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From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
Subject: Re: WWWWWHHHHAAAATTTTT????????
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:03:00 GMT
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
Originator: ross-c@csparc2

In article <ssrfagg.719034927@reading> ssrfagg@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Graham Edward Fagg) writes:
>wwwwwwwwhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyy ssssssshhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuullllllddddddd
>aaaannnnyyyyyyyyyzzzz   bbbbbbbbboooooodddddyyyyyyyyyy  !stop! wwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhining
>?????????????????????????????????????????
[loosely translated: why should anybody stop whining?]

Well, it's like the old story about your favourite food, if you eat it all 
the time there's nothing special about it and you get tired of it. It's like
good times and bad times. Without bad times to compare, the good times aren't
half as good. So, when you've been mildly contented all day, but you turn on
the television and find that a rerun of "I love Lucy" has been cancelled to
televise mankind's first contact with extra-terrestrials, and you pick up
that phone and dial the television station, you *know* that you're going
to be able to whine the way you were born to!

I hope that clears everything up.

Cheers,

Ross-c

PS: HHHHHIIIIIIII DDDDDAAAAANNNNN AAAANNNNDDDDD SSSAAAANNNDDDDYYYY!!!!!!
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
Subject: WWWWWHHHHAAAATTTTT????????
Date: 7 Oct 92 22:38:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
Originator: ross-c@csparc12

WHY HAVEN'T THERE BEEENNNNN AAAANNNNYYYYY POOOSTINNGGGSSS IIINNN AALLTT.WHINE???

I'LL TELL YOU WHY, COZ THERE'S ONLY 5000 OF US!!!! I JUST HAD A LOOK IN
NEWS.LISTS!!!!!!

LISTEN YOU PEOPLE THAT IS SIMPLY *NOT* GOOD ENOUGH! THERE HAVE TO BE *MORE*
OF YOU OUT THERE SO THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING TO READ!!!!!

MISC.JOBS.OFFERRED HAS 160,000 READERS. COUNT 'EM, 160,000!!!!

SO! THAT MAKES YOU FEEL EMBARRASSED DOES IT? WELL, IT SERVES YOU RIGHT!!!

BAH, HUMBUG!

ROSS-C
From: christin@cae.wisc.edu (Christine Haas)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
Subject: For My Brother .. WHAAAAAAAAAA
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:09:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering


I thought I would whine a bit before I sent this

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa...............  (I feel better now :)

Hi,

I am posting this for my brother who is looking for a female
with which to correspond by U.S. mail (he does not have computer
access.)

He is 29 years old, brown hair, brown eyes, 6' tall, and being
his little sister, I have no clue how much he weighs.  

He wants to write letters to someone on the basis of a friendship.

If you are interested, please e-mail me and I will tell you more
and give you his address.

Thanks.

Chris.  :)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
From: brad@riemann.math.mun.ca (Brad Gover)
Subject: university bullshit
Summary: bullshit o' university
Keywords: bull, shit, university, you make the call
Organization: No, actually I'm rather confused
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:15:28 GMT

(Please read with much despair and angst)

Auuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!
Auuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!
Auuuuuuuu-hack,hack,cough,cough-gggggggghhhhhhhhh!
Whimper, whimper, slobber, slobber, (and best of all) WHINE!

Man o' man (sorry - I guess to be politically correct that should be
Person o' person) am I ever having a BAAAAAD (hey, who let the sheep in?)
day!

I guess all the university students and grads and especially dropouts can
attest to the shit that happens to undergrads.  Well, the almighty
distributer o' bovine excrement has sure paid me a dandy-deedley-
doodley visit today.

My inherent apathetic nature has allowed me to survive the first three
years o' university life without getting too upset when the powers-
that-be decided (rather maliciously I believe) to shit on my parade.

Well, today they went too far.  (Enter Clint Eastwood with stony stare
and have him say "...swell.")

They finally managed to awake the raging beast (probably more like a 
smurf or something!) deep inside my psyche.

The beloved university gods have given me a bittersweet blessing:

They're finally offering a course that I can really get into and enjoy,
but get this - the prof (shithead) that they're getting (paying HUGE
amounts of moola) to teach the damn thing is an incomprehensible
idiot (no speaka da coherent englisha!).

Auuuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhh!
Auuuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhh!

Well, thanks for your time, and please feel free to flame away and
not worry about belittling the fact that this is pretty important
to me - God knows I'd certainly do the same to you!


BG (yeah, the one in the tacky white disco suit)
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
Subject: Re: WWWWWHHHHAAAATTTTT????????
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:53:58 GMT
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
Originator: ross-c@csparc2

In article <Bw1GKt.37t@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward) writes:
><DFH101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>|stop your whining.
>
>stop whining about their whining.

stop whining about their whining about their whining.

Cheers,

Ross-c
Newsgroups: alt.whine
From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Red red whine
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:24:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.223409.13316@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>  writes:
: Daaaadddddeeeeee!!

Beer.

--
   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
                                                     molson@rever.nmsu.edu
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree
    Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
                                                                Ogden Nash
From: job@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jeffrey Oliver Breen)
Newsgroups: alt.org.food-not-bombs
Subject: Food not bombs?
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:02:32 GMT
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

I have a question about the name of this organization: "Food not
bombs".  Are we supposed to assume that if we fired all the people in
all of the factories that make all of the bombs, that they'd all become
farmers and grow more food?  ;-)

On a serious note, I think slashing farm subsidies would probably do
more to drive down the cost of food than gutting the defense budget.

Just my two cents worth,
Jeffrey
-- 
+-----------
| Jeffrey Oliver Breen   Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
| (617) 495-7252         60 Garden St., Room B-340, MS 6, Cambridge, MA  02138
|
From: rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Free Radical)
Newsgroups: alt.org.food-not-bombs
Subject: Re: Members of food not bombs anywhere?
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:09:48 GMT
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U

In article <troyer.718391226@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.edu>
troyer@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.edu (John M. Troyer) writes: 
>Are there any actual members of Food Not Bombs on this group? 

John - yes, there are.  I'm working on getting the leader of the
Boston FNB on the net, and I help out when I can.

	RA

rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Rogue Agent)
----------------------------------------
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of advanced mathematics. If you'd like a circular describing these new
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ask for one.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:22:15 EDT
From: <WMV102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.org.food-not-bombs
Subject: Re: Members of food not bombs anywhere?

In article <troyer.718391226@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.edu>, troyer@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.edu
(John M. Troyer) says:
>Are there any actual members of Food Not Bombs on this group?
>
>At all?

Yes John.  Well actually since I left San Francisco I haven't been a
member, really, but my old buddy Anil in SF sure is.  He's a rocking
fella, too.  goobbledy gook gobbledy go.  PS this is my first message,
so Anil, here's your chance to be the first to send me mail.
Martin vW
From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
Subject: Seashells
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 9 Oct 92 06:49:19 GMT

I've thought about it -- minerals are pretty to the eyes, but have the
hard edges and sharp corners (most of them) that make them pretty only
while they're sitting in a cabinet.  On the other hand, shells are nice
and round, and sized almost perfectly for the hand.  (This is similar to
chicken eggs; people love them because they feel wonderful sitting in
your palm.)  The shells have NO hard edges; they can't, since the animal
that lived in it was too soft to tolerate anything rough.  The only edge
is the smooth, ceramic-like edge running along the outside.

I have a conch shell that's pretty large, and it has the outside cut
away -- only the pink, silky interior is left.  If people admire it, I
hand it to them (it's pretty robust) and watch while they talk to me.
Without exception, they will start stroking that wonderful, soft, silken
surface unconsciously; their hands just start rubbing it.

As beautiful as crystals are, most of them (and I know that many people
love them, and please don't get pissed at me; I KNOW how gorgeous they
are) are just not that way, except for jade -- and then it has to be cut
into a pleasing shape.  The shell just assumes that shape; people have
nothing to do with it.  Implicit in this world and its processes are
some things that just intersect perfectly with the human body and human
hands.

The shape can be described quite elegantly with bonehead math; the
mollusc doesn't know math.  It just does it.  Again, implicit in the
universe are rules that make things like this, things that are beautiful
even to the nonscientist.

As gorgeous as human-made sculptures are, I just can't imagine that
anything could be as beautiful, for sheer balance, gentle curvature,
robustness of materials, and tactile pleasure, than your average spiral
shell.  NOTHING is that beautiful.  Nothing.

I've got to work this thing into my ritual; big spiral shells like this
dolium and my nautilus and conch.  They must be consecrated; strictly
speaking, they already are.  Sacredness permeates their every line and
curve.

Sorry for the blabbing.  I'm just a bit bowled over by spiral shells if
I pick them up and start thinking about how animals make them, live in
them, create them, start them as young animals.  I hold them and just
let them rest in my hand, finding their own balance point.  I run my
fingers over the surface and feel it curving.  I hold it up to the light
and let the light shine through it, revealing inner things.

I'm going to get another one tomorrow.  There's one particular kind that
looks like an ibex's horn.  Or maybe another fat, round, breastlike one
like the dolium.

Oh, well.  It's late right now, and I'm just letting my mind wander.

Blessings,
Janis  

Xref: sparky alt.pagan:11153 alt.sex:33051 alt.sex.bondage:19655
From: stratton@sumax.seattleu.edu (Paul Stratton)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan,alt.sex,alt.sex.bondage
Subject: Re: Halloween
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:30:48 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

In article <Bw56Jx.BHr@access.digex.com> corun@access.digex.com (Corun MacAnndra) writes:
>Tell me something. Woadya do with a drunken sailor?

Make him Captain of an Exxon tanker. :-(

Paul
From: gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Halloween
Distribution: world
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 08:34:07 GMT
Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents


In article <1beonsINNkrh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an725@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:

 > >Go as a Pict.  Blue grease paint put on your body in swirls and
 > >animal patterns and nothing else :)

You can always grow *woad* yourself as a herb, and extract the genuine
dye used by the Picts.

Gil

--
Gil Hardwick                                      gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au
Independent Consulting Ethnologist                            3:690/660.6
PERTH, Western Australia                                 (+61 9) 399 2401
   * * Sustainable Community Development & Environmental Education * *
From: wce@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Bill Eichman)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Witches and death
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:24:07 GMT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:

> Bill, dear friend, I simply prefer not to get too rigorous about it here
> in alt.pagan.
> 

Well, as I am wont to say, if it don't amuse you, pass it by, pass it by.

Later, Bill
From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: "Are you ready for the Rapture?"
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:31:06 GMT
Organization: LLNL

In article <1992Oct8.125901.29278@news.acns.nwu.edu> Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.222528.14536@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> 
> boylan@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Steve Boylan) writes:
@ 
@ Local telephone poles and such have been plastered of late with signs
@ with a big red cross, reading:
@ 
@ 	Are you ready for the rapture?
@ 
@ 	Jesus is coming
@ 
@ 	October 28, 1992

>This is an un-biblical notion (see Matt 24:36 "No one knows about that 
>day or hour...")

	Try telling that to those who claimed to have worked out the
actual date some time, and see what response you get.
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
From: markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr)
Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:20:10 GMT
Organization: Radian Cormp.

In article <ldreh1INNaos@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.222403.43855@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, kumagic@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Stephen R. Figgins) writes:
>> 
>> I believe in the superiority of the female.  I know of one other man
>> who feels like I do, but in general, men and women's roles in
<stuff deleted>> 
>> Then again, I think men are mostly scum.  I think they can recover
>> from scumminess, but like alcoholics, I think we need to fess up to
>> being scum before we can really start down the road to recovery. 
>
>Are you serious?  If so, then this is the saddest piece of self hatred
>I've seen in a long time.  It doesn't do anybody any good -- it obviously
>doesn't do men any good if they think they're scum no matter what, but it
>doesn't do women any good either.  Hey, my parents and my ex-husband always
>told me that all men were selfish, hot-tempered and childish.  So when my
>husband was selfish, hot-tempered, and childish I never complained about
>it.  Why bother?  Any man would act like that.  Guess what?  It's not true.
>There's plenty of guys out there who act like adults.  
>
>Please, get some self esteem, stop feeding yourself these defeating messages,
>and please, please, please don't say stupid things like this where some
>young boy might read them and think he doesn't have any control over how
>he acts.  This isn't pagan philosophy; this is a problem you have.
>
>Dawn

I second Dawn's cmts. If this is what you truly think, Stephen, then I think
that you have grown up/live in a truly horrible subset of the world, and that
you need to *seriously* a) get counseling, and b) break your ties where
you are, and get into a different subset (not to say circle) of the world.

I'm beige (as opposed to white, not being an albino). I grew up in a 
neighborhood that became part of the ghetto, while I was there. I've lived
in Yuppified areas, and I've lived in slums. I've seen men who were scum
(and would be considered uprightstanding pillars of the community (of course
Tricky Dick comes to mind)), and others who might be considered scum by some,
who were truly, and surprisingly, good people. Saying that all men are scum
is the same as saying no woman has enough strength of character to hold high
political office. There are *people* who are scum. Some of them are women, 
and some are men. Generic labels that cover *everyone*, with no qualifications,
are not only false, but blind you to what good there is in a person. 

I believe that I have been true to myself, and to the things I believe. In fact,
I think that if I were to meet the 'me' at age 18, the younger me would still
like me. I am not scum, nor has anyone ever said that of me. (Lots of other
things, but not that.) Look at yourself in these lights, and reconsider your
position.

	mark
From: law10@po.CWRU.Edu (Lorrie A. Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Oh, oopsies . . .
Date: 8 Oct 1992 02:51:56 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


	Well, eariler today, in a non sequitur in another post, I said I had
_Principia_Discordia_. Well, I still do.  But y'all may ALSO be interested
to know:

	alt.fnord -- no -- alt.kallisti -- wrong again! -- alt.discordia
(yeah that's it) is now OPEN!  A functional (or dysfunctional, in actuality)
Usenet Newsgroup (tm) (or maybe not).

	The important thing about THAT (besides the fact of its existence) is
that some lovely pope posted the ENTIRE THING (oy, the BANDWIDTH!).  The
post is headed, "How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."

	I'm trying to steer people there because I'm basically lazy and try
to mail the silly thing as little as possible as this takes MUCH time (100k
file!!).

	But if your reader or whatever doesn't like either the newsgroup or
the size of the post in question, I'll be more than happy to send it to you
e-mail!  Really!

(insert something or other here)

Read You Later . . .

-- 
"All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in
some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense,
false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in
some sense." -- _Principia_Discordia_ -- the Book of the Church of Eris (Chaos)
From: mickw@autodesk.com (Mick Washbrook)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Witches and death
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:41:33 GMT

In article <5405@gold.gvg.tek.com>, conib@peri.gvg.tek.com (Coni Britten) writes:
> 
> Gil -- what's that big Australian rock-mountain, sorta brick-colored,
> called?  It's fantastic.  I can just *feel* the wonderful majesty and
> nurturing power coming from just a video tape of it!

I think you're fooling yourself.


--
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
From: boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
Subject: Re: "Are you ready for the Rapture?"
Reply-To: boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:46:24 GMT


I heard a related story on the news yesterday.  Seems one of the
leaders of the "Jesus is Coming This Month!" movement was discovered
to have socked away about $4E6 of his follower's contributions.  Over
half was placed in investments that won't mature until next May . . .

				- - Steve

				boylan@ljohub.enet.dec.com
From: Ken.Cusick@f29.n112.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Cusick)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Add
Date: 11 Oct 92 04:58:00 EST


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Newsgroups: alt.pagan
From: mongoose@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Conrad Leviston)
Subject: Re: cats and magic
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:54:22 GMT

	There is a book I believe, called something like '1001 cat dreams'. I
won't tell the story here cos I'll probably get it wrong (if anyone knows
it please post a followup). It is a great story but it makes one fatal
flaw. It accepts that humans are dominant over cats. If you want to see
the ultimate in feline life forms, keep an eye out for the British t.v.
series Red Dwarf.
-- 
Conrad Leviston	 | Got to find a brightness in the soul,
mongoose@yoyo.	 | Not look outside to find out where we are,
cc.monash.edu.au | Otherwise you won't be satisfied, 
Save the gherkin | 'Til you've made possession of the stars. (K.Wallinger)
From: liam@alehaus.uucp (liam)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Binding or Protective Spells
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 11:15:36 CDT
Organization: The Alehaus, a Brewer's Witch affiliate, alehaus@brewich.hou.tx.us

PA142138@utkvm1.utk.edu (Nancy Proctor) writes:

> A very dear friend of mine is being harassed by a co-worker.  The harassment
> has gone to the point of vandalism and property damage.  I did a binding spel
> to render the harasser powerless to harm my friend and was really surprised
> (and a little pissed off) when my friend's car was spray painted only one
> week later.
> Have any of you had experience with this sort of thing?
> Do you have any suggestions?  Would a protection spell be more likely to have
> a positive effect?  The situation is fairly serious and the police (who are
> very sympathetic) say they can't do anything without firm evidence.  The
> perpetrator is a bit unstable and may contemplate action more serious than
> what has already occurred.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Blessings,
> 
>       Nancy
> 
> 
> 
> ///////////////////////////////
> Nancy Josephine Proctor . . . . PA142138@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU
> 
> "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
>                                  Eugene Ionesco
> 
> ////////////////////////////// . . .
> 

        Has your friend tried going through the usual mundane channels; 
ie. restraining orders etc?  Also is there any hard evidence against this 
person that can be used in court? If your friend hasn't tried these I 
would strongly recomend that they do. 
        Other than that I would say DEFINATLEY sheild this person and 
keep trying. Also what is your friend's view of magic, does this person 
KNOW that it will work, or do they view it as just a nice gesture 
without being capable of doing any actual good? If this is the case, I 
would recomend that you try it without your friend being present. One 
more point, Do You know that your workings will be successful, as faith 
is one of the key factors in preforming any kind of magical working.
        I apologise for any offense that this may cause, but I am trying 
to look at all the possible causes of the problem as objectively as 
possible and offer whatever help I can.
                                        Blessed Be,
                                                 Liam

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     "Old witches never die....they just move in different circles"
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Amazon warriors
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:30:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <1992Oct15.193314.27787@csus.edu> altheimm@nextnet.csus.edu (Murray Altheim) writes:

>A more reasonable conclusion is that men have generally been
>raised to not only hold open doors for women, but PROTECT them as well.

Protect us from what?  Think about it.

Blessings,
Janis 
Newsgroups: alt.pagan