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  • Re: Plonk

    From Avon@21:1/101 to Dr. What on Sun Apr 17 11:01:26 2022
    On 06 Mar 2022 at 02:34a, Dr. What pondered and said...

    plonk excl.,vt.

    [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang 'plonk' for cheap booze, or 'plonker' for someone behaving stupidly (latter is lit. equivalent to Yiddish 'schmuck')] The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom
    of a kill file. While it originated in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term (usually written "*plonk*") is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of public ridicule.

    Makes sense and links to the usenet groups I have seen with the same name :) Thanks for the reference.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Sat Mar 5 14:57:20 2022
    Just wanted to post something that used that word again... :)

    Could be a drink I guess, or something that dropped in the mud and made that sound :)

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  • From The Millionaire@21:1/183 to Avon on Fri Mar 4 18:15:20 2022

    Just wanted to post something that used that word again... :)

    Could be a drink I guess, or something that dropped in the mud and made that sound :)

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  • From Dr. What@21:1/126 to Avon on Sun Mar 6 02:34:34 2022
    Avon wrote to All <=-

    Just wanted to post something that used that word again... :)

    Could be a drink I guess, or something that dropped in the mud and made that sound :)

    https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/jargon.html#plonk

    plonk excl.,vt.

    [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang 'plonk' for cheap booze, or 'plonker' for someone behaving stupidly (latter is lit. equivalent to Yiddish 'schmuck')] The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While it originated in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term (usually written "*plonk*") is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of public ridicule.


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