Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RIMSHOT
Etymology
Noun
rimshot (plural rimshots)
A percussive note in which the drumstick hits both the head and the rim of the drum.
(colloquial) A percussive sting or flourish used to punctuate a joke in a cabaret or vaudeville act.
Usage notes
• Technically, the sting used to punctuate a joke is not a rimshot. A rimshot is a particular note (as in sense 1 above); a sting is a percussive figure consisting of several notes, perhaps a roll followed by a crash cymbal. As noted above, though, colloquially, a sting is also called rimshot.
Source: Wiktionary
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