HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: Now You Guys Be NICE!
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:10:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.204427.314@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) comments on my alleged sluttiness:
>
>She is merely a victim of the RadFemSurfNaziKonspirakii
>to corrupt the Precious Bodily Fluids of Nice Girls!
>

No, actually, I'm a victim of hormones.  Yes, Girls have 'm, too. Even
NICE Girls (so I'm told).  You see three years of monogamy with someone
with whom I get along just great, but with whom I am not & never have
been in love, have rather left my hormones in an uproar.

Peeve:  The elusive nature of love.  You'd think that if you found
someone with whom you are perfectly compatible, and who's totally
crazy about you, you could work it out to fall in love with them 
without too much trouble, instead of getting about as excited by
them as you do by tepid tapioca.

And, no, it's not a question of NICE guys getting all the girls.  I've
been turned on by plenty of NICE guys, and Greg isn't particularly nice,
actually, he's pretty nasty sometimes.  It's just that he's my perfect
counterpart, and it would've been nice if I felt about him the way he
feel about me.

This whole Male/Female thing really sucks lighter fluid, let me tell ya.

Jenny "No I'm not a slut, but I play one on the net in practice for
the day when the urge strikes" Gutbezahl




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From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Size usurpers
Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:51:38 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: lotka.stanford.edu

In article <Bxx7Br.AEq@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny  
Gutbezahl) writes:
> In article <lgj3smINN8v1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>  
geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
> >
> >fix.  Imagine: an Open Look-interface newsreader!  I feel like a  
kind on 
> >Christmas morning.
> >
> 
> I'm not generally given to spelling flames, but I feel obliged to  
ask:
> 
> Kind of WHAT?
> 

That's German "Kind" as in Kindergarten, JG. Geoff, I'm sure, neglected  
to capitalize it only to bait us.

Peeve: Every year or two I trek off to some mall or feed store to buy a  
new pair of blue jeans. My needs are simple: waist somewhere around  
34", length somewhere around 36". This size is *my* size, and I'm happy  
to share it with anybody else who's 6'4" and 195#, male or female. What  
I invariably find, though, is that the blue jeans in that bin have been  
plundered. 

Now, being out on the right-hand end of the Gaussian curve, I know full  
well there aren't that many people who share this size. The plundering  
is therefore done by fatties who want to squeeze into a 34" waist, and  
by shorties who want to roll their cuffs up or maybe drag them through  
the mud. 

The puzzling thing is: the merchants must overstock this bin in order  
to accommodate the plunderers, so why couldn't they overstock a bit  
more in order to accommodate the rightful wearers of this size? Another  
puzzle: why don't the plunderers go after my shoe size (13) as well, so  
I'd have a chance at a larger selection? And finally, is the choice of  
shirts in my size limited because of shortarmed pencilnecked plunderers  
(as in the bluejeans), or because of lack of demand (as in the shoes)?

As my 2nd grade teacher told me when I asked her who would care if the  
universe had never been made: "Eric, there are some things we are not  
meant to know".
--
 
Eric Minch             Any resemblance to the opinions of persons
Epistemic Artisan      or organizations other than myself--living,
Stanford Genetics      dead, or imaginary--is purely fortuitous.
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh, Jason! Will you bring the beemer around?
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:46:32 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Nov17.045129.28104@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
>In <1992Nov16.145339.28310@bbxrbk> russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:
>>GIF! GIF! GIF! GIF! GIF! GIF!
>
>I'll be sure to show you the picture next time you're 'round these here
>parts, which I hear tell will be sometime soon.

Yes, I'll be in Atlanta from Wednesday night through Sunday morning. 
Maybe we could get some other Atlanta area peevers together?  In these
parts we have a schutzenfest and a feast following, but that may not
be an option in your area.

>As far as GIF, I'm gonna try and scan it in.  It's a color photo, in delicious
>Fujicolor and will be scanned in on a HP scanner in B&W.  It'll probably lose
>something in the process, but if you sickos want it, this sicko will provide
>it!  And, it may not be soon.

I'll wait for the Technicolor(tm) version, thankyouverymuch.

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home   bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
Will hack unix for food
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Shiva Pariah)
Subject: Re: More Officemate Peeves (was: Halfwits.)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:27:11 GMT
Organization: Heulandite Packing, Ltd.

Geoff sez:

>particularly this one guy with a John F. Kennedy accent who's just about
>impossible to tune out because he's so loud.

>(Why are so many people from the East Coast so damn loud?) 


It's the clam chowder.  CHOWDAH!  CHOWDAH!


>I've discovered that she gulps when she swallows liquids.  Loudly...
>...It drives me fucking *nuts!*  How can she not be aware that she's
>doing it?

It's the same effect as when somene is hammering: the person doing the
hammering doesn't flinch, but everyone else does.  It must be some kind
of sense-inhibit line that runs to the brain.

>And the frustrating thing is that I can't do anything about it.

Would a CD player with earphones help?

-Dave
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From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Burn baby burn!
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 03:04:40 GMT

In <28514@castle.ed.ac.uk> fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:

>Which is to say, me, Tony, et al.

What about Jeremy?

>Sheesh. I demand a Republic.

Well, sheee-yit!  Just hop the next boat westward!  I'd say we have a serious
FofP deficit here in the yoowess.

ObPeeve:  Tornadoes.  Had a few twist through this here part of the state
          today.  Two people even got the "Wizard of Oz" treatment and got
          sucked off.  Both were found about 150 yards away, one dead and the
          other very seriously injured.  And damn, I was nowhere around with
          my camera.

Meteorologically,
--
No, you do not know me.
Yes, I KNOW I look like someone you know.  - Bill Berbenich, net.hedonist
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Teddy Bear with a Hard-On)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: And just what the fuck do Canuks know about beer?
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:26:44 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis) writes:
                  ^^

>New Orleans has many fine qualities to recommend it, but its taste in 
>beverages isn't one of them... any town that would ruin a perfectly good cup of
>coffee by putting chicory in it probably isn't the Beer Mecca of America, or 
>the South, or even Louisiana.

Look here, you damnyankee, putting chickory in your coffee is a fine
ol' Southern tradition.
-- 
"If I had killed her when I had first thought about getting divorced,
 I would have been out of jail by now."
	-- A newly-divorced guy I met at a block party
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Go Play In Traffic, Kid 
Followup-To: misc.test
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:06:59 GMT

<In article <FRANKLIN.92Nov14220514@ug.cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca 
(Toddler With A Keyboard) scoops up some Gerbers prunes and scrawls:

<   PeeveFromHell: The new U2 version of "Painted Black" by the stones
 

	That's "PAINT IT BLACK", you puerile cretin.

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Mis-used of turn signals & other stuff
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 13:28:37 GMT

Ack!  Following up one of my own posts again.
Rick pointed out I ONCE AGAIN forgot the post-script
for this.  

Peeve:  Old age and senility - I'm going to have to
either write my post-scripts FIRST, or get some
kind of "check for matching '(*)'" filter...

I wrote:

] Back before the concept of "mantra" was popular, I
] had a driving instructor in highschool who had a
] "mantra" - it's one of the two things I remember 
] from the class(*).  His mantra was:

(*) The other thing I remember was almost having
the car full of us killed when one of the kids 
did NOT check both ways at a stopsign.

Actually - these two things were the only things
I remember from actually driving.  The teacher was
known as "Seymore" - as in "See More Movies" - and
I remember seeing ALL the bad ones - "Red Asphalt",
etc...

But for actual driving - my dad got me private lessons
a few years later - I made Sonja seem positively 
over-confident, but not WANTING to add to the BDI's,
I just didn't drive until I was 20 or 21...

ObPeeve: Driver's Ed in high-school, conducted in a
manner that is SURE to turn out timid and/or bad
drivers - if you've never driven before, and are 
not confident in yourself ANYway, having the usual
high-school lack of consideration thrown at you is
SURE to cause problems.

Diana
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Claudio peeve
Date: 17 Nov 1992 01:46:15 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <Bxu4Bz.8n6@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
>In article <1e8hvdINN8er@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>>	Wherefore art thou, Romeo?  Where the fuck, eh?
>
>Peeve:  People who don't know what "wherefore" means. 

Good lord.  I post one bowdlerized pun and people start
assuming I don't know what "wherefore" means?  Eh?
	
What kind of sonnet d'ye think that'd been if I'd said "Why the
fuck, eh?"  

A damned piss-poor one, that's what.  You've got to make
allowances for license you know.


!Peeve: The Skinhead Hamlet.  "Oi!"

c
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: The Bard takes another hit
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:55:03 GMT

In article <1e8hvdINN8er@agate.berkeley.edu> Curtis Yarvin writes:

>For those of you without the requisite backing in Italian we provide
>a quick translation:
> [ ... ]
>	Wherefore art thou, Romeo?  Where the fuck, eh?

I don't know if this is a Peeve, exactly, but it grates my dendrites
every time I hear it.  There is a play by a Mr. Shakespeare called
"Romeo and Juliet" which has had a pretty good run since it opened
a few seasons back.  In this play there is a scene where Juliet
delivers a line similar to the one quoted above.  When the play is
performed by amateurs (which is to say, 94% of the time), the lady
playing Juliet may adopt a contemplative, searching expression as she
scans the horizon for signs of the elusive Romeo.  The audience, of
course, knows exactly where he is, and wonders why she doesn't have
him paged or something.

The problem is that she doesn't particularly care *where* he is, and
she's not asking.  What she says is:
	"Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
which is a different question, and doesn't have any commas, see?
"Wherefore" doesn't mean "where", it means "why".  Juliet is bummed
because all the bitching, moaning, and killing between the two
families has put Romeo's name on the shitlist, and if he weren't
called "Romeo", but rather "Herb" or "Curtis", she wouldn't have all
this aggravation.

Peeve: Nits which will never heal because they're always being picked.

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "She Broke My Heart So I Busted Her Jaw" 
rickg@netcom.com |   --- One of those country songs you never hear anymore
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: <None>
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:22:00 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Nov15.033926.25794@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
> In <1e4aa4INNn27@agate.berkeley.edu> henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken) writes:
> 
>>Peeve:  The false crap people say to be nice.  Shoot straight, Bill. 
> 
> Okay.  Henken, you're a dick.
> --
> No, you do not know me.
> Yes, I KNOW I look like someone you know.



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ten minutes, and I'm still laughing.

Mike
From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Broken hand peeve
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:52:36 GMT
	<mhart.721940969@blackjack>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil's message of 16 Nov 92 19:09:29 GMT

In article <mhart.721940969@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
| ObPeeve: constant pain.  Once in a while I pull a muscle in my
| neck, which hurts like a bitch for about 3 days.
|
Yes, I had this one a few weeks ago, after a night of excessive drinking
and head-banging. I couldn't turn my head for almost a week.
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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Minor AntiPeeve
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:10:42 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Ant Refuge


Various things peeve me on the road. One is excessive chrome that
blinds everyone behind a FORD four wheel souped up station wagon
with a macho name. Another is those dumb things on truck flaps,
usually Barbie missile-breasted silouettes (sp?) flashing in my
eyes first thing in the morning on 580.

This morning, I gained on a truck. It had those damned mudflaps
again. I gritted my teeth and accelerated to get past this annoyance.
As I approached, I noticed that the cone-breasts were missing.
The little figures were of perfectly formed men. Only in SF, I thought.
I pulled up next to the cab of the truck and espied a delicate female
hand upon the wheel.

Times change.
-- 
E. Richards  fernwood!autodesk!booter or booter@Autodesk.COM
"God must hate the common people, because he made them so common."
			--Philip Wylie
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: charless@sco.COM (Charlie Stross)
Subject: Re: Landlord Peeves!! (was Re: JENNY'S LES
Organization: SCO Technical Waffle and Blurb Department
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:03:13 GMT


In article <lgqb55INNf0a@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>
>Alex writes:
>>rather than having to place the delicate thighs on the muck which is 
>>usually found on a sodden toilet seat, you simply plant your feet 
>>next to the hole and assume the crouching position. there's no need
>>to touch anything except the toilet paper and the chain. 
>
>But when your pants are down around your ankles, are they, ah, in
>harm's way when you Assume the Position?

Nope. You learn to keep them out of harm's way -- very quickly
indeed.

I am reminded of a rural Thai improvement on the Italian design.
You build your house on stilts over a tidal estuary. The lavatory
consists of a hole in the floor; you can see the muddy waters
twelve feet below. It sure keeps those household odours under
control, but you *don't* want to go inspecting the foundations
until you've posted a note in the bathroom ...

Peeve: diahorrea in aforementioned circumstances. (On the other hand, 
I suppose it was my fault for accepting the preserved sea-cucumuber
in the first place. BTW, I wonder if it tastes anything like a 
banana slug?)

-- 
Charlie Stross aka charless@scol.sco.com ..... UNIX oriented text mangler
WARNING: The opinions voiced in the preceding electronic document are the
product of a warped mind. Take two before meals. 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Agro-Barbarian)
Subject: Re: BD Hunters
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Agro-Barbarian)
Organization: International FurHarvester: Combine a Commie for Christ
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:07:05 GMT

>Posted for Stephen Jackson (sjackson@parc.xerox.com), who can read
>alt.peeves but not post:

>As he reached the barn, about 50 feet from the road, he heard a
>pickup coming from out of Grassy Knob Wilderness Area.  As the
>truck approached the barn it slowed and eventually stopped in
>the oncoming traffic lane, next to the barn.  A rifle poked out
>the window, taking aim at the deer in the horse pasture with
>the convienently provided backstop, our house, providing a safe
>resting place for any misaimed shots.
>
>Don drew the .357 and showing great restraint, discharged it into
>the ground, spooking the deer.  The bozo in the pickup truck
>yelled out "Didja get one!"  Don yelled back, "Oh yea, I sure
>did!" and then he proceeded to the pickup truck to get in the 
>guy's face for a bit.

	This reminds me...  One major peeve is that I did not get a
deer license this year.  The !peeve?  Tresspassers are a continuous
open season and there's no limit.  Anybody want to man the .50 on the
combine this year with me?


--
< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
<  ISU only censors what I read, not what I say.  Don't blame them.  >
<  "This isn't an answer, it's a pagan dance around a midnight fire  >
<   written in intellectual runes." -- Rich Young                    >
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.greek
From: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
Subject: Re: The Scarlet Letter
Organization: Lanchester Polytechnic
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:25:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.175551.11925@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gd8f@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Gregory  Dandulakis) writes:
>In article <28405@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
>>On the off chance that the AppleOfOurEye might like to accompany us
>>on trips abroad, I called the Passport Office to ask about adding her
>>name to my passport. Apparently this is impossible because a) her
>>mother is Greek and b) we are not married, and hence she is not a
>>British Citizen. The passport people suggested that she could become a
>>British Citizen by ``registration'', but when I called the Naturalization
>>Office (or whatever it's called), they told me that she couldn't register
>>as a British citizen because she was born ``out of wedlock'' (their words,
>>not mine). 

Christ!! When you can finally prove that your child is yours she will be a
British Citizen, but you'll have to pay a fair wack in medical fees in order
to prove this. Of course the Home Office only believe you if you are married
even though the DSS will be quite happy to let you admit that the child is
yours.

> What about that she was born on British territory. Doesn't this give
> her the automatic right for citizenship?

No she does not - I'm assuming that she was born in the UK. As the child's
mother is not British and the birth certificate (at the moment) does not
recongise the father. Up until 1983 there would have been no problem in
getting a passport for your child, as you would have automatically become a 
British Citizen if you were born in the UK, but you would still not be able
to but her on your own passport.
-- 
Dave                                                       cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call this place what you like - Coventry University, Coventry Polytechnic or
Lanchester Polytechnic it is all the same and is called school.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Jenny Shows Her Bad Manners
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:57:37 GMT


jenny,

Just Because Friar Franklin has NOT passed
your TestosteroneTuringTest does NOT mean
that he is a DickLessWimp!

Good Girls Learn to Be NICE to Men, 
because Men are Male!

ciao
drieux


-- 
Modern Day Problems:
Little Miss Muffett, sat on a ToughtIt,
Eating her Kurds and Weighs, Along came a Spider,
and she drove off with the Neat Guy with a HOT CAR!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: gsmith@clio.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
Subject: Re: Recent Peeve
Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:47:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.014611.20694@twg.com> donp@twg.com (Don Pette)
writes: > (Schlong Phamdo sucking PSU style) writes:

>Jeez, not _another_ one. Schlong-man:  You have one thing and one thing ONLY
>going for you, and that is that you don't attend Doll House U. Don't make
>it look like you do.

SchlongDong attends the State Penn, known net-wide to be *the* school
for brainless dorks.  Doll House aint even close.

My pet peeve is that we give these places net access.  There oughta be
a way to cut off the State Penn until they clean up their act some.

-- 
     Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University 
               gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Education and Spelling Flames ( Re: The U of C at Berkeley
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:18:18 GMT

In <17955@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>Peeve: Education in the UK. You lads need some good, nasty nuns to rap
>your knuckles.


Please!  I'm getting aroused!
--
No, you do not know me.
Yes, I KNOW I look like someone you know.  - Bill Berbenich, net.hedonist
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Broken hand peeve
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Gimpland
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:22:59 GMT


In article <1992Nov17.051213.28823@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
[deletia]
|>One definite Anti-peeve about the whole "injured hand" bit is that now
|>that my right hand is a bit gimpy I am finding out who my friends
|>REALLY are!

Welcome to the Society of the Sinister. You'll find enlightenment now that
you're one of us, albeit temporarily. 
--
Nolan "In my right mind" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: People who say they'll do you a favour (favor)
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:46:22 GMT

In article <9211171602.AA08728@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> library@prg.oxford.ac.uk
writes:
>
>My car needs a bit of work done to it. A garage quoted 1500 pounds for a new
>engine. I blanched at that. Took it away from the garage because a guy at
>work said he had a mate who could help. 

Holy heck, that's heavy.  How many of you did it take to lift it? :)

>Peeve: being so technically incapable that I find the courtesy light inside
>the car too complicated to fix!

What's a courtesy light?  We USAns have two kinds of ligts in our cars:
map lights and high-beams-from-hell, which we use to blind obstinate
slowpokes and send them over cliff edges to a fiery death...

    don
Newsgroups: alt.peeves