Are Timpani Players paid by the pound?

Do you realize how powerful & important a Timpani is? You can’t start the Academy Awards with just a woodblock or tambourine... & how would you know how much a telethon is accumulating? I guess you could use Bongos for a beatniks telethon & help the poor beatniks who may have mentally snapped for the last time… Ouch. was that too ruthless... was that too flippant, making foible of a mentally unstable beatnik? Hey... I know crazy, but then again, maybe i'm just calling the kettle drum brass?

I love flushing out a comic idea... for instance, all those conventions & their name tags. Do the Chinese wear vertical name tags? If it were a billboard convention would their name tags be huge? If it were a convention of schizophrenics would each person wear 4-5 name tags? Would all the folks at an Identity Theft convention wear blank name tags? See this is how i roll... start with a concept & then exhaust the thing... Would a convention for Owls be called a who's who who who... would a convention for coroners have their name tags tied to their toe? Would a convention for Clowns... [Fade]