Plonks

It's serendipity: the name plonks southern Lombok on the tourist map by drawing on people's memories of the more familiar Kuta, a name that means fortress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is rather like reading your book quietly on the train when someone plonks themselves next to you and starts to organise their next trip somewhere by yelling down their mobile phone, as happened to me tonight on the way home. ❋ Maxine (2009)

Boody Rogers, a contemporary of Tex Avery, Harold "Little Orphan Annie" Gray and Chester "Dick Tracy" Gould out-weirded any cartoonist, living or dead, for the bizarre design of his characters and the out-of-control situations he plonks them in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Mother plonks herself down at the rickety outdoor restaurant table to wait for Father, I am warmed by the two hundred-crown notes I liberated from her wallet. ❋ Andrew Stancek (2011)

In short, question eight plonks us in the middle of defining what most lawyers I know admit can't really be defined: that is, the public interest. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Cliches are mined and then given a surreal coda: a hard-boiled female detective starts eating her polystyrene coffee cup when she gets a new lead; a traditional Italian restaurant is the ideal place for a first date, except that it plonks a whole seagull in a salad; Hercule Poirot makes an appearance at key moments, but in the silent form of Fiona Creese with a paper bag over her head. ❋ Elisabeth Mahoney (2010)

One sea lion plonks itself down across another, pinning it to the rock, while an angry bull lion barks out orders, before chasing a rival back into the ocean. ❋ Unknown (2008)

* PB plonks himselb daon awn teh cowtch nd porez a glars ob plonk * ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just another twit who reads the parer and plonks down what he finks ❋ Newmania (2007)

A short fast drum of staccato knocks slowed into a couple of distinct sharp plonks and stopped. ❋ Glenda Larke (2009)

*Does loop-teh-loop adn plonks hedfirst into a mesquite bush* — Ai meant to do that – ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the start, Amis announces certain 'general principles' to be followed in creating drinks, all of which can be derived, by natural drinkers 'logic, from the first of them, which holds that' up to a point [i.e. short of offering your guests one of those Balkan plonks marketed as wine, Cyprus sherry, poteen and the like], go for quantity rather than quality '. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here U goes, Maus plonks frensh toast on deh playte put some blooberries on tawp and drizzles sum maplol syrupz what will U haz 2 drink? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Did you feels funnee head-plonks on last Fryday nite? ❋ Unknown (2008)