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Bitchin' ANSi Design Presents
The First Anniversary Pack
January 1994
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anniversary, an-ni-vers'a-ri, n. A day on which some event is
annually celebrated.

This month, BAD celebrates its accomplishment of creating and
publicly distributing ANSi for one  full year.   After a year
of hard work,  we have remained  alive,   an  achievement  in
itself,   not to mention becoming a group known worldwide for
consistently high- quality artwork.    We are extremely proud
of what we have become and are happy to bring you this,   our
first anniversary pack,  expecting to bring you another one a
year from now.

This month has been more than busy.  We've been producing out
our  ass  to bring you something that all of BAD is proud of.
In addition to working hard,  we also gained two new artists,
KORG and our old friend  Hurricane.    KORG came to us in the
middle of the month with excellent skills and a  totally  new
look.    I  think  you'll  like  what  he'll  be kicking out.
Hurricane, as you may remember, left the group last month and
is now back with  us  with  even  more incredible ANSi's than
before.   Also,  due to  a  confliction  (my  lack  of  brain
molecules,   I  think),  we didn't include all of Hurricane's
ANSi's last month,  so get  BACK into the holiday spirit with
them.   We also have an addition in our literature department
(okay,  okay,  he's our first addition - good place to start,
'eh?).   Fornaxis has joined us,  so we hope to be presenting
some of his stuff next month.

In other news, we have a couple new headquarters.  We welcome
Cloud Nine BBS as our Australian HQ.   Sudden  Death  of  DiE
will  help spread our packs all over Australia,  so that will
definitely get us some  more  business.    Another is our new
Western HQ, Channel Zer0.  It took us forever to talk Beastie
into being it, but he finally obliged.  ;] Our new Central HQ
is Park Central.  It's a great board and should help us out a
lot.  You can always grab BAD's latest packs from our HQ's.

Now, I'd like to do a little history.   Yes, I dived into the
history books and will now present you with  what's  happened
in BAD this last year.   (I've conveniently tabbed it so that
people  who  don't  give a fuck (or may start giving one in a
few minutes) can skip it without missing too much.) It's more
of a  member  listing  and  major  event  thing  since having
everything in there would make this  info  file  real  big...
like it's not already.  ;]

BAD jumped into the scene this month.   We were presented
with  our  first  members,   Black  Knight,   Section  8,
Persecutor,  Number Cruncher, and Squirrel.   It wasn't a
great pack by today's standards,  but it showed what  BAD
could do and gave us a start and a foothold.

February
Retaining  the same members,  BAD created a pack that was
much better than the  last  month's.    We started to see
where each person's talent was going  and  actually  were
proud of what we had created.  In addition, this month we
announced how we would merge with CAA and become DESPAiR.
Of course,  it eventually flopped,  but it showed how the
interest  in BAD had grown over just one month.   We also
presented our first  loaders,   showing  that we also had
talent in coding and music.

After skipping a pack for  March  due  to  absolutely  no
ANSi,   we  prolonged  the  release of the pack to April.
This pack was the first  pack where we had a considerable
amount of large  ANSi's  with  pictures.    Squirrel  and
Section 8's LAB ANSi dominated the pack with the first of
many  amazing  ANSi's from the group.   The ANSi from the
duo didn't impress only BAD, however...

This was definitely the  lowest  of the lows that BAD had
ever achieved.    After a month of losing the majority of
our members,   Black Knight and  Number Cruncher were the
only active members left in  the  group.    Squirrel  and
Section  8 had been recruited to iCE where they continued
their high-quality ANSi creations.   Persecutor,  who had
fallen off a cliff as  far  as we knew,  also had nothing
for the pack.  However, the ANSi's that were displayed in
the pack were definitely much better than the majority of
ANSi's that BAD had displayed before.

July

This month,  BAD displayed what we were proud to display.
Although  the  group  still  consisted  of  just   Number
Cruncher  and Black Knight,  we displayed our skills at a
loader that was high above what we had done in February.

August

This was the month where everything happened.   After our
last pack,  we had a mass of  people come up to us and we
more than quadrupled our  membership.    We  gained  back
Section  8  and Squirrel,  our merge with EViL brought us
Color Blind,  Sir Psycho Sexy and LiQUiD,  our merge with
SoLo brought us Zodiac,  and we also gained Basehead, our
first musician.   Also during this month,  we almost went
through with  merging  with  CHAOS-CT,   creating the new
group Assault.  That fell through, however.

The pack wasn't as great as the previous  month  and  was
pretty boring.

This  month,  BAD finally produced its viewer that it had
been promising since January.   The pack was a step above
the last month, but wasn't all that special.

The gaining of members at  BAD  for the month of November
was quite nice.   We recruited Mr.   Sinister,  RaVe, and
Dreadnought,  all showing great productions in the  pack.
The pack went up in size because of the newly created VGA

We gained some more members this month,  Hurricane,  3-D,
and Village Idiot.   However, at the end of the month, we
had lost as many as we had gained,  Mr.   Sinister,  Hurricane, and Village
Idiot.   The pack was rather small,  but  the  quality of it was one of the
highest in BAD history.

And that brings us to the present.  I've already introduced our new members for
this month,  and I'm sure that people are beginning to think that this is worse
than a PD documentation file, but we're almost done.

After looking through the pack,  I'll expect more than one person  to  exclaim,
"What  the  hell!?!" Yes,  we have a vast array of zombie's this month,  due to
this being (for BAD,   at  least)  OFFICIAL  ZOMBIE  MONTH.    Thanks to me for
starting the trend,  we now have more than six zombies in the pack - more  than
any pack should have!   I'm sure there will be some stragglers into next month,
too, so don't hold your breath.  ;]

BAD  has  decided  that we will no longer be accepting Distribution Sites.   We
don't have the couriers to do so.   We will keep our eyes out for great boards,
but I don't want any applications sent  to  the  WHQ anymore - a reason why the
new application generator doesn't have that option anymore.

If you like what you see in the pack and your ability comes close  to  matching
that  of the rest of the group,  we'd like to invite you to apply to the group.
Go ahead, it won't cost you anything to at least try it.

I'd like to personally say  that  this  is  the  best  of BAD - deserving of an
anniversary pack.   We have all of our original members back in  BAD  with  the
addition   of  several  others,   all  of  whom  have  increased  their  skills
considerably.   I thought it  was  important  to  come  out with something that
showed how important it was,  so I pushed everyone to do a lot of great  stuff,
and  it  obviously  shows.    After  seeing  several  huge,   but  unimpressive
anniversary packs,  I thought to start a new trend and actually come out with a
nice  looking  anniversary  pack.   I think you'll be impressed by what BAD has
become,  I think you'll be excited by  what  may happen to us,  and I also hope
that you cry...   uh...   huh huh...   Anyway,  enough of that shit.   I'm sure
you're sick of reading,  so here's where I put my sig and my address and then a
whole shit-load of greets (yes, it will be a shit-load).  laTeR...

Black Knight
bknight@freenet.fsu.edu
A Proud Bitchin' ANSi Design Senior Member

Greets:

Basehead - See you in...   THE FUTURE!  (Say it like Doc on Back to the Future,
of course) ;]
Beastie - Hope it wasn't TOO short notice.   At least it's better than  what  I
did to Jabberwocky.
Black Knight - Err..  I guess it's not cool to greet yourself, 'eh?
Color Blind - We'll call you sometime this century.
Dreadnought - I bow down to your slackness...  (Which one?
Dreadnought - Can't wait to see it.YOU decide.)
Flat Line - We need to talk.
FusioN - I'm out of it.  I miss ToXiC...  Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Hurricane - I can't wait to see some more holiday stuff.
Israfel - The first headquarters.  See what you've done!?!?  ;]
Jabberwocky - Got any idea of a release date for PSY?
Kronos  - I'd try multi-line chatting you again,  but the last time I tried,  I
hung CP.  <shrug>
LiQUiD - You have the makings of the best, my man.
Maestro - Send me some E-Mail.
Melic - Uh...  huh huh...  Yeah.
Midnight Sorrow - Greeted you in  one  of  our first packs.   Was kinda stupid.
Thought I'd do it again.  ;]
Niobium - Have you ever started something and actually finished it?
Number Cruncher - Or should I say Scrappy...   I suppose we have another  80x50
guy now.  Go to Europe!
Persecutor - Get in contact with me, we need to get some more logos going.
RaVe - Hope to hear from ya soon.
Section  8 - If this board thing works out,  we'll definitely make more ANSi's,
won't we?  ;]
Sir Psycho Sexy - Another 80x50.  Need I say more?  ;]
Squirrel - If your initiative was  as  high  as your skill,  you'd be among the
best artists out there.
Syntax Error - I talk to LD people more often than I do you and you're actually
interesting!
The Beaver - All us dudes need to get on a conference sometime.
The Spire - If you EVER bother me for an ANSi again...  Ya DEAD!
Zodiac - We'll get you some source this month.  Then we'll be ALL set.