On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 04:12:10PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de [2021-08-13 19:11:43] wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside 
> > wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Plonk ?

[...]

> > [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html 
> 
> How odd.  I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.

But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?

;-P

Cheers
 - t

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