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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

From Weaver <weaver@riseup.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
Date 2021-08-13 23:40 +0200
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On 14-08-2021 07:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote:
>> Stefan writes:
>>> How odd.  I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
>>> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> I've never seen any point in telling the world (or the plonked
>> individual) about the action, though.
>>
> I have serious doubt against the "plonked" being able to appreciate what
> is happening to him. Most of the time, they won't stop and will just
> continue to argue against themselves. Something trying to use words from
> language they don't even master while trying to do so.

This would be typical: waxing wisely on a term they were obviously not
familiar with, five minutes ago, when they enquired after it.
Cheers!

Harry.

-- 
`Unthinking respect for authority is 
the greatest enemy of truth'.
-- Albert Einstein

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