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From: klein@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Newsgroups: alt.angst,alt.exploding.kibo,alt.imploding.kibo
Subject: Re: QUEST * FOR * ANGST
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:29:30 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting

In article <DUKE.92Oct13092737@portal.paperboy.osf.org> duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Duke Robillard) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.223955.13800@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:
>
>[ lame attempt at talk.bizzare kind of humor mostly deleted
>  except for ]

That's "talk.bizarre", D00K.
>
>      The next step on my *QUEST*FOR*ANGST* was to find that sultan
>   of sickening fear of existence, Keirkegard.  He wasn't home, so
>   I talked to his next-door neighbor, Kierkegaard.
>
>There's nothing like a good spelling flame to really drive your
>point home.  

Well, I was going to call him "Kirkegard", and go into a lengthy 
comparison of his views of Tru-Angst versus those of Picardegard.

But that would've been silly.

-- 
Jeff Klein             | "Happily, Ral doffs his outer clothing for a
Browsing Boy of the LNH|  refreshing dip in one of the dangerous 
klein@frith.egr.msu.edu|  chemical vats." - Ty Templeton
From: gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu (Gerson V Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Angst music
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:15:55 GMT
Organization: UB

After listening to Psycho Killer too many times, I've become convinced David 
Byrne is hiding in my room, laughing maniacally and playing evil guitar riffs.

Gerson
From: tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu (Todd E. Grupe)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Angst Nomination
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:01:50 GMT



	I think the Ultimate in Angst Award must go to James Stockdale for  
asking on live national TV, "Who am I?  Why am I here?"  


TG
--
tgrupe@watserv.ucr.edu

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From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Peanuts, 10-12-92
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:35:22 GMT
	<DUKE.92Oct12125343@portal.paperboy.osf.org>
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

> Angst was a term invented for the sickening fear of existence
> described by Munch, Keirkegard, and Beckett, and this clown
> thinks some cutsey [sic] cartoon character is an appropriate
> representative.

=o= (In a sense, all cartoon characters could be described as
"cutesy", because the necessities of rendering many depictions
of people in black & white removes certain details from their
appearances, with a neotenic effect.  But we'll ignore that
for now.)

=o= Charlie Brown is no cutesy cartoon character.  We're talking
about 40 years of non-stop *losing* in a cruel, cruel, world,
drawn by a cartoonist so chronically depressed that even an
annual income of 99 gazillion dollars can't keep him out of
therapy.

=o= _Peanuts_ isn't a cutesy strip.  It's a horror story.

> Xibo is right, this group has gone to hell.

=o= And what hasn't?
    <_Jym_>

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You can't argue with the vice president, can you?
                -- William Figueroa, the 12-year-old told by Dan
                   Quayle that potato is spelled 'potatoe'.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: Time for a Coup, Everybody!
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 07:01:17 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton) writes:

> toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (T.S. Eliot) writes:
> 
> > Well, all the "veteran" angsters--Meech, sine, rachel, etc.--have left
> 
> "Veterans?"
> 
> Give me a break.

Yeah, true, to be a "veteran" you apparently have to be one of the hip
trendy in-crowd who hang out on the Angst List.

This is alt. It's kind of dynamic, you may have noticed. Anyone who
participates regularly in a group for several months is deserving of the
title "veteran". I think the word you're looking for is Dinosaur.

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
"Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (StMeechTheThwacked)
Subject: Relinquishing a Title
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:42:19 GMT

I hereby relinquish the title of Most Hellish Place to Work to 
Manhattan, Kansas.  It hurts, I know, but I feel I must say it!!!!

					Meech
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: What the Hell is this?
Date: 16 Oct 92 05:20:20 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)

: well, hell is a good start. and end, i suppose. 

nah, if you try hard, you can take it beyond hell.

: ObAngst: i have a dinner date, and i just KNOW he's going to think i'm THE
: most boring person on the face of this earth 'cause i'm so tired. 

at least you're going to actually be in the same room as someone. hell,
i'd settle for being in the same state. even if it were el paso.

and i can't imagine you being boring.

--
sine/deb
weird, maybe, but not dull.
From: bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: tiredness.
Date: 8 Oct 1992 02:05:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kovarik@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (StMeechTheThwacked) says:

>In article <10729@wrgate.wr.tek.com> denisec@amadeus.wr.tek.com (Denise Caire) writes:

[dreams deleted, typical...]


>I know, I've really just dozed off on the patio of the Cafe Zurich  on
>Placa Catalunya in Barcelona after having just consumed several martinis,
>and a bowl of green olives on this warm autumnal Mediterranean evening.


Oh, sure, you would have to bring this up, after I've just finished the
last Manzanilla olive, and have only cheap gin and some stale ice cubes
around.  Talk about serious mental anxiety...


>				Meech


Jeanne
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: What the Hell is this?
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:00:03 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <machala.719167469@delphi> machala@spdc.ti.com (Chuck Machala) writes:
>rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:

>>ObAngst: i have a dinner date, and i just KNOW he's going to think i'm THE
>>most boring person on the face of this earth 'cause i'm so tired. 
>
>>bah.
>
>I'd be tired too if I drove to Austin, turned around and drove straight
>back :) 


well, i've pretty much recovered from that one. jeff certainly has. he has
other reasons to be tired. or so he claims. 

but i'm usually tired. i think it's kinda like the wayne's world quote where
he says: "i thought i had mono for an entire year once, but it turned out that
i was just really bored." the only problem is that when i try to do something
interesting, i get frightened and have to leave. make of that what you wish.

bah.

--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: random screams
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:25:02 GMT

In article <81037@ut-emx.uucp> llama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:

>i hate that you can't kiss someone through a telephone.


Actually, it's probably a good thing for all of us that this isn't
possible.  Just think of all the unsolicited lip contacts that you might
recieve.  Wrong numbers, too.  There's enough diseases in the world
already without having this.

Can't you see the headlines on "A Current Affair" now?  "Help, I was
Phone-Raped!"?


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary L. Schroeder  		|  
schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov         |             Boo. 
Brookhaven National Laboratory  |
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Peter Gabriel's Us
From: smithy@kenyon.edu
Date: 10 Oct 92 15:37:07 -0500
Reply-To: smithy@kenyon.edu
Organization: Kenyon College

In article <1992Oct6.054208.26836@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, dlightne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David E Lightner) writes:
> Even though I'm already familiar with Peter Gabriel's music and its somber 
> tone, I was quite struck by the level of depression expressed in his new CD 
> *Us*.  It almost sounds like a more sophisticated and sincere Morrisey.Some of 
> the lyrics go:
> 
> And in this moment, I need to be needed/ When my self-esteem is sinking,/ I 
> like to be liked/ In this emptiness and fear,/ I want to be wanted/ 'Cos I love
> to be loved
  Gee, but these lyrics sound familiar.  I think they're the same things, i
went though, at different stages of growing into my personality.   
> 
> I said please talk to me/ If you'd just talk to me/ Unblock this misery/ If 
> you'd only talk to me
> 
> Bring me something to take this pain away
> 
> 
>     On listening to the CD, I was reminded of how I felt when I was the most 
> depressed over wanting to be in a relationship, but found myself unable to find
> any woman interested in me.  What I always found most frustrating was that I 
> had no idea of how one actually enters a relationship; I could not see how one 
> ever makes the transition, since all my attempts had been unsucessful.  I hear 
> the same sort of frustration and longing in PG's songs "Come Talk To Me" and 
> "Love To Be Loved".  I have heard depression in Gabriel's songs before, but not
> this sort of personal longing.  At any rate, I recomend the CD.
> 
> Tycerium   dlightne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

I often feel like I have the same problem, of not be able to find any man
interested in me.  It sucks, but it is not always so.  Someone did become
interested in me and I don't like him.  then I'm faced with the same problem 
in reverse of how to avoid a relationship with some one you don't want , when
you reallly do want someone to love.  lame.
From: brewer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (marmoset)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: wallow wallow wallow
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:03:31 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

So, my dad was just in town for lunch this after..  In mid-hoagie he announces 
that he's going to Texas this week (what is this, a conspiracy to make me
envy everybody?) because my brother told him to stay away from his daughter 
(no, it's not like that, he's just pissed at my dad and knows that the one
way to really hurt my dad is to not let him baby-sit, you people disgust me).  
Anyway, I somehow finished the sandwich while dad and girlfriend rambled on and
on about some increbidbly idiotic incident in which my brother and he were
arguing about how long it should take to fix dad's girlfriend's van (2 weeks! 
1 week! 2! 1!) and other completely inane topics that just didn't make any 
sense, but I had to appear interested because after all, he's still my father 
and I love him, even if I suspect he is, well, you know, 60-ish...

I feel disrespectful whenever I talk to him because even though I make an 
attempt to look sincere and offer constructive advice when he's asking for it,
I always find myself thinking "For god's sake, man, you're an adult. Figure it
out for yourself.  I don't care about who was late for the get together, or 
whether he does take a snappy tone with you.  Jeesh, can't you see I'm living 
in a pig sty and don't know what to do with the rest of my life?  I've got
my own problems, okay?  Problems that you couldn't even begin to understand
because you live in Mayberry, USA and think Dan Rather is a fine young man!"
I really hate thinking that he's a bit simple, but I must admit i do.  I like
him, I really do, but I can't handle hanging out with him.  He thought I was
spending my time off at Christmas at the "family house".  oh my....

My, my, my, I've certainly indulged myself today.  Sorry to all of you who have
actually read this far along.  I know, you were probably expecting something 
with at least a little depth and not this petty whining but I just happened to
have it on my mind at the moment.  Ugh.  Now I'm getting depressed that my 
depression is so mundane.  Oh, this is so pathetic.

"Hey my little flower 
there's a message for you,
You'll find it on the shelf.
And though it's posted from Calcutta,
I know it's just a letter
That you mailed to yourself."

-Bongwater, "the drum"

Once again, my apologies to all,





--

marmoset
"green bottles!"
"BROWN BOTTLES!"
From: kovarik@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (StMeechTheThwacked)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Relinquishing a Title
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:30:27 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <1992Oct15.040706.15179@beaver.cs.washington.edu> boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>kovarik@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (StMeechTheThwacked) writes:
>>I hereby relinquish the title of Most Hellish Place to Work to
>>Manhattan, Kansas.  It hurts, I know, but I feel I must say it!!!!
>
>Who gave you the title of Most Hellish Place to Work?  A tattoo artist?
>Your dentist?  A male prostitute?  Do you have any tumors or
>pus-extruding sores that we don't know about?  Are you completely wet?
>Is nobody there but molds, parasitic insects, and a wide variety of
>worms?
>
>Did sine invite you just so you could infect everyone else?  No wonder
>she talks about being dead in three years.  It's cheaper than nuclear
>weapons, I guess.
>
>-- emb.  Conversation starter: "I bet you think you're better than me."
From: xibo@fido.econ.arizona.edu (Mr. Coates)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: wallow wallow wallow
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:15:55 GMT
	<1992Oct14.014812.21892@microunity.com>
Organization: Xibological Perimeter


ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray) writes:
# sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
#[..]
#>
#>And when it isn't them, I seem to be surrounded by people who insist on telling
#>me how wonderful their lives are going and how much fun they and their SO are
#>having fucking each other...Bah!...
#>
#>---Steve
#>..Go ahead...depress me further...tell me how much fun the Texas thing was...
#
#
#Sorry.  Didn't go.  My SO and I were having too much fun fucking each other.

ditto.



cutesy ObAngst: running low on condoms, time to go shopping again



Xibo
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Subject: Top 10 reasons why a dead girlfriend is better than an ex-girlfriend
Organization: depressed
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 14:51:36 GMT

10: You won't bump into a dead girlfriend on the streets

 9: The grave isn't a dumb asshole

 8: You won't fool yourself into believing that she is coming back

 7: You can spit on the grave and still have teeths in your mouth

 6: You can have sex with a dead girlfriend and survive it

 5: A dead girlfriend won't tell you to grow up when you complain
    that she is no longer with you

 4: People understand you if you get fucked up by a dead girlfriend 
    coming back

 3: A dead girlfriend doesn't talk with her friends

 2: A new girlfriend won't complain if you visit a dead girlfriend
           
 1: None of your friend will kiss your dead girlfriend in public
-- 
 _______________________ _________________________________
| Jesper Lauridsen      |      Life is a spectator sport  | 
| rorschak@daimi.aau.dk |     I think, therefore I angst  |
|_______________________|_________________________________|
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: wimmin!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:40:20 GMT

zeke@dante.uucp (zero kelvin) writes:
: : 
: : ObAngst: Every had the feeling of being stranded on Earth ?
: : 
: : Alex.
Stranded yes. But it is more specific than just on earth. I find that
I don`t relate well with people that don`t have something of a grasp
of computers. Sad. I have found that I consider computers to be a 
unconscious part of my life. I don`t think about them - they are just
there. Because of this I crack jokes about running "no-ops" The 
majority of this world doesn`t understand my life because they have
no relavant experiences.

Next week I am going back to Iowa to see my parents. Not only will I be
without a computer. I will be talking to people who talk about how well
the crops did or something like that. We will be speaking different languages
even though we both speak English....

I am afraid of being stranded in Iowa...
--
Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
=====================================================================
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
From: kovarik@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (StMeechTheThwacked)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: tiredness.
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:36:53 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <1b1obaINN6oc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy) writes:
>
>In a previous article, kovarik@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (StMeechTheThwacked) says:
>
>>Anxiety!!!!  ANXIETY!!!! I'm the one having the nightmare!!!!
>>And watching Travis Tritt videos!!!!!!  And every once in a while I
>>get Email about cottage brewery beer, Italian bakeries, hockey.....
>>What's a guy to do?   
>>
>>					Meech
>
>
>Go to Austin?
>
In 2 hours 45 minutes I am on the way!  Yeeeehaw!!! Bearing a litre of
Rebel Yell! And mah baseball cap!
						Meech


>Jeanne
>
>
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: wallow wallow wallow
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:29:36 GMT

In article <92506@netnews.upenn.edu> brewer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (marmoset) writes:
>
>My, my, my, I've certainly indulged myself today.  Sorry to all of you who have
>actually read this far along.  I know, you were probably expecting something 
>with at least a little depth and not this petty whining but I just happened to
>have it on my mind at the moment.  Ugh.  Now I'm getting depressed that my 
>depression is so mundane.  Oh, this is so pathetic.

Revel in its pathetic beauty, the more pathos, the better...I've got similar
problems...Both 'rents are 50 and passing and all they can do it seems is
carp on everything I do, or worry about what color the boat they're going 
to be buying is....Great, here I am confronting the fundamental questions
of existence and I'm supposed to look worried and supportive over their
marine decor angst....Feh!...

And when it isn't them, I seem to be surrounded by people who insist on telling
me how wonderful their lives are going and how much fun they and their SO are
having fucking each other...Bah!...

---Steve
...Go ahead...depress me further...tell me how much fun the Texas thing was...

-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
to hell so to speak".--Spalding Gray "Monster in a box"
From: ssc@nwu.edu (Steven Chung)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Peanuts, 10-12-92
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:52:57 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Originator: schung@casbah.acns.nwu.edu

In article <1992Oct15.221628.3585@daimi.aau.dk> rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
# hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'SCHWAibo' Hobbs) writes:

# >Allright, smart-arse, name one (count 'em) one character, fictional or
# >otherwise, who has more angst than Mr. Brown. He's not "cutesy". He's extremely
# >depressing, and, I think, rather appropriate.

Megavolt: not only does he have to rely on appliances for company, but he
has enormous amounts of anxiety from never defeating Darkwing.

Reading this group is similar to watching him explode into whines from
frustration.

	"You are *not* a well person!"
	"And you're NORMAL!?  'I am the cold sore that stings your lip?'
We're definitely talking *demented*!"

[Flame away]
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: insurance companies and soccer
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:59:49 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

The word angst appeared in The Guardian today!
There's this TV ad for an insurance co, features a guy checking soccer 
results for his pools coupon.  The killer result is Stenhousmuir 1 Arbroath 7
(these are Scottish division 2 teams).  Sten were a bit angsted at this 
portrayal of themselves as useless (esp since last Saturday THEY scored 7 
against somebody).  And THIS saturday they really play Arbroath.....
So they complained to the insurance co, who are putting up 500notes + 
50notes per goal for that game only.  Not much, but this team's typical
audience is only in the 300-500 range


              Have another day    [Armageddon, the musical] 
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: What the Hell is this?
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:57:55 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <92288.163503JMK134@psuvm.psu.edu> JMK134@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>What the Hell is this group about?


well, hell is a good start. and end, i suppose. 

ObAngst: i have a dinner date, and i just KNOW he's going to think i'm THE
most boring person on the face of this earth 'cause i'm so tired. 

bah.
--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
From: bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: parent angst
Date: 17 Oct 1992 00:15:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) says:

>somewhere back there, in a post i lost the header to, meech said:

[story of parental visits deleted...]
>> with nothing to do, but it makes them happy when I show up, so I go
>> a few times a year.

>sometimes i'm really glad that neither my father nor my stepmother has
>spoken to me since 1982. but then i see goopy christmas/thanksgiving
>stuff, or i meet someone awesome and wish i had parents to take him
>home to (so they could embarrass me by trotting out tales of what a
>weird kid i was) or i see a friend affectionately touch his dad on the
>shoulder or... sigh.
>
>it's a toss-up.
>

It is, that just it.  I am really struggling with this parental thing,
my parents are basically good people and have done their best and all,
and they really want to spend time with me, but I don't know how much
time I need to spend with them, I don't enjoy it and I think they're
kinda nuts.

I feel guilty for not appreciating my parents more, I feel guilty for
thinking they're looney, when I'm with them they try to make me feel
guilty about one thing or another -- why does the parent/child thing
always have to be about guilt?


And I'm visiting them for the next 3.5 days.  

ObAngst:  My job is so bad, it makes visiting my parents seem like a treat.

-Jeanne