HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Political Peeves
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:19:31 GMT
Reply-To: awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Al Crawford)
Organization: The University Of Edinburgh - Department Of Computer Science

In article <Bt96xz.6C8@acsu.buffalo.edu> dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dave Archer) writes:
>
> (To our non-US readers:  I may be joining you if Bush gets reelected.  Hey, 
> you never know.  Shit Happens.)

Hmmm, this sounds vaguely familiar. I seem to remember lots of people over
here whining about "If the Tories get back in I'm emigrating" earlier in
the year, followed by cries of "That's it, I'm emigrating" when they *did*
get back in. Oddly enough, I've yet to hear of *any* emigrations because of
this, let alone the mass emigrations that would have resulted if all these
people actually *had* emigrated. I wonder if it could be anything to do
with the fact that most of these people discovered that the purported
socialist fairyland they were planning to move to either a) no longer
existed, b) had never existed, c) still existed but had been bought by
McDonalds or d) still existed but was currently rather too embroiled in a
civil war to be bothered with political refugees fleeing from the
relentless apathy of a government they didn't like very much.

What was really rich was that many of these people were ex-pats who weren't
so much talking of emigrating as of not coming home. Where were they
working? That well known People's Paradise and Bastion Of The Socialist
Worker's State, the USA. Laughable. Apparently all-out capitalism was fine
with them as long as it happened in someone else's country.

Also, it doesn't exactly say a lot for an individual's support for the
forces of democracy, Mom's Apple Pie and the Star-Spangled Banner if their
attitude is "If my party doesn't win, I'm leaving". Kinda like taking the
ball back if nobody else will play by your rules.

On a related note, has anyone (probably someone on this side of the pond)
put together a decent killfile that will utterly annihilate any and all
postings that refer to the US elections? I'm normally tolerant of the
attitude that many USAn posters have that "world" in the distribution line
is pretty much the same thing as "us" in the distribution line, but the
recent flood of political rhetoric in all sorts of inappropriate newsgroups
is driving me nuts. Now I don't mind it in political newsgroups (because I
don't read any of those) or even in alt.peeves (since peeving about
politics seems to be a fairly well-established tradition here) but when
political discussions weasel their way into the like of rec.music.misc,
it's time for judicious application of extreme overkill in the killfile
department.

/Bush/a:j
/Clinton/a:j
/Gore/a:j
/Quayle/a:j

...would seem to do the trick, but putting this in a global killfile is
going to slow my newsreading down something awful.

--
			Al Crawford - awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk
	  Department Of Computer Science, The University of Edinburgh
   Rm 1410, JCMB, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Rd, EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, Scotland
	     Tel: +44 (0) 31 650 5165  Fax: +44 (0) 31 667 7209
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Alex Elliott)
Subject: Re: Goosed at the Deli
Organization: Yale University Physics Department
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:50:21 GMT

In article <4319@equinox.unr.edu> malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes:
>
>Anyone else out there had goose cold cuts (or for that matter, goose as a
>dinner dish a la turkey or chicken) ?  Is goose meat really this fat-laden?

Both goose and duck are much fattier than turkey or chicken.  Also, both
goose and duck are all dark meat, even the breasts.

The best recipe I've ever used for goose or duck was for roast duck that
halfway through the roasting was doused with congnac and then set on fire.
This burned off some of the fat and added a yummy brandy taste to the 
sauce, which also had golden raisins in it.  Goose and duck tend to go
very well with fruit stuffings and sauces or sweet chutneys.


Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu

Xref: sparky alt.peeves:13590 alt.tasteless:9050
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.tasteless
Subject: Re: peeve o' the day
Date: 17 Aug 1992 15:58:58 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

In article <1b808996.ARN2301@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac writes:
>My entry into the most scurrilous overusage of the word 'fuck' in
>an alt.peeves message [1992 competition.  Closing date is August
>22nd)

No there's an idea for the alt-dot-fucking-peeves statistician:  How
about a list of the fifty most commonly used words each month,
filtering such trivia as articles and commonly used prepostions.  And
when posting the user stats, you additionally include the most
commonly used word for each poster.

If nothing else, it would keep you out of trouble.

Peeve:  Scattering chunks of cast iron at Sears Point.  Again.

andy
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"If you add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
This, my son, is entropy."
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:07:09 GMT

z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:

>	I'm still trying to discover a perfect mounting system for the
>rams horns on my helmet.  [...]

yesterday i saw some guy on his bike. he wore a bike helmet with two long,
pointy, yellow horns. it sure gave me a chuckle.

>Velcro doesn't withstand 140mph headwinds [...]

i guess he didn't have *that* problem. i suspect that the horns were
made of rubber foam and sewed to the helmet (it was one of those light
styrofoam-covered-with-textile helmets. no dentist's mirror ...)

-alex

-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Political Peeves
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:26:35 GMT
Organization: NMSU Computer Science

<In article <16ss22INN1d0@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock) writes:
<In article <Bt7M1v.2AF@acsu.buffalo.edu> v116kznd@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Dave Archer) writes:
<>Peeve:  Republicans.  

<Hey!  I was told we wouldn't have to do politics on this newsgroup.


	"Remember, Solly, when I told you I'd kill you last?......
					....I lied!"

					------Big Arnie as "Matrix"
					      in "Commando".

<-carol "sheesh" o

ObPeeve: people that expect rules on alt.peeves.

	"Now, we gotta review the rules of knife fighting..."
From: SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: MUD
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:47:43 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Peeve: Some people came to the Help Desk where I work today for help with
decoding a uuencoded file.  It turned out to be a utility to help them play
MUDs better. I never thought I'd see the day when it was part of my job to
help someone play MUD.

BiggerPeeve: The only benefit I've ever heard anyone cite of playing MUD
was learning about programming. The utility they wanted to decode was
something that would automatically translate room descriptions into C code,
eliminating the need to program.

HUGEPeeve: Apparently, on this particular MUD, they wouldn't ordinarily
even have programmed the things themselves.  Instead, they would provide
the descriptions to (someone), who would then translate them into C.

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
                                                - Erica Jong
From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Alex Elliott)
Subject: Blueberry pie
Organization: Yale University Physics Department
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:11:32 GMT

The other day I saw some really delicious looking, plump, locally grown
blueberries and decided that I absolutely had to make blueberry pie.
The pie looked and tasted gorgeous.  It had a perfect lattice-top crust.
The filling was deliciously sweet, yet still with a slightly tart bite.
The crust was richly buttery tasting (I am proud to say that I have never
in my life bought a pre-made crust).

The peeve?  I didn't put enough corn starch in the filling.  When I
cut the first piece, the filling oozed out of the rest of the pie in an
effort to heal its wound, looking much like a purple slime-like 
extraterrestrial organism from a B grade science fiction movie.

Peeve number two:  I got a little bit of blueberry pie filling on my
white shorts.  Now they are white shorts with a small purple blotch on
the left leg.


Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Brookside
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:55:19 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

>In article <9208181038.AA09181@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Gordon.Riddell@prg.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>=>Far be it from me to correct you again but it was quite clearly stated before
>=>Margaret attended her papist shrine with the randy Father Derek that she was
>=>a good and wholesome Protestant.

>I have been informed by a source I trust, namely my little sister, that
>Margaret is indeed a Protestant. Happy now?

I thought the issue was not Margaret's religion but the size of her
chest compared to the new nanny's (i.e. vanishingly small).
T





-- 
Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions. 				   tjc@ed.ac.uk

Yes, I carry a grudge. If someone pokes me in the eye, I'll poke both of
their eyes. larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Why can't I work in Europe?
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:26:27 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <41314@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
> In article <24771@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug11.174450.6919@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> 
> back to JHenderson:
>>
>>It's not unfair, we just don't like importing pollution in (semi)human form.
> 
> There's another problem. Recall that Mike has already revealed that he
> is "up to his eyeballs in debt" (or some similar phrase) as a result
> of his fratboy ways. 

It's more a case of Dalhousie bleeding me for every penny they possibly can.
Which leads me to another peeve: I don't think vampires could bleed me as 
systematically and efficiently as Dalhousie did.

>Hence if he came to Europe, he would presumably
> be obliged to send most of his earnings back to Canada, thus reducing
> our money supply. This is understandably unpopular with governments.
> Right now I think the only immigrants that the govt. would actually
> welcome are those who promise that the first thing they'll do is buy a
> house.
> 
How diffictult do you think it would be to claim refugee status if you lived
in Canada?

Mike
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Seminal Seminars of our Age
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:07:10 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <92Aug21.013639.27445@acs.ucalgary.ca> Charles Parr writes:

>      The following heap of festering excreta is taken directly
>      from a staff circular (6 pages, coloured paper, laser copy
>      mailed to *every* staff member on campus. I got two, for some
>      reason) and needs, I feel, no further comment. I'm gonna make some
>      anyway, though...
>
> [ ... Followed by samples of festering excreta, concluding: ]
>
>         Oh god, the agony. Why are we plagued with this Leo
>         Buscaglia bullshit? What did the world do to deserve
>         this *and* a US presidential campaign in the same
>         year?

Shoot, we beta tested all this stuff *years* ago in California.  Now
it's *your* turn to enjoy the benefits of Delusional Technology(tm).

Resistance is futile.

>Regards, Charles

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "Loud is good." 
rickg@netcom.com  |    -- Frank Loesser 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.tasteless
From: tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com (tim clinkenpeel)
Subject: peeve o' the day
Reply-To: tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:26:29 GMT

today i found nameless' lost pager festering under the copybeast whilst
playing with doom marble jr.  instead of gratitude i get accusations of
thievery.

a wooden-headed theory--what would i have with dual pagers?  the envy of
suburban hoodlums?  not desired.

i'm presently contemplating sodomizing nameless with a garden weasel (tm).

not only would it alleviate the angst, but would create a mulch that is
beneficial to my garden.

-- 
\clinkenpeel: aberrant analytical cynical agnostic idealist.  i exculusively/
/represent myself.  i do not offend anyone; however, some morons choose to  \
\offend themselves.  judge only those who you would have judge yourself.  i /
From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Champagne, wine, and beer (was: Re: PRO-smoker's peeves)
Keywords: newbies, champagne, crystal, fonts
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:18:14 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

In article <1992Aug13.220411.9027@twg.com> nolan@twg.com writes:
>
>In article <BsxpJr.Hr3@wpi.WPI.EDU>, padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton) 
>	writes:
>|>Antipeeve: I can't tell good champagne from bad champagne, so it doesn't
>|>really bother me to get the $2.99 (that's about a pound and a half)
>|>bottles of Andre if I need champagne. Ditto for wine. Besides, the
>|>worst champagne is still better than the best beer.
>|>
>
>Hold on there, Sonny.  How many REEEL good beers have you tasted? I mean
>lately? How about St. Sixtus Ale from Flanders or Double Dragon from Wales?
>How about Good Old Uncle Gus Maytag's Anchor Christmas Ale? How 'bout Bigfoot
>from Sierra Nevada or Old Foghorn from Anchor? How about Pilsner Urquel on tap
>at a bierstube just off the marktplatz in that village in the Alps?

It all tastes like bitter turpentine to me. I was told "oh, wait until
you get to England and try some REAL English Ale". It's different
all right. It's bitterer, more unswallowable, and WARM (I was warned 
about that). Never been to the Alps, though.

By the way - are Bass Ale and Bass Shoes owned by the same company? The
logos are strangely similar...

>Bah! This is a waste of time. Since you can't distinguish plonk from nectar,
>I'd wager that you wouldn't appreciate a decent Rheingau Trokenbeernauslese. I
>get the impression that you'd be one of the last hominids on the planet that
>anyone would choose to be a food or spirits critic.

That's exactly my point. It peeves me that there are people who CAN tell
the difference - especially when I can't.

>|>Peeve: The fact that at most parties, the only alcoholic beverage
>|>	served is beer. 
>
>That !@#$% ain't beer! It's Horse Urine (TM)!  Most folks on this side of the
>pond wouldn't know GOOD beer if it bit 'em.

Again, that's my point. Beer at parties is Horse Urine, and there is
rarely an alternative. And since I'm pretty bad at discerning why 
exactly this beer is better than the other, then it all tastes like
Horse Urine to me. See why I'm peeved?

And stale beer the next day even SMELLS like Horse Urine. I would
assume that that goes for any beer.

>|>Peeve: Not liking beer is often seen as a liability. 
>
>You drink what you like, I'll drink what I like. Meanwhile, SHADDAP and drink
>yer plonk.

OK - so what's "plonk"? I assume it ain't something good?

Let's see:	not beer = plonk
		plonk = something not good
		drinking plonk = drinking something not good
		drinking something not good = liablilty

Of course, I could be wrong.

>|>Peter!
>
>What's the cardinality of Peter!?

Are you mathing at me or something?

Peter!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Arthur Goes Fishing (Was: Intellectual property) 
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<1992Aug18.144259.10192@bbxrbk> <1992Aug18.231428.14906@twg.com>
	<1992Aug19.133648.13106@bbxrbk> <1992Aug20.001007.26963@twg.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:14:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.001007.26963@twg.com> nolan@twg.com (Arthur Lyman) writes:
<   Ooooooohhh! I guess I gotta be REEL careful with the GIANT Postscript(tm)
				   ^^^^

	Exactly. Don't let the hook catch you in the lip, for
	example...
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Mall of America or whatever it is
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:03:07 GMT

In <1992Aug16.142315.1@gumby.mgi.com> thompson@gumby.mgi.com writes:

>This is sort of how we feel about the weather. It keeps out the riff-raff.

I can personally handle weather the mere thought of which would KILL many
southerners.  That is, weather which is cold in the extreme.  Minnesota
has just that sort of weather.  It helps remind a person of the good, hardy
peasant stock from which they have sprung.  It gives the residents a certain
quiet smugness ("I've lived here all my life!  The weather really SUCKS a
lot of the time, so I must really be special to have stayed and survived
all this time!").

I, moi, Bill, have had the same thoughts here in sunny Georgia when the
temperature and humidity are both in the mid to upper nineties.  Ya hear
that, ya Damn Yankees(tm)????  Temps and humidity in the NINETIES!!!
Bugs that are big enough and hungry enough to carry small children away
to their doom.  If you move down here, you will only hate it!  We are
all backwoods and stupid.  Our schools suck!  Ever hear back from your
Damn Yankee buddies that already moved down here?  I rest my case.  The
sight of a disemboweled (Damn) Yankee is only pleasant to a native
Southerner.

But when the Olympics come here in four more years (what a frightening
phrase, that one - "four more years."  Shudder...), y'all be sure to
bring plenty of money and you'll get lots of nice southern hospitality.
But God (and what a fine one he is) help you if we see you wanting to
stay afterward.

   - w "hey, pass some more of that barbecued Pennsylvanian!" b
--
"Among free peoples, the open exchange of ideas
ultimately is our greatest security." - President Ronald Reagan
Organization: State Penn
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:45:03 EDT
From: Joy Haftel <JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Mall of America or whatever it is

My main peeve right now is the Mall of America, or whatever
it is they're calling this supermall that has just opened in
the vast cultural and intellectual wasteland known as the Midwest
(my apologies to any Midwesterners, but since this mall has been
built, my estimation of that region has gone down about 100%).

7/s ^This mall has opened with a huge "star-studded extravagana", which
I suppose means that those idiots who act stupid in the living rooms
of America via the medium of television are partying there in their
vastly overpriced evening wear.  The openeinjg of the mall made
the TV news bigtime, wwhich makes me gladder than ever that Iu>JP+/|


APEEVE:  THIS GODDAMN MODEM.   To be continued, if you are lucky

Joy Haftel               "We are not sure of sorrow,
JKH107@PSUVM                   And joy was never sure."
                                --Swinburne
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 11:51:49 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <1992Aug20.153201.25194@umbc3.umbc.edu>, potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug20.014225.7955@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|> >potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes: 
|> >| In article <1992Aug18.143528.25609@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|> >| >[Yer basic mechanic peeve deleted]
|> >| did you check the odometer? maybe they went joy riding in your hot rod...?
|> >My "hot rod" is an '84 station wagon that I use for commuting to/from work.
|> >It's a peesa junk, but it's paid for.
|> what? a man secure in his masulinity? a man who doesn't need a car to define
|> who he is? i'm sorry, a., we don't allow those in peevetown. this is *america*,
|> by gum! try a communist country.

A friend of mine once told me that it was "hard to look cool" in my car. I
told him that I *am* cool, and if he thinks that a car has anything to do
with how cool you are, then that shows a complete lack of coolness.

Peeve: People who think that masculinity, coolness, suaveness, whatever,
can be influenced by any external accoutrement.  It's an attitude, folks.

|> peeve: dwindling communist country options. (according to ronnie, communism 
|> 	is dead.)

I guess there's always Cuba.

|> -l "what happened to the vw bus with all the grateful dead stickers?" p

It's up on blocks in an abandoned field.  It ain't much, but it's home.

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|Any closet is a walk-in closet if you try hard    |
|enough.                                           |
+--------------------------------------------------+
From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Studs or Duds, you decide ( Was Re: !Peeve of the century
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:51:49 GMT

booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

->In article <9#0m_4=@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
->>In article <17487@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
->[Acheived Singularity]
->>"Ooooh, does this mean you're *available*?" he asked, eyebrow raised in
->>a impudent manner.

->Get in line. Take a number.

Okay. Uh... is this a misprint, or one of those anecdotes which begins
"If all the people in China were to..." ? Or, again, perhaps the string
section of the New York Philharmonic is larger than I thought...

S
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.tasteless
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: peeve o' the day
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 07:13:52 GMT

Pete Ashdown (pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com) wrote:
: perez@mgr.hjf.org (Charles Perez) writes:
: 
: >>: > a woodfuckn-hfuckadfuckd thfuckory--what would i havfuck with
: 
: >>Interesting....anyone else notice there is no letter 'e' in the entire
: >>paragraph above?  Hmmmmm...this means something.
: 
: >Hmmm... If you had a clue, maybe you'd figure out what has replaced
: >every 'e' in the passage you are talking about.
: >Go back to the body shop and get a brain that works, if you can find
: >one that's not been squicked. Gives a new meaning to "you've got a
: >hole in your head", eh?
: 
: While you're there, buy a sense of sarcasm for ol' Chuck.  Then sauce up his
: feet because he's ready to eat them.

Pete, don't be too hard on dear ol' Chuckie, I'm sure he was joking.  I mean,
NOBODY could be that clueless, right?  What?  Oh, he was serious?  Well, gosh,
I'm sorry.  My condolences to your next-of-brain.

ObTasteless:  Anything from McD's.
--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com