Story

The Statto-JTA Publishing Corporation, as it is now known, began in a dreary Welsh military training camp, known as 'The Secret Police Winter Outdoor Pursuits Training Centre,' or, more commonly, by it's code name, 'Arthog'. There, by a freak co-incidence, an unpopular and troubled youth codenamed 'John' met up with an equally troubled youth codenamed 'Statto' and was then gratefully ignored by all the people in his form who never liked him much anyway.

However, their shunning had a high price. One day, when gorge walking near Mynydd Pennant, 'John' was deliberately shoved by a games teacher jealous of his Rugby-playing skills, and fell almost two thousand inches onto a large bale of hay. Emergency surgery was required and a semi-robotic mechanoid created from the mass of bruises and stubbed toes that was all that remained of the unhappy boy. Not wishing to seem miserly, the surgeons re-named John 'JTA', rather than 'the six-million-waiting-list man' and allowed him to recover through satire therapy.

Statto was quick to capitalise on the bitter sarcasm generated by his new companion, and the two formed an alliance that, aside from totally ignoring the 1998 World Cup, got totally under the feet of the courtship of two teachers lured into showing the duo the mysteries of Cribbage, poker, and the sixteen different ways to conceal a full house about one's person when playing for Big Money.

After their return from Arthog, Statto and JTA used a combination of wit, charm and extortion to gain the support they needed to form a publishing company from their own talents, their own ideas and the shoddy school laser printers. New productions rolled off the press quicker than the IT technicians could complain about the lack of toner in the cartrige and the Corporation's first website soon followed - the now-defunct www.statto-jtapublishingco.fsnet.co.uk. (Go on, try it - it really doesn't work!)

In late 2002, the website expanded to include the revamped KTAB News; no longer an outlet for JTA's random inanity, but now a minor force in the world of topical satire. Over the Christmas of 2003, the pair purchased a new website, www.ktab.co.uk, which you now see before you.

And the rest, as they say, is history. Or, more accurately, the present, but there's no point spoiling a good cliché. Now, if you like, you can read all about Statto and JTA themselves by following the links or by clicking on the toolbar.
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