Chablis used to be one of the best known names in wine, so the nervous neophyte, when confronted by a multi-page wine list and a hovering sommelier, would plunk for the first name he recognized, all too often a Chablis, while those with a little more knowledge, realizing that its familiarity made it overpriced, avoided it.
I plunked for a not-so peaty single malt from the northeast coast, Clynelish.
Who, except a few neocons still plunking for the glories of "the surge" in Iraq, would claim military victory for this country, even of a limited sort, anywhere at any time in this century?
If you have eleven thousand five hundred dollars to plunk down for it, it will be delivered within six months, F. O. B. Houston.
"While some look at Hershey and see either a beneficent angel or a willful tyrant, it is the great charm of D'Antonio's book that he will not plunk entirely for one judgment or the other," Benjamin Cheever wrote here.
You won't have to really plunk down for either car until late 2003, at the earliest.
Netbooks can cost as little as $200 each which means if something goes wrong with one, you don't bother calling your IT specialist, you just plunk down for a new one.
The bass fiddle wasn't there for decorous plunking, but for a thick, swampy bottom.
For every dollar you plunked down for Coke shares in July 1982, you would have collected $110 back just 16 years later.
It's a fundamentally faster processor than the Core2, but a fast Core2 can still take on a slow Core i7, so check your hard hardware sites for the latest reviews before plunking down for a budget next-gen processor.
For the novice investor, picking a new bond fund entails a daunting search through hidden costs, skimpy disclosure and otherworldly jargon, all for the right to plunk down money for a small payoff that can fall far short of stocks.
