About the fig

The fig has been online since 2005, although it didn't publish anything amusing until 2008. It was re-launched in 2011 with a new look-and-feel, more interaction, and with slightly fewer jokes about poo, thanks mainly to the new editorial team.

• If you'd like to write for the fig, please email editor@thefig.org.

• If you'd like to moan about how rubbish the content is, please head over to the fig forum.

• If you're a person of colour in need of spiritual inspiration, please watch this small excerpt from the film 'Cool Runnings'. The message is only slightly compromised by a double negative which, if taken literally, completely undermines the protagonist's argument.

Fig 1.0

The hilarious first issue of the Fig is reproduced below.

_{Unless otherwise stated, all content © Simon Burrows.}