Word: kerplunked
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...loud cheer for the switch to Billie Joe's standard Stratocaster guitar, affectionately known as Ol' Blue. It wasn't surprising, then, that requests ranged from early-era "Disappearing Boy," found on 1990's indie release 39/Smooth, to semi-joke track "Dominated Love Slave" from their second album Kerplunk! On the latter, a fan was brought up from the audience to play drums, but when she was unable to keep up, was half-seriously told, "You suck...
...popular culture is the culture, and there is no point in pretending it is not. But the real heroes of his latest effort are the ink-stained drudges who filled the brightly colored panels with muscle-bound avengers and infectious onomatopoeia: Biff! Bam! Boom! and the occasional Kerplunk...
Kids say the darnedest things. "We holded the baby rabbits." "The alligator goed kerplunk." "Horton heared a Who!" These lapses, you might dimly recall, have something to do with irregular verbs. But please don't stop reading just yet. Children's errors are not just anecdotes for grandparents or reminders of long-forgotten grammar lessons. They're windows into the workings of language, history and the human mind...
...enough for two Corvettes. Like most novice truck drivers, she is confronted by too many tasks demanding simultaneous attention: eyeballing six side-view mirrors, working a gargantuan steering wheel and a muscle-wearying clutch pedal, and monitoring an instrument panel befitting a 727. Goodrum eases the rig back until . . . kerplunk, she mashes into a barricade of tires...
...with a miniscule kerplunk...