JEDR
<person, abuse, humour> Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the
Usenet newsgroup rec.humor.funny tended to use "JEDR" instead of IYFEG or
"<ethnic>"; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made
by a loser with initials JEDR after he was offended by an ethnic joke posted
there. (The practice was retconned by expanding these initials as "Joke
Ethnic/Denomination/Race".) After much sound and fury JEDR faded away; this term
appears to be doing likewise. JEDR's only permanent effect on the net.culture
was to discredit "sensitivity" arguments for censorship so thoroughly that more
recent attempts to raise them have met with immediate and near-universal
rejection.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-22)
Nearby terms:
JDK « JEAN « Jean E. Sammet « JEDR » Jef Raskin »
Jerry Sussman » JES
