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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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Sunshinemummy · 14/01/2010 10:47

My funniest ever threads were Charmkin's links and Zombie Plan.

crumpet · 14/01/2010 11:00

Was it Zebra who put her kids to bed in their school clothes to save time in the mornings?

GetOrfMoiLand · 14/01/2010 11:15

Oh I am so looking forward to the weekend when I will sit there with a bottle of vino and read all the links.

My faves:

The GENIUS crap tips thread (thanks TDWP for that)

What not to do - the stupidity thread

The smug thread (I was SO smug envy at that woman who grinds her own spices and deosn't have to label the jars)

The shiney healthy eating threads - when I could keep up with them!

Shopping lists - nice ham, crap ham

Pram huns

God there are loads.

As I said to someone yesterday, 10 years! If I had discobeted this place 10 years ago I would have bene had up for neglecting dd!

And also, proud personal moment when I felt I had arrived - a thread title saying 'who is Kittylouise?' saying that all my posts were funny. How sad I am but I was so pleased.

Then cod came on and said she needs to change her name because she sounds like a pram hun!

Felt like I had arrived on MN

Boco · 14/01/2010 11:32

Thanks for posting biwi's space/time/gap thread, I'd not seen it before it was v. funny.

GetOrfMoiLand · 14/01/2010 11:35

Also has anyone said Slubberdegullion's 'how would my husband recognise me if I was replaced by an alien clone' thread. Surrealism at its best.

Ooh ooh the how do to bumsex thread - which someone got copmpletely pissed off about as it was inappropriate discussions for mother to have, and than scatter posted in order to kill the thread.

Ooh ooh OOH Expat's scary stories thread. She is a fantastic story teller and had some cracking ghost stories.

moodlum · 14/01/2010 11:36

OMG I had forgotten the UCM thread. Farking hell that's funny.

Cod's if your name is Linda thread. That ruled my life and the world we created in that thread for many many days and late nights.

Was the pants in the lunchbox the same as the one who had her end of period pants in her son's swimming gear? That was hysterical.

Oh, and I have tears running down my face with laughter at this

ScaredOfCows · 14/01/2010 11:43

Does anyone have a link to the smug thread? Please. Pretty please.

SkipToMyLou · 14/01/2010 11:43

I'd forgotten the Clay Cock! Probably one of the first threads I read on here, I remember squealing at the picture!

SuperSoph73 · 14/01/2010 11:50

I've only been a MNer for a couple of years but there have been loads of hilarious threads for me. However, one that I do remember is a MNer whose daughter had wild, untameable hair and she posted that she had tried everything on her hair, including sperm ...... she meant serum .... that was seriously funny

SqueezyIsStartinAResolution · 14/01/2010 11:51

The one where Shiney was ill with flu and Slubber came on and told her off in the funniest ways

TheButterflyEffect · 14/01/2010 11:56

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GetOrfMoiLand · 14/01/2010 12:02

the smuh thread - keep your eye out for the woman who grinds her own spices (and the jealousy that ensues!

RoyaltyIsMyOnlyDelusion · 14/01/2010 12:03

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ScaredOfCows · 14/01/2010 12:08

Thank you - can't believe I missed that one!!

hatwoman · 14/01/2010 12:10

can someone link to the penguin thead plaese?? thnka you lovelies

purpleturtle · 14/01/2010 12:15

There is a link to the penguin thread near the start of this one. Be warned - I spent about an hour and a half reading it last night. (And went to bed giggling )

Comewhinewithme · 14/01/2010 12:23

The thread in which someone performed surgery on their bottom.

hatwoman · 14/01/2010 12:27

thanks pt - I had a uquick look but must have missed it

GinGirl · 14/01/2010 12:43

The 'what not to do' thread... tears and tears of laughter from me and then DH when he got disgruntled at my absence from the living room and I made him read it too...

purpleturtle · 14/01/2010 12:53

Penguins

It was rather a long way down the page - and I knew what i was looking for. HTH.

DelGirl · 14/01/2010 13:11

grrrr, thanks to this threaD i Have spent all day on mn today how terrible is that!

Tortington · 14/01/2010 13:40

moldies.
the old high class trolls - dorothy parker zsa zsa - and others.

the help that mumsnetters give each other in death of a partner - child.
xmas santa
gina ford.
bumsex fridays

coppertop · 14/01/2010 13:40

Patent Leather Kickers thread

Tortington · 14/01/2010 13:42

wasn;t there a kin thread to the pirate sex one with a 'daisy' the cow?

HeadlessLadyH · 14/01/2010 13:42

Me too. Most of last night and about an hour this morning. Was late to meet a friend as a result of the kitchen implemtent fetish one. Farking genuis.

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