Meetings that break your jaw

Just Another Day At A Mudditor Meeting

I live for Monday nights now

The editors of MuddyUm are called Mudditors. Monday nights (India time) are no longer the boring end to the most boring day of the week. I look forward to the weekly Mudditor call. A bright spark in an otherwise dull day.

The most recent meeting was a scream. My jaw still hurts. We track the value of each meeting by how much we laughed. It is measured on a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the highest. This week’s meeting scored 8. Now you know. I might need jaw replacement surgery. What’s a humor publication meeting without laughs, eh?

Minutes of the hour-long meeting

• Holly J See wrote a song parody and the mention of it made Paul burst into song. A humor publication meeting with impromptu singing!
• Susan Brearley showed up in a nice hat. Holly J See loved it, commented about it, and announced that she’d get her hat too. We waited. Holly appeared on screen wearing a…hold your breath…Viking helmet!! I mean, I expected a fancy hat, but this was totally unexpected. I almost fell off my chair laughing!
• Baskerville had something important to say to Amy. He called out to her, but she never replied. Oh, wait! She wasn’t on the call.
• Lucia Siochi had two occurrences of herself on the call. No one knows why. Has she cloned herself? And they couldn’t figure out which one of them would attend? Both wanted a hearty laugh?
• This led to Susan Brearley discussing the perils of clones and what would happen if Paul had a clone. Would they call themselves Paul, Quasimodo, and Baskerville? Which led to this interesting MuddyUm writing prompt: What would YOU do with your own clone, if they could clone you?
• We discussed that it was warm and Rachael Ann Sand must be cycling away. We are not sure how far she has reached. It may be time for her to start heading homewards since winter is coming along. We hope to see her back here in winter. :)
• Sarah Paris is once again on some rogue planet that does not receive sunshine or internet signals. She was not seen and she was heard at an average of two words per sentence. She doesn’t know this because she probably did not hear us either! She had much to say, but the words are sadly lost in space.
• Paul took it upon himself to provide us with a deep study of his ceiling light at regular intervals. Nice light, Paul!
• Amy Sea and Sara Zadrima escaped unhurt with their jaws intact since they missed this meeting. Lucky! Lucky!
• Finally, after much levity and Muddness, Susan said something that upset me. She said I had things under control. I mean — I thought the prequalification to be a Mudditor was, you know, a generous dose of being Muddled at all times. And here she told me I had things ‘under control’. It was awful. I saw the pitying looks of all the others, except Sarah who was there but not.
• A lot of amazing work-related aspects were discussed. I don’t remember any of it. Everything was washed away in the deluge of laughter. I am officially Muddled!
• Holly noted the real stuff. So we have a record of all the important things we discussed. Bless her! Oh no, there are action items for us. Ugh!

Wait! Wait! I forgot to mention the most important thing.

We talked at length about the much-talked-about MuddyUm Comedy Camp. Susan has so many exciting activities planned, and we laughed a lot imagining all the things we would laugh about at the camp. Yup, that was the jaw-breaker.

Another ongoing MuddyUm Prompt

At MuddyUm, prompts never die. There is no due by date or expiry date. Write when your muse strikes you. Use your muse to amuse!

Here’s a prompt for you:

What’s your favorite jaw-breaker meeting?

Follow the usual MuddyUm prompt rules — which is to say there are no rules. Maybe use Muddyumprompt as one of the tags?