 | In <20050124110101084+1100@news.optusnet.com.au> on 24/01/05 11:01 AM,
Schwolop wrote:
>> staticjuggler wrote:
> * a bunch of bigoted crap *
> And thus, on 24/01/05 10:44 AM, Jon Solberg wrote:
>> *PLONK*
>>
>> Ah, much better.
>>
>
> What does *PLONK* mean? Is this a typical newsgroupy way of denoting
> someone as being killfiled? Actually, stuff replying, I'll look it up
> in the jargon file...
>
Well there ya go! I was right! The jargon file defines plonk as:
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.
FYI: The Jargon File is a great read, and can be found here at
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
--
Tom
junk@jugglethis.net with my name instead of junk...
|
|
