"Default User" > wrote in message
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> Mordechai Housman wrote:
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>> "Default User" > wrote in message
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>> > Fred wrote:
>> >
>> > > Do you wonder where all those American jobs are going?
>> >
>> > *plonk*
>> >
>> > Brian (suggests others either ignore or plonk as well)
>>
>> Please cure this little bit of ignorance and tell me: what exactly is
>> meant by "plonking" someone? Is that the same as killfiling?
>
> Yep, it's a short-hand for saying, "added to the killfile". Like the
> person's been dropped in a deep well or something and made sound at
> the
> bottom.

Oh, thanks. I've done this, but I didn't stick around to hear the sound
it made when it hit bottom. In any case, the few times I've killfiled
anyone, they were already at rock bottom!