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What does 'boink' mean?

What does 'boink' mean? I saw it sometimes.
  

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[nq:1]What does 'boink' mean? [/nq] "Boink" is Usenet-speak for a social gathering of members of a particular newsgroup. Dena Jo Email goes to denajo2 at the dot com variation of the Yahoo domain.

  • [nq:1]What does 'boink' mean?
  • [/nq] "Boink" is Usenet-speak for a social gathering of members of a particular newsgroup.
  • Dena Jo Email goes to denajo2 at the dot com variation of the Yahoo domain.
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[nq:1]What does 'boink' mean? I saw it sometimes.[/nq]
"Boink" is Usenet-speak for a social gathering of members of a particular newsgroup.

Dena Jo
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[nq:2]What does 'boink' mean? I saw it sometimes.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Boink" is Usenet-speak for a social gathering of members of a particular newsgroup.[/nq]
How many participants makes a boink? And do they have to be current members?

I ask because, last week, my daughter and I had dinner with Bob Lieblich, and the lovely Mrs Bob. I didn't really think of it as a boink, although I suppos
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[nq:2]What does 'boink' mean? I saw it sometimes.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Boink" is Usenet-speak for a social gathering of members of a particular newsgroup.[/nq]
I don't think so. It is a term for a social gathering of members of aue and possibly other newsgroups. You might say "this particular newsgroup". The soc.culture.irish group hold "sci-cons".

The soc.culture.british groups holds JOs,
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[nq:2]"Boink" is Usenet-speak for a social gathering of members of a particular newsgroup.[/nq]
[nq:1]How many participants makes a boink? And do they have to be current members? I ask because, last week, my ... boink, although I suppose it was, since I wouldn't have known Bob without our both being part of the group.[/nq]
I think we have discussed this before, without reaching much of a c
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[nq:2]What does 'boink' mean? I saw it sometimes.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Boink" is Usenet-speak for a social gathering of members of a particular newsgroup. Dena Jo[/nq]
And in Jo's case, they usually involve whips and chains.
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[nq:2]How many participants makes a boink? And do they have ... known Bob without our both being part of the group.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think we have discussed this before, without reaching much of a conclusion. When the Spiras met the Lieblichs, it ... aue-er to stay once. As for currency, people seem to come and go: once a member, always a member. Possibly.[/nq]
I don't know if there were forma
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[nq:1]What does 'boink' mean? I saw it sometimes.[/nq]
Usage of the word in this newsgroup has been well explained, but there are other meanings too. It is a noise of course; scientific progress goes 'Boink' according to the comic strip character Calvin.

Various usenet sources have defined 'boink' as "To have *** with"; In Commonwealth hackish the variant ?bonk? supposed to be more co
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[nq:2]How many participants makes a boink? And do they have ... known Bob without our both being part of the group.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think we have discussed this before, without reaching much of a conclusion. When the Spiras met the Lieblichs, it ... Wallace Collection, Fran? I can't remember.) And what about longer visits? I know Maria had an aue-er to stay once.[/nq]
I was reflecting on this
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[nq:2]How many participants makes a boink? And do they have ... known Bob without our both being part of the group.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think we have discussed this before, without reaching much of a conclusion. When the Spiras met the Lieblichs, it ... Wallace Collection, Fran? I can't remember.) And what about longer visits? I know Maria had an aue-er to stay once.[/nq]
I was reflecting on this

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