What does IG mean?

Ig /'ig/ adj. abbr. *adj. incredibly good (that was ig). 2 to travel very far, inter-galactic (lets go ig). *abbr. invent-a-game, a ficticious game review in the popular zine 'IG'. [Middle English iggy, from Sweedish]

IG: In the mid 1990s, a group of teenagers under the oppressive regieme of St. Mary Redcliffe & Temple Secondary School formed a club or gang known as RIMS (acronym of 'Reasonably Intelligent Mad Scientists') who spent all their time together. The original members of this group are unknown, but Graham Tratt, Tim Lings and David Hemmings are believed to be part of them. Magazines were then written over the following years under the name of "Super Rims", as well as some home movies made by TCP (Trashing Chainsaw Productions). To shake off their "keener" exterior, the name RIMS came to mean "Radically Insane Mad Scientists".

But that wasn't enough; something more was needed. A whole new magazine was concieved, under the name of IG. The meaning of those two letters is now lost in the mists of time, but some etymologist are convinced that it stems from the "Invent-a-game" pages that plagued the Super Rims magazines. But that is not important, for the new name meant a whole new direction for the RIMS crew (who now contained Joe Tiltman, amongst others). It was a vehicle for their deranged minds, as can be seen in the first (and last) issue of IG and the TV Channel IGTV.

After their GCSEs, half of IG left for St. Brendan's Sixth Form to form a renegade group called Ig Films (who have made two highly interesting films since). To date, University is looming, which might spell the end for all things IG shaped.