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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>weenie</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="weeds.html" title="weeds"/><link rel="next" href="Weenix.html" title="Weenix"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">weenie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="weeds.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Weenix.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="weenie"/><dt xmlns="" id="weenie"><b>weenie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less amusing
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version of <a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a> that infests many
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<a href="../B/BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> systems. The typical weenie is a teenage boy
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with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose
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<a href="../H/handle.html"><i class="glossterm">handle</i></a> derived from fantasy or heavy-metal rock
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lyrics. Among sysops, <span class="firstterm">the weenie
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problem</span> refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden
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<a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a> weenies tend to spew all over a
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newly-discovered BBS. Compare <a href="../S/spod.html"><i class="glossterm">spod</i></a>,
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<a href="../G/geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>, <a href="../T/terminal-junkie.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal junkie</i></a>,
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<a href="warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [among hackers] When used with a qualifier (for example, as in
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<a href="../U/Unix-weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix weenie</i></a>, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be
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either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice,
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and whether or not it is applied by a person who considers him or herself
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to be the same sort of weenie. Implies that the weenie has put a major
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investment of time, effort, and concentration into the area indicated;
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whether this is good or bad depends on the hearer's judgment of how the
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speaker feels about that area. See also <a href="../B/bigot.html"><i class="glossterm">bigot</i></a>.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The semicolon character, <tt class="literal">;</tt> (ASCII
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0111011).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="weeds.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Weenix.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">weeds </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Weenix</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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