FYI (For ur info)
By Vishal Vasan
For those of you who started late here's a bit a recap. This isn't some clichéd, overly sentimental prime time soap opera beginning with K (Kosa Nostra??), but hey, it helps. This, the thing in your hands, which is where it should be unless your some freak-show chained in a hole in the ground for the betterment of society, is a newsletter. Well at its truth it’s a piece of paper with some words written on it. Some of it may be true; as for the rest, it probably came from the twisted minds of a few individuals who like to call themselves editors. Oh and if you are all chained up in a hole in the ground, this really isn't for you.
So now let's get a few things sorted out. First of all the name of this 'thing' is Cosa Nostra. I am not going to explain what it means; you'll have to figure that one yourselves. And just what does this thing do? Well not much, it's just some piece of paper that will crop up every month mostly because the people behind this have nothing better to do. This should logically imply that we’re doing the best thing we can. Now that’s something to say, how many people do we know who actually do anything, let alone the best? Some of you may already know of us and this paper. But considering the large number of students in the first year (what in God's name are they doing here?); those of you who do remember us are probably a minority.
Secondly and more importantly, this paper is a voice for you. Well actually we (the editors) will be doing all the talking, but you do get a say. After all this stuff isn't being done for us, it's for you to read, make paper airplanes, whatever; it's yours. But a newsletter that doesn’t have anything written is just a little too radical, even for iconoclasts like us. (It’s amazing how your English improves when you're in the final year. My batch mates would agree and some would probably even give you the page number of popular study material for every six letter or more word that I use. LOSER! The rest of you who haven't a clue of what I'm talking about, just smile and nod in agreement. It's one of the best ways to save face and has always worked for me. You won’t believe how easily people can get fooled when you agree. But that’s a completely different thing). I'm really starting to digress. Back to the point. We can supply most of the content but it's nice to have some input from you guys who read this. So here’s the deal:
WANTED:
Anyone who can effectively use the 26 letters of the alphabet
and come up with something that vaguely resembles an article.
Write what you wish and hand it over to anyone of us. We don’t
discriminate except on the basis of stupidity. You want to write
stupid things? Join the dude in the hole. No idea what I'm saying?
You should have read from the beginning. Of you go.
It’s nice of you to join me again. I hope you would have read the whole article by now. Otherwise this just wasn’t worth the half hour it took. I get a strange feeling that I’ve wasted my time completely. Oh well. It’s my life; I guess I’ve a right to waste it. I sincerely hope you enjoy this issue, if anyone wishes to contribute: please do. Finally, excuse the attitude. What to do, I am like this only.
posted by Arvind Saba @ 8:58 PM
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