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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:48:21 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <l9pv52INNkfr@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>
>When I was in junior high, I knew this family whose four daughters had
>neames all ending in -een: Doreen, Colleen, Noreen, and one more that I
>forget.  Fittingly, they were all a pain in the ass.  
>
>I don't understand why parents would go for a common theme with their
>kids' names -- or follow any particular pattern or tradition, for that
>matter.  Kids are individuals, and their names should reflect that.  


Not in Irish-American families. I have a branch of the family that has
Marys and Martins. Its so bad that they all have weird nicknames or
are addressed with their middle names. One woman who married into the family
just happened to be a Mary and after 20+ years of marriage and 20+ years
of devoted unmarried widowhood still has to be addressed by her maiden name.

The Jewish people have it right. You don't name your kid after someone
living. Makes for the wonderful Yiddish curse: "May they name a baby 
after you."

As for Irish names, the een stuff drives me nuts... Doreen, Colleen,
Noreen, Flourine, Chlorine......

The periodic table of the high school girls.

ER
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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Children called "Mike Holmes"
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 21:44:58 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow
Keywords: Jeremy Henderson, Jeremy Beadle, Jeremy Thorpe et.al.

potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes: 
| 
| peeve: the people who post a "yeah" or "me too"s and nothing more.

Yeah, me too.

(well, you *knew* it would happen, didn't you?  why else would anybody
plant something so obvious in a newsgroup like this one?)

Peeve: Inability to resist temptation, oftentimes no matter how lame the
outcome is.

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|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
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From: SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: 31 Aug 92 01:02:59 GMT
 <1992Aug27.080318.8432@mr.med.ge.com> <42431@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <42431@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
says:
>
>So, in brief, I have yet to encounter *any* piece of self-assembly
>furniture with which I am fully satisfied.

Well, my experience hasn't been quite so negative.

For example, I have a wonderful bed which falls into the self-assembly
category.  It has four bolts that you have to put in in order for it
to work as a bed.  (Well, ok, 2 out of 4 people who have slept on
this bed with me thought it was too hard, but that has nothing to do
with the fact that one puts it together oneself.)

I also have a metal bookcase from Sears which has worked out quite
well during the year-and-a-half I've had it.  The only annoying thing
about it, in fact, is the amount of time required to assemble and
disassemble it.  It even included the right amount of hardware.

However, I do know what you're talking about.  I know many people whose
experiences with self-assembly have not been so good.  For example,
one of my roommates bought a set of drawers from IKEA, and one of the
pieces had been drilled incorrectly, such that the unfinished side
faced out.

2 years ago, I lived with my friend Karen, and her mother bought her
some wall units which required assembly.  There were the usual problems
with pieces not fitting and hardware being incorrect, but the most
peevesome thing about it was assembling the back panels, which were
composed of two separate flimsy pieces that you had to attach together
with a plastic joint.

Perhaps the reason I haven't had so many problems is because I'm
generally too poor even to buy self-assembly stuff.  I usually buy
"pre-owned" furniture, some of which is at least 50 years old.

-Sonja
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Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.  - Pearl S. Buck
From: nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: own private idaho
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:52:55 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan

potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:

>In article <la7lhlINNjv@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep1.130847.1919@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
>>(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>>>peeve: you get your hair cut over the weekend (3 inches off) and monday
>>>	morning somebody greets you with "my, your hair's getting long".
>>
>>Another haircut-related peeve is that after I make a point of combing my 
>>hair the way I prefer to wear it before I let the stylist proceed, they 
>>all want to wet it down and comb it back over the top of my head, which
>>results in a completely different look than the one I had when I walked in.

>yetanotherhaircutpeeve: the time before last, i went into this ohsochic
>	salon [mistake #1] to get my hair cut. the cutter put no less than
>	5 hair products in my do. this did not include the shampoo and 
>	conditioner.

>relatedpeeve: big hair.

Peeve:  Men with hair no longer than about 3/4" to 1" long, yet they put
        a "ponytail" in the back.  They look so ignorant with a stub of about
        8 hairs in a 1/2" long ponytail sticking straight out the back of 
        their head.   

-- Mark
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings(was alt.alien.visitors)
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 26 Aug 1992 19:45:28 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Aug26.192259.26464@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:

>peeve: coffee breath.


BiggerPeeve: Morning Fecal Mouth.



Geoff


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From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: Birds
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 06:10:21 GMT

Terry Chau (tchau@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: 
: Other birding peeves:
: 	-- I can't get a good description or recording of Common Grackles

Well, how many dozen would you like?  I'd be happy to pop off a few, and
send them to you (oops, thought I was on alt.tasteless, sorry).  These
damn things are all over the place up here in Wisconsin.

: 
: By the way, this is my very first article I've written on NewsNet.  And I'm proud
: of it.

Great!  Welcome!

: -- Chau

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Fergiegate
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:20:56 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Originator: curtis@asp.cs.Berkeley.EDU

In article <la594mINN7vb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 11567@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU, curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>> How about Divine [for Queen of the USA]?
>
>I don't know if you were *deliberately* Geoffing, but Divine is even
>deader than Freddy Mercury.

Even better!  We'll parlay this into a Real Sob Story.  The undiscovered
monarch, who kicked it before a grieving nation recognized her true heritage
& appointed her Queen.  Gaudy tomb - in Hollywood - with decor a la Liberace.
It'll draw tourists like flies on shit.

c
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jc@apple.com (JC)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:02:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.040929.21530@cs.umb.edu>, mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S. Zraly) writes:

> Yes but the "normal" names are truly being mangled.  My godson's name is
> "Kristofer" for chrissake, and that's no misprint!
> 

What's up with this?  I have a neice named Rebekke (traditional German spelling,
I'm told) -- pronounced like Rebecca...  Sigh...  Poor kid, her name is going
to be misspelled her whole life.

-jc
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From: corby@ssf-sys.DHL.COM (Corby Anderson)
Subject: Re: Contest!
Organization: DHL Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 06:51:40 GMT
Keywords: Losers

In article <la86h7INN1os@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>In article <1992Sep02.001428.3215@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
>
>>|> What was the name of Nick and Nora Charles' dog?
> 
>>   The answer, vaguely remembered by many, was Asta.
>
>Awesome.  Now how about letting the other shoe drop: Who are Nick and
>Nora Charles?
>

Stars of the "Thin Man" movies.  I've never figured out why it's not
"Thin People."  And this damned pre-Benji dog Asta - why isn't he
included in the title?  He's in every movie!  Why isn't it "Thin People
and a Dog?"  I wish I could name a couple of those oh-so-great smash
hits or specify their era with some degree of accuracy (black and white...
lessee... that would place it some time after 1860 but before the great
media-marketeer uprising of '59...) but I'm sure that the moment I say
something concrete I'll make an entire brand-new circle of friends who
are just dying to tell me all about how Nick and Nora didn't *really* start
making movies until such-and-such a year, and Asta was *really* played
by two different dogs.  Well I won't stand for it!  Knock it off!

Corby Anderson
corby@ssf-sys.dhl.com
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: alt.alien.visitors, the ultimate anti-peeve
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 04:50:33 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <4r_nrnk@lynx.unm.edu>, Chris Baldwin writes:

> In article <92Aug20.005751.25678@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:

[Sob story about being a poor student, elided]

> 	This really is an !Peeve, since I do like football. I'm sure that 
> there are plenty of you who can use the same thing by just removing the '!'.

American Football is just men trying to kill each other legally,
with enough padding added to make the game last longer before a
team has to retire 'hurt'. 'Longer' being eight to twelve hours.

Perhaps Al In Oz can explain Australian Rugby League to our North
American readers ... Another game which I loath.

Peeve:  American Football.  American Baseball - the competition
which you yanks have the nerve to call "World Cup", when only
American teams are eligable to play the damned game.

Cricket has a 'world cup' too, but it has teams from disparate
sides of the world playing in the competition.

Not that I like cricket - choreographed boredom, with too many
seagulls, and damned annoying commentators.

The only sport I like watching is the 'fuck up' scenes, where
people do spectacularly offbeat things within the confines of
their sport - like running full pelt into three metre high
fences, or smashing their cars into concrete bollards, or skiing
smoothely into the dayglo orange safety netting, and ending up
strung upside down.

Oh, and an honorable mention to tennis, watching John McEnroe
bleat about the unfairness of it all. Triffic fun.

I can just imagine Jeremy Beadle setting him up. The televised
version would no doubt be a continual 'bleep' audio track. :-)
[American's will, no doubt, be confused by the reference to
Mr Beadle.]

!Peeve: British televisual feasts.

MegaSportsPeeve:   Golf.

Enough said.

Dac
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Contest!
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 2 Sep 1992 01:34:31 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com
Keywords: Losers



In article <1992Sep02.001428.3215@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:

>|> What was the name of Nick and Nora Charles' dog?
 
>   The answer, vaguely remembered by many, was Asta.



Awesome.  Now how about letting the other shoe drop: Who are Nick and
Nora Charles?



Geoff


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From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Parents who subject their kids to strange names
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:57:34 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher


I guess this could be called a related peeve - or
a relative peeve, or even a peeve for a relative
who, had she had alt.peeves available would no doubt
HAVE peeved about her name.

I think she was my dad's cousin, or second cousin.
The family name was Park.  She was born in the late
1800's - she's been dead for many years, so I'm a
bit hazy on details.  At any rate, her parents
decided to honor the latest celebrity of the time,
as often is done today, and name their new-born
daughter in honor of the event.

The name they saddled my 'great aunt' with was:

Ione Yosemite Park(*)

Needless to say, she grew up "afflicted" - of sorts.
Never married, far as I ever knew (I don't recall
ever hearing a last name for her).  She called herself
"Semmie" all her life - that's what I knew her as.

Diana

(*) For those who can't sound it out,
it comes out as "I own Yosemite Park".
I think we had the 100 year anniversary
of it's ParkHood recently - or maybe the
150th year anniversary, and she was named
in honor of the 50th anniversary...
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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 14:26:44 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow
Keywords: Losers

In article <1992Aug24.154520.13273@access.usask.ca>, nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly) writes:
|> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
|> >!Peeve:  Ridiculous names from our grandparents' era are becoming extinct.
|> >Thankfully, nobody seems to be naming the kids Clarence, Walter, Cora,
|> >Harold, Martha, Viola, Fred or Andrew anymore.
|> 
|> Not in my family.  My sister Phyllis has three boys, and she really fucked up
|> when she named two of them.  Imagine growing up with the name "Graham" or 
|> "Adam".  
|> 
|> Peeve:  First names that aren't too bad, but when placed with the last name, 
|>         really sound funny.  Case in point:  my sister Joanne named her son
|>         Dustin.  Passable.  But you really have to wonder what she was 
|>         thinking at the time, because her last name is Dyck (pronounced Dick).
|>         Put the two together, and you get Dustin Dyck--which translates into
|>         much teasing fuel once he starts school.
|> 

Oh please.  This is hardly peeve fodder at all.  My grandparents up in the
north Georgia mountains were named William Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Cochran.
It's hard to get much more vanilla than that.  They had 5 children who they
named (in order of appearance):

Clemern Covell
Verta Lee Vernell
Delia Arvilla-Mae
Elvire Elmo 
Joseph Alvie

Nobody knows what they were on when they came up with these names.  They're
not family names (thank *god*), and I've never heard most of them anywhere
else.  All I can figure is that they had some sort of hang-up about "v"
sounds, since it appears in every single name.  All of the kids were so
impressed with their names, that only two of them actually used them, my aunt
Vernell and my uncle Al. The others all took nicknames.

!PeeveOfMyLifetime: My dad had the good grace and common sense not to name 
either me or my brother Clemern Covell Junior. "Junior" has its own set of
problems, but coupled with Clemern Covell, it would have been unbearable
(note the nifty tie-in to the subject line).

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|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Originator: curtis@boa.cs.Berkeley.EDU
Keywords: _self_-_control_.  _self_-_control_.
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:19:21 GMT

SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers) smiles innocently and writes:
>
>Well, ok, 2 out of 4 people who have slept on this bed with me thought it
>was too hard.

I am not going to _touch_ this straight-line.
I am not even going to _think_ about touching this straight-line.

c
"with my ten-foot pole..."
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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 21:49:58 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes: 
| 
| =>Okay, I 'fess up. I was named after Scott's Porage Oats: stodgy,
| =>difficult to stomach, generally abandoned half-eaten. Could do with
| =>some salt. An attempt to find something to do with the EC grain surplus.
| 
| And I could have sworn that you were (aptly) named after a race of miserable
| bastards - the Scots.

OK, who declared "national post a straight line just to increase traffic in
alt<dot>peeves" day?  First, l""p and her "me too" prompt, and now something
for those of us of Scottish descent, not to mention all the Scots that live
in Peevetown.  Where are you, Alex?  

Time to pull something new from the quote file for my .sig.

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|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Kill all Laundry Matriarchs!
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:47:23

Grmph.  My sympathies.  The only truly unpleasant part of our
Denmark vacation this year (other than nearly puking on one of
the roller coasters in Tivoli) was when we had to face facts and
admit it was time to do laundry.

It was 8:30 PM when we got our stuff together, and the only
laundromat within reasonable distance of our motel room was
only open until 9.  At nine a woman came in, picked up the
cigarette butts from the floor, and locked up.  She told us
we could stay until our laundry was done, just make sure the 
door was locked when we left.  

She didn't tell us the lights would go off automatically at
10, and there was nothing we could do about it.  I love groping
around a hot dryer drum in the dark, checking for forgotten
clothes.  Erg.

BonusPeeve: The laundry was still damp, but we couldn't work
the automat to get additional dryer time, since we couldn't
see the damn buttons.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Concert peeve!
Date: 4 Sep 92 10:55:58 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

[...peeve about the cascade effect of folks standing at concerts
deleted..]

Yeah, I hate it when that happens too, but I can relate the tale of the
one time it didn't....

wheeeewowweeeeeowweeeeoowww <scenery ripples back to Stonehenge 1983
(jeremy will *love* this....)>

It's about 10pm, the sun is going down on a nice balmy evening. Folks
are sat for about a quarter mile back in a circle arc in front of an
outdoor pyramid stage. The outer arc is circled by hamburger stalls and
the cry of "Acid, three pounds fifty" wafts gently across the summer breeze...

Hawkwind take the stage and folks at the front stand up to dance.  Those
of us further back (even in 1983, I was getting more laidback at these
things) with picnics of one sort and another were faced with the
tiresome task of actually standing.  It seemed like a basically bad idea
and much to my surprise, a group of face-painted women behind me started
shouting "SIT DOWN".  Things happened slowly back then, it took a while
for the chain of imagined causality to connect: "if people shout sit
down, and (hang on, let me think about this a bit), those folks at the
front actually sit down, then ummm, where was I? ah yes, if the people
at the front sit down.......  then we'll be able to see even though
we're not standing.  But will they be able to hear us through all those
stalks of corn with the eyes on top?" Yeah, the dragons will relay the
sound particles to the front.  And so the "Sit Down Now" mantra was
born. 

As the mantra passed through the crowd and got louder and louder. Louder
even than Hawkwind at this stage. Folks near the front began sheepishly
to look behind them and actually sit down. Then specific targetting
began for the more clueless: "HOi, you with the afghan, sit fucking
DOWN!" Loads of clapping and "SIT DOWN, SIT DOWN", the fascism of
horzontal posture was on the march. Finally, once the band realised that
they were unable to compete with this (outside generators at free
festivals aren't always powerful) they actually stopped and announced
"right, those at the back want to see, so we're not gonna play until
everybody sits down". Excellent! This worked in no time.

Unfortunately there is also a peeve. Nik Turner seemed to be even more
out of it than most of the audience and got started on one of his rants,
"The President's Tapes" one I think. Brock seemed a bit put out at this
and they had an argument. After this, Turner refused to play the same
song as everyone else and there was a "fracas" on stage. This is still
on record as the only Hawkwind concert I ever walked out on.

On the other hand, they played again at sunrise and sounded like they
were back on track again. I wasn't too sorry when Turner left the band
in '84 though.

FoFP
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From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Lost and Found
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 21:07:45 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God


Found: One cold found near the residence of Russ Kepler. Would the owner
please pick it up immediately as it wants to go home and I am sick(heh!) of 
having it.

Peeve: Waking up in the morning with a sore throat, stuffy head, watery eyes,
etc. I can deal with this in the winter when I expect to be sick, but not in
the middle of the summer.

-- 
Chris Baldwin                | Robert Johnson invented the pickle! 
baldwin@carina.unm.edu       |                         - Adam Reid
          If I were a carpenter I'd hammer on my piglet. -- TMBG
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