On drumsticks
what is the secret behind the name of drum sticks?
A drum is a musical instrument made up of a hollow barrel covered with a tight membrane. You hit the membrane with a stick and get a boom. Interestingly the human ear has a mechanism of the sort that picks up soundwave which in this case act as tiny sticks to beat on the uber sensitive membrane that is inlaid in the ear. So when the big drum goes boom the little drum in your ear picks up the boom.
But a drum is also the cylindrical builing blocks of a column particularly in antiquity. When they fall, trust me they create a huge boom too.
But the most interesting of all drums are freshwater fish of the Sciaenidae family that make a drumming noise... not that I knew you could hear underwater... but all the same... there are reports that the drumming however is just a throbbing... and we can imagine what else would make a fish throb so bad... and did you know that this particular group of drumming or throbbing fish has one particular fish called the weakfish... cuz lets admit it its damn weak... and this fish happens to be the state fish of Delaware, a fitting representation no?
but I detract...
another interesting form and actually if done well a tasty form of drums are the drumsticks... but my question is why just chicken? and what makes them drumsticks and not chicken sticks?
can we have potatoes on a stick and call them drumsticks? can we have a potatoe the shape of a stick and call it a drum stick? what is the essence of a drum stick? why are they so famous? are they like paris hilton? famous for being famous? are they famous because of the infamous KFC scandal that wiped out half the potatoes on the known side of Harlem? And was the birdflu a creation of the evil potatoes that wanted to avenge their historic loss that has ever since left them decapitated as side dishes?
To many questions, too few answers... but the investigation on the drumsticks continue...
A drum is a musical instrument made up of a hollow barrel covered with a tight membrane. You hit the membrane with a stick and get a boom. Interestingly the human ear has a mechanism of the sort that picks up soundwave which in this case act as tiny sticks to beat on the uber sensitive membrane that is inlaid in the ear. So when the big drum goes boom the little drum in your ear picks up the boom.
But a drum is also the cylindrical builing blocks of a column particularly in antiquity. When they fall, trust me they create a huge boom too.
But the most interesting of all drums are freshwater fish of the Sciaenidae family that make a drumming noise... not that I knew you could hear underwater... but all the same... there are reports that the drumming however is just a throbbing... and we can imagine what else would make a fish throb so bad... and did you know that this particular group of drumming or throbbing fish has one particular fish called the weakfish... cuz lets admit it its damn weak... and this fish happens to be the state fish of Delaware, a fitting representation no?
but I detract...
another interesting form and actually if done well a tasty form of drums are the drumsticks... but my question is why just chicken? and what makes them drumsticks and not chicken sticks?
can we have potatoes on a stick and call them drumsticks? can we have a potatoe the shape of a stick and call it a drum stick? what is the essence of a drum stick? why are they so famous? are they like paris hilton? famous for being famous? are they famous because of the infamous KFC scandal that wiped out half the potatoes on the known side of Harlem? And was the birdflu a creation of the evil potatoes that wanted to avenge their historic loss that has ever since left them decapitated as side dishes?
To many questions, too few answers... but the investigation on the drumsticks continue...
posted by P Funk at 9:34 AM
1 Comments:
Good stuff P Funk'o. I must admit its something that keeps one up at night, especially if your a bird. But remember that its not just the chicken, apparently the turkey is musically inclined as well.
In my opinion this dates back to the origins of civilization and the nature of the great prehistoric birds. As we all know, creatures were much bigger back then and the average chicken was most likely ten to twenty feet tall. This formidable treat was hunted by nearly everything, man being only one of them. As evolution favored smaller chickens the bigger animals began to look for other food sources - apparently the mammoth was delicous. Anyways, at that time the chicken was still quite deadly and could poke your eyes out in the blink of, well, an eye. So the humans developed the drum as a way to distract the chicken while the tribe snuck behind and jumped it. As chickens continued to get smaller and less vicious the drum became less and less necessary. Man began to simply raise calm small chickens and decided, at some point, to name that lovely little stick in honor of the great drum battles fought with the megachickens.
I would also like to add that the poatoes are not nearly as peeved at the chickens as the turkeys since they almost always necessitate mashed potatoes. Meekrob the great diabolical potatoe says, "there is no sweet potatoe. Get over it."
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