Friday, October 27, 2006

A Brief History of W.N.B.N.I.

W.N.B.N.I. was created in the school bus on the way home from school one Friday around 1992. It's 1st story was a peice on how to tell if your pet is secretly a different type of animal then you think it is. Soon it's compeditor/sister paper "Unexplained Weirdness Copy" by Devon Smith was born. In the hayday of W.N.B.N.I. "'93-'94" it was a daily paper. It covered such diverse topics as aliens, the X-Files, X-Men, and Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman. Including many talks on 1st Jimmy Olsen compared to 2nd Jimmy Olsen. (2nd Jimmy although cuter was less Jimmy like was the general agreement of our readership and should have been writen in as Jack from the 1st season.) As this paper was mostly writen in history class before lunch it was also the start of the W.N.B.N.I. quiz. (We would like to add that even writing a paper in class everyday we did get A's & B's in the class.) This breakneck pace had a huge toll on the paper. After a year the paper went from a daily to a quarterlyish paper. And as far as we know "Unexplained Weirdness Copy" went defunct as our friendship was destroyed by Vampire (the R.P.G. which may actualy have a different name, we don't remember.) Anyway the paper slowly declined with only 1 or 2 being writen in a year. Then it picked up for a few short years untill it became a web paper. At which time the web editor put the names of the editors on the paper. Which had never been done before even though everyone knew who the editors were. After a few months of monthy publishing the writers quit (in part over not being allowed to put phony names on the by-line which had previously been common in the paper.) In the next couple of years a faw papers were written untill someone actualy said that they were looking forward to the next edition. This brings us to the present day where we hope to bring out a new paper about every month or so by letting the writers write a piece every few days.

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