You gotta minute? Just a minute?

It doesn't have to be like this.
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
-- Pink Floyd

Some words those...

Our first (Just-A-Minute) JAM session was organized this Sunday, at 6 in the evening - an abnormal time for any activity in a B-school. Add the fact that a cricket match was going on. The turnout was very poor.

For the uninitiated, it's a session where participants have to speak continously, without repitition, without grammatical errors, without slurring, without stammering, without pausing, without digressing, without beating around the bush, and clearly all the same for as long as possible. The longer you speak, more the points you get. You interrupt anyone for making mistakes, you get points.

Now that you know what I'm speaking about, lemme get into the session details per se.

Noneless, determined to make it happen, six of us participated.

Some of the topics I could remember...

1) Too much Viagra causes a stiff neck.
2) I was just looking at your name tag... honest !
3) Suicidal twin murders twin by mistake.
4) Constipated people don't give a crap.

Typical JAM topics.

I was going good in the first three topics. In the last round, a new rule was added: any one objecting a speaker gotto first praise the JAM master before spurting out the objection. This proved a disaster to me. I objected eight times in all, and everytime forgot to praise the JAM master. I guess I gave away 8 times 5 points each to Jammy and Prakash. I finished 3rd atlast. I guess I recorded maximum objections (bungling them is a different thing!), Jammy recorded the single longest sentence along with the maximum convertions of my mistakes :), and the second prize scorer found the maximum grammatical mistakes.

All in all, as any JAM session, twas total fun. Looking forward to the next one...