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From: steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lazing on a peevish afternoon
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:13:25 GMT
Organization: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In <31448@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:

>Have you by any chance checked what you are allowed to take in the way of
>cabin baggage? I was thoroughly peeved when I discovered what I'm allowed
>to take with me on my forthcoming Stateside visit.

I just checked when you mentioned this.  I'm allowed 50 cm x 37 cm x 25 cm,
the usual.

Peeve:  My carry-on weighs a ton.

Anti-Peeve:  My carry-on size isn't that important anyway.  Most people on
the 747 (it's confirmed, it is a 747) will be getting off in Seattle, I'm
sure, so I won't have to compete with them in the luggage line-up in
Vancouver.
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From: dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (David Munroe)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: QuasiKrautFussing
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:00:23 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc

In article <1992Apr15.182946.9843@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>ObPeeve:  Languages (like English) without the guts to string
>6 nouns together into one word, or (even wimpier, like Spanish)
>that never put lots of nouns in a row and use "de la" and the
>like in order to make things clearer.  (NOT.)

I was amused to learn that "finger" in Spanish is "dado" and "toe" is "el
dado del pie" ("the finger of the foot"?).

Anyway, English is not reluctant to string nouns together, but usually when
there are many of them, a specialized noun is created rather than having six
nouns strung together.

When you get one of those little instruction booklets printed in several
languages, it's interesting to compare the different texts side by side.
English is far more compact than French, Spanish, or Italian.  Often, however,
the French or Spanish text will leave out a phrase or a sentence and end up
looking the same size as the English text.

-Dave
From: donb@tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Good tailgater/bad tailgater
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:26:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: igor.1992Apr16.202609.8741
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco

The other day I saw something that reminded me of a peeve I've been
meaning to post.  I was driving South on 101 towards Mountain View,
around 8:00 at night.  I noticed somebody driving along in the exit
lane, doing about 50 (maybe less).  Suddenly, some bozo in a Mercedes
pulled up behind the slow car and started tailgating it.

Mind you, this was nowhere near an exit and traffic was really light;
the tailgater could have easily passed the slow car.  His motivation
seemed to be forcing the other car to go faster.

Now, I'd break tailgating down into two categories:  good tailgating
and bad tailgating.  Good tailgating is when you're stuck and some
bozo in the fast lane is just sitting there, doing 55; if you get that
person to move, you're making a positive contribution to traffic flow.
On the other hand, tailgating someone just for the heck of it is
dumb, IMO.


ObBob:  Linda Lovelace in "Deep Throat"
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From: ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The Lemming)
Subject: Re: Cold Showers
Organization: Yale University
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 20:19:31 EDT

In article <10227@cernvax.cern.ch>
steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
 
>Obweirdness:  I never have understood how English food got such a bad
>reputation.  I like meat & potatoes, myself, at least every once in a while.
 
But the English seem to think that meat should be cooked until it
resembles a greyish lump of shoe leather.  Beef should be rare!
Barely warm in the center!  Bright red!  Dripping with warm blood as
if freshly killed with your own teeth after a hard chase across the
savanna.  Blood!  Blood!  (snarl, drool)
 
ObPeeve:  Now I'm hungry.
 
 
Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
ellbrua@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Psychology (was: Re: Lawyers not Chemists)
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 01:19:52 GMT


Ancient peeve:

    Worker Dude:  What're you majorin' in, Gus?
    Smooth-cheeked young Phil:  Physics.
    Worker Dude:  Oh, yeah! Ya mean Ex-Lax, castor oil...

This happened at least twice a day for two summers.  Bletch.

Phil "I haven't seen most of my cheeks since 1978" Gustafson

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From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:28:06 GMT
Organization: Shoulderpads o' Satan, Inc.

Sonja and Pauline have a heart to heart about shoulder pads.
Peeves Pauline:

>counter peeve:  when a shoulder pad is held in by two thin
>threads.  upon first donning the item, one of thehreads breaks
>and you now have a lump in very weird places.   a lump that
>won't stay on the shoulder.

Dan'sShoulderPadPeeve: Slinky underwear (like slippery camisoles and other
antipeeves) that comes with shoulder pads.

Why?

Emphatic why.

It's not as if anyone is *not* going to notice huge obvious lumps riding   
on their shoulders. 

It's not as if at that delicate point in time where all one would be wearing
would be something like *that* there is still the need to use the pads to lure
and trap prey ("o god those big shoulders of yours transform my weenie into
nearly two inches of throbbing pink steel").

Lame-o.

-- 
"I used to be an extravert until I decided I hated people. I hate parties, I
 hate classes and I hate going to the supermarket."   -- Melissa Paterson
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Psychology (was: Re: Lawyers not Chemists)
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:31:39 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <92104.091835JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.061855.14756@cs.brown.edu>, cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis
>Yarvin) says:
>>Has psychotherapy ever cured a manic-depressive?
>
>Sortof.  If you give a manic depressive the appropriate drugs,
>psychotherapy can sometimes prevent him from having to stay on them
>forever, by encouraging his brain to produce the appropriate
>neurochemicals on its own.  At least that's what I was taught.

Sure - but in my case my experience shows otherwise.  Diagnosed
"hyperactive" at the age of 11 and megadosed on Librium and Dexadrine
for some 6 years.  Didn't work, and I got to kick both a physical and
psychological addiction.  Fun.

Not everything you're taught works everywhere, everytime.

>RelatedPeeve: Many people act about psychologists the same way they act
>about Christians: If I've met a bad one, all of them are bad.

Yeah?  Well just how many times have you seen your psychologist enter
a confessional?  Hmmm?  Maybe they *are* one and the same crowd! ;-)

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232
From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: For Sale. Not!
Date: 10 Apr 1992 02:51:19 GMT
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.cs.brown.edu

In article <92100.193125MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Peeve: People who offer to sell or buy something over the Net. It's
>something you want; you reply saying you want it. They reply, saying
>"OK, it's yours. Send me your real address." You send it.
>And at this point, the person you're selling to/buying from DROPS OFF
>THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

Like, duh.  I mean, what do you expect?  I do so hate to denigrate, but look,
friend Polevaulter, don't you think there's a reason God created COD?

c
From: scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Free)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:39:08 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <ku1507INNai@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis) writes:
> 
> In article <9361@wrgate.wr.tek.com> dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (Dave Munroe) 
> writes:
> 
> >Other pocquers are people at restaurants who rap coins or keys on the table,
> >and people who chew ice, noisily slamming down the water glass after each
> >ingestion of cubes.
> 
> One thing that's always really gotten on my nerves, and I don't know why,
> is when people stand around idly swinging their arms back and forth,
> culminating in a clap or a snap of the fingers when their hands meet in
> front of them.  Maybe it's because it's just enough noise and activity to 
> be distracting, without generatring any useful information.


	Or how about what I call 'wall-huggers' - those people who have to tap
on each wall panel as they walk down an aisle?  

ObPeeve:  I was in a toy store last night, and I would guess that 70% of the
stock has teenage mutant ninja turtles somewhere on it.  Those fuggin' turtles
are on everything from bikes to playing cards to Easter baskets!  It's hard
enough trying to teach my son about when it's okay (and not okay) to carry a 
weapon, and when it's justifiable to stand up for yourself, without seeing those
fuggin' turtles everywhere you turn.  Fuggin' turtles.

scooter
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: Re: Beef(was: Cold Showers)
Summary: Eating beef
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 05:02:36 GMT

In article steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
> In baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
> 
> >	Since you eat it well-done you know nothing about beef. You
> >are probably an expert in shoe leather and near charcoal, however. 
> >The only time a piece of beef should be cooked this way is if it is
> >a truely lousy piece of meat and you are trying to cover that fact up.
> 
> If a steak is properly cooked (ie well-done) it WILL be juicy and WILL
> taste very good.  People like you who equate "well-done" with "shoe leather"
> have obviously never had a properly cooked steak.

Sorry Steve, I can't agree with you on this one. Anyone that cooks a steak
beyond the "pink in the center" point is missing half of the meat: after a
certain point most of the tasty fat in the beef liquifies and the water in
the meat vapourizes. What is left is *not* as full flavoured and juicy as
one slightly less cooked.

> (*) - Although I'm 26 I didn't eat steak till I had teeth, of course, and
>  my beef consumption dropped markedly when I moved away from Alberta and had
>  to start paying for the stuff.

!Peeve: Anything made from a cow or a sheep is relatively cheap in Australia.

Peeve: Australian beef is range fed (or something...) and is not as tender or
as tasty as Alberta beef. It is still good though...

Although, as they say in Italy, "you must be from the south, *far* south.":-)
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From: cplma@groper.jcu.edu.au (Lynn Alford)
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 09:10:06 GMT

In <6vpjlj=@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

>Peeve: Group projects for class. Dealing with my own procrastination is
>bad enough, but being subjected to other peoples' is *way* peevesome.

AntiPeeve:  Having done the infamous group project last year, I can sit 
back and listen to lots of people bitch about it this year.  Great fun.

Peeve:  People who insist on walking or jogging around the campus at night, 
in dark clothes and have their backs to the traffic.  Usually walking in groups of three or more so they can claim the maximum amount of road.  They will 
refuse to leave the road, even when you are right behind them and there is
another car on the other side.  Free clue, I weigh much more than you do in 
a Nissan utility.

Lynn
-- 
The screen of my Mac doesn't really resemble my desktop despite being designed 
to support the desktop metaphor (1), and the windows on my terminal bear only 
the slightest relation to the contraptions that lets drafts into my office.  
Stroustrup.  1) I wouldn't be able to tolerate such a mess on my screen anyway.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Subject: Re: Bush For (Ex)President in '92!
Keywords: I recommend that you increase the dosage.
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:56:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.213626.6343@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>
>Following the "thoughts" above to their logical conclusion, I imagine
>you're in favor of eliminating the police and the legal system, so that
>we may experience total freedom to kill, screw and eat.
>What?  You want to be protected from machete-wielding, goat-buggering
>sociopaths?
>Make up your mind, dude, you can't have it both ways...

On the contrary, Don, as a white male, the police and the legal system 
are the most systematic and effective means for me to disarm the majority,
reap the lion's share of the food, and manipulate an oppressive social 
structure into providing coerced sex.

On a more subtle level, our language assists me by earmarking those who
refer to others as "dude" for severe repression.

ObBob: Packwood (U.S. Senator, approprite for the theme, somehow)


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From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (Software Dude)
Subject: Re: Clearing Up a Weirdness
Organization: WHAT?
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:02:22 GMT

drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>
>I may like cars, but I have yet to find the long
>term meaningful relationships worth the emotional
>overhead associated with Dating an Auto.
>
I did, too. Till I woke up in jail after a drunken Friday night.
Made me glad I'm dating my "Judge"!

P.S. Asked my "'Cuda" out for seafood, and she kicked my exhaust pipe!
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Puter		puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com		Go UofL Cardinals!
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Beef(was: Cold Showers)
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:03:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.x2rj86h
Organization: Atheists for the Development of a Better God

In article <10235@cernvax.cern.ch> steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
>Only ignorant city-slickers have this bizarre notion that beef should be
>served rare.  Those of us who actually RAISE cattle know better.

	Well, Steve, lemme tell you a little story. My grandfather once
invited some people over to his house for dinner. This was back in the
'50's or 60's, so I wasn't actually there, but this story gets told whenever 
some wierdo that married into the family wants a piece of beef cooked
more than medium rare. Anyway, since he owned a cattle ranch in the heart
of Texas, he decided to cook steak for dinner. So, about the time the
steaks were just reaching the rare stage, he asks how they wanted there
steaks cooked. His guests wanted them well done. Being a gracious host,
he ruined some perfectly good beef to satisfy his guests. Later, he
told me grandmother to remind him that if these people ever came over
again that they were to have chicken, since he refused to ruin any more
fine beef.

>The ONLY way a steak should be cooked is well-done.  If you do it properly
>(which the English don't, admittedly) it'll be nice and juicy and still
>cooked all the way through.  Such a steak will taste delicious.  A love
>of rare meat is the mark of somebody who understands nothing about beef.

	Since you eat it well-done you know nothing about beef. You
are probably an expert in shoe leather and near charcoal, however. 
The only time a piece of beef should be cooked this way is if it is
a truely lousy piece of meat and you are trying to cover that fact up.

ObPeeve: Steak night at the cafeteria. When I used to go to New Mexico
Tech, the caf would have steak night every once in a while. It was a 
truely horrifying experience. Even well-done, there was nothing that
could be done to save this meat.

>If you don't believe me, fine, eat it rare.  You're the one who'll get a
>tapeworm or die of Mad Cow Disease, not me.
	This is the chance you gotta take to fully enjoy a good piece
of beef.
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From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: I'll be honest with you.
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:39:33 GMT

In article <199204141840.AA25233@tuna.wang.com> DAVID.BUSHONG@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Dave Bushong") writes:
>Why is it that when you're in a meeting, and someone begins a sentence
>with "I'll be honest with you" -- they AREN'T????!  Does that also mean
>that the rest of the time they won't be honest with you?  Well?

well, dave, i'll be honest with you--it's a conspiracy. against you.



-- 
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* What do you tell forever's children when it's their turn to hurt and heal? *
* What ever spins the grim tornado can also turn a potter's wheel.           *
************************************************************** --Bill Danoff *
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:30:01 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <304@bbx.basis.com> russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:

>ObPeeve: I know I peeved about it before, but really... these
>telephone beggars are really pissing me off.  The "Police Athletic
>League", "Sherriff Benefit", "Dead Cop Payoff" (whatever) calling
>constantly and begging for money for programs I really can't support. 
>Really pisses me off.

Had a great bit of sales pitch from some guy who came round to my flat
on SUNDAY NIGHT (pillock!  I hope he was getting overtime)

Guy:  Good evening.  I am here on behalf of a company...
Me (thinks):  (Oh my god not another unemployed deaf person trying to
sell crap paintings of the Tower of London door-to-door)
But no....
Guy:  And I wondered if you would be interested in improving your
lifestyle (blah blah) with a fitted kitchen...(trails off taking note of
the patch on my jeans, the tatty wrecked bicycle in the hallway and the
list of suspiciously non-Scottish names on the door) - er - is this a
student flat?
Me;  Not exactly but it is rented.  (private snigger).
Him: (Last ditch attempt to get foot in door) - well would your landlord
be interested...no I guess not.  

(looks downcast)

Hey, man, if you want to sell fitted kitchens go to RICH-looking HOUSES
with BMWs parked outside.  NOT to tenement blocks which are obviously
full of students since 
a.  There is no entryphone system on the ground floor and
b.  There is a list of 17 present and ex-occupants on the door who are
still receiving mail at this address.

Poor sod.  I was just relieved it wasn't the
deaf-and-blind-disabled-artist we had last week.

Babs
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Where'd he get his name?
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:50:27 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <9468@wrgate.wr.tek.com> David Munroe writes:

> [ ... ]
>Next on Geraldo: the wimmen of alt.peeves!
>
>I want to see if a particular female Poaster matches my impression of her
>as a young Lauren Bacall.

Gee, Dave, I dunno, can this beauty be captured adequately in a mere
GIF?  Your imagination is undoubtedly multidimensional, and superior to
anything postable.

And which fair Peevetown lass are you dreaming about, anyway?

>-Dave

-- 
Rick Gordon        |  "The more things change, the more different 
rickg@netcom.com   |     they get." -- S. Krishna of Copenhagen 
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From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Organization: Sensitive Guys Martial Arts and Gun Club
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:45:23 GMT

In an article that my newsreader would always barf, puke, and
die while trying to reply to, Geoff "They call me MISTER alt.tasteless"
Miller wrote something to the effect of:

>In article <1992Apr8.040803.24061@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
>bberbeni@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes>

>>Really fat women have darkened skin/ callouses on their buttocks
>>where the skin has chafed together over the decades.
>>Same is probably true with their luscious thighs.  Oh baby.
>>Time to go punish Cap'n Blinky now at the mere thought of it.

>Last night I dreamed I got it on with Golda Meir.  It added a
>whole new wrinkle to my sex life!

	I can't get hard until I see lard!  Pardon while I grab
a back-issue of BBW and wank off to the girdle ads...

--
<Daniel R. Sorenson   Dod #1066  |If Iowa State University agreed with me >
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu <- work |I'd make $90K/yr.  They don't, I don't. >
<viking@iastate.edu      <- play |"I am *not* goofing off.  I am driving  >
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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Amurrica (was Re: peeve dump)
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:45:39 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <31235@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
>In article <11032@autodesk.COM>, booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>> 
>> Peeve: I still have not had a chance to ride a horse.
>
>Peeve: The fact that a nation full of people desperately trying
>to relive the nineteenth century (sometimes A.D. sometimes B.C.)
>still manages to remain an economic superpower and register 
>technological advances.


Since when are horses at odds with technology? Riding a horse is
one of the archetypical American experiences, just like drinking
warm beer and complaining about Tories is an archetypical British
experience.  Maybe if your people spent more time riding horses
and shooting pistols and less time grousing about the interminable
rain, you collectively could come up with something a little
better than Prolog and Royal watching.


Peeve: Stuffy POMs.

!Peeve: Tacky Westerns.
>
>Peeve: Reading this newsgroup gives the impression that the above
>nation is full of people obsessed with guns, whose attitude seems to
>be "don't leave home without one". Despite this, there remains some
>semblance of law and order over there, where a state of complete
>anarchy would appear to be well-deserved.

I personally dread firearms, but decided to fire them in a safe
situation a couple of times in order to get over my fear of them.
If you don't like something, its a good idea to learn to understand
it.

ER
--
*"I mean it could make a big difference in your life if you thought that 
*you didn't need to depend on some musty old dogma thats riddled with
*translation problems, and started acting from the center of your own being."
*					-Owen Rowley