HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
Subject: Re: Dodd did deed, now dead dude
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:33:58 GMT

In article <C0EJtu.3rp@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
>[Dodd stuff deleted... but so is he]
>The high point for me at least was when one guy rebuffed a spokeswoman who
>was protesting the execution.  He mentioned that, in Oregon at least, we
>can't (and don't!) keep all the convicted murderers in prison because there
>are too many of them.  I think we convict between 30 and 60 per year here.
>Since only two have been in prison for over 20 years, the rest, who have not
>died off, are eventually let out.  My guess is that the situation is similar
>in other states.
>...

In Mass and New Hampshire, murder one is life in prison with
no parole.  (Sorry all you guys that were waiting for Pam Smart
to get out.)  Of course, the prisons and jails fill up.  In
Lawrence Mass, the jail is so old that is was used to hold
Confederate POWs.

Peeve:  Now the obvious solution is to build more jails.
But along comes NIMBY: Not In My Back Yard!  In other words,
everyone wants more jails as long as they are not in/near
one's own community.  So when the state decides its time to
build a new jail, an "acceptable" site can not be found.

My solution is that every community should have a jail
(or regional jails for small towns) just like they have
schools and fire depts.  Everyone from that community who
gets sentenced goes to the town jail.  Sort of the "take
care of your own bad apples" plan.


-- 
     Jim Lacey  --  my own opinions    
     email:  att!cbnewsl!jlacey  or  jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
     D'ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Larry's Confusion... (Was: women without rhythm)
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:14:05 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <ATAYLOR.93Jan6084559@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
><In article <LARRY.93Jan4085708@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
>
>[MackBandy's situation, etc. de-leted]
>
><Mack> !Peeve: Half of my wife has natural rhythm.
>
><Good thing the old wiffy don't read the news, eh, bandy?
>
>	Yer confused, Larry, it's the NEW wiffy that Bandy
>	don't let read the news.....



The Old Wiffy is very happily counting her blessings and continually
revising her killfiles.

The Old Wiffy would like this thread to die, too. If yall would be so 
very kind.  

ER
--
"Peevers bite, though painful, is not deadly. Males often battle one
another. There are more grotesque appearing than dangerous."
		--Festive NM tarantula postcard edited by Dan Hillman
From: mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Man mauled by lion
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:29:47 GMT

In <29931@castle.ed.ac.uk> egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) writes:

>In article <29913@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan5.173235.19278@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>>~of fat and then simply fucking for an entire month.

>>Sounds like one of Babs's field-trips to me.

Well, I for one would like to be invited to the next field trip.

>Peeve;  Clueless geophysicists who suffer from perverted
>field-fantasies.  

Would that be a unified-field-fanatasy? 

--
|   Michael G. Hart                   mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|     You think _I_ speak for the government or the navy?  HAH!      |
| Aviation, computers, quality improvement, Northern Exposure, money |
From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:16:14 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
Organization: The Tea Party Of The Vicar

My twin brother, bq979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Claudio-dot-Terrorist) writes:
>
> ObPeeve. The newsgrop has been quite dead recently. That it has been
> rivitalised by such a BDI is kind of scaring...

Don Baldwin writes:
> 
> Hmm, I don't find it that surprising/scary.
> 
> I look at Peevetown as sort of a lion den, as it were.  Mostly, we kind
> of lounge around, peeving languidly, then every so often pull something
> soft and clueless to the ground and rip its throat out...

While I know for sure that I'm Right And You Are Not, I see that there
might be a grain of truth in what you say. I was thinking of the times
when we had a resident hunter who would go and catch a quick lunch in
alt.whine, or a more substantial meal in alt.postmodern, while now we
lazily wait for the BDIs to make their first move, reducing the overall
sanity of the newsgroup.

Has anybody heard of Steve B. recently?

BTW, I love the image of Peevetown as a lion den.

 
--
 "I look at Peevetown as sort of a lion den, as it were.  Mostly, we kind
  of lounge around, peeving languidly, then every so often pull something
  soft and clueless to the ground and rip its throat out..." -- Don Baldwin
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:53:43 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <sehari.726196822@lisa.ecss.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
|What type of new innovation, software or products do you want to be
|introduced to the market place.  

|P.S.  This message is being automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'. 
|This post does not mean that I approve or disapprove this newsgroup.  Also,
|the moderator of the moderated newsgroups, such as rec.humor.funny, should 
|decide if they want this posting in their newsgroup.

I would like to see a piece of software that would prevent people from
posting to all unix wide bbs's.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Ahhhh...
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 22:34:06 GMT

[form letter deleted]

Er, Iowa Dan?  I expect you to get a GIF of this.  One of Wayne holding
Babek's severed genitalia high above his head, triumphant look on his
face and all that.

But you might best post it alt.tasteless' pic group.

You might also need a microscope, as I suspect Babek's genitalia are (or
should be) quite shriveled at this point.

Peeve:  My nasty cold came back with a vengeance overnight.  First time
        in my life I ever had a so-called relapse.

*sniff*  *cough*
  -Bill
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Dizzy, goodbye Rudolph Nurriev Re: Goodbye, Dizzy
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 05:10:06 GMT

In <5960@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Andre) writes:

>And what did he die of?  "Heart complications"?  Yeah, right.

Damn gerbil made it all the way up to his heart?  I'm impressed!
  -Bill, the quiet one
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Biker on Antihistamines)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Ed
Date: 10 Jan 93 22:05:16 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear) writes:

>In article <ll0rb3INNq3o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>>In article <bx2r#an@lynx.unm.edu> jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann) writes:
>>>Your friend might have a new buddy in the Happy Hunting Grounds soon.
>>>My husband and I just had The Talk at the surgeon's.  His lung cancer
>>>is pretty early, though, and at best he will lose only half a lung.
>>
>>Cool!  Do you get to keep the half lung?  Can you take a picture of
>>it and scan it in.  I've always had this urge to know what a
>>chancerous chunk of flesh looks like.

>If there is a Net Prize awarded for postings totally devoid of
>sensitivity and compassion, I nominate this one.  For chrissake, the
>woman and her husband have just been told that he has cancer.  I find it
>difficult to see anything humorous about it.

Get a clue asshole.  She wishes he were dead.
-- 
"And tell me, how did you come to have so many children?"
"Well, Groucho, I love my wife."
"I love my cigar too, but I take it out sometimes."
From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Los Altos Rod & Gun Club
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:23:43 GMT
Reply-To: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1it142$q2n@agate.berkeley.edu>, Curtis Yarvin writes:
>I can sympathize with the jaundiced eye deformations that go with
>Sasquatch-hood, but the facts are that I am 5'11 and 155 - before
>trenchcoat.  It is, however, true that the tremendous dimensions of my
>genitals tend to pull me into a slouch.

You college-aged pencil-necked trying-to-be-angst-ridden-in-an-overcoat
types all look the same to the rest of us.

>>Jenny - about 5'6", dark curly hair. Bahstan Accent. Nice tits. 

>Or perhaps you grew up in the dense, Sasquatch-ridden forests of Ben
>Lomond, and have never before met anyone from Brooklyn.

Well, y'know, I thought about putting New Yahk in place of Beantown,
but I wasn't positive about the location, just that the nasal quality and 
ear-splitting volume definitely placed it on the right coast. That being the
case, I went for the last known locality. 

>You might also consider investigating line lengths built on a human
>scale; just because you have a belly like a Ford Pacer doesn't mean
>you can ramble on in proportion to your bulk.  All God's chilluns got
>to hit the return key sometime.

It's this ^&@%^%@#-ing newsreader we have here....the
editor was cobbled together and uses a variable-width font.
But I'll try to do better if you just promise not to beat me
anymore.... 

It's cute when guys like you try to make an automotive
simile.....it's an AMC Pacer, dude. In fact, you might want
to check one out, I think it'd be your kinda ride.

Now, as to the dimensions of my belly, I can attribute my 
healthy aspect to the big heaps of good home cookin' that my
lovely wife (Jill's her name) serves up. Perhaps if you could 
get a date with a real girl sometime, you might be on the 
road to a healthy tummy, too, son.

Happy Domesticity, 

JZ 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: "A Heretic! May We Burn Him?" (Was: Holiday peeves)
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<ATAYLOR.93Jan6135402@gauss.nmsu.edu> <C0GsH4.LBx@vcd.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:45:05 GMT

<In article <C0GsH4.LBx@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
<   ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:

<   >	Ugly? UGLY? One of the prettiest aircraft ever made

<   Since I am a believer that form should follow function, I respect the
<   aircraft and its designers for the Zero's capabilities.  However, I am not
<   immune to a certain gut-level reaction to its appearance.  My initial
<   impression of the Zero was that of something a 3 year old would draw -
<   crude and out of proportion.

<   I will grant that the spare ribs sticking out of the cowling have a certain
<   menacing appeal.

	What was that Mr. Pope once said about "damned with faint
	praise"?

ObPeeve: the more I learn about engineering, the more my liberal
	 arts education disappears from what I used to call
	 my "brain".

<   Now, if you like the Nambu pistol I'm going to keel over.

	If I lived closer to the ocean and fished a lot, I'd
	"like" the Nambu, as a fishing weight.

ObGun: the Type 94 in 8mm Nambu, a.k.a. the "surrender special".

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Yes, Yes, Let's Talk About the Weather
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 16:43:51 GMT

In article <18295@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>Remember Jack London describing how cold a night is by how many of the
>sled dogs want to sleep with you? (That is where "Three Dog Night"
>comes from.) Well, its been 4 cat nights this week and I am getting
>tired of it. So, I toss the little buggers on the floor.
>
>What happens? They complain. Meow. Moo-wow. Eh-Eh. ROW. (They each
>speak a different dialect of meow.) So, I acquiesce and let them back
>in to shut them up. I would lock them outside, but I remember this one
>cat I used to have who got a very expensive respiratory infection every
>time we had a cold snap.
>
>Feh. Feh. Feh. And Meow.

Hey Elaine, I believe Dac is in the market for a cat!

   don
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From: jpoller@novell.com (Contents may have settled during Shipping)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: A rat is a pig-headed moron is a ...
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:20:29 GMT
Organization: The Electoral Collage

Rick Gordon writes:

=> To show you that my heart is pure, and that the goodness of my actions
=> is based solely on amity and precision of discourse, I'll characterise
=> your Socratic mutterings as: handwaving.

And 

=> You've made my point.  I *told* you it was silly, and, bless you, you
=> backed me up.  I honestly didn't think you'd come around to my way of
=> thinking so easily.  Praise be.
=> 
=> >Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
=> 
=> --
=> Rick Gordon           | "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly
=> rgordon@nyx.cs.du.edu |  and I did.  I said I didn't know."  M. Twain

Peeve:  Where's the Peeve, Rick?

OBPeeve:  That I was busy with Driver's School, so couldn't attend the
local peevesfest at the R&G Club.

OBPeeve:  That I may even be too busy to attend the ChunkFest this
week.
---
Jack Noze -- jpoller@novell.com

	"Your battery is dead.  I couldn't have come up with a more suitable
	    analogy, myself." -- andy banta@abingdon.sun.com
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Hermann Goehring)
Subject: Re: Shoe goo
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Social Adjustment Bureau
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:18:11 GMT


In article <1993Jan8.152000.10001@ac.dal.ca>, 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
[etc.]
I figure I'll be way ahead of most fathers when I do procreate.

You should live so long!
--
From: mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: morning
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:06:38 GMT

In <1993Jan6.224109.4485@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> alekz@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Alekz Vermont) writes:

>_obvious_peeve:  morning.  

Seems reasonable enough a peeve, till you read further.

>no matter how you slice it or dice it,
>7:55am still snarfs.  

7:55AM!  You call this morning?  JezuzHKrist!  By 8:00 I'm already
just about _done_ drinking coffee, mail and news are long since taken
care of, and my work day is well under way.

Shit.  7:55.  Try 0500 for a couple of years.

>sorry if i wasted your time.  it was getting to me.  :-)

Peeve: People who complain about getting to sleep late _EVERY_ morning.

Peeve: Having to get up at 5:00 am every day.

!Peeve: Thinking what this thread could turn into, ala Monty Python
	and the "You think you had it tough" sketch.

AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferentPeevishlyRelatedAndDoesn'tThis
StartToLookLikeDrieuxWroteIt?NotPeeve:
Got to spend New Year's drinking too many LI Iced Teas
with laura and her beau and other generally friendly and
several other generally intoxicated people.  Then we watched
Gallagher and Monty Python "Parrot Sketch Not Included" till 
4 in the morning.

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|   Michael G. Hart                   mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|     You think _I_ speak for the government or the navy?  HAH!      |
| Aviation, computers, quality improvement, Northern Exposure, money |
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bq979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Claudio Calvelli)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:53:06 GMT
Organization: The Tea Party of The Vicar
Reply-To: bq979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Claudio.Terrorist on holiday)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Dan Sorenson -- Cereal Killer writes:

>Peeve: my domain residents make Dalhausie look intelligent, despite Iowa
>being much easier to spell than "Dal*" is.

That might explain a lot. Anybody who couldn't spell Dal-losers to send
an application form had to go somewhere...

--
C.T.
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:01:07 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1icid9INNajk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bq979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Claudio-dot-Terrorist) writes:
~
~Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way writes:
~
~>Well, Babak, I would certainly be in the market for a device which would
~>inflict severe pain on folks like yourself, who post messages like this 
~>to *every* newsgroup on the net. 
~
~Can I help? Please?
~
~>Perhaps a rectal plug fitted with high voltage electrodes. We'd need a
~>level control on it, of course, so we could set the level to limit when
~>bleeding of the ears begins. That way the poster wouldn't pass out on us
~>and spoil our fun.
~
~If somebody holds Babak while I insert the electrodes, I'll do it.
~

Sheesh, Claudio, rectal insertion is *PAUL'S* job!!

-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          

This message cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Bloody good value if you ask me.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: Man mauled by lion
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:59:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.171336.2840@sun1x.actc.res.utc.com> TheLrdLovsAHngn writes:

[ Following up Dave Munroe's heartfelt post (signed by Otis Pike-Brady)
bemoaning the desperate and growing trend of violence in our zoos. ]

>Get a clue!  Get several.  If the guy was stupid enough to climb over
>a well posted fence, he deserves what he gets.  Besides, I think the 
>fences around lions and other "dangerous" animals is around 10 tto 12    
>feet high.  How high do YOU think the fence should be?  

>Why dont we sprinkle you with some A1 sauce and toss you to the lion(s).

Attitudes like these are at the heart of the problem, I think.  Have you
any *idea* what damage to the lion's gastrointestinal integrity can be
effected by the gratuitous application of vinegar-based condiments?  Do
you think the lions (let alone the custodial staff) appreciate the steamy
pools of improperly-digested tourist which are *bound* to be produced
thereby?  High-compression diarrhoea is no joke, particularly when it
degrades the quality of life in The Den.

>scottb%nw8550@utrcgw.utc.com            |           sdb@rcinet.utc.com

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "What in the hell are you talking about, or dont' you even
rickg@netcom.com | know?? You're compleetly mental, get the net!"  Gene Moreau
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: avdh@dazixco.ingr.com (Alain van der Heide)
Subject: Re: The Multi-cultural scourge
Reply-To: avdh@dazixco.ingr.com
Organization: Integraph - Boulder
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:28:22 GMT

In article lkh0ibINNgeq@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM, banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>[discussion of apparently content-free book deleted]
>She gripes about off-shore drilling and
>drives a 60's vintage Maverick. 

This brings to mind a peeevesome behavior commonly exhibited by
enviro-pinheads.  Let's call it "hypocritical environmentalism."  Some
examples:

1 - "Think globally, act locally" BUMPERSTICKERS!  (Or any eco-theme sticker
for that matter).  Hey bozo, how many trees were cut down to provide the paper
those things were printed on?  How about the petrochemicals used for making
the ink and glue?  What happens to the peel-off backing?  What happens to the
sticker itself after you get tired of it and peel it off your bumper?

2 - The cars these bumperstickers appear on.  Around here (Peoples Republic of
Boulder, CO), they are usually VW bugs or microbuses.  If you're serious about
helping the environment, don't drive something that was taken off the market
because the engine couldn't be cleaned up enough to pass the mid-70's (much
less stringent) pollution specs.  If you insist on driving it, at least change
the plugs, and check the mixture so you don't leave that black cloud wherever
you go.

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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:02:07 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

Thomas A. Dennis writes:

>The thinking behind the whole PC movement is that, if you change the way
>people refer to something, you change the way that they think about it.

There is certainly some truth to this.  As the media has discovered, if you
can define the terminology used in the argument, you can control the outcome.

Years ago I was shocked that some irresponsible company in Austria had the
audacity to make a plastic gun.  Only later did I learn that just part of the
gun was "plastic" and it was designed to be easily detectable at airports.

You'll notice that every news station in the country is talking about the
"anti-gay rights" amendment in Colorado (shouldn't that be "anti-homosexual
rights" or don't we want to use that word?).  I haven't read amendment 2, so
I have no feeling about it one way or another.  However -- even if it is
anti-gay -- a TRULY UNBIASED REPORT should say only "Colorado's amendment 2".
By using "anti-gay", they're making it sound as if the people of Colorado
deliberately passed legislation against gays when, as I understand it, many
of the people who voted for it are decidedly not "anti-gay".  My conclusion
is that the media's choice of words is designed to influence public opinion
(whoa, what a news flash that is).

Peeve: my posts have been way too serious lately.  Maybe it's because someone
splashed a dead squirrel all over my car.

>?Peeve:  Who invents these neologisms, and why do people listen to them?

One word that I've heard a lot of lately is "closure".  I'm told that when
Dodd was hanged, the victim's parents experienced "closure".  Our role in
Somalia is approaching "closure".  I'm sure this wasn't given to us by Wayne
and Garth, so *where* does this stuff come from?  Why doesn't "pecksniff"
catch on?

-Dave
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