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Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 2, 2014-- plonk

Posted on 07/02/2014 4:35:01 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 2, 2014-- plonk

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

plonk [plɒŋk]

hear it pronounced

noun (Chiefly British)

inferior or cheap wine.

Origin: 1925–30; perhaps alteration of French ( vin ) blanc white (wine)

— verb
1. ( often foll by down ) to drop or be dropped, esp heavily or suddenly: he plonked the money on the table

— noun
2. the act or sound of plonking

— interjection
3. an exclamation imitative of this sound

Special Usage:

Computing Dictionary

plonk definition
networking, abuse (Possibly influenced by British slang "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this term originated in the Usenet newsgroup news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists as a form of public ridicule. Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with Little Or No Knowledge".


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To: Oratam

A++
If it’ll make him happy, plonk down your cash for plonk.


41 posted on 07/02/2014 10:22:19 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (7 hard drives crashed at exactly the most opportune moment for the Regime. Coincidence?)
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To: SoothingDave

they gonna have some ginormous swear jar?


42 posted on 07/02/2014 10:26:44 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: mikrofon
A+++

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie.

Nice job! (And I'm speaking as someone who has had his magic twanger plunked by experts.)

43 posted on 07/02/2014 10:34:03 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (7 hard drives crashed at exactly the most opportune moment for the Regime. Coincidence?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

OMG how RACIST towards the dagos is THAT? LOL!


44 posted on 07/02/2014 11:06:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

My Brit neighbor actually uses that word...

Obama has dug himself a hole
With his popularity sinking
He plonks down more garbage-
Whose koolaid is he drinking?

He has opted out on moving
Like Clinton to the middle-
Now he’s doing a Nixon, so
He will just play the fiddle

While Rome burns and he moves
His pen and his phone around
His legacy is toppling faster
And he doesn’t hear the sound


45 posted on 07/02/2014 11:26:20 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: xsmommy

Da


46 posted on 07/02/2014 11:30:42 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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"One nation under God.."



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47 posted on 07/02/2014 11:31:34 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SoothingDave

OMG did you see the Giroux tweet that Dejan retweeted? I thought I would pee myself it was so hilarious!


48 posted on 07/02/2014 11:32:59 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

We used to be able to have a little fun, mocking ethnic stereotypes. Most people would laugh loudest when their own group was the target. Nowadays, everyone is so freaking sensitive.


49 posted on 07/02/2014 11:44:37 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (7 hard drives crashed at exactly the most opportune moment for the Regime. Coincidence?)
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To: Texan5

A+++

One of your more poetic poems, to coin a phrase.

If a legacy topples in the woods and nobody hears it, does it still make a sound?


50 posted on 07/02/2014 11:45:50 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (7 hard drives crashed at exactly the most opportune moment for the Regime. Coincidence?)
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To: xsmommy

Good grief. You could set your beer down on one cheek and the remote control on the other.


51 posted on 07/02/2014 11:47:40 AM PDT by Hoodat (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: xsmommy

No, not yet. I haven’t really been following this other than figuring out he grabbed a cop’s butt. Was he really drunk or is he gay? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.


52 posted on 07/02/2014 12:01:31 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

See you, and raise you:

http://nypost.com/2014/07/01/the-25-best-seinfeld-isms/


53 posted on 07/02/2014 12:02:11 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thanks… I was around five years old at the time, with just a vague recollection of seeing that particular show – programs of that genre tend to mesh together in my failing memory…

(Actually, credit the Interwebs for the catch via “Devine + Frog”;)


54 posted on 07/02/2014 12:40:34 PM PDT by mikrofon (Humpday BUMPty ;)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thank you!

It only makes a sound if mushrooms and other fungi are listening...


55 posted on 07/02/2014 12:45:05 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: xsmommy

Should we be pronouncing the last name of our newcomer D-man Josh “Gorgeous” a la Streisand ;?


56 posted on 07/02/2014 12:51:31 PM PDT by mikrofon (Humpday BUMPty)
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To: xsmommy

Phlyers are phags, we all know that.


57 posted on 07/02/2014 1:14:23 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Then they should go to Burger Queen or King, or whatever.


58 posted on 07/02/2014 1:50:47 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: SoothingDave

I don’t know but penguin fans are having a field day with it bc all of the Sid is gay cracks from flyers fans. I do not think Giroux is gay bc he’s far too hot in a non pretty missing tooth kind of way!


59 posted on 07/02/2014 1:56:36 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Yeah well my future son in law is a flyer fan and I happen to think the gingeroux is hot!


60 posted on 07/02/2014 1:58:18 PM PDT by xsmommy
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