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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 22:36:22 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly) writes: 
| hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
| 
| >Peeve: Paying tax on airplane tickets. Why not just include the tax in the
| >listed fare?
| 
| Come on up to Canada, and you can pay tax on your restaurant meals, doughnuts,
| haircuts, movie tickets, gasoline, cigarettes, clothing, *and* airline 
| tickets...Newspapers too.  So quit bitching.  You got it easy.

Peeve: The "I've got it worse than you have, so you have no right to complain
about it" mentality.  This form of one-upmanship is just barely above the
"Back in *my* day..." lead-ins that I always find so tiresome.

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|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
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|Dr. Pavlov's distinguished career came to an      |
|abrupt end one day when the doorbell rang and the |
|dog ate the Avon lady.                            |
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly)
Subject: Overhead projectors
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:47:10 GMT

What really bugs me is not necessarily the projector itself, but rather the 
person that focused it.  I cannot remember having looked at a perfectly 
focused image from an overhead projector.  There is always some portion of 
the image that is ever-so-slightly out of focus.  That portion plays hell
with my eyes.  They start to water, and sometimes ache from even a few 
minutes of this torture.  

Peeve:  Letting the person giving the presentation know that it is out of 
        focus, and they only transfer the distortion to a new part of the 
        screen.

Peeve:  After this happens, my eyes feel funny, and it seems that everything
        is out of focus.

-- Mark

Every dogma has its day. 

Xref: sparky alt.peeves:15690 talk.religion.misc:18374
From: dab@ism.isc.com (Dave Butterfield)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:02:44 GMT
Organization: x
NNTP-Posting-Host: change

dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us writes:
=>>| Making furniture isn't brain surgery and it isn't art.  
=>It is indeed an art form.  People who are able to make furniture,
=>real furniture, are craftsman, artisans.  People who can nail together
=>boards and make functional bookcases and "This End Up"(tm) 
=>crate-style furniture are, at best, carpenter-like.
=
=Jesus Christ!

Well, on a crutch.

-- 
          Magic is the art of assuming a role strongly enough
          that the Universe falls into the complementary role.
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hare Triggers
Date: 8 Oct 92 07:10:50 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Elaine "Tiger-butt" Richards) writes:
>Uh, has anyone noticed that I am the only bunnyhugger in Peevetown? I

I never said you were a bunny-hugger.  I just used the term to
describe your preference in swimwear.

>By the way, tomorrow is my birthday, so be nice to me.

It *is tomorrow, now.  Tough shit, babe.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no
 heart. He who does so as an adult has no brain."  - John Moore
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Subject: Investment Advice
Keywords: Losers
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu
Organization: Up the,
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:45:51 GMT

Without inviting flames by describing the economic situation of
which we are all aware, I will describe my investment strategy
for the 90's.  

First, interest rates are so low, one may as well bury the money 
in the yard.  The stock market?  Maybe something listed on the Nikkei,
but like rats abandoning a sinking ship, your average Bush supporter
is getting out of the American market.  Real estate is always a 
good investment, barring a populist revolution and land reform,
but for those of more modest economic means, let me suggest a 
trip to the pawn shop.

To save you the trip, you'll see three things: jewelry, musical
instruments, and guns.  For the short term, jewelry and musical
instruments should hold their value nicely, but, as these are
often the first things pawned in a depression, the bottom could
fall out not too far in the future.

In short, the smart money is in guns.  Even if you don't like guns,
have no interest in shooting, and refuse to purchase bullets, a
couple of pistols now could be the difference between freedom and
debtor's prison in '98.  And, unlike jewelry, they can pay dividends
when times get really bad.

The people of this group should be doing fairly well when the new 
world order arrives, judging by the postings here.  Maybe I'll
be seeing some of you on the boards of the surviving companies,
after the crash.

-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major
medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options.
Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal.
          Tim Mefford___________________tim@physics.orst.edu
From: henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Chunderation
Date: 13 Oct 1992 01:45:16 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203

In article <ldjtsoINNbdk@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>(Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>>>Ok, so you're more than a student.  You're still less than a
>>>restaraunt owner, which was my point.
>
>>"less than a restaurant owner"?  
>
>"You're something *other* than a restaurant owner."
>
>Sheesh.

You were right the first time.  Jenny-poo's nit-picking was just stupidity.
In order to be a restaurant owner, certain things have to be true of you.
There is a set of associated, defining properties. If you have some of these
properties and not others, you fall short of being a restaurant owner.  That
is, you are less than a restaurant owner:  You need to have things added (e.g.,
restaurant ownership) in order to become a restaurant owner.  In just the same
way we say that someone is more than a restaraunt owner (e.g., "He's more
than a restaraunt owner; he's also an accomplished writer.") when they have
all the properties defining being a restaraunt owner plus some others.  

Peeve:  People who sully the art of picking nits.


Matthew J. Henken  :-{<Does that make her less than a nit picker?
		       Nope.  It just makes her a bad one.>]
henken@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: hosch2263@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Apartment Peeves
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:14:59 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1b3chrINNnpl@agate.berkeley.edu>, henken@ocf.berkeley.edu 
(Matthew J. Henken) writes:



> Peeve:  Construction noise from renovation of other apartments.

        Try living with the #@$$#@ construction.  We lived in the second story
of a house which the landlord decided to renovate.  He tore out a wall and
expanded the second floor to be even with the first.  In doing so...

He and his asshole sons were tearing up shingles at 7:30 on a Sunday morning
right outside our bedroom window.

He tore out a wall and left us with a huge hole.

I returned one afternoon to find our bedroom door moved to the other side of
the bedroom, plaster dust coating everything in the bedroom, and all our stuff
shoved into a corner.

He had the nerve to complain about our dirty dishes in the sink.  When I
cleaned out the sink, I found a six inch spike at the bottom.

The plasterers did a rotten job.  The woodwork was spattered and we had to
clean plaster off of our stuff.

And, to top it all off, he abandoned our apartment's renovation to work on two
other projects, leaving us with the mess for six months.
                
        Now we live in an apartment which is not under construction and is
owned by a different landlord.  The neighbors are even good about the music.

        Kitten

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        I have PMS.  What's your excuse?
                hosch2263@uni.iscs.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Recipe Swapping on alt.peeves (was Re: Pained Whale?)
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:58:15 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <5lfp3q-@lynx.unm.edu>, baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
>In article <Bvp0KE.JKM@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Monsieur Not Al, Cordon Bleu Masterchef) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct06.005208.22550@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
>>> The group has been somewhat boring lately anyway, someone should post
>>> some recipes that actually work.  
>>
>>Speak, and it shall be done...
>>
>>Cheese On Toast
>>---------------
>>[Brilliant recipe deleted. I will have to try this one.]
> 	My personal favorite is Kraft(tm) Cheese and Macaroni. This
> stuff is so simple that I have only known one person to ever screw
> it up. I will point out where he went wrong in the recipe.

Peeve #1: Blatant commercial plugs....as if Kraft Corp. was the only
licensed Mac-and-Cheese maker in the universe.

>[Another brilliant recipe deleted.]
> 	That's all there is to it. A meal fit for a poor college student.
> If you're feeling really adventurous and happen to have an extra $1 or so,
> add a can of tuna to during the stirring phase. Be sure o drain it first.

I have an even more goof-proof "recipe": Microwave popcorn and Pepsi.

1) Insert popcorn bag in microwave.
2) Cook on high for 5 minutes or till flash point.
3) Insert coins in Pepsi machine.
4) Press button labeled "Pepsi."

Voila...a meal for the evening.

Peeve #2: The synthetic grease (aka "real butter flavor") that sticks
to your fingers.

AntiPeeve #1: No one notices when you're watching a really cool movie
with friends.

AntiPeeve #2: No more braces for popcorn kernels to lodge in.  Yay!
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch)
Subject: Peevetown Poet Laureate (was: Re: Freshers)
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:28:23 GMT

In article <1bcdluINN419@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu  
(Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> !Peeve: Any book by Hunter S. Thompson, P. J. O'Rourke, or Cactus Ed  
Abbey.
> 
> Born peevers all.  They missed their shot at the bullseye but
> we must salute them for what they might have been.

OK fine, but if you're looking for a thriller you'll have to chuck Tom  
Clancy and check out Richard Hoyt (Decoys, 30 for a Harry, Smooth  
Runnings, Trotsky's Run, Head of State, Siege, Dragon Portfolio,  
Siskyou, Manna Enzyme, and others). Made for peevers.

Hoyt actually was in intelligence; Clancy is just a long-time wannabe.  
Hoyt has a sense of humor, quirky politics, and an outrageous  
imagination; Clancy seems ignorant of the concept. Sure, Clancy is a  
good read, but Hoyt makes you go "Yesssss <ObArmPumpingMotion>!"

Peeve: That good writers write more slowly than bad writers.
--
 
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.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:23:14 GMT

In article <17757@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM
(Elaine Richards) writes:

>Death and taxes. Two constants and two peeves.

!Anti-Peeve: They don't come in that order.

++++++++++++++++++++seth     sethb@fid.morgan.com++++++++++++++++++++
 And anyway, who elected God? We have a major dictator here. He keeps
his own torture chamber for those that disagree with him and has been
known to commit mass atrocities, child-slaying, a rape question that
was never settled, and even let his own kid take the rap for other
folks. WE need a UN Resolution on this one for sure. He should stand
down until we can have a properly monitored election for the post of
Supreme Deity. -- M Holmes
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:25:31 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Oct6.214020.6107@mel.dit.csiro.au> jen187@mis.csiro.au
(Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812) writes:

>Yes, correct, you win the prize which is;  You get to eat
>that other persons brain all by yourself.

Cool!  I'll put it in the fridge and slice off bits of it for sandwiches.
Sorta like those turkey loafs you can buy, the ones that come in the
little oblong foil pans, only without gravy.


>Here's a bit of ancienttrivia for the aged players in here.
>Pearl was produced in quadraphonic format. Very big for a month
>or two during 1970.

Ektually, quadraphonic didn't come out until the 1973-74 timeframe.  I
remember this, because it was during the time that I was a faithful devourer
of National Lampoon.  The magazine contained many ads for quadraphonic 
equipment then, along with other ads for Mona Gorilla T-shirts, Maxell 
recording tape, Zig-Zag rolling papers <gasp!> and records by obscure artists
that nobody had ever heard of at the time, like Danny Kortchmar and Lou Reed.
(This was before "Take a Walk On the Wild Side.")  In addition to articles
and comix that were actually funny.

Peeve:  Every time I mention that I use Maxell tape, the person I'm talking
        to can be depended on to say, "Oh, I use TDK."  Now, I have nothing
        against TDK tape.  It's just that the predictability of the replies
        annoys me to no end.

Peeve:  People who call it "Maxwell" tape.

!Peeve: Waking up on my own at 5:30 this morning, which allowed me to get
        to the office long before anyone else.  The silence is deafening.
        It's wonderful!


Geoff


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From: esp51@cas.org
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:47:07 GMT
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio

a@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:

>bedtime."  As for my *phallic* pacifier, sucking your fantasy of a
>dick would be no great chore.

I'm not sure what you're offering here drew. What ever it is, I'll pass.


>Now why don't you ask my mommy what those words mean.  You probably
>see her more often than I do.
>
Wow, what a set up.  Tempting...,naw, I'll pass on that one too.

Scott Park

I am not spokesman for my company.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: esp51@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Alarm Surprize! (was Big mac's and students)
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:31:54 GMT

>> K-Tell's Theorem: The length of time a song will remain lodged in one's
>>         head is in direct proportion to its undesirability.
>
>pants bottoms belled out, my hair grew long and blow-dried, and then a
>white disco outfit appeared on my body from nowhere.
>  -Sy Sperling

I was listening to a pop station in my car the other night which
plays nothing but top 40 stuff.  There was a disco rap tune which
was nothing but the theme from "Sesamy Street" (the childrens show
on PBS) emblished with electronic drums.  Surely I was hallucinating.
What's the next radical youth movement going to be called, the
Big Bird revolution?

Peeve: mindless crass commercialism dreamed up by marketing departments
of record companys (owned by the Japanese?)

Peeve (I could read a book but its easier to ask) question:  How did
the Irish conflict get divided on religious lines?  Am I correct in
assuming the Protestants are (generally) middle and upper classers
associated with England, and the Catholics are the working class?
Catholics more left wing, Protestants more right?  What is the
main Protestant church in Ireland? Lutheran?

Peeve:  Faith.  What ever it is I don't want it.  It apparently
annihilates common sense to where one starts believing in Virgin Births
and other Greek mythology fairytales (offspring of a God and human =
Demigod = Jesus).

Scott (I don't even believe in Atheism any more) Park

Opinions are mine only, I do not represent my company as spokesman.
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Debate?
Date: 12 Oct 1992 17:54:06 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: moccasin.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <LARRY.92Oct12093026@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
>
>Sheesh. I'm peeved that at what is being called a Debate. What I remember
>as a debate involves some profound statement or premise, e.g. "Government
>should tax organized religion" or such, with two opposing speakers or 
>teams to defend/refute the clause.

I think the term you're looking for is "circle jerk."

c
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch)
Subject: Re: Assorted peeves (collect 'em, trade 'em with your friends)
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:37:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct07.212346.1825@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu  
(Tim Mefford) writes:
> I've always been amazed at those who, despite living in a college  
town
> where bicycle theft is the third largest industry, (after bicycle  
sales,
> second, and urine lite, first) who feel compelled to get a $1200  
mountain
> traversal system, and then sacrifice their quality of life to theft  
paranoia.
> 
> Is it that an old balloon tired flier with a basket on the rear won't  
get 
> you across town, or that you need to compensate for genitalia  
inadequacy?
> When you get down to it, that's the schlong and the short of it.
> 

Mornings and evenings I see these guys racing to and from work. Every  
weekend I see them pounding their way up into the Santa Cruz mountains.  
Now if you really want *exercise* the last thing you need is a highly  
efficient bicycle. What you do is get yourself an old clunker with a  
solid cast-iron frame, rusty pedal cranks, underinflated tires rubbing  
against the forks, maybe some playing cards clothespinned on going  
<clickaclickaclickaclicka> on the spokes. Now ride that puppy up into  
the mountains and you'll know what a workout is.
So the puzzle is solved: people would rather spend money than do work.  
What else is new?
--
 
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.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: (Im)personal stereos
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:08:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.213708.14547@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> dtrytten@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Deborah Trytten) writes:
>
>I recall my worst personal stereo nightmare.  As a graduate student, I
>was asked to take a make-up test at the same time as a small group of
>undergraduates.  One of these little twerps came in wearing a walkman.


Where the hell was the TA?  I'm a TA, and one of the few joys I derive from
my position is making sure those sleazy little undergrads are as miserable
as possible during the test.  I take their walkmans, I take their baseball
caps, I take any books that they have out of their bags at any point during the
exam.  I actually had one kid come in with a walkman containing a tape on which
he'd put all the info he needed for the test.  Incredible.

Peeve:  The undergrad coalition that makes it next to impossible to punish
any of these kids for cheating.  I wouldn't mind so much if the kids did a
decent job of it.  The last test I gave, some idiot came in wearing a
hunter orange t-shirt, sat in the dead middle of the third row, and spent the
entire test copying from the chick next to him's paper.  And I can't even give
this guy an F on the test - all I can do is have him retake it alone.  When
he handed his paper in, I told him that he had to see me after the test was 
over and refused to let him leave.  I sat him down and gave him some pointers
on how to cheat properly, explaining that what he had done was an insult to
my intelligence.

!Peeve:  Undergrads say the darnest things.  I love grading papers that have 
statements like "Clarence Thomas is the first black ever to be elected to
the Supreme Court," or "Pavlov caused salvation in dogs."
-- 
***************************************************************************
jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu is Jenny Gutbezahl @ Univ. of Mass, Amherst
****************************************************************************
These opinions are all mine.  Flame all you want, I'll make more
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Esoteric Skinhead O'Connor (Was stuff about Mac D's)
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:14:37 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <lnmp6bl@lynx.unm.edu>, baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
> In article <1992Oct08.075413.21375@sco.COM> charless@sco.COM (AutoPope) writes:
>>Shit, my earliest teen-age crush was on Siouxie Sioux ...)
> 	After the whole Dan Fogleberg(sp?) thing not too far behind us I
> hesitate to ask, but who in the heck is Siouxie Sioux?
> 
Unless I miss my guess, she's the lead singer of Siouxie and the Banshees
Mike
From: scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Jeffrey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was Re: credit card peeve)
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:29:31 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.


In article <1992Oct14.015720.8532@dg-rtp.dg.com> A. Jing Hippy writes:

>Peeve: Incredibly poor excuses.  Buddy Holly died before I was born. [ ... ]

	Buddy Holly's dead?!?!  Does Geoff know about this?


ObPeeve:  I was in the bathroom stall today, and I saw some chicken scratch
on the wall that looked something like this:

	25
	13
	--
	38

Now obviously, the gentleman was adding 25 and 13.  What I want to know is;
what kind of BDI can't figure this out in his head, without having to get it
in writing? And this is supposed to be a high-tech kind of place. Frightening.

scooter

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