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jaylevitt
on Oct 3, 2012
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"Plonk"
Fascinating... I knew * plonk * made a sound, but by 1994 I had always heard it retronymmed to "put loser on newsgroup killfile", which wasn't quite satisfying - Why the awkward phrasing?
Now I know the truth. You can't stop the signal.
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Now I know the truth. You can't stop the signal.