JEDR

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  JEDR // n. Synonymous with {IYFEG}. At one time, people in the Usenet
     newsgroup rec.humor.funny tended to use `JEDR' instead of {IYFEG} or
     `'; 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 {retcon}ned 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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  JEDR
       
           Synonymous with {IYFEG}.  At one time,
          people in the {Usenet} {newsgroup} {news:rec.humor.funny}
          tended to use "JEDR" instead of {IYFEG} or ""; 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 {retcon}ned 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)