Re: Is the Savannah Theory really dead yet?


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


Thankyou McLark, for pointing out,again, exactly the same reference
that I found a few days ago when I replied to Jois.

Perhaps you've noticed (though I might doubt it) that this thread has
quickly declined into the usual group in-fighting.

There's another English expression besides 'plonker' meaning roughly
what you quoted above.

That's 'wanker' which has a subtle difference - a purely self-centred,
solipsistic person who has a private enjoyment that (by its nature)
excludes everyone else. Sometimes, these self-centred persons add
decorations to their solitary passions, like:

> --
> "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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