With the assorted fools and idiots getting killfiles right and left, I'm seeing this word come up more and more. Where the heck did it come from? My only encounter with the word before this NG was as a semi-slang reference for cheap, bad red wine (e.g., Two-Buck Chuck). Do we mean that we are dropping the offending correspondent into a virtual vat of the nasty stuff, that he may drown there and perhaps improve the flavor of the barrel's contents?
Or perhaps this is a variant of plunk, which means a variety of things, including 'to drop abruptly.' Regrettably, this would be ambiguous. since another meaning is 'to come out in favor of someone or something.' Surely that can't be right.
Mark Schynert