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 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.

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 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)