👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird beast of a word –
Original.Absolutely.Not.A-Random-String-Of-Letters. (Often just called OriginalSDX for brevity that frankly nobody asked for.))
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Now, before you immediately reach for your pitchfork and declare me a nomenclatural terrorist, let’s unpack this. Essentially, Original.So.Damn.XD is... nothing. And therefore, everything!
Here's the ridiculously complicated truth:
It started as an utterly baffling systems glitch within some obscure, long-defunct corner of early 2013 Microsoft Sharepoint (seriously—it was the days of frantic legacy upgrades and the lingering smell of desperation in the IT department. You wouldn’t wish that on your worst enemy). Somewhere along the line a random set of characters were assigned to an obsolete data field, a placeholder for... frankly who knows!
Because it's already so meaningless, people started jokingly slapping it anywhere: error messages, internal memos, even, and here I shudder as I write this,
legal filings
. It’s become shorthand. Not in the official sense of anything. Just a weird little inside joke among those with an unfortunate history of working on that old Sharepoint system.
Basically, you are invoking Original.So.Damn.XD when you want to signal that you either:
1. You remember the terrible days of early 2