HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (David Munroe)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gif
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:34:17 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc

In article <1992Apr15.144342.24685@orlith.bates.edu> ahubbell@orlith.bates.edu (Arlyn Hubbell) writes:

>Peeve:  Gifs.  Enough already!  Do you *really* think I care what you
>        look like?  


Enough of us here want to see the GIF's.  If you don't like them, then you
can type 'n', unsubscribe, or learn how to use a killfile.

-Dave

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  the flesh from bones, giant slugs of partially chewed meat forced down
  my throat by the sheer weight of the meat and blood behind it.
								- Russ Kepler
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From: steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:31:43 GMT
Organization: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In <1992Apr9.065007.16316@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian) writes:

>	As for the various cabals around the world, I think Claudio
>(though I'm sure Interpol has a pic of him already), Babs, Steve, and
>the rest of the *major poasters* on here (that includes you, dak,
>though you inherently agree to allow us to make fun of your rotund
>presence in the middle of a barren wasteland) really deserve not
>only the extra recognition a GIF would provide, but it would
>undoubtedly allow all of us to recognize each other the next time
>we gather at the Hiney Winery in beautiful downtown Des Moines, Iowa
>for a PeeveFest.

Talk about a run-on sentence!!

Anyway, Claudio has already posted his (heh heh) mug shot.

I don't have any means of posting a GIF of myself that I know of.  Too
bad, because my student ID photo would make an awesome GIF.  You might not
want me at any peevefests after seeing it, but that's all right because I
have no plans to go to Iowa anyway.

Still, I think all of you who can post a GIF should.

-- 
_|\ |V| /|_  Steve Bougerolle, U. of British Columbia Physics Dept.
\  \| |/  /   and the OPAL experiment, CERN, Geneva CH
 >_______<    STEVEB@CERNVAX.UUCP  STEVEB@CERNVM.CERN.CH
     !        STEVEB@CERNVM.BITNET  45397::STEVEB (HEPnet)
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Commercials (again)
Date: 11 Apr 92 22:50:56 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford) writes:

>Let me state for the record that any pop, or soda (but not tonic) that 
>contains Nutrasweet is vile crap.  It leaves a horrible aftertaste.
>Those of you trying to rationalize drinking these products: Yes, I can
>taste the difference immediately and I would not want to get used to it.

Don't worry.  If you dilute diet ginger ale with scotch, it tastes OK.
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"It's not an adult feature unless someone's gooey at the end."
 -- Bill Hicks
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Superfluous andRedundant Debate
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:01:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: autodesk.11075
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Apr14.145202.1014@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
>
>Why why why why why why!? Why on Earth do some people IN-fuckin-SIST
>on carrying on a point when they have already swayed my opinion to 
>their own point of view?


1.  Because they are not thoroughly convinced you are listening.
2.  Because they are worried/obsessed/emotional about it enough
    that they need to spout off about it.

Peeve: People whose idea of listening behavior is to stand and stare.

Peeve: When cats sit and stare, nothing is going on up there.

!Peeve: I finally figured out how to stop the kitchen serenade. I carry
	a plant sprayer. It shuts them up and clears the kitchen out.

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
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Paul Mather)
Subject: Re: voting
Organization: Centre for Applied Obfuscation.
Keywords: democracy/inaction
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:32:38 GMT

In article <31352@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
> I *do not trust them*. Neil Kinnock gives me the creeps only slightly less
> than Gerald Kaufmann (who has been noticeably absent during the election
> campaign on account of his frightening the voters).

Nice to see you concentrating on *policies* and not *personalities*.

BTW: Most of the Tory voter-frighteners have been lying low too (Baker,
Clarke, et al).

Peeve:  Irrational voting criteria.

> Now the *really* peeving thing is that because I have *dared* to say I
> don't vote for Labour I will now be labelled by the more right-on types as
> a "fascist", a "Nazi" or a "Tory supporter". WILL YOU BRAIN-DEAD PEOPLE GET
> IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS THAT THERE'S MORE TO POLITICS THAN TORY VS
> LABOUR AND THAT I THINK THEY ARE *BOTH* A WASTE OF TIME!!!!!

Damn you, you fascist Nazi Tory supporter!  You are daring though. :-)

Thank you for explaining to me the Tory vs. Labour dichotomy.  I feel
as if I have been enlightened and a great weight lifted from my mind.

Peeve:  People who think THEY are the only ones smart enough to
know what politics is all about.

> > "We believe that politics is a pious profession that should not be muddled
> > by conflict and controversy."
> >   - from the manifesto of the Natural Law Party, April 1992
> 
> Definitely. We should have had one of these guys standing (or should that
> be levitating?) in my constituency.

Incidentally, how many candidates *did* the Natural Law party field?
Enough to form a government?

Peeve:  People who think it's cool to support the Natural Law party
just because they're so off-the-wall.

!Peeve:  Seeing most people crap themselves at having to attend yogic
flying classes and associated NewAge stuff were they ever actually to
get in.

Disclaimer:  These peeves are not intended to apply to any specific
person, either living or dead, sentient or brain-damaged.  The white
zone is for loading and unloading only.

NearTheEndPeeve:  Our crappy political system.

Cheers,

Paul.

-- 
e-mail: p.mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk

If your mailer can't reach me, I'm obviously not worth talking to.

"Time we left this [country] today"	--- Hawkwind.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,rec.humor,talk.bizarre
From: hampe@bones.nas.nasa.gov (Andrew F. Hampe)
Subject: do NOt Try This At HOME
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility NASA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 05:25:25 GMT
Reply-To: hampe@bones.nas.nasa.gov (Andrew F. Hampe)

In article <ku6a7jINN8j4@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Lee Kuan Yew) writes:

|> In article <!8qj2+@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
|> 
|> >Try graduating from college with a B.A. in psycholology (with a thesis
|> >on Jungian archetypes) and see how many companies are beating down *your*
|> >door to pay you minimum wage.
|> 
|> 
|> 		"Take my archetypes -- please!"
|> 
|> 
|> 				-- Henny Jungman 
|> Geoff


Kids, Do NOT try this at home, this Man is a Paid
Professional, and Understands the prerequisite of 
Safety Prior to Attmpting these Bold Leaps into
the UnKnown, and the UnKnowable.


ciao
drieux
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 20:31:46 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lemon Gin, Rape
 <19798@castle.ed.ac.uk> <19808@castle.ed.ac.uk> <31017@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
 <167C2FABB.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>

In article <167C2FABB.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
(The Lemming) says:
[peeves about how all students are assumed to be liberals.]
>
>Me:  "No.  I'm a registered Republican.  I don't vote in the Democratic
>      primary."
>
>OS:  (goes into an apoplectic shock)
 :: [other student]

It's even worse when you're a member of a "liberal" student group, such
as the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Student Alliance here at PSU.

[after lengthy political discussion about why all oppressions are
 interrelated, and how we must fight to change all of them, rather than
 just fighting for our own little group's concern (gay rights, of course)]

Me: Oh, and I don't agree with Affirmative Action either.

OS: Why not?

Me: A number of reasons.  One, which I have witnessed myself, is that
    many people who are hired through affirmative action programs seem
    to expect everything to be handed to them on a platter, and perform
    badly.  I have even heard such people talk about how they don't really
    have to do anything, because they can't get fired unless they burn
    down the building on purpose, and maybe not even then.

OS: I think we'd better stop having this conversation before I explode.

(Incidentally, I changed my voter registration from Republican to Democrat
specifically for this primary.  I'm actually a Libertarian, so I have no
sincere party affiliation either way.)

Peeve: People who think that just because you belong to the same minority
group they do, you agree with them about everything.

Peeve2: People who only want to talk about politics with people they
agree with.

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
...you may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try.                                  - Beverly Sills
From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Psychology (was: Re: Lawyers not Chemists)
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:43:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: faust.STEINAR.92Apr15224301
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Dan Hillman writes:
> There's nothing more annoying than working a peevesome summer job
>during college (my own summers working in a quahog packaging factory springs
>to mind) and having people asking you what you're studying:
>        Worker Dude: Hey, college kid, whatcha studyin'?
>        Foolish Dan: Psychology.
>        Worker Dude: Whoa! Hey, look out for this kid, he's gonna
>                     psychoanalyze all of us!!!
>
>Eventually, you learn to lie:
>        Worker Dude: Hey, college kid, whatcha studyin'?
>          Wiser Dan: Molecular biophysics.
>        Worker Dude: Oh.

Try substituting "linguistics" for "psychology" in the above situation.

Bleah.

"Yeah?  So how many languages do you speak?"

There are two responses that i've found work:
1. Honesty.  Explain that's not what you mean by studying linguistics, 
and hope to Odin they're not interested enough in what you're really
studying to continue the conversation.  (It helps to have some other
topic at hand that will be more interesting to the particular moron(s)
you're talking to.)

2. Lying through your teeth.  Claim to be studying some language that's
only spoken in a one-square-km area of Papua New Guinea.  If they
ask to hear a sample, recite an insult or nonsense phrase from a 
language you do know (but they don't), and laugh inwardly when they
get impressed.  

Or you can always swat them over the head with a heavy object, but that
tends to cause more problem than it solves.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:20:22 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Apr11.013737.4209@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> 
phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>>It makes me peevish when people think I'm dangerous just because I'm a 
>>guy, and a fairly large one.  

>Maybe it's because you're clean-cut and wholesome-looking, like all the
>other guys who start shooting from towers or slaughtering buildings full
>of nurses.  I'm quite hairy, and a bit portly, and haven't scared anybody
>lately.

Hairy, perhaps, but portly?  I never noticed.

I was walking around out at Shoreline Park at dusk yesterday, and I had 
another one of these experiences.  Walking back toward my car, I approached
a middle-aged lady and a man in perhaps his late sixties.  They were stand-
ing on opposite sides of the trail looking at birds or something; I didn't
really notice.  I kept up my stride, planning to walk between them and
continue on my way.  As I approached, the lady started stage-whispering to
her companion with an anxious tone in her voice:  "Matt!  Matt!"  She was
clearly trying to alert her friend to my approach, apparently thinking
that I was going to jump the guy.  He never did take notice, apparently being
a bit hard of hearing,  and I stepped between them and continued on my way. 
I made a point of listening discreetly after I'd gone by, and the lack of any
subsequent conversation confired my suspicions -- she'd tried to warn the old 
guy of an impending attack!  Sheesh.  People are *so* skittish these days!

I suspect that one reason I tend to make people uneasy in such settings is
because I have a fast, purposeful stride, even when I'm not in any partic-
ular hurry.  It's just the way I walk.  Oh well, it's their problem, not
mine.  I figure it's better to make that kind of impression on people than
to have them assume that I'm some kind of harmless milquetoast.



Geoff


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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:37:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: zorch.1992Apr11.013737.4209
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <ku6nl6INN9n0@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>
>It makes me peevish when people think I'm dangerous just because I'm a 
>guy, and a fairly large one.  

Maybe it's because you're clean-cut and wholesome-looking, like all the
other guys who start shooting from towers or slaughtering buildings full
of nurses.  I'm quite hairy, and a bit portly, and haven't scared anybody
lately.

Then again, maybe it's the Uzi.

Peeve: Having to wear a heavy, expensive, "power suit" for certain business
activities.

!Peeve: Watching people get out of my way, proffer extra services, or gener-
ally grovel because I'm an "Important Person" because of my "power suit".

Phil

-- 
|play: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG; {ames|pyramid|vsi1}!zorch!phil                |
|work: phil@gsi; sgi!gsi!phil            | Phil Gustafson                   |
| "Better a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy"          |
|                                      Fred (not Steve) Allen               |
From: scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Maya the Bee)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: pocquers (was Re: Smoking Surrogate)
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:21:19 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <10210@cernvax.cern.ch>, steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
> In <167C0BA2B.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Alex Elliott) writes:
> 
> >(*) ObPeeve:  Obnoxious midwesterners(**) who insist on saying
> >              "pop" instead of "soda."
> 
> Out in the far west we say "pop" instead of "soda" as well.  (The far west



	Both are wrong.  Everyone knows it's "tonic".


Ob!Peeve:  Carrotcake, with about 2" of that cream cheese frosting.

scooter
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bush For (Ex)President in '92!
Keywords: I recommend that you increase the dosage.
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:36:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: igor.1992Apr13.213626.6343
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco

In article <1992Apr13.044838.20902@talon.ucs.orst.edu> tim@physics.orst.edu
(Tim Mefford) writes:
>      Maybe the aliens could keep everyone in line, but I'd be against it.
>Why?  For the same reason mewling bunny huggers are appalled at keeping
>dolphins in small tanks and making them jump through hoops(the dolphins).
>It's unnatural.   It's just as cruel to make humans behave morally as
>it is to train bears to wear muzzles and ride unicycles.  This is a 
>dehumanizing suggestion in the most literal sense.  The only time the word
>can be properly used, for that matter.  Human beings by nature kill, screw,
>eat, and, in their spare time, behave rather like rhesus monkeys, but that
>last is irrelevant to my point.  A morality through edict situation, would
>give most humans a nervous breakdown within two weeks, just like the polar
>bear kept in a tiny cage two weeks ago.  Kill, Screw, and Eat. (Do what
>you do.*)  Am I right?  I have five million years of evolution backing me 
>up.

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...

   don
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:11:05 GMT

In article <92099.150257SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>of the conversation, she said, "you're really great.  I think it's really
>important that we women stick together, don't you?"

people that want to "network". with me.

-l "erm, no thanks. i'll just have real relationships" p
-- 
-lp **************************************************************************
* 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: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:20:34 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

Our wheezing liberal, (Don Baldwin) writes:
>In article <ku7nukINNait@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM
>(242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>You remind me of a rather disturbed fellow over in ca.politics, who
>constantly manages to contort any policy he dislikes into an attack
>on liberals.  Really Andy, I expected better from you.

Don, has anyone ever mentioned you're a wee bit too literal?  Day in
and day out, I take gratuitous hacks at people in the attribution
line.  Why do you stand out in this group as the one fuzzy-headed
enough to take it seriously?

>Exactly how many liberals do you know who LIKE guns, have worked for
>Nucular Power companies and get off on feeding cute fuzzy rodents to
>pythons?

I guess one, now.  How about I label you a politically incorrect
isolationist with leftist domestic leanings?  That should be enough
to keep you packing your Pampers for days.

>Still, if the idea of demanding that our "representatives" exercise
>restraint when considering military force makes me a liberal, then
>you're welcome to call me "liberal".

Nah.  I've grown weary of that.  Today, I think I'll call you a
Bible-thumping, hairlipped, janitorial transvestite.  I can't wait to
see your defense.  (Actually, I can.)

>While Geoff's an impressive fellow, 

Not really.  He's just not used to getting tongued and suckled to
orgasm like you do it too often.  Let's just say he was
"enthusiastic."

>I don't recall ever saying that I
>look up to you.  

Damn straight.  Keep your attention directed at not getting hair
caught in your braces, as you have in the past.

andy
banta@abingdon
--
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your    
soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
From: ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The Lemming)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Beef(was: Cold Showers)
Date: 11 Apr 92 17:27:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: YaleVM.167C6BD48.ELLBRUA
Organization: Yale University

In article <10245@cernvax.cern.ch>
steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
 
>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.  If you had, you wouldn't
>say something so damned silly.
 
I don't care if the thing is swimming in its own juices, it will still
taste like well-done meat.  I used to work in a restaurant and I felt
awful serving a well-done steak to people because the smell was almost
enough to gag me.  I don't like the taste of well-done meat.
 
I like my steak still red in the center.  It should be cooked so that
it is about body-temperature as if it had been freshly-killed the
way nature intended.
 
 
Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
ellbrua@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Short gals--->Tall guys
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:02:27 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Apr10.213427.21498@cs.tulane.edu> tcws@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Bill Sirinek) writes:
>Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-21417]: convex1.tcs.tulane.edu
>In article <32516@darkstar.ucsc.edu> carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock) writes:
>>>Why don't they look for someone a little more their size?  All the girls
>>>that I could ask out, of course are dating the 7-footers!!!
>>>Heck, that's a foot and a half difference.  They almost need a stepladder
>>>to kiss the guy goodnight!!!
>>Yeah, NO KIDDING.  Why don't those little short gals leave some of the
>>big ones for us women who can see over the steering wheel?  Never mind
>>the kiss goodnight, the poor guy must get a major back injury trying
>>to do a 69.
>>
>But HEY, she can STAND UP and give him a blowjob!!!!



Everyone is entitled to love whomever they will.

One thing that really disturbed me about those one foot difference
relationships was that the women were really dominated in every
way by the taller guys. It made me wonder if they were looking for
a daddy type, rather than a partner. I knew one guy who went out with
little bitty women because he wanted to tote them around like teddy
bears. 

Being a big woman, I have found that some of my companions have looked
to me for protection. I had one trombone player who wanted me to protect
him during a NYC blackout. It was discouraging. I get tired of being
the gorilla earthmother person, but when you have a talent, may as well
use it.

!Peeve: Being tall is good. I can use top shelves in places where
I have lived.

Peeve: Being tall is bad. I get tree branches in the face when hiking.

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