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IYFEG // [Usenet] Abbreviation For `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'.
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IYFEG //
[Usenet] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite
Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling ethnic jokes on
the net to avoid offending anyone. See JEDR.
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IYFEG: // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'.
Used as a meta-name when telling ethnic jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone....
JEDR: // n. Synonymous with {IYFEG}. At one time, people in the USENET newsgroup rec.
humor.funny tended to use `JEDR' instead of {IYFEG} or `&l...
JEDR // n. Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the Usenet newsgroup rec.
humor.funny tended to use `JEDR' instead of IYFEG or `&l...
PRO: No more Mormans, Jews, and any other ethnic or religious group you especially hate.
CON: No more pestering, perturbing, bothering, threatening, terrorizing your least favorite group....
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
-- Edward Abbey...
M$ Common net abbreviation for Microsoft, everybody's least favorite monopoly.
DoS attack // [Usenet; note that it's unrelated to `DOS' as name of an operating system] Abbreviation for Denial-Of-Service attack.
This abbreviation is most often used of attempts to shut down newsgroups with floods of spam....
et.- /net dot/ pref. [Usenet] Prefix used to describe people and events related to Usenet.
From the time before the Great Renaming, when most non-local newsgroups had names beginning `net....
et.-: /net dot/ pref. [USENET] Prefix used to describe people and events related to USENET.
From the time before the {Great Renaming}, when most non-local newsgroups had names beginning `net....