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From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smegheadism.
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:55:55 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

Dac flounders miserably, writing:
>Nice followup-to line you had, bumbag.

I'm glad ya liked it.  Consider it a belated Christmas gift...sorry if
I left you hanging.  Get it?  HANGING?!

>Do you have an excess-semen recepticle next to your newsreading
>workstation?  Do you have to empty it on a daily basis, after
>working your way through alt.sex.bestiality.with.crockery, and
>the other perverse newsgroups that you subscribe to?

Yes, I do have an excess-semen receptacle in my office, my testosterone-
challenged friend.  You see, unlike you, I produce prodigous quantities
of ManlySecretions; these secretions have to be relieved in some fashion
and since there are no wooly mammals around here, I collect them in a
cup.

Here, have some.  Cheers, eh?

>Do you have soundproofing around you too?

What do YOU do at work, besides wank off the occasional lame peeve
rehash and post your lame alt.peeves statistics every so often?  I mean,
you don't actually think we _read_ that crap do you, biting our fingernails
as we worry that we might've slipped from a 75% originality ratio to 69%?

Tell me, do you sit there in your office late at night counting each line?
Or did you write a program to count the lines for you?  If there's one thing
more pathetic than a 20 year old compunerd, it's the same compunerd 10 years
later, trying feverishly to make people like him and failing miserably.

PLEASE keep posting to alt.peeves, Dac, you're the funniest thing since
Dan Quayle...

>> >Peeve/!Peeve: We're getting a new cat from the RSPCA. 
>> 
>> Cool!  I'll bring a 12 gauge and do that one up right!  Anyone got a camera
>> I can borrow?
>
>How about I use a medium gauge [and the train that runs on it] to
>lop your pointy head off?
>
>Just say NO to guns.
>
>[Especially in the hands of those that can't aim properly, as
>recently detailed in this 'ere froup]

Feh.  At least here in Amurrica we're ALLOWED to own guns and use them for
self defense.  But I guess your country's laws make sense in the greater
scheme of things.  After all, it's not necessary that your countrymen be
able to actually shot straight, since your traditional role has been to
provide cannon-fodder and give the real troops a break.  Ever heard of
Gallipoli, Dac?

    don
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From: mikea@zorba.gvg.tek.com (Michael P. Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Yes, Yes, Let's Talk About the Weather
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:36:41 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

In article <1993Jan6.182308.25639@twg.com> nolan@twg.com writes:

>Andreas Fault between San Francisco and Silly Cone Valley for you foreigners)
					       ^^^^

Please. That's the SillyCLONE Valley. Home of the silly clones...
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S Zraly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: morning
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:45:50 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston

baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
>	I am now announcing to the world that my semester long experiment
>as a "morning" person is now over. My conclusions can be summed up in the
>following: "5am really sucks". Back to crawling outta bed 'round 9 for me.
>Am or pm, I don't care which.

Heh.  I got to be a 'round-the-clock person last term: work 11pm-7am,
get up for school at either 8am (If I went to sleep) or 10am depending
on the day of the week, leaving school for home at either 3:30pm or
7:15pm depending on the day.

Of course I slept through some classes.

!Peeve: This is January.  I have no classes in January.  Just the
40-hour job, and a week of vacation at the end of this month, just
before school starts.

Peeve: Next semester's schedule is as bad as last semester's.  Expect
further incoherency from this address...

-- 
Mike Zraly		Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
mzraly@cs.umb.edu	And any thing that may not misbecome
			The mighty sender, ...
				-- HENRY V: Exeter to the Dauphin
From: mikea@zorba.gvg.tek.com (Michael P. Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:31:22 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

In article <lkm1jkINN7m4@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:

>|What type of new innovation, software or products do you want to be
>|introduced to the market place.  

One *good* piece of software, please.
From: jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Ed
Date: 10 Jan 1993 22:57:18 GMT
Organization: Dark Satanic Mills
NNTP-Posting-Host: triton.unm.edu

In article <1993Jan10.205632.18190@netcom.com> ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear) writes:
>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.

I didn't.  Thanks for the laugh, banta. 

My husband's first reaction to the diagnosis:  "Guess I won't need that
dental work after all.  Yay."

Jenny
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From: Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:22:24 GMT

In article <C0q4Ix.GMs@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Amy Buttafuoco) writes:
>
>I cannot appreciate what the coiners of the phrase were after: the replacement
>of descriptive, but innocuous, words with vague contemporary catch-phrases
>which will, in the next 5 years, be replaced with even more vague terminology.
>It's stunning that these people think that by replacing one symbol with another
>symbol, the substantive thing it refers to goes away.  It's like "crippled".
>This was thought to be such a horrible word that people started using
>"handicapped".  When *that* became a bad word we get "physically challenged".
>The reason it is bullshit to do this is because after you've substituted the
>euphemism, after a while the euphemism takes on all the connotations of the
>word it replaced: it still conjures up the same image of a guy in a wheelchair
>or whatever.

I think you're a-working too hard here.  I've been going to/working for
Duke (never mind my address), where the true mission - _pas de merde_,
everyone gets an official PCthink pamphlet called "Duke's Mission" - is to
indoctrinate everyone with a Uniform Standard of Diversity (screw getting
any work done) for four years now.  I've concluded that these changes in
Proper Appellation are a vital tool of the activoids.  They serve as a
club to beat people outside the clique with: guilty liberals can be made
to feel more so, otherwise indifferent folk can have their chain yanked
with accustions of incivility and badthink, and creating a superficial
grievance is a simpler form of activism than addressing a structural one. 
And the semantic drift you mention is key to the whole business, since it
allows the whole thing to run cyclically.

Peeve: Gamesmanship.
 
!Peeve: I find it reassuring that we live in a society so safe and
prosperous that these clowns can't find anything else to get their
bloomers in a twist about.

This footer will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars.  
Are you sure you want to attach it to my post? (yn)
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Maj. Sergei Andreyevich "Rip" Urdikhov)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: A Definite Not-Peeve, involves money
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:51:54 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
Distribution: world
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In <1993Jan3.230146.20731@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:


>Uh Bill?  Hoffa is already dead.


What?!  Since when?




Geoff


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From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: Re: Holiday Baking Peeve
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:37:49 GMT

In <18361@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>In article <5214@equinox.unr.edu> malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) 
writes:
>>Raisin cookies.  The damn things look like chocolate chip cookies, but
>>when you bite into one you get a mouthful of shriveled, dried-insect-like
>>raisins.  Phoo.  Phooeeee.


>No, stale carrot cake with raisins. Its like eating the contents of a
>bunny hutch without the bunnies.

Fuck it--anything with cooked raisins in it sucks.  

Peeve:  bakery BDIs who can't quite grasp the concept that "cinnamon nut roll"
doesn't mean "cinnamon raisin roll, if it's too much trouble to look for the 
former."

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From: ee52fbc@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Getting a new PC
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:17:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego



!Peeve: Finally getting a PC put together over the Xmas holidays so
        that I can have access from my house, and not spend the rest
	of my life doing assignments in the lab.

Peeve:  Coming home to find the roommate mudding on said computer,
	making promises to someone else via the computer to be on,
	mudding, Friday afternoons. Hah. We'll see about this...

Soon-to-be-!Peeve:
	Getting another phone line installed for the modem, in MY
	room, and moving said computer in there.

Possible-soon-to-be-Peeve:
	Having said roommate hanging around in my room, or whining
	about my being in there. Ho hum.

		Maiko
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Personally, I blame Chris Baldwin
Date: 13 Jan 1993 00:48:59 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
Distribution: alt
NNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu

Mike 'Caesar' Holmes writes:
>Since I'm pretty sure it was he who first mentioned the "Civilisation"
>game for the PC and told me how addictive it was.

	I warned you. Don't come whining to me when you loose your
job and get thrown out of your house 'cos you can't pay the rent. I 
even told you about the people I know who have been thrown outta 
school because of this game. I, personally, failed a class on account
of my inablility not to play it. I'm better now, but I just heard
that there is a mac version out. Should I get it and risk all sorts
of bad things, or just live without it? I haven't decided yet.

>The time for the cinema had long gone by and with the advent of the Steam
>Engine things were beginning to get interesting. I figured I'd just play
>a bit longer to see what happened.
	This never works. Just a "little longer" is never any shorter
than a few hours.

Peeve/!Peeve: Addictive games. They sure are a lot of fun, but they sure
take up a lot of time. A friend of mine deleted Civ off of his machine
because knowing it was there, calling to him, made it impossible to get
any work done. Tetris was bad, but Civ is much worse.
-- 

"My essential point is that the First Amendment does more for men
than it does for women by protecting speech that supports patrimony"
  -- Law Prof. Mary Becker, U of Chicago Law School
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: People Who Think I Have Nothing To Do
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:46:24 GMT

booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>>
>>Tangentially related peeve: People who don't believe me when I say
>>I'm busy.  Especially those who reflexively say, "Well, *make* time!" 
>
>
>Ditto for social occasions as well. I have a friend who likes to drop by and
>will not take "no" for an answer. Its hard to say, "I want to be alone when 
>I clearly have some guest or guests already in the living room." I want to get 
>a tee shirt that says, "What part of NO don't you understand?"
>

!peeve:  I've *seen* such a T-shirt, and it looked good. 
Or was it just that the lady it was on did??   (wazatchoo booter?)



RelatedPeeve: phone callers who think my time is theirs just because I
answered.  Dammit, if I say I'll call you back, let me off the line!!
Phone conversation should be scheduled at the convenience of the _called_
party.  Once you've told me you want to talk about something, you've got
to let _me_ prioritize *when*.  Just because I went to the trouble to
answer in person and not by machine does not mean I have more than a
minute for the call.  Just because I (sometimes) work at home does not
mean I can interrupt my work at any moment.  And just because someone
has business with me does not mean they can choose randomly which minutes
I use for that task.

AlmostTheSamePeeve: when I'm doing contract work for more than one customer,
and have to treat each as if they *do* own whatever minutes they
choose to call. 


!peeve: I _do_ have the nerve to just hang up after trying to get some
insistent fool's attention, and then if they call right back, they get
the machine.

!peeve: using my answering machine to screen calls.   If it's not important
enough to leave a message, I'm happy _not_ to hear from 'em.

?peeve: my brother, who often says, e.g. "call me back in 20 minutes"
I don't quite understand why he wouldn't rather call me at *his* convenience,
but I comply.

!peeve:  "friend" and "drop by" rarely coincide in my life, and on those
rare occasions, the drop_er_ usually demonstrates the sense to ask
"is this a good time?" and *listen* to the answer.

	Bob O'Bob
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From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
Subject: Re: A rat is a pig-headed moron is a ...
Organization: WP Group
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:03:22 GMT

From article <93Jan12.151032.24109@acs.ucalgary.ca>, by parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr):
> You don't really want to hear the darwinist/malthusian/sensible
> answer to this question...But you will, from people far better
> at turning your weak and feeble attempt to insult into a festival
> of embarassment.
> 
> Have fun here in the lions den, my friends, because this time you
> really walked into the wild kingdom...

Thanks for letting me know that I was in the "lions den".  I could have
sworn I was in the company of teenage boys, hankering to sniff
each others farts.

> Regards, Charles

Cheers.

-- 
Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
russ@wpg.com   uunet!wpg!russ
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Lurkers
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 13:24:02 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <1993Jan7.050330.13421@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
|> 
|> 	THEY ADVERTISE THEY'RE STUPIDITY!!

They are?  I thought that drivers with hats were stupidity....  Yeesh, 
sometimes I feel like I've missed at least a couple of decades, but then I
see what happened in them and I don't feel so bad.

Ya see, "they're" is called a "contraction".  It's short for "they are". So
when you wrote "they're stupidity", it looked like you meant.... oh never
mind.

|> 	Boy.  I never use all caps.  Chock it up to a crummy mailer
|> 	and a whole lot o' idiots.

Let's chalk it up to one idiot in particular who has access to a computer.
What a frightening thought.

Ya see, the phrase "chalk it up" comes from the days when people kept up with
things by making a little hashmark on a slate with a piece of.... oh never
mind.

|> 	Feeling peeved.

And stepping in it.

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From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Dizzy
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:27:43 GMT
Distribution: alt.peeves
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <LARRY.93Jan7141302@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
>UnrelatedPeeve: Saddam. Looks like he needs to have his ass 
>	        handed to him once again.
>
>I've an idea: This time let's just go after Saddam, and skip exterminating
>many thousand poor Iraqi cannon fodders in a Mother of All Genocides.

Sounds good to me.  Better yet, this time let's just lock Saddam and Bush
in a room with two Swiss army knives and see who makes it out alive...then
shoot the winner.

    don
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: Holiday Baking Peeve
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:33:50 GMT

>>>>> On 11 Jan 93 21:04:47 GMT, malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) said:
Malcolm> Raisin cookies.  The damn things look like chocolate chip
Malcolm> cookies, but when you bite into one you get a mouthful of
Malcolm> shriveled, dried-insect-like raisins.  Phoo.  Phooeeee.

Ah hA! *That's* what happened to my dried-insect cookies!

Peeve: Surprise assaults on the taste buds. When your mouth was all ready
       for X and you got Y.

My mouth was all set for a dried-insect cookie and what did I get? Fucking
chocolate chip!

L.
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From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: morning
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 01:15:24 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <mhart.726408398@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
>>no matter how you slice it or dice it,
>>7:55am still snarfs.  
>
>Shit.  7:55.  Try 0500 for a couple of years.

	I am now announcing to the world that my semester long experiment
as a "morning" person is now over. My conclusions can be summed up in the
following: "5am really sucks". Back to crawling outta bed 'round 9 for me.
Am or pm, I don't care which.

ObPeeve: Really lame Christmas presents. This year someone, whose relation
to me has never been really clear, gave me 20 Texas lottery tickets. Now,
how in the hell do you write a thank-you note to someone who just gave
you $13 million? I don't know. Luckily, I don't have this problem. The
problem I have is thanking them for giving me $2.

!Peeve: Apparently, Dan gave me his Meatmen album.
-- 

"My essential point is that the First Amendment does more for men
than it does for women by protecting speech that supports patrimony"
  -- Law Prof. Mary Becker, U of Chicago Law School
From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: For Your Peeving Enjoyment
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:13:19 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

At the peevers get-together this weekend, it was noted that few, if any
people saw what I consider to be one of my best diatribes of late.....
here it is, for your continued enjoyment....The topic was THE CORRECT
VIEW OF RACISM, or words to that effect....

In article <Qll34zZa.4482.1@ultisol.gsfc.nasa.gov>, MAC writes:

>Well, to get the ball really rolling, I'll crosspost this to a few groups
>who might be interested.  Troll is no ordinary Bozo!

I couldn't disagree more. Checkitout: he's posting from a .edu site and
exhibiting all the warning signs of a frat pledge separated from his parents
for the first time. He's about the most ordinary thing one can find on 
the net....it takes the freshmen until after Thanksgiving to learn how
to post to the net at large. 

In article <1992Dec18.131858.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> Troll writes:

>Hey, I work for my money, why shouldn't they?

No, Drool, you mean your daddy works for your money so you can hop in the
family 320i and run off for another semester of beer bongs and date rapes down
at the State U. 

If you actually had to work for your cocaine and pizza money, you'd have a little
more respect for yourself and your fellow man.  At the moment, you're just another
self-righteous teenager ranting and raving about "sponges" on society who do 
a damn sight more honest work than you've ever had to do.  The least you can
do is shut your stupid mouth while you enjoy the fruits of your advantage. Failure
to do so is at best a sign of stupidity and at worst an invitation for one of your
betters to come along and shut it for you.

JZ 
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From: avdh@dazixco.ingr.com (Alain van der Heide)
Subject: Re: Darwin, a three-time loser (was: I Don't C
Reply-To: avdh@dazixco.ingr.com
Organization: Integraph - Boulder
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:22:14 GMT

In article lkr708INNia3@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM, banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>Alain van der Heide denies his name means "Skin of the alien" thusly:

I do deny it!  As anyone I know will attest, it means "Alien Life Form".

ObSheesh:  Sheesh!

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