Originally intended as "filler" to fill space in Newspeak, Philler quickly became one of the student newspaper's most popular semi-weekly columns. Between 1993 and 2002, many articles were published by "Laurel" and "Guinevere", pseudonyms for Troy B. Thompson and Nick Conti. Philler topics ranged from trying to figure out why the time on WPI's two logos was different to the campus squirrel population. The articles would often feature Really-Long-Acronyms-That-Were-Amusing-But-Never-Used-Again (R.L.A.T.W.A.B.N.U.A.). An article published on April 4, 1995 was entirely one single acronym.