[GRLUG] Now I;m getting a bit ticked.

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>> Try searching Google for "plonk."  I'll give you a hint: it's the first
>> result shown.  Here's another hint: it's usenet term.
>
> Was I the only one who, around 14 years ago, upon discovering the FOSS
> / *nix / Usenet / geek culture, read about it's history - jargon file
> included?
>
> Knowing something about one's culture seems a necessary requirement
> toward participation in said culture.

I'd always thought of PLONK as onomatopoeia; It never occurred to me
that it was an acronym.
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