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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: own private idaho
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 1 Sep 1992 20:44:37 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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In article <1992Sep1.130847.1919@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:

>peeve: you get your hair cut over the weekend (3 inches off) and monday
>	morning somebody greets you with "my, your hair's getting long".


Every time I get my hair cut, somebody *always* has to ask, "Did you
get a haircut?"  It's one of those bits of mindless stupidity that's
in the same category as "Want to wash my car next?," only they really
mean it. This is especially peevesome when you consider the fact that 
I tend to let my hair grow for 1-2 months between trims; when I get it
cut, it makes a big difference in my appearance.  So awhile back, I
started telling them I hadn't, with a straight face.

Another haircut-related peeve is that after I make a point of combing my 
hair the way I prefer to wear it before I let the stylist proceed, they 
all want to wet it down and comb it back over the top of my head, which
results in a completely different look than the one I had when I walked in.


Geoff


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From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:45:29 GMT

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

>Interesting that calling your child after where you live is a cross-cultural
>indicator of extreme stupidity.

Indeed; I've always been glad that I wasn't called "Scotland". That would
be a truly silly name.

>-Jeremy Henderson
         ^^^^^^^^^
         Being called after a well known Edinburgh salad bar doesn't
exactly swing either... unless you're green, tasteless, and infested with
grubs. Or maybe I mean bugs...

This is all very educational, I must say. I'd heard of the Politician's
Syllogism:

  (a) Something must be done.
  (b) This is something.
  (c) Therefore, this must be done.

But now, it seems, we have the Geophysicist's Syllogism:

  (a) I have observed something.
  (b) This is the first explanation I can think of.
  (c) Therefore, this is the explanation of that observation.

Does this explain why we can't predict earthquakes yet?

For the record, my parents were Americans, which is why they named me
"Scott", a traditional American name.

Actually, the were Italian, and named me after somewhere they were planning
on moving to, which shows a bit of foresight at least.

No, the truth is that when the chap at the Registry office asked what
the name of the newly born was, they said "'Scot nothing to do with you".

Okay, I 'fess up. I was named after Scott's Porage Oats: stodgy,
difficult to stomach, generally abandoned half-eaten. Could do with
some salt. An attempt to find something to do with the EC grain surplus.

S
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:59:33 GMT

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

> [...] whenever you come 
>across a horrible child, you can safely bet your last bit of beer money 
>that it will be called one of a small number of names. Number one
>candidate is "Wayne". Number two is "Darren". Number three is "Scott".
>The question which remains to be answered is of course whether this is
>genetic or environmental. Is there something about incredibly stupid and
>antisocial people that leads to them call their son Scott, or is it that
>the child, finding himself with such a name, decides to act the part.
>
>However, the study continues.

	Add two data points.  Of the two times I've been shot (not just
shot *at* mind you, but actually shot), each time it was by a person
named "Scott."  I find this no longer a coincidence thanks to your insight.


--
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<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: For some unknown reason Was: (Re: Mechanics and their ilk)
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:42:33 +1000
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <1992Sep1.065216.17035@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:

>> again, however you'd better use a foreign map. The US ones only
>> say "here be dragons".
 
> Or at least... Avast! Beware of Man-Eating Kangaroos...

"I say Skippy, what's that red stuff around your mouth?"
 
>>>         After all, this is America.  Manners are everything.
 
>> No, this is Australia.  America is that smelly place south of
>> Canada.
 
> Ah, I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

woka woka woka
Dum de de daaa DUM  Dum de de daaa DUM 
 
> PS. If you want more of the above, have a gander at soc.culture.canada
>     GADS... you'd think that people take DamnYankeeVille seriously.

I have enough trouble finding time for my current Fidonet and
Usenet mail load let alone more soc. groups. :-(

Carl.
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From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: For some unknown reason Was: (Re: Mechanics and their ilk)
Summary: Oh *NOoooooooo* Here we go again...
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:52:16 GMT

makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin) writes:
> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>  
> > The essential component of power is not having to care what
> > other people think.  

> [unthinking arrogance...US public brainwashed...narrow, self
>  centred view... deleted]

> > ability to ignore the opinions of bite-size continents in
> > the South Seas.
> 
> Ah, I see you majored in geography in university.  Bite sized
> indeed, perhaps you'd better take that course basic map reading
> again, however you'd better use a foreign map. The US ones only
> say "here be dragons".

Or at least... Avast! Beware of Man-Eating Kangaroos...

> >         After all, this is America.  Manners are everything.
> 
> No, this is Australia.  America is that smelly place south of
> Canada.

Ah, I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Haven't we been here before?

Al

!Peeve: "Here be dragons"  I like that...

PS. If you want more of the above, have a gander at soc.culture.canada
    GADS... you'd think that people take DamnYankeeVille seriously.
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From: reykja@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Reykja Sigurdsson)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:28:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: RADIO SHACK FASCISM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.peeves

In alt.peeves, banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:

> (Reid E. Whitlock) writes:
> >"NAME": Joseph Bloh
> >"ADDRESS" 123 First Street, Charlottesville 12345
> >
> >what are you trying to prove --- you knoe that's not a Charlottesville zip 
> >code! Look I'm with you on this one, but I have to follow company policy. I 
> >have to cancel this sale.

          Perhaps coming up with something reasonably authenticis the 
answer. Give them the address and name of someone you don't like -- 
particularly given that they will be inundated with junk mail until 
a few days before Ragnarok! 

          I always give them an address in Iceland. It completely 
throws them off. "Well, " I smile kindly, "I am onlya visitor here." 

          Those who refuse to mind their business deserve whatever
they get! 

          Recall when they used to demand phone numbers on credit card
purchases? That drove me mad! In fact, I used to give them the number
of the local state hospital! ;-) 

-reykjavik

                               The seeking of wisdom is the highest virtue-
                                                    --Odin--
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: 2 Sep 1992 07:02:56 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
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Suzy Homemaker's brother,  (Geoff Miller) writes:
>(Andy "God's Own Efficiency Expert" Banta) writes:
>>stereo stand with compartments for the LPs and drawers for the video
>>tapes and CDs.  

>Swell.  And now, instead of being spread across the floor, your CDs and
>video tapes are piled on top of the stereo equipment, and it takes ten
>minutes, the patience of an archeologist, and the better part of a beer
>to find the box for the CD that just ended.

It isn't so much that things go in the drawers, but that the
*potential* exists.  Actually, the time has come to put together
another little set of drawers, since my video tape collection has
increase at nothing short of staggering rates.

Aside: for anyone that got any bright ideas from my earlier posting,
you may want to note that CDs are roughly two thirds the width of
video tapes, meaning the proper sized drawer or shelf can hold 2
tapes or 3 CDs.

And speaking of particle board monstrosities, maybe I should ask
you, Geoff, when you're planning on firing up the forge and opening
a smithy shop in your living room.

andy
banta@abingdon.sun.com
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If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
This, my son, is entropy."
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Family Values
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:03:52 GMT
Distribution: alt.peeves
Organization: NMSU Computer Science

<In article <LARRY.92Aug26162957@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:

<   Maybe if we had some *real* Family Values, the kiddies wouldn't grow up an
<   become big financial men, corporate raiders, S & L crooks, congressfolk,
<   CEOs, lawyers, leaders of middle east countries and other slimy executive 
<   type administrative leech critters.

	Gee, Larry, if nobody wanted to be an administrative leech,
	there'd never be any new buildings constructed at Enema Zoo!

<   OldFogyPeeve: Curmudgeon me! Guns N Roses are setting up a quarter mile
<		 from here and I *couldn't care less*. A sure sign of old-
<		 fartedness.

ObGoodNews: Take heart; some of the 18-year-olds couldn't care less,
	    either.

ObBadNews: the groups they DO wanna hear, you've probably never
	   heard of and "couldn't care less".
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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: peevefest east 92 (v1.1/B, subsection F, mod 2)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 03:57:46 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow
Keywords: bats, speaking in tongues, walt disney, the ag building by the library, disk drives the size of washing machines,...

mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes: 
| A. Jing Hippy writes:
| 
| Laura Potler writes:
| 
| >|> attended peevefest east last night along with michael, jenni, david, marc, 
| >|> and alex. what a nice group! go figure. :) :)
| >|> i think i can safely say that a good time was had by all.
| 
| >Well, a good time was had by *me*.
| 
| I suspect that a _very_ good time was had by the peevers; some of the
| people trying to eat nearby may have been less than ecstatic that 
| there was a bunch of young, loud, laughing people close by.

We *did* get several dirty looks.  There was a couple that I think was
making the mistake of trying to be romantic at the table next to us.
The guy kept looking over his shoulder and glaring.

| >Peeve:  Nobody looks like you think they do.  
| 
| Ain't it the truth!  Dave is much more of a hippy than I had pictured;

When I introduced myself to Marc and Alex (we were the first ones there),
Marc looked me over and said "I would never have guessed".

| Marc wowed us with a rendition of something, oh, religious sounding,
| in booming Latin (very impressive actually), Alex does _not_ look 
| like a lemming, but was dapper looking in the only tie present.

I think that Marc was just repeating some Monty Python lines, and Alex
*may* have been wearing a clip-on.  He *was* the only one in the group
to eat a salad, though.  Hmmmm.... well-dressed, salad.... are you 
*sure* you're a peever, Alex?

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|Once I dialed 911 and dedicated a crime to my     |
|girlfriend.                                       |
+--------------------------------------------------+
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Fergiegate
Keywords: Losers
Date: 29 Aug 92 04:54:15 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Aug28.203454.19438@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
>       Not a bad idea.  Put that way, maybe it's time we in America
>got a "Royal Family" of our own.  It would be great for the tourist
>trade and we could put all the royalties, so to speak, from marketing
>them into paying off the national debt.  The T-shirts, action figures,
>HBO specials, and theme park would probably put the US into the black.

Sorry, Tim, but we already have a "royal" family - the Kennedy Klan.

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From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: *Canadian* Football
Summary: Oops...
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:56:19 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:

[incorrect attribution of quote to C.P.]

Sorry about that. In Dac's article it stated:

-----begining of exerpt-----
> In article <92Aug20.005751.25678@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca
> (Charles Parr) writes:

[Sob story about being a poor student, elided]

> This really is an !Peeve, since I do like football. I'm sure that 
> there are plenty of you who can use the same thing by just removing the '!'.
------end of exerpt---------

I gather that the lower part came from some other article... Oh well.

So, yer not rooting for the poor old Stamps? C'mon!

In Sydney there is an Aussie Rules team that has the same colours as the
Calgary Stampeders, and plays like the 80's version of the Stamps that I
recall so well. The last game I say (last season) they were winning by a
mile... and then LOST the game in the last couple of minutes. 

As far as the Stampeders go, it is kind of nice to see them playing *half*
way decent.
(note exceptional grammer...)

To the uninformed: The Calgary Stampeders is Calgary's Canadian Football 
League team. It last won the Grey Cup in 1972 (71?) and then played like shit
for years. Last year they made the cup game, but lost. This year, last I
checked they were quite high in the standings.

ObDisclaimer: I actually don't care too much for football either, although
I have enjoyed nice summer days drinking beer up in the stands.

Al.Al
in Oz.Oz

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From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Scottish Nuclear Power Visitor's Centre
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:50:54 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

According to their publicity campaign on tv, "you can ask any
question you like". Of course, but guess what the answers will
be!!

Q "Is this power station at all dangerous, even in the event of a
massive earthquake?"
A "Yes"

Q "Can I bring this geiger counter on the tour?"
A "No"

Q "Do you dispose of the waste in a careful manner"
A "Yes"

Q "Is radioactivity responsible for Mike Holmes being 
grotesquely deformed?"
A "No"

1 out of 4 - very convincing!!
-- 

-Jeremy Henderson            |  Une souris verte
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Qui courrait dans l'herbe
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From: artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor)
Subject: Re: UNICEF Today PUBLISHER'S CLEARINGHOUSE Tomorrow ??
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:44:16 GMT

whitlock@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu (Reid E. Whitlock) writes:
>I was on a QANTAS flight from Sydney to LosAngeles a few weeks ago, and the 
>flight attendant handed out UNICEF envelopes asking that we all empty our 
>pockets of any Australian coins we still had (and presumably any OTHER money 
>we might have been carrying) and put it in the envelope. Near the end of the 
>flight, the envelopes were collected.
>Though I admit that UNICEF has been clever here, I think QANTAS should have 
>never permitted this kind of begging with we passengers as a captive 
>audience. Not everyone (like me, for instance) feels that UNICEF is a worthy 
>cause. I see enough junk mail and solicitations already. I don't want them 
>during my airplane rides as well. Next flight it will be the Red Cross, 
>muscular distrophy, etc... all "good causes" , all pains in the ass. 
>Somebody should get this stuff off airplanes NOW!!!

	OK, this is peevetown, but for me, this is a !peeve.
	I'm not much of a dogooder, treehugger, but it is sort of a pain
in the butt that banks/exchanges wont exchange foreign coins, only paper
money.  I still have a bunch of coins from a recent spain trip.  That would
be no big deal, except some of them are worth about $5 each, and they're not
doing me any good.  I would have dropped them in an evelope for a worthy
cause on the plane, and if there was a tax-receipt available, I would have
been even more pleased about it.

ObPeeve:  United states coins stop at 25 cents.  It was so nice in Spain,
	having coins of equivalent value of $1, $2, and $5.
!Peeve: going to the bank and getting Susan B's ($1 octagonal coin, for the
	non-Americans.  Failed in the market because it was too close in
	size to 25 cents.) and $2 bills to freak people out.
Super!Peeve:  Kennedy halfs and Ike dollars.
Peeve:  Oh, sure, spain had great coins, but cans of coke from machines
	cost $1.50 minimum.  (Local USA price:  55-75 cents, $1.50 in
	high price places, minimum 35 cents.)

	sbm
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 1 Sep 1992 20:49:16 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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In article <la71v9INNe6o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM 
(Andy "God's Own Efficiency Expert" Banta) writes:

>Several years ago, I got tired of our stereo equipment sitting on top
>of cardboard boxes and the CDs and video tapes spread across the
>floor.  The LPs were stuck in a cardboard box to one side.  In four
>days spread across two weekends, I bought wood for and built a nice
>stereo stand with compartments for the LPs and drawers for the video
>tapes and CDs.  


Swell.  And now, instead of being spread across the floor, your CDs and
video tapes are piled on top of the stereo equipment, and it takes ten
minutes, the patience of an archeologist, and the better part of a beer
to find the box for the CD that just ended.


Geoff


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From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:01:41 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <17558@autodesk.COM> Elaine Richards writes:

>In article <+6dng=r@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

>>Albuquerque: Where Death lurks behind the bathroom sink.
>>Whoops, hope Booter doesn't read this post...
>
>Black widows have nothing on Irish divorcees.

Maybe a couple pounds, on average.  Not an overwhelming advantage, but still.

>ER

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "Make no mistakes. The Republicans believe that this
rickg@netcom.com |  remains Ronald Reagan's election to lose, that he can
                 |  lose it, yes he may lose it, but it's Ronald Reagan's 
                 |  election to lose even now." -- Dan Rather, 18 Aug 92
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From: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Subject: my peeve
Reply-To: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 18:33:54 GMT

My peeve today is my news server.  I can't seem to connect.  could some kind 
soul[s] mail me if this makes it to alt.peeves?

chaz


Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:48:42 GMT

parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>
>>	Add two data points.  Of the two times I've been shot (not just
>>shot *at* mind you, but actually shot), 
>
>One would have though he'd gotten the hint by now...

	Hey, I'm still alive and functioning fairly well right now.  I
didn't say a thing about the present condition of either Scott, or of the
people who have shot at me.  Trust me, they have gotten the hint.

	Besides, I live in Iowa, USA.  You know, redkneck capitol of the USA?
Everybody has guns.  Everybody uses them, in one way or another.  We aren't
like Canada, where guns are outlawed and nobody ever gets shot as a result.

	Peeve: poor marksmen.
--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
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