I have a really dumb question tonight......

[CaliforniaPeggy]

I have lived waaaaay too long to not know the answer to this one!

However, now is the time!

Just what does the phrase rimshot mean?

And, where did it come from?

Thanks!

:blush:

[KitchenWitch]

1. rimshot

it is the BaDUmpBa after a joke. The drummer hits the rim of the drum with his sticks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Oh, is THAT it?

Somehow I kept thinking it had to do with a basketball just making the basket!

Thanks!

[KitchenWitch]

3. That's it!

:hi:

[Floogeldy]

4. It came from Vaudeville.

On stage, after the comedian finished telling a joke, the drummer would hit his or her snare drum twice and crash the cymbal to signal that the punch line of the joke was just told.

Kind of like, "bada ping." :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Floog!

How very cool! Thank you so much.....

And thank you for not allowing me to feel like a fool.....:hug:

[ContraBass Black]

6. Which would drive home

How ineffectual the comedian was.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear ContraBass Black.....

Indeed! I can see that.....

Thanks!

:hi:

[jjmalonejr]

7. Aren't you glad it wasn't something dirty?

It's almost something dirty. But not quite.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear jjmalonejr!

And BTW, neighbor!

I didn't think it was dirty....not from the ways I'd seen it used....

But if it had been....well, I'd laugh at it, just as everyone else probably would....

Or I'd blush......who knows?

:shrug:

:hi:

[jjmalonejr]

12. Yes, we are neighbors!

I hate not knowing what a word means, especially when it's a not-so-nice word. It's embarrassing to ask and the dictionary's no help.

Good thing your word was something totally innocent. :)

[marzipanni]

36. LOL....My son, who's 11, and I , found a website

which gives animal sounds in the spoken/written word in many languages. We laughed at what Chinese dogs say-"Wang-Wang". I had the vague feeling that a long time ago I had heard it was a slang word for penis, but my son remembered someone in Austin Powers saying it as they "bumped" their pelvis forward, so I left it at that.
I told a male teacher about it at the school where I work, thinking he might like to show the site to the kids in his class. When he reacted kind of strangely after I told him the Chinese version of "woof-woof'" I realized with a sinking feeling that I shoulda looked it up in an online slang dictionary before I told someone who I don't know very well!

[SeattleGirl]

10. Peggy, this is what I love about you

Well, one of the things, anyway. You ask a question when you don't know what something means. Lots of people don't have the nails for that.



:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear SeattleGirl!

Well, what can I say?

I am among friends here...

So I feel reasonably safe about asking dumb questions!

Still, it isn't easy.....

Thanks, sweetie!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

15. No problem, darlin.

After all, you know what they say: The only stupid question is the unasked one!

[rug]

13. Not to be confused with rimmer.

And I'm not going to be the one to tell you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. OK, be that way, my dear rug!

I've never heard that one, EVER!

I'll just have to ask somebody else.....hmmmph!

I suspect that this one is dirty......

[KitchenWitch]

16. HINT - Urban Dictionary is your friend

urbandictionary.com

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. OK......I will look it up!

Thanks, my dear KitchenWitch! :blush:


Edited to add: I looked it up, and: :puke:

[KitchenWitch]

24. ...

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

17. a.k.a. rimjob?

And I'm not going to be the one to say it either. :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

18. Locky locky locky!

:rofl:

[rug]

20. Will this be Peggy's first locked thread?

Tsk, tsk.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. Do you mean I'm about to have my first thread locked???

Wow....and to think it all started so, so innocently!

[rug]

22. Be not beguiled by talk of snare drums, my dear.

Alas, there is no innocence in The Lounge.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Oh, yes there is....

And I am part of it.......:blush:

[KitchenWitch]

25. It WOULD be locked if

we openly defined rimming and rimjob!

[rug]

26. But, as it is, it's an exercise in computerized research.

[KitchenWitch]

29. Right - O!

:hi:

[NMMNG]

27. Hey, I didn't say what it was

People use the term all the time when they're mutilating the name of FR's owner. :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

30. Yeah, right!

:rofl:

I know you better than that!

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. What on earth is happening?

What happened to my innocent question?

And who are all of you?























J/K! :rofl:

[khashka]

31. Good Lord, you want us all banned?

It refers to basketball. A rimshot hits the rim of the hoop but still goes in.

It also refers to certain sexual matters... ask me or KW on the phone. Not a discussion we should have in public.

Khash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

33. Ok.......

Should I just quietly leave now......?

BTW, did you look at my messages?

:hide:

[rug]

32. I've always wondered what schnoodling is.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. You may wonder all you want, my dear rug.....

I am DONE with this game!

[rug]

35. Uh-oh, bold face, all caps. goodnight.

:yoiks:

[Jazz2006]

37. Locking.

It's not polite to talk about the proper way to make margaritas and such by "rimming" the glasses, etc.

:rofl:

[khashka]

38. Locked

Peggy you should be ashamed of yourself... we do not discuss things like that on DU. Now be nice!

Khash.