Losing The 'F' In 'FCN'

As some of you may have surmised from the not-so-subtle reference in the latest episode of Desperate Student, one of the three authors of Funny Class Notes is leaving for a period of weeks to partake in a summer project. The departing author has requested that the exact nature of his behavior be kept in the dark from you, the faithful few. I know, have a Kleenex. We can, however, tell you that he will be in no way productive. That much is assured de facto.

With the temporary loss of one of our three authors, FCN is now a triangle with two sides; a tri-union without one of the parties. We have gone from Lithium to Helium. Boy that was nerdy. We're the two stooges, Peter, Paul and nobody, or Nickelback without the bass player.

As long as it's just the two of us, we don't see a need to have a three letter acronym to describe this blog. “FCN” implies three people, and corresponds to the letters we have tattooed on our rear ends. The author who is leaving is taking with him the “F” on his rump with him (he couldn't very well leave it behind), leaving the C (my tush) and N here for your entertainment. So from now until he returns (the other writer not, you know, Him), this blog will be known simply by the acronym “CN.”

According to Acronym Finder, an excellent webpage that helped us determine that FCN actually stands for Funny Class Notes, “CN” means The People's Republic of China, Connecticut, Consultant, Cyanide, Communications Network, Cranial Nerve, Chloroacetophenone, Congenital Nystagmus, Common Name, Corporate Network, Canadian National, Cellular Number, Cherokee Nation and, our personal favorite, Chuck Norris. What the Acronym Finder hasn't found, however, is that CN really stands for Class Notes, which is what we will continue to write no matter what (with a few obvious exceptions like acid rain and a sticky female incident, but you get the picture).

What this means to you, or at least those who are spending their summers at more pedestrian pursuits, is that you need to take some counter measures to ensure that CN doesn't lose one third of its brilliance. In order to stay on the cutting corner of cultural commentary and comedy, we need you guys to send in any Class Notes you've been holding back. If you had a weird incident at the dentist's office a few weeks back and want to vent a little toothy frustration, send us your tome. If you twisted your littlest toe in a way that was so painful that you actually started laughing while the nurse fidgeted with it, write it down and tell us about it, as Chris says. If you were in Zimbabwe recently and had a noteworthy adventure there, you know what to do. Just email your material to us at FunnyClassNotes@gmail.com.

As for us, we'll put together a week of classics starting maybe next week or the week after that, or the week after that one, using the suggestions you came up with while we were all on vacation. We'll also be adding a little water to the soup, cutting posts shorter, making the graphics grainier and the page load more slowly so that we can make what content we do have go further.

Further, we aren't telling you which one of us is leaving. Our posts will retain their anonymous quality that destroys your ability to specify names in your hatemail or otherwise target a specific CN author. I know, we can be pretty devious.

So that's the plan for the next few weeks. If you have a problem with it, leave a nasty comment that the departing author will read when he returns or email us and we'll give you his personal email address so you can spam him to pieces.

Have a great get away, bro!