Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 20:21:27 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> On 2021-08-13 6:55 p.m., songbird wrote:
> > John Hasler wrote:
> > ...
> >> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
> >> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at the
> >> bottom. A septic tank, for example. It was common to respond to a
> >> particularly asinine article with the one-word followup "plonk".
> >
> > having been reading usenet since before the great renaming
> > it was a term that i haven't used often.
> great renaming ?
> Usenet is not Usenet anymore ?
Please, STFW.
Cheers,
David.
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