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[Level42]

You guys do realize that the original meaning of the word rim shot is a drumming term and is usually referring to two drum beats and cymbal hit given after a bad joke.

Wrong.

(Again).

I'm a drummer and a rimshot is a stroke of the drumstick where you hit the RIM and the head of the drum at once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot

What you mean is a sting.

[AtomSmasher]

You guys do realize that the original meaning of the word rim shot is a drumming term and is usually referring to two drum beats and cymbal hit given after a bad joke.

Wrong.

(Again).

I'm a drummer and a rimshot is a stroke of the drumstick where you hit the RIM and the head of the drum at once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot

What you mean is a sting.

I said it USUALLY REFERS to when you give a comedian a two beats and a cymbal.  I didn't say that was the actual definition, just what the term is generally referring to and that the original meaning of the phrase is a drumming term (I knew exactly what a rim shot was when I made that post.  Stop snickering Chad and Hoopz  ).  It may technically be called a sting, but the vast majority of people call it a rim shot.  Theres even a website called www.instantrimshot.com to give you the punchline notes (as I originally posted), if it was called www.instantsting.com then we wouldn't be having this converstaion.

But don't worry, I won't point out that you continually have trouble reading my posts 

[AtomSmasher]

And for future reference I also enjoy eating Cockle soup and watching Dik-dik's

 

[Level42]

Yes and if you'd searched for sting on wikipedia you would have read this ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(percussion) ):

A sting is a short sequence played by a drummer to punctuate a joke, especially an obvious or slapstick one. A sting is often used as accompaniment during cabaret- or circus-style shows. It is often erroneously called a rimshot, although a rimshot can be part of a sting.

So, the term rimshot is used for a sting by people who know nothing about percussion. Then again Atomsmasher and some others here know everything about everything and will undoubtedly reply to this just to keep on nagging in this thread just for the sake of it.

Also very adult to start name-calling. I'm out of this thread.

[AtomSmasher]

Yes and if you'd searched for sting on wikipedia you would have read this ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(percussion) ):

A sting is a short sequence played by a drummer to punctuate a joke, especially an obvious or slapstick one. A sting is often used as accompaniment during cabaret- or circus-style shows. It is often erroneously called a rimshot, although a rimshot can be part of a sting.

So, the term rimshot is used for a sting by people who know nothing about percussion. Then again Atomsmasher and some others here know everything about everything and will undoubtedly reply to this just to keep on nagging in this thread just for the sake of it.

Also very adult to start name-calling. I'm out of this thread.

You do realize that I acknowledged the actual name for it is a sting in my previous post right?  And that the whole reason for calling it a rimshot is because that was the name of the website, right?  And when someone is talking about a rimshot (in drumming terms) that the majority of the time they are referring to a sting (which all of the links you posted confirmed), right?

Geez.  It's almost comical how you only read bits and pieces of the posts you respond to.  Here, I'll make it easy for you and quote the part of my last post that you seemed to miss:

It may technically be called a sting, but the vast majority of people call it a rim shot.  Theres even a website called www.instantrimshot.com to give you the punchline notes (as I originally posted), if it was called www.instantsting.com then we wouldn't be having this converstaion.

[AtomSmasher]

Also, if you're going to say it's not very mature to sarcastically call someone a genius, then you probably shouldn't respond by saying sarcastically that they "know everything about everything" since that essentially means exactly the same thing.  If one is considered not very adult and name calling, then the other should considered to be the same.

[RayB]

[Hoopz]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10199652-83.html

Safari hole exploited in seconds at security conference

In Apple's defense, this problem has only been known since '08....   

[Hoopz]

Apple is one I've considered but I'm not optimistic about them.

How so?  I think Apple stock is going to continue going down for the near future and it would be a mistake to buy it right now.  They're releasing clunkers and you're going to see a cultural trend this year that shies away from conspicuous consumption.

If it's going to continue to go down why would you consider it?



GM
3.97 -0.16 (-3.87%)  Jan 8 11:37am ET
Open:     4.13
High:     4.15
Low:     3.92
Volume:     6,245,849
Avg Vol:     38,161,000
Mkt Cap:  2.42B


Apple
90.80 -0.21 (-0.23%)  Jan 8 11:38am ET
Open:     90.46
High:     91.74
Low:     90.04
Volume:     8,066,556
Avg Vol:     32,528,000
Mkt Cap:  80.72B



In a month we'll see which one went up/down more.

Just bumping this to see current prices....

Apple (AAPL) - 130.68
General Motors (GM) - 1.59

$10,000 investment in GM at $3.97 per share would be worth $4,003 now (rounded off)
The same invested in Apple would be worth $14,374 (rounded off).

Obviously, both have event risk.  GM's bankruptcy filing is due soon and who knows how Apple will respond with Job's health.  But it's pretty clear which would have been the better investment as of this date.

[Hoopz]

Apple is one I've considered but I'm not optimistic about them.

How so?  I think Apple stock is going to continue going down for the near future and it would be a mistake to buy it right now.  They're releasing clunkers and you're going to see a cultural trend this year that shies away from conspicuous consumption.

If it's going to continue to go down why would you consider it?



GM
3.97 -0.16 (-3.87%)  Jan 8 11:37am ET
Open:     4.13
High:     4.15
Low:     3.92
Volume:     6,245,849
Avg Vol:     38,161,000
Mkt Cap:  2.42B


Apple
90.80 -0.21 (-0.23%)  Jan 8 11:38am ET
Open:     90.46
High:     91.74
Low:     90.04
Volume:     8,066,556
Avg Vol:     32,528,000
Mkt Cap:  80.72B



In a month we'll see which one went up/down more.

Just bumping this to see current prices....

Apple (AAPL) - 130.68
General Motors (GM) - 1.59

$10,000 investment in GM at $3.97 per share would be worth $4,003 now (rounded off)
The same invested in Apple would be worth $14,374 (rounded off).

Obviously, both have event risk.  GM's bankruptcy filing is due soon and who knows how Apple will respond with Job's health.  But it's pretty clear which would have been the better investment as of this date.

Apple (AAPL) - $263.33
General Motors stock is now Motors Liquidation Company -  $0.525

$10,000 invested in Apple would now be worth $28,900
$10,000 invested in GM and the dogshit UAW - $1,300

Damn glad I sold my Apple stock after making a few points three or four years ago....

[patrickl]

Lol, we should ask pbj for stock advice all the time. Just reverse his advice and we will be golden.

pbj, Which companies do you think will decline over the coming year?

[Dartful Dodger]

From the post/quote I couldn't tell which side I was on in this debate. This thread is over a year old and 90% of the time I agree with pbj.  Since it's a year later and Hoopz still can't let it go, I would have been right to say Apple would fail just to upset the Mac sheep.  But I didn't...

To save you the trouble this is what started my quote:

Just curious:
Using current market conditions, what stock are you optimistic about?

I've been yelling at people to buy GM stock since the last week of December and it's up 33%.

I also stated in this thread, that I hate Apple and I want it to fail.  Not because it's followers can't see that its products are crap, like the video "Apple Wheel" points out, but because I'm a programmer and Apple does everything it can to make programming on the Mac difficult.

A year ago my company decided we'd start programming for smart phones.  Knowing Apple, I asked to be the company's Android(Droid) programmer. We got this huge project to create a corporate app.  At the same time we heard Adobe was releasing a product that would create apps for both the iPhone and the Droid. The Mac users were all excited and started programming for it. A few weeks ago Apple announced that it would no longer accept apps that were created on the Adobe products. A very Microsoft move on their part, but I'm sure the Mac zealots would claim it's not like the same thing Microsoft did to Netscape at all.  Right now our company’s Mac users are recreating an iPhone app that they created.  All I have to do is take the program they already created and resize it for the Droid.  Which is why I have time to write this post.
    …while they are programming.

As long as you don’t use or buy its products, Apple can make you a lot of money and save a lot of time.