Re: Is the Savannah Theory really dead yet?

"Jois" <firstjois@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "rmacfarl" <rmacfarl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> We've seen.
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>> I'll leave it to you to explain what plonk means Mclark...
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>> Ross Macfarlane

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.
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/P/plonk.html


> May I just say it is a little more serious than, "Quack, quack, quack?"

??

> Jois
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
--Voltaire


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