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What's a xer?

From: morfordc@yahoo.com
Subject: your web rant
Date: July 18, 2005 6:48:30 AM PDT
To: jwz@jwz.org

Wow. Just fell upon your rant because your pages were taken down.

Waaaaaaa.

Wow. Think you're the only person in the world whose bosses had them stop doing something that would look bad to the public? Waaaaaaa.

Spoiled little Xer. Can't have my widdle webpage that I authored on company time and is posted for free. Waaa.

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[User Picture]From: [info]britgeekgrrl
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:25 PM (UTC)

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beats me. Gen X'er, maybe?
[User Picture]From: [info]candid
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:25 PM (UTC)

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Probably "[Generation] Xer."
[User Picture]From: [info]flipping_hades
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:29 PM (UTC)

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Apparently it's too hard to actually type all of "Generation X" these days, especially when you're a middle America soccer "booster" webmaster on a self-righteous kick.
[User Picture]From: [info]msjen
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:33 PM (UTC)

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I think he means GenXer. Did you get ten other replies saying that already? I didn't check. Waaah. ;)
[User Picture]From: [info]rly
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:35 PM (UTC)

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I think they just dropped the "Gen" for some reason.
[User Picture]From: [info]dt
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:41 PM (UTC)

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If you read this word in Russian it means "dick". Not sure that this guy knows Russian pretty well.
[User Picture]From: [info]avva
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:42 PM (UTC)

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Hey, I'll bet I know what it is: he meant Generation X'er!

In Russian, kher is a rude euphemism for penis, and the letter 'kh' is written like Latin x.

[User Picture]From: [info]ctakahara
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:48 PM (UTC)

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Gen X-er, I assume. Someone sounds bitter.
[User Picture]From: [info]merovingian
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:50 PM (UTC)

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I assume it's short for Xerxes.
[User Picture]From: [info]tfofurn
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 10:58 PM (UTC)

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Ten-to-one he wasn't even capable of reading the web in 1998.

I chuckle even more that the subject is "your web rant", as though there were but one. He knows nothing of your work.
[User Picture]From: [info]substitute
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 11:08 PM (UTC)

Hey, better not dis that guy!

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He's the webmaster for the Red Bird Soccer Booster Club of DePere High School in DePere, Wisconsin!
[User Picture]From: [info]rsdio
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 11:17 PM (UTC)

xer

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Well it OBVIOUSLY stands for hippopotamus.
[User Picture]From: [info]lizard_lord
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 11:27 PM (UTC)

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Possibly, it's just a crossed-out expletive? As in "spoiled little ****er"? He just doesn't seem one for unwarranted repetition, so maybe he decided that one X's enough.
[User Picture]From: [info]jonxp
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 11:31 PM (UTC)

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Perhaps he meant Mac OSX user: OSXer.
[User Picture]From: [info]srattus
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 11:32 PM (UTC)

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clearly the friends list doesn't read comments before posting answers.
[User Picture]From: [info]sixty4k
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 11:49 PM (UTC)

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Someone's a little behind the times.
[User Picture]From: [info]fo0bar
Mon, 18-Jul-2005 11:58 PM (UTC)

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Sounds scientology-related.
[User Picture]From: [info]fxl
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 12:03 AM (UTC)

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My question is: Which rant?

I do not recall that particular rant, but I have a good feeling this was not about the bathroom at the Maritime (or DNA).

url me.
[User Picture]From: [info]xenogram
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 12:51 AM (UTC)

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The temptation to screw with this arse-hat's head must be pretty high.
[User Picture]From: [info]sherbooke
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 4:04 AM (UTC)

Google is my friend...

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Xer definition (that's if you take answers.com as authoritative). Or maybe you prefer Bridging the Boomer-Xer Gap

Yrs, Lazyweb
[User Picture]From: [info]bitpuddle
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 4:18 AM (UTC)

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I think it is a typo. Meant to call you an xor. A subtle joke suggesting you can have your job or your web page, but not both.
[User Picture]From: [info]fantasygoat
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 5:54 AM (UTC)

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We all know you love the abuse.
[User Picture]From: [info]jkonrath
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 6:31 AM (UTC)

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I think he was referring to X11. Probably a bitter NeWS developer.
[User Picture]From: [info]ewindisch
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 10:16 AM (UTC)

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Does anyone know under which rock this guy found this rant? Jamie has so many...
[User Picture]From: [info]evan
Tue, 19-Jul-2005 10:24 AM (UTC)

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More so than the email, I especially enjoyed the guy talking about being new to "jwz fandom". I'm waiting for the fanfic.
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