Comments on: Kerplunk http://blog.wordnik.com/kerplunk Connecting people with meaning. Wed, 09 May 2012 19:58:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lakalula http://blog.wordnik.com/kerplunk/comment-page-1#comment-380 Lakalula Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:01:01 +0000 http://blog.wordnik.com/?p=187#comment-380 As you no doubt remember, in Blueberries for Sal, Sal's three blueberries sound "kerplink, kerplank, kerplunk" in her small tin pail (which is always empty because she eats berries almost as fast as she picks them). http://www.amazon.com/Blueberries-Sal-Robert-McCloskey/dp/B000M0PQD4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260463841&sr=8-3O As you no doubt remember, in Blueberries for Sal, Sal’s three blueberries sound “kerplink, kerplank, kerplunk” in her small tin pail (which is always empty because she eats berries almost as fast as she picks them).

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]]> By: Alex http://blog.wordnik.com/kerplunk/comment-page-1#comment-290 Alex Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:29:18 +0000 http://blog.wordnik.com/?p=187#comment-290 Kerfuffle? Kerfuffle?

]]> By: Karen http://blog.wordnik.com/kerplunk/comment-page-1#comment-288 Karen Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:09:13 +0000 http://blog.wordnik.com/?p=187#comment-288 And, for readers of David Foster Wallace's tome INFINITE JEST, there's "kertwang," which comes from the sound of a tennis ball being hit hard off a tennis racket but is also used to describe any situation in which you find yourself being flung wildly in a different direction, as with a sudden realization. And, for readers of David Foster Wallace’s tome INFINITE JEST, there’s “kertwang,” which comes from the sound of a tennis ball being hit hard off a tennis racket but is also used to describe any situation in which you find yourself being flung wildly in a different direction, as with a sudden realization.

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