# Corrected rant - Alphagene complains about the word "dork", WTF?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corrected-rant-alphagene-complains-about-the-word-dork-wtf/61524>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 10, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corrected-rant-alphagene-complains-about-the-word-dork-wtf/61524 "2001-04-10T23:19:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![you\_da\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@you\_da\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_da_man)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corrected-rant-alphagene-complains-about-the-word-dork-wtf/61524/1 "2001-04-10T23:19:32Z")

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[Hopefully, with extreme simplification, this time the topic will be clear.]

Synopsis:  
Alphagene gets full of himself and somebody calls him a dork because of it.

So he complains dork is “really not appropriate for any forum, even the Pit.”

My comment: Is that for real? (I.e., I don’t think so.)

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**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corrected-rant-alphagene-complains-about-the-word-dork-wtf/61524/2 "2001-04-10T23:30:34Z")

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Why couldn’t you have clarified in your other thread?

Why start another thread?

Why are you so concerned about this?

Don’t you realize you’re being pretty damn petty?

Who are you?

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**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corrected-rant-alphagene-complains-about-the-word-dork-wtf/61524/3 "2001-04-10T23:36:22Z")

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:rolleyes:

Don’t learn fast, do ya?

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corrected-rant-alphagene-complains-about-the-word-dork-wtf/61524/4 "2001-04-10T23:56:14Z")

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At risk of being accused of being the butt of some other lame genetic and/or endocrine related-crack, I’m closing this thread as it is redundant. Keep your obvious attraction to… er… I mean, major issues with me in the other thread, k?

Thanks, doll. You’re a peach.

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corrected-rant-alphagene-complains-about-the-word-dork-wtf/61524/5 "2001-04-10T23:59:49Z")

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It all reminds me of that Gloria Estefan song, _Coming out of the Dork_.

(Sure, if you can do two simultaneous threads, we can make fun of you in two simultaneous threads. No problem.)