone's mil had given her a frock which she had charity shopped and mil asked for it back.....

SkipToMyLou · 14/01/2010 10:03

Hidden space - a hole in the MN time/space continuum? made me laugh loads in a geeky kind of way!

Dumbledoresgirl · 14/01/2010 10:04

Funniest moments:

the hamster in the stew thread (I think that one was the first deliberately funny trolling thread and all others following it have never quite hit the mark in the same way)

Lavenderr's thread re pheasant shooting

Is that you UCM? and the pouch of douglas thread

WigWamBam's knicker elastic thread

Dramatic moments:

Moldies (if I can be dispassionate about that time for a moment, I am in awe at the sheer magnitude of it)

The outing of Judge Flounce (ditto)

I wasn't there for it, but surely Misdee and Peter's moment of glory must be worth a mention

Saddest moment:

ggglimpopo's loss of her dd. I still remember the beautiful montage someone did of photos of Maude to the music of Somewhere over the rainbow. The thing that really hit home for me was seeing those photos and imagining someone doing the same with photos of my dd

2010aQuintessentialOdyssey · 14/01/2010 10:11

this thread without a heading, which you could not click on, and which you could not really see in active convos....

KerryMumbles · 14/01/2010 10:12

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2010aQuintessentialOdyssey · 14/01/2010 10:12

My special favourite was the plate behind the toilet, and the amateur arse doctor threads, and the knickers in the lunch box (aside from my thread about being eaten up by midgets)

Dumbledoresgirl · 14/01/2010 10:16

Oh yes re amateur arse doctors, who was it performed their own arse surgery live on MN tying a piece of cotton around a skin tag and snapping it off?

KerryMumbles · 14/01/2010 10:19

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BofFunsFlowerGirl · 14/01/2010 10:20

Knickers in a lunch box thread

DelGirl · 14/01/2010 10:20

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4yST14JQs

I couldn't find the thread but here is the link to youtube

MollyRoger · 14/01/2010 10:45

oh that 2006 nativity play was great fun (I still seem to have half the cast membrs in my namechange list )

Soapy's first Christmas appeal

Mile for Maude

clay cock

the MN guided tour thread after the influx of newbies/journos etc following SWMNBN media explosion.

most of the ones in classics