All hail Ploop and Cloop, authors of a special blog called Plooptionary - and winner of a MyBlogLog Sunday full review.

A dictionary full of ploop - a plooptionary

Some folks swear by the Oxford English dictionary - bloody hell old boy, this has a lot of words in it. Others prefer the concise words of Mirriam.

Off the beaten track, there are followers of dictionaries with morphed words and new meanings - see Bob and his Fictionary.

And then you have people who can't be bothered with high fallutin' verbiage, and prefer their definitions in pictorial form. That sort of person, me included, likes their Plooptionary, where everything in life can be turned into a neat little graph.

From the top down

Before we dive into the fun stuff, what does it look like to a first time visitor? If you want to make a big first impression, don't do what Ploop does and have a standard banner and no graphics! He has this logo in MyBlogLog, shame it isn't here. Come back, all is forgiven, logo, mate, pal.

I jest. Of course Plooptionary has a snazzy logo, but...

I do have a tendency to take a tour into areas where I have no understanding (the header is a good example as there’s a lovely redesigned one behind the blue one and I can’t get it to show! Ploop in a panic?)

It looks like the blog below the banners is a standard Wordpress theme, which needn't be bad in itself, but with a tweak, the theme could be hot and that would make the content even hotter.

Content is different for Ploop

Enough of would could should. What is happening now? Essentially the clever guys have dispensed with 100% words of explanation and heavily rely instead on graphs and diagrams. So rather than trying to use crappy words to explain the reality that diminishing exam marks are directly inversely proportional to the square root of the use of colored crayons, Ploop runs off a quick graph.



(I apologise for plagiarising his diagrams and undoubtedly horrendously misquoting him as well, but I am sure his lawyers will understand.)

More graphical wizardry!

A depiction of Men who wear jewelry can't spell, is balanced nicely with political brain power, or lack of it, as personified in a Venn diagram. There are also some mad interpretations of all manner of health related issues including wrinkle creams and ageing.

There is good clean and not so clean fun everywhere, so to be honest, to get a feel for the blog, just go to the ploop science department and browse, it is really entertaining. And a prized round of applause for the person who tells ploop how many diagrams he has posted.

Ploop is a pisstaker too.

Like many natural comics, Ploop as well as Cloop, the silent partner? has the ability to express himself in many different media. I haven't seen the tapestries or glass painting, but the writing is clever enough for me to learn from. Plooptionary has no mercy, and cuts to the core of an issue. Poor astrologers, whatever did they do to deserve such ridicule? That was a rhetorical question, as the answer is, plenty. And now Ploop has taken them on, head on, offering his own one-liner comments to busy executives with their heads firmly up their astrological asses.

If you need sustenance after a hard day's work / blog surfing, Ploop thinking gives you food for thought, washed down with a couple of swigs of Ploop on wine.

In conclusion

A stand out site with way too much content to summarize. Having said that it is full of content, Ploop has great vision by including the Pisstakers Funny Quotes widget, which adds even more to the site's overall entertainment value (his words not mine!) And of all the sites with the widget installed, yay, the Plooptionary theme shows it off really quite well!

Also, even though his technical knowhow gets him in trouble at times, Ploop's Inline commenting is brilliant and I wonder where you will be seeing that soon! Highlight any text on his site and see what happens.


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