 Comedy: September 05, 2012 Issue [#5246] |
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This week: Happy 12th Birthday to WDC! Edited by: Sophurky  
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Hi, I'm Sophurky ~ your editor for this edition of the Comedy Newsletter. This week as we celebrate 12 years of Writing.Com, we'll spark our comedy muses with some birthday laughs.  |
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Happy Birthday WDC!
It's hard to believe our beloved site is already 12 years old! I've been here for 10+ of those years, which I can hardly believe either (obviously I first joined as child, lol). As we celebrate 12 years of Writing.Com awesomeness, it seemed fitting for this week's edition of the comedy newsletter to offer a great way to fire up your comedy muse. Think back to a birthday - yours, someone you know, a family member - anyone's birthday. And I bet something funny happened in relation to at least one, if not more birthdays in your past. If so, write about it!
The best humor comes from real life anyway, so why not take advantage of birthday humor to get some good grist for your comedy writing mill. For instance, what about a surprise party gone wrong (they usually do!)? I remember when sweet Mr. Sophy tried to throw me a surprise 30th birthday party over twenty years just a few years ago. Now, he had lots of things going against his success, to be honest. He had to deal with my finely honed spidey senses which kick in about three months before my actual August birthday - my birthday radar goes on full alert for anything out of the ordinary going on, like a phone call from one of my closest friends asking for Mr. Sophy instead of me. Or when people stop talking when I walk into a room (because of course they are talking about me and my upcoming wonderful party!).
Mr. Sophy also has idiots to contend with who are likely to ruin the surprise in a variety of ways. For instance, the aforementioned phone call from my BFF asking for Mr. Sophy. Or someone who, quite frankly, never remembers my birthday saying to me, about a week before my birthday, "So, I hear you have a birthday coming up!" Or, in the case of my 30th birthday fiasco surprise, the couple arriving late to the party, and, instead of waiting until they were sure everyone had already yelled "SURPRISE" to me before heading up to the room Mr. Sophy had reserved for my party, ended up riding up the elevator with me and Mr. Sophy, carrying balloons that said, HAPPY 30th!" <thunk> Seriously - you know you are late and still you yell out, as the elevator door is closing, "Hold that elevator!" and then, when the elevator door opens to find the birthday surprisee inside the elevator, you pretend not to notice us and hope we didn't recognize you? Come on!
As tough as I am to surprise, what with my idiot friends and finely honed spidey senses - Mr. Sophy, on the other hand, is a breeze to surprise. In fact, I've planned entire parties while he's been in the room with me - the one and only time his never listening to a word I say comes in handy, lol. One time I had him clean our newly married apartment for his own surprise party! Not only that, he's easy to surprise with gifts. One year he wanted to choose his own new gym bag as his birthday gift. So a couple of weeks before his birthday we went shopping together and found just the bag he wanted. I took it, wrapped it in wrapping paper (didn't even bother with a box since he already knew what it was so there was no point in going to the trouble of a box). And on his birthday he sat with this large, oddly shaped, light weight wrapped package in his lap, and said, in complete seriousness, "Now I wonder what this could be?" And then he shook it. Oy.
Speaking of gifts - they can be great comedy fodder. Everyone has gotten a strange or amusing gift for a birthday, right? My mother in law was famous for that when she was alive. Sometimes I'd get a beautiful sweater, and one year a really nice tennis racket. Then the next year I got one of those hand-held, non-electric can openers. Huh? Mr. Sophy got a scrapbook one year - filled with pictures of his brother, haha! We thought maybe his mom was trying to tell him something but when asked about it, she said she had made scrapbooks for both boys that year, and evidently sent Mr. Sophy the wrong one. Likely story .......
So as you celebrate 12 years of WDC'ness, why not use it as an opportunity to create some new comedy items for your port - using birthdays as a theme. Send me your items and I'll feature them in next month's comedy newsletter.
Until next time, Sophy
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Now for a few comments about my last newsletter "Comedy Newsletter (August 8, 2012)" about the latest news on the sale of my house:
From Rhyssa 
Thanks for highlighting my poem. I hope you get a good nibble on your house soon.
Thanks so much - I'll be updating everyone next month so stay tuned! 
     
From LJPC - the tortoise 
Hi Sophy!
I think not only is Mr. Sophy the brains behind the "keep the house clean for fake house viewers" trick -- I'm sure he's behind the St. Joseph and writing a letter scams, too. If he ever convinces you to go out and howl at the moon, look around for a camera. I'm sure you're being punked.
~ Laura
Excellent point - only after reading this month's newsletter, I'm pretty sure he's not up to that level of prankster sophistication, lol.
From THANKFUL SONALI Library Class! 
For your next 'Open House' - I'm vegetarian, and I like cake. Thanks.
HAHA I will keep that in mind, thanks! 
From Minkymoo
This was so funny, who could help but chuckle at the irony of living in a clean home without living the home itself, the house obviously likes it too. Thank you again I will definitely be back to read more of these NL's
Thank you for the compliment, so glad you enjoyed it.
From Mia - craving colour
lol . . . I can relate, right down to the St. Joseph. But, I found the spotless home rather grew on me and I got quite toned running up and down the stairs.
How's the investigation going? lol
Yeah I do rather enjoy the spotless home, but only if I am not responsible for keeping it that way, lol. I'll be updating everyone next month so stay tuned!
From Ẃeβ࿚ẂỉԎḈĥ 
I've been changing my mind about selling my house. We've been doing so much to the place to improve it for future buyers--heck, might as well enjoy the fruits of the labor. It's not all that bad a place. With new hips, the stairs won't be a problem in the future. !
And to think; I was just about to order my own St. Joseph!
Exactly - after all the improvements and cleaning, the old homestead starts to look pretty good - especially after a day of walking through other homes for sale that you might want to buy. Some of them ... just ... wow, lol.
From Joy 
Thanks for a great newsletter, Sophy.
I chuckled when I read about the St Joseph statuette and the letter. I so hope things go your way. In this economy, selling a house is very difficult, not to mention the work and thought the owners put in it. Crossing my fingers...
Thanks so much - I'll be updating everyone next month so stay tuned!
That's all for this month -- see you next time! And on behalf of the other regular Comedy Newsletter Editors, the King and Queen of Comedy - Robert Waltz  and Ẃeβ࿚ẂỉԎḈĥ - remember to WRITE AND LAUGH ON! Sophurky |
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