Another plonk for Jeff

jepler-errancy@zero.aec.at jepler-errancy@zero.aec.at
Tue, 26 May 1998 16:33:09 +0200 (00896211189, 19980526163309.32839@zero.aec.at) 

On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 07:39:52AM -0700, Dick Jones wrote:

> Who would love a shit like you? This is your

> fallacy of distraction. You didn't answer the

> question. Dumb or janitors?


Phallus of false dichotomy.  Oh, and I think that you're insulting me, but
I'm not sure.


> 

> >PS Do you know what "plonk" means?

> 

> Yeah, it's a French word for an American student there.

> In Britain, it's a cheap wine. Around you, it's the

> sound of an idea falling on the empty floor of your

> brain.


http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/p/plonk.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
   [1]newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a [2]kill file. While it
   originated in the [3]newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term (usually
   written "*plonk*") is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of
   public ridicule.
     _________________________________________________________________
   

References

   1. http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/n/newbie.html
   2. http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/k/killfile.html
   3. http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/n/newsgroup.html

I realize that the term "newbie" is not exactly appropriate here.  I
aplogize, Dick, if this is an insult.  "[Usenet] Kook" doesn't seem to be
listed in the jargon file, to my great dismay.  Or are you really just a
troll?

Jeff
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