Thought I would share this with you...

Well, please send her my love...

No! I'm afraid she has gone!
Some of us are still in private contact with her.

I thought she was on holiday as well. She's been very kind to me and helped me when I was in a spot of bother about something a while back.

I'm sorry to hear Greatnan has left. I enjoyed her posts and presumed she was on holiday.

She left of her own accord.

Is she maybe on holiday? I hope that is the case.

Did she jump or was she pushed?

Ceesnan Just over a week ago.

Now she is a poster whose perspicacity and intelligence I miss on the forums.

I've been wondering about greatnan as well.

Stiff and stuffy - did you ever read any of the jokes she posted? I found some of them really made me blush and others laugh out loud. She had a lot of life experiences - some of them very sad. I think that was quite an unfair remark apricot

I hadn't realised that greatnan had gone. When did she go?

Just because Greatnan has gone, doesn't mean we can't have a thread dedicated to jokes. I think the two that she started and kept going for such a long time were very popular.

Gransnet used to be so stiff and stuffy that I moved to Mumsnet. I am so so happy to read this very funny joke and will stay around. Thanks nanapug!

Brilliant joke nanapug.

Standard and well tried and tested joke formula - set up a scene and then turn it on its head. I loved it!

My father and DH used to think that Tommy Cooper was hilarious.
My mother and I could never see why!

For some reason it makes me think of the granny in the Giles cartoons.

absent the humour is the sudden switch from sweet little old lady that you think will share her radio to nasty old lady that has been waiting years to get her own back. It is the surprise ending type of humour, but obviously not to every ones taste.

'no no not the comfy chair'

Having a good sense of humour is an asset. For those who don't have one, don't knock it in others. My ex partner had no sense of humour and no empathy either. Life wasn't a lot of fun with a misery guts.

definitely not funny- it has to be a joke

Neither did I absent, but nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.....

Very personal thing, humour. On Sunday nights I sit and watch The Geordie, The Scot and The Geek and cry with laughter and the S.O. looks at me in amazement [he doesn't get South Park either and I'd never even attempt to show him The Mighty Boosh]. But we both laugh at Dad's Army.

Nanapug , good , really really good .

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nanapug Of course I didn't say anything about not posting something that you thought was humorous. I was curious about why people thought that such egregious behaviour funny. The answer was, as I suggested myself, the classic disappointment of expectation but regardless of context. It's like laughing when someone says something embarrassing or farts in public. Of course, any gransnetter is entitled to post something he/she considers amusing and any other gransnetter is entitled to laugh. Equally, I am entitled to ask why. Do spare your pity – it isn't required.

I did say that none of this was worth bothering about. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition…

KARMA for certain