IUBio

It's primitive; it's dumb (PLAUSIBLE definitions?)

Eugene Leitl eugene.leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Thu Jul 15 18:31:24 EST 1999


*Plonk* is a sound a luser makes when he hits the bottom of the killfile.

Soenke N. Greimann writes:
 > If *plonk* is the sound you hear when you're hit on the head, then "to plonk"
 > would mean to engage an activity that results in *plonk*.
 > In that case, the word is irrelevant. He might have used "to thwap" just as 
 > easily. :-)
 > Who goes around "plonking" people anyway??? I have dim memories of a puppet
 > clown going around and whacking his evil crocodile adversare to save someone 
 > that is generally only referred to as "Granny".
 > Hmm.... must be a coincidence... ;-)
---



More information about the Neur-sci mailing list

Send comments to us at biosci-help [At] net.bio.net