To our valued readers and friends:
It is with great pride and pleasure that we celebrate the second anniversary of The Nose On Your Face. In honor of both this milestone and the addition of three highly valued staff members, we have opted for a new site design courtesy of the excellent Phin and Apothegm Designs.
When we started out two years ago, the nay-sayers and poo-pooers were everywhere. “You’ll never make it Buckley”, they said. “You don’t have the resources that CNN, The New York Times and the other big fake news organizations have.”
True enough. But there is one thing we do have, and that is a strong belief in both our mission and our abilities. I think in the past 24-months we have demonstrated that we can “bring the fake” with the big boys.
Let’s take a look at TNOYF by the numbers.
173,255: Combined number of mocking references to Ted Kennedy since our inception. By even the most conservative of estimates, this is at least 25,000 more than our next closest competitor. We may be small, but we deliver the goods.
2,152: Percent increase in hippie-baiting articles that we are projecting for calendar year 2007. The poorly groomed class has received a free pass for too long. Black lights and extra locks on cellar doors will not hide you from the spotlight of TNOYF-style justice bong-breathers.
3: Executive-level members who have joined The Nose On Your Face team.
Many of you already know our new Managing Editor R.H. Potfry (or as he’s fondly known by the ladies in the office, “that creepy guy who keeps asking me to dress up like Peter Pan and grab a drink with him”). Potfry brings a wealth of experience and a certain amount of gravitas to TNOYF. Furthermore, it was through his personal connections that we were able to add Cindy Sheehan’s advice column as a regular (and exclusive) feature.
Islamic Rage Boy has been with us for only a short time but he continues to impress with both his talent and his versatility. His interview skills are second to none and he makes hit records as effortlessly as the French cede their land to belligerents. IRB has recently been named Director of Customer Relations and has already eliminated nearly 98% of both complaints and complainants.
We were also very fortunate to land the legendary Bruce Dickinson as our Senior Audio-Visual Technician. You may be familiar with Bruce from his collaborations with Islamic Rage Boy on Infidels, Baby What A Pack Of Lies and most recently, I’m Not Sure Why I’m Aroused By These Things. Bruce adds another dimension to our organization as we continue to expand into different news mediums. When he’s not making hit records, he’s either planning on making records, dreaming about making hit records, or hitting someone in the head with records.
50,000: Square footage of the new TNOYF headquarters. Actual office space is 10,000 square feet. The rest is used by Islamic Rage Boy for dispute resolution and storage purposes.
If you are a regular reader, we thank you for your continued support. If you are new to TNOYF we invite you to look around and, hopefully, come back again. If you arrived at our site via a Google search for “syphilis+ clown-noses+claymation puppets”, we do not know what you are talking about.
Thanks again.
Buckley F. Williams, Senior Editor