HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Cultural Illiteracy
Date: 11 Apr 92 22:44:13 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:

+In article <5400@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion) writes:
+>
+>+That's Haile Selassie of you.
+>
+>He's still alive you know.


+Haile Selassie, 1892-1975.  

+That's two years deader than Elvis.


He's still alive, mon.  You must believe.  The evil Ethiopian dictatorship
is holding him and all the free peoples of Jah prisoner.
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"It's not an adult feature unless someone's gooey at the end."
 -- Bill Hicks
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:02:04 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Apr9.231105.20634@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:

>people that want to "network". with me.


"Hey, bay-bee, the name's Geoff; the ladies call me 'Tripod.'  Wanna
interface?"



Geoff


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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wednesday, 8 Apr 1992 15:02:57 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Gender assumptions

Peeve: When people assume you're being nice to show your solidarity with
other women, rather than because you're a nice *person*

Example:  I was in a computer lab last week, and I helped a woman at
great length with WordPerfect.  After some time, she said, "You're the
most helpful lab attendant I've ever spoken with.   Of course, you're
also the only female lab attendant I've ever spoken with.  (meaningful
glance)"

Example2: Earlier this week, I was in a computer lab, and I helped
a woman at great length with setting up a table in MacWord.  In the course
of the conversation, she said, "you're really great.  I think it's really
important that we women stick together, don't you?"

Now, I don't have a problem with people thinking I'm wonderful, but
it makes me peevish when they think I'm being nice just because I'm a
woman.

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if
we're going to show.                             - Mignon McLaughlin
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Just One Gynacologist
Keywords: Sticky, end
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:28:17 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <kumf7cINNl8@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>I've worn button-fly jeans for ... 12 years?  Actually, if you said
>they were meant to act as a first line of defense against splitting
>the seams in your jeans the morning after the Beer, Bean, and Broccoli
>Fest, I couldn't have argued.

Hey!  It's Johnny Fartpants!  Better be careful - I saw what they did to
you in the last issue (mind you, you'd probably enjoy it)

!Peeve - deliberately obtuse posts

> (purposes for girlie underwear); I thought they were just meant to show
>nice triangular impressions on
>the backside of skirts.  That, and as a deterent to brushing your
>teeth when you wander in and find a wad of them soaking in the sink.
>And of course, for men and women, it's fun to snap entertainingly when
>bored.

And, of course, most painful if you are a boy ;-)

Actually I am sure that a number of people have found other uses for
underwear in the past.  Socks are particularly useful, I am told, for
those times when you are stuck out in the field for the day and suddenly
last night's curry starts gently nudging through the sphincter.  

Babs
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lawyers not Chemists
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:37:36 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 16303@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU, allane@moon.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
> Sounds like a solution. Sort of like how the Canadian indians were taken
> care of in the '50's... fly overhead and drop cases of Rye, automatic
> rifles, and ammunition.

Why didn't they ever do anything cool like that for *me*?

---
Brian Scearce                               bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
        The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
  "Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice appears under your feet."
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: in a handbasket
Summary: lying, thieving scum
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 21:11:34 GMT

i went to the supermarket saturday. wound up at one of those cut rate
places because it happened to be near the hechingers. i came out of
said supermarket with a basket with five bags of groceries. i carried
three to the car. in the one and one quarter minutes it took for me
to walk to the car, deposit the bags and walk back, someone had stolen
the two remaining bags. what IS this country coming to??! i was furious.
i called over the bag boy who happened to be 176 years old. he was no
help. i proceeded to rant and rave while carefully surveying the folks/
cars around me. sure enough! right next to me was a couple loading groceries 
with my bags in their back seat! boy did lay in to them. they pretended
innocence. they pretended to not know the language. they pretended they
weren't the lying, thieving scum that they were. there was no mistake.
they gave me back my groceries. i gave them some serious vituperation.
i should have called the police.

-l "you know: police?! policia?! politzei?!" p


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* What do you tell forever's children when it's their turn to hurt and heal? *
* What ever spins the grim tornado can also turn a potter's wheel.           *
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From: SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:15:59 GMT
 <92098.151649JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> <167C311C9E.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <167C311C9E.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
(The Lemming) says:
>
>In article <92098.151649JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
>JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) writes:
>
>>!Peeve: The temperature has gone over 60F.  =)
>
>Peeve:  The temperature has gone over 60F.  :-P

Antipeeve: Today's weather was nearly perfect.  It was just warm
enough that you could choose to wear either a coat or a sweater, but
not so warm that a sweater was a bad idea.  The only thing that
could possibly have improved the weather would have been more wind.

Peeve: Instead of alternating between days like today and days like
today except wetter and windier until fall, it will get hotter.  And
hotter.  And muggier. And sunnier.

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
I don't wait for moods.  You accomplish nothing if you do that.
Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.  - Pearl S. Buck
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: Gerald Ford's 51st State (Re: Lemon Gin, Rape)
Summary: Provinces, Territories, States, etc
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 04:35:46 GMT

In article bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion) writes:
> allane@moon.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
> 
> >Note: In Canada we have a *Prime Minister* not a president.
> >      In Canada there are *Provinces* not states.
> 
> Uh, what about the Territories?  There's more than one, right?
> 10 Provinces and 2 Territories?

Well, I suppose so, dood.  

The U.S. also has a few more parts than just the 50 states, but hey, 
whose counting? Anyway, the only reason that we hang on to the 
Territories is so we can dig them up and sell the ore to the U.S. at
a profit. Why do you hang on to Puerto Rico? 

> >      In Alberta the mosquito is the provincial bird.

Actually, to have someone from California point this out is quite amazing.
Obviously this is no homeboy.

Al
in Oz
_______________________________________________________________________________
| Yes, I know my return address is messed up. Petition my sysadmin..........  |
| Allan H. Evans * School of Geography * UNSW * PO Box 1 Kensington 2033 Aust.|
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Low-fat = Low-salt
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:09:32 GMT

In article <32926@darkstar.ucsc.edu> carolo@shawnee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Carol Osterbrock) writes:
>In article <sfi0oINN5i7@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU>, cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>
>|> If you want salt in your preprocessed munchies, you should have to carry a
>|> little shaker around with you, like nicotine addicts.
>
>Excuse me?  I've been a nicotine addict for 20+ years, and I've
>never carried around a little shaker.

Sorry; the analogy leaped a bit too far.  I refer only to that unmistakable
red-and-white bulge protruding from the addict's breast-pocket or safely
concealed inside a jacket, the little Marlboro Suicide Bandolier.

>What do you shake?

Ah shakes mah bootie, bay-bee.

c
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:15:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.6vpjlj=
Organization: Legion of Cheese

In article <265@bbx.basis.com> russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:
>
>Instead why don't you come up and help me paint the shed?  My wife
>promised to do so, but nooo, *I* end up painting it - and *she* was
>the one that didn't want the folks putting it up to paint it as well.

Jeeez, Russ, why didn't you give me a call? I had a stupid meeting to go
to that I would have *loved* to blow off for such a fine reason.

Peeve: Group projects for class. Dealing with my own procrastination is
bad enough, but being subjected to other peoples' is *way* peevesome.

ObWeapon: Prolonged meetings with clueless classmates, all of whom are
determined to win that coveted Doorstop of the Year award. 

-- 
"I used to be an extravert until I decided I hated people. I hate parties, I
 hate classes and I hate going to the supermarket."   -- Melissa Paterson
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:44:00 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <kuj9lmINNtl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
[purposful attack mode story deleted]

>I suspect that one reason I tend to make people uneasy in such settings is
>because I have a fast, purposeful stride, even when I'm not in any partic-
>ular hurry.  It's just the way I walk.  Oh well, it's their problem, not
>mine.  I figure it's better to make that kind of impression on people than
>to have them assume that I'm some kind of harmless milquetoast.

Actually, Geoff, it's your eyes.  They're dark and hidden by your
brows.  Adding to this your fast stride and tendency to cant your head
forward all adds up to someone striding towards some commission of
mayhem.  Shit - *I'd* get out of your way, and run like hell if I
encountered you in a Post Office.

ObPeeve: people act the same way around me as well.  Don't let it
bother you; have fun with it!  Frighten folks from the ATM when *you*
wnat to use it, scare the entire express line away from the store. 
Use those talents, man.

ObPeeve: I know I peeved about it before, but really... these
telephone beggars are really pissing me off.  The "Police Athletic
League", "Sherriff Benefit", "Dead Cop Payoff" (whatever) calling
constantly and begging for money for programs I really can't support. 
Really pisses me off.

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232
From: csuley@cs.cornell.edu (Christopher Suley)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Quayle, bullies, 'n things (was Re: Lemon Gin, Rape)
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:47:39 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853

In article <ku1d2dINNpu@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis) writes:
>
>
>In article <h1h+7J=@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
>
>>"Frank Mastrioanno, a counselor at Thomas S. Wootton High School in 
>> Rockville, MD, trains students in peer counseling in order to deal with
>> problems like bullying.
>> 'If a kid puts in a request, the peer counsel asks about relationships,
>> asks about home life, and uses active listening to see if the person has
>> done anything to encourage the bullying,' he says."
>
>*Active listening?!?*  What the hell kind of Sensitive, New Age psychobable
>horseshit is that?  Listening is by definition a passive activity, is it
>not?
>

Well, *hearing* is a passive activity, *listening* implies that at least
some effort is being made to pay attention.

obpeeve: pedantry.

>Geoff
>
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Paying by check
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 19:43:17 GMT

In article <33056@darkstar.ucsc.edu> carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
writes:
>>	I know, I know...supermarkets don't take credit cards.  Why not?
>>	They seem to be the only kind of store that doesn't.
>
>They do around here.  ATM cards, too.

Maybe it's just me but it seems to me that getting in the habit of
charging groceries is a dangerous thing.  Virtual money has a way
of twisting your mind, making you think you aren't really paying
out any money.

   don "torn visa card" baldwin
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Where'd he get his name?
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:47:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.+!zjjzl.rickg
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <STEINAR.92Apr15113430@faust.solan.unit.no> Cindy Kandolf writes:

> [ Something about GIFs, then: ]
>Still having a bad week, 
>-Cindy Kandolf
> cindy@solan.unit.no
> Trondheim, Norway
>
>ObPeeve: No one has asked me what Flodnak, Inc., does in weeks.  Could it
>be people are figuring it out...?

Are we talking average weeks, Cindy, or the really busy ones?  A typical
Flodnak week seems to include a bunch of posts to alt.folklore.urban,
one or two to this august forum, and a glancing blow to the latest
maroon in alt.flame.  Is there anything I've missed?

Since Norway hasn't yet turned into a lake of seething antiprotons we
can assume you still haven't made corporeal contact with the Flodnak.
Be careful, still.

-- 
Rick Gordon        |  "The more things change, the more different 
rickg@netcom.com   |     they get." -- S. Krishna of Copenhagen 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Boring loud neighbors
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 18:28:50 GMT

In article <92107.181029JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> Jenni Sheehey
<JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>!Peeve: Imagining the looks on their faces if they knew how much of
>their (rather boring, actually) private lives they had forced upon me.
>
>Another!Peeve: I live on the ground floor, so there's nobody living
>downstairs to know all about me.

Same here.

A good thing, actually, as the scuba fins and trampoline make a lot
of racket.

   don
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From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Amurrica (was Re: peeve dump)
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:29:28 GMT
Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front

And lo, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Lee Kuan Yew) spake unto the masses saying:
>
> Some people like to fire guns, either at targets or while hunting.  Neither
> activity is exactly unknown in other nations, and yet you deduce from this
> that Americans are somehow "obsessed" with firearms.

"Obsession" is a relative term. From a European perspective, the US *does*
seem to have a firearms obsession that puts it a close second to the likes
of downtown Beirut. 'Course the fact that alt.peeves does have a rather
high percentage of readers who like things that Go Fast And Explode does
skews this impression still further. I didn't see much in the way of guns
while I was there though, with the exception of the one that almost got
pointed at me for the heinous capital offence of jaywalking on a deserted
street. From a US perspective though, I guess it's normal and us Yurrupeans
seem to be (to quote the estimable Mr Miller) "an entire culture of
whining, pissy-pantsed leftist malcontents" because we don't have this
fascination with firearms (presumably due to at least two generations this
century having been smeared liberally across the landscape).

OK, I have spaked and am now about to killfile this subject. So rant and
rave all you like, *coz I won't hear you*

--
		Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
 "Isn't it nice/Sugar and spice/Luring disco sheepdogs/To a life of vice."
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Cold Showers
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:23:53 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:

>If you don't believe me, fine, eat it rare.  You're the one who'll get a
>tapeworm or die of Mad Cow Disease, not me.

Cooking doesn't fix Mad Cow Disease [bovine spungiform encephalitis?],
as they got it from cooked sheep parts.

We're all going to die.
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"It's not an adult feature unless someone's gooey at the end."
 -- Bill Hicks
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Paul Mather)
Subject: Re: Quayle, bullies, 'n things (was Re: Lemon Gin, Rape)
Organization: Centre for Applied Obfuscation.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:01:19 GMT

In article <ku1d2dINNpu@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis) writes:
> *Active listening?!?*  What the hell kind of Sensitive, New Age psychobable
> horseshit is that?  Listening is by definition a passive activity, is it
> not?

I always thought listening was active and hearing was passive.

Cheers,

Paul.
-- 
e-mail: p.mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk

If your mailer can't reach me, I'm obviously not worth talking to.
From: skod@trenco.Eng.Sun.COM (Scott Griffith, Sun Lumpyware)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: QuasiKrautFussing (Was: Moronic left turn first signals)
Summary: yeah, right.
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:58:08 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: trenco

In article <5Hh+fX=@engin.umich.edu>, ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
> Sorry, Charlie.  The word in "Young Frankenstein" is _Schwanzstucker_.
> Schwanz, not schwein.  Schwanz is the German word for "tail".  Also,
> "Schweinhund" doesn't have a T on the end, and the German letter that
> looks like a capital B is a double S, so "Strasse" can also be spelled
> something like "StraBe".  
> 
> ObWeapon: a drieuxified German compound word like "Fliegerabwehrkanone"
>           or "Sturtzkampffleugzeug."
> 
> ljd
> 
> ("anti-aircraft gun" and "dive bomber" for the German-impaired.)

Yeah, it's called an "ess-tsett", which is kinda like a B that's been
dropped. But my favorite Germanic noun-assembly still has to be from
the Heidelberg sheetfed letterpress we had in our family printshop
when I was a kid- to wit: "Aktiengesellschaften SchellpreBenfabrik".

Which means "high-speed printing press", near as I can tell. It also
very closely describes the sound the press made while in operation, as
it picked up each sheet and printed it...

ObWeapon: a 55-gallon drum of type wash, which as every printer's kid
knows is composed of equal parts of trichlor, MEK, methyl-ethyl
mumblescrumbleine, and Stuff That Will Make Your Kids Have Three Heads
and Tentacles. Which is why it smells so good.

It's damned fine at getting rid of jock itch, too- only it dissolves
the elastic in your shorts, over time.

-skod

--
Scott Griffith, Sun Microsystems Lumpyware
SCCA Flagging/Communications worker
(and sometimes driver, of anything that turns both right and left,
and can pass tech...) Return Path : skod@trenco.Eng.Sun.COM
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Keywords: Losers
Reply-To: tim@comphy.UUCP (Tim Mefford)
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:32:29 GMT

In article <92099.222854SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers) writes:
>
>AntiPeeve: That I'm going to experience people having sex in about 48
>hours. ;-)
>
>RelatedPeeve: That my primary relationship partner lives 4 hours away.

If I ever begin to use language in this way, I want one of you gun toting
American types to come up here, find me and shoot me. (I'm in the phone 
book, but under a slightly erroneous spelling. Don't worry about shooting
into crowds.)

ObBob: Clemente

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Tim Mefford           |           "vidi, veni"      
  tim@physics.orst.edu      |    -Julius Caesar on Cleopatra
________________________________________________________________
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 16 Apr 1992 18:10:29 EDT
From: Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Boring loud neighbors

Peeve: My upstairs neighbors appear to walk around at all hours in
concrete shoes.  I've seen them, and it's not that they're huge people, so
I can't think what else would cause all of the *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
sounds going back and forth across their apartment at, say, 4am.  Don't
these people own bare feet?  Slippers?  Combat boots?

RelatedPeeve: They appear to be a newly married couple, and the husband
seems to enjoy bellowing at the wife almost as much as the wife enjoys
screeching at the husband.  The wife enjoys screeching at the husband a
*whole* *lot*.  They engage in this charming activity at all hours of
the day and night, even right before and right after...

YetAnotherRelatedPeeve: ...the bedspring symphony.  Their bed is really
loud.  It wakes me up.

Sortof!Peeve: They don't get along well enough for this to be a problem
often, and it usually doesn't last that long.

AnotherRelatedPeeve: Even immediately after the symphony, obviously the
first thing they do is to put the concrete shoes back on.

!Peeve: Imagining the looks on their faces if they knew how much of
their (rather boring, actually) private lives they had forced upon me.

Another!Peeve: I live on the ground floor, so there's nobody living
downstairs to know all about me.

                                                 --Jenni
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ahubbell@orlith.bates.edu (Arlyn Hubbell)
Subject: Re: Gif
Organization: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:43:42 GMT


Peeve:  Gifs.  Enough already!  Do you *really* think I care what you
        look like?  

- Arlyn