In Which Your Obedient Serpent Restores His Faith in the Rimshot

[athelind]

The other day, we were wondering if the " CSI Yeeeaaah" had supplanted the classic "Rimshot" to underscore a pun or a punchline. I think the following exchange is definitely a rimshot:

(13:35:21) hinoki: how're you doin' otherwise?
(13:44:44) athelind: Middlin' decent. Pulling my head together, still. I'm kind of bored with that; can't I just order a functioning

Comments

[athelind]

I did specify "functioning".

[rikoshi]

"It looks like we know...

*dons shades*

...who's coming for Christmas."

[tombfyre]

Yep, definitely rimshot material. ^..^

[araquan]

Oh, you know very well who that really belongs to...

[athelind]

Yes, but they didn't make it a punchline.

[araquan]

For which I'm quite grateful.