On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:12:02 +0000 François Boisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> J'ai vu souvent ce <*PLONK*> pour couper court à une discussion dérivant > sur le troll fumeux. Ca veut dire quoi et ça sort d'où? "jargon plonk" dit : :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. Alain