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Happy Birthday NewsBiscuit - Britain's first daily news satire website was launched on 16 September 2006.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5355820.stm

Many thousands of funny stories later we are still going, others may have followed our example (and got more successful!) but I'm still very proud that we were the first and between us we have managed to provide an entire decade of on-line satire and develop some great comedy talent along the way.

Thank you for your continued submissions, supportive comments, etc. and sorry we are not a more professionally run outlet, but everyone involved is busy doing lots else besides (which is why your Writer of the Month mug from two years ago still hasn't arrived yet...)

I hope the site will keep going for as long as there are funny writers submitting great stories - but on past evidence there is no shortage of talent out there. Discovering so many new funny people has been the best thing about setting up NewsBiscuit.

Many thanks,

JOF

Posted 4 years ago #
Iroquois Pliskin

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Thanks JOF and congratulations. Now we are 10, can we all have an Xbox and separate bedrooms? Also, looking for a pocket money raise. Also, might start just calling you J from now on, especially when my mates are here. Oh, and please drop us off further down the road in the mornings. I need to be seen walking in, from a social stand point. Cheers.

Posted 4 years ago #
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'Decade'. How can you write such a post without use of the word 'decade'? Its surely crying out for a 'decade', is that.

(Oh, and thanks and congrats for the DECADE of fun)

Posted 4 years ago #
Sinnick

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How they laughed when you said you were setting up a comic website ... Well, they're not laughing now !

Happy anniversary, JoF

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sockpuppet

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Yay! Thank you very much for all the fun, Mr O'Farrell sir. [Creep, grovel etc. I didn't get where I am today without learning how to toady.]

And stars to IP & ID for their comments above.

And sticks tongue out at any grownups watching.

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chrisf

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Congratulations JoF and thanks. That's a lot of submissions, tickers, FPs and NiBs.
Is there an official or unofficial history - there should be...

Posted 4 years ago #
nealdoran

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Thought I'd dust off the username to wish NB a Happy 10th b'day!

I'm looking forward to seeing the Vine of DarkBill jumping out of a giant cake, and the next celebration marking the 'Not as funny as it used to be' 10th anniversary, presumably set for some time later this afternoon.

Posted 4 years ago #
Wrenfoe

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10 years? And no time off for good behaviour?

(Gratz to all the team - past, present...and future)

Posted 4 years ago #
sockpuppet

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Can't we have a party? With cake? I like cake, me.

Posted 4 years ago #
Midfield Diamond

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Too right, sock. I hope it’s in one of those play areas with soft-play climbing frames and ball pools and slides and bouncy castles, where they serve food and drink stuffed full of all the E-numbers a 10-year old could ever need. Hope the cake’s chocolate too, with Smarties and coloured sprinkles on, and that the party bags all contain Newsbiscuit mugs. Or maybe I’m just being silly, of course there won’t be mugs.

Congratulations and thanks to all, I’ll be raising a plastic beaker of tartrazine-powered orange squash in celebration later.

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Not Amused

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Congratulations JOF and thanks to everyone in front and behind the scenes over the years

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101010

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Is there an official or unofficial history - there should be...

I did once write a creation myth…

http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=90596#post-261809

Posted 4 years ago #
thatwasbeast

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So when is payday? As a reward model, I would like to put forward a system where we are renumerated on length of service on a sliding scale. And that slide should have its steps at the newbie end.

Posted 4 years ago #
chrisf

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Andyiong - very funny. For a relative newbie like me this sort of back story is like discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Jodster

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Happy Birthday! And Congratulations!

Only recently discovered this wonderful place, and I love it. Currently working my way through the book: Isle of Wight to get Ceefax. Still works! Maybe time for another one? To celebrate? 2016 has been such a good year for it: Satire to Stop Writing Itself and other Groundbreaking Stories from NewsBiscuit, from Oxbridge’s memorable piece which captured the state of play nicely I thought, although I’d still want to see that reference to Romans corrected to Greeks.

Party hard folks! We’re all gonna die!

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Wrexfan

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A very happy birthday

Posted 4 years ago #
Candide

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Happy Birthday :)

Posted 4 years ago #
FlashArry

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Soon be in long trousers then.

Birthday contrafibularities !

Glasses of nerve tonic all round ...

Posted 4 years ago #
Sir Lupus

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Hooray! Double figures. Maybe too cool for soft play now, how about paintball or a sleepover?

Looking forward to the teenage years. And that's not a phrase you hear very often

Posted 4 years ago #
Mandy Lifeboat

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10 years of flouncing - hurrah! Happy birthday NB.

Posted 4 years ago #
Gerontius

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It'll be having its first wank soon.
Congrats to everybody who has taken part down the years.
Without you none of this would have been possible.

Posted 4 years ago #
S J Roe

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This site has been one of the best things ever. Long may it continue.

Posted 4 years ago #
Oxbridge

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'To celebrate? 2016 has been such a good year for it: Satire to Stop Writing Itself and other Groundbreaking Stories from NewsBiscuit, from Oxbridge’s memorable piece which captured the state of play nicely I thought, although I’d still want to see that reference to Romans corrected to Greeks.'

I second that, thanks Jodster. Though satire was a Roman thing, as any fule kno.

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Jodster

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You're welcome Oxbridge. Yes, satire was a Roman thing, but your article says they 'invented' it. That's what I take issue with. It's a minor point, and doesn't really matter for the purposes of this website, but that's all I have to offer by way of suggestions for improvement of a first-class piece of work.

Posted 4 years ago #
Titus

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Bollosck to all this historical accuracy malarky. Concentrate on the important stuff - are the apostrophes in the right place?

Posted 4 years ago #
Iroquois Pliskin

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There were only 12 Apostrophes as far as I can remember. Or maybe that was the Deskapples.

Posted 4 years ago #
Al OPecia

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Super. I remember those early days when jokes about Thesauri and Dictionaries were all you need.

Emotional baggage, Rosa Parks, screen-printed veils, "50 year rule was abolished 50 years ago" ... sob ... sob ...

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Ironduke

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So the 50year rule could be secretly abolished but we only find out in fifty years time?

I like that.

Posted 4 years ago #
jp1885

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Like the doddery old fart who has trouble remembering the names of the grandchildren, I'm sending my birthday card a week late.
And I've probably forgotten the Waterstones book token.
Happy 10th birthday Newsbiscuit! I imagine the cake has got a bit stale by now, but I'm willing to risk the jelly if there's any left.

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101010

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I'm willing to risk the jelly if there's any left.

I wouldn't. You don't know where it's come from.

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