HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was Re: credit card peeve)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:20:09 GMT

In <1992Oct13.142313.8750@dazixco.ingr.com> avdh@sunnyboy.dazixco.ingr.com (Alain van der Heide) writes:

>You listen you mindless dickfor:  First of all, if you're going to get cute by

What the Hell's a dickfer?  That like a henway?
--
"Yes, he really said that!"
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Desserts
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 11:50:01 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <Bvp0KE.JKM@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Monsieur Not Al, Cordon Bleu Masterchef writes:

> Cheese On Toast
> ---------------

Yawn.  Unless they have slices tomatoes and lots of pepper on
them, they're _dull_.

The last-but-one dinner party I helped make, I chose the dessert.

Bombe Capricornia.  [Originally from Warrens of Manuka, c1981]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For your convenience, build from the bottom up, and eat from the
top down.

A plate [not a bowl, a _plate_],
Two of those thick triangular dessert wafers,
Two scoops of Chocolate Ice-cream [the more expensive the better,
	[must be well frozen].
Chopped/partly pureed bananas poured over the ice-cream,
Manderins flambeed in Brandy, arranged daintily over the banana puree,
Whipped cream covering the manderins. [Must be fresh whipped
cream, and not that plastic-in-a-can rubbish].

Guaranteed to put on a kilogram or two just _looking_ at the
stuff.

Peeve - Warrens of Manuka closed in 1988.

Dac
--
dac@prolix.apana.org.au              David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Cardboard, cardboard, everywhere!
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:32:56 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <1992Oct6.221342.6494@mel.dit.csiro.au>, jen187@mis.csiro.au (Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812) writes:
|> In article <ld0p7dINNfl9@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
|> 
|> >If you choose not to renew, of course, they pester you endlessly with
|> >repeated mailings.  Sort of like a postal version of a KQED pledge drive.
|> 
|> This went on for TWELVE MONTHS!!  Is this some kind of record?
|> 
|> Peeve: Scumbags who who compile, keep and sell mailing lists.

While it's true that the company first got your name through the purchase or
trade of some mailing list, they really don't get a lot out of your 
subscription money (unless this mag happened to be Consumer Reports). What
they want is just another subscriber, so that they can go to their 
advertisers or potential advertisers and say "Look, we have 50,000
subscribers!  Give us a lot of money and we'll let your advertisement
reach 50,000 potential customers."  Witness all of the freebie trade rags
that we computer-geeky types have access to, gratis.  When I came back from
a 3-week medical leave of absence, I had Unix Review, Information Week,
Open Systems Today, and Workstation News all filling up my poor little
mailbox.  I have decided after one year of subscription to each of these not
to renew *any* of them, and they're all but threatening to break my other
leg if I don't. And I'm not paying them *anything*.  IBM, Sun, DG, DEC, HP,
Unisys, and whole host of software houses are paying them a fortune for the
privilege of advertising in them, though.

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dr. Pavlov's distinguished career came to an      |
|abrupt end one day when the doorbell rang and the |
|dog ate the Avon lady.                            |
+--------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: Bike peeves
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:38:51 GMT

In article <Bw4LI6.KwC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Thomas A. Dennis writes:

>In <ldoj5dINNnrj@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff 
>Miller) writes:
>
>>In article <3358@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU
>>(Richard Alan Brown) writes:
>
>>>  Peeve2: I had the perfect opportunity to broadside a Roller last week
>>>      I braked..... damn (the dumbfuck did a U-turn without looking)
>
>>Peeve: Crypto-socialists who resent other people's prosperity.  
>
>Nah, I don't think so.  Rollers whip around on sidewalks without looking at 
>where they're going, and then have the gall to give bikers shit.  They also 
>cruise around at night, wearing clothing darker than a ninja's--unlike the 
>average biker, who would put a Christmas tree to shame--and give me more shit 
>when, again, they almost get to shake hands with Jesus due to their own 
>carelessness. Perhaps there will be ordinances passed when a few Rollers are 
>cut down in the prime of life by a biker on a fast, sturdy hybrid bike.
>;-) ;-)

Now *this* is funny.  The image of formerly patrician-looking cardiac
surgeons and Beverly Hills drug rajas cruising the sidewalks in infra-
ninja stealth garb, their Silver Ghosts and Camargues indented so
tastefully with the impressions left by sturdy hybrid bikes and their
riders is hallucinatorily droll.

Thanks, Tom.

>Tom Dennis                    |  I looked into the abyss,

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "Often in error, never in doubt." 
rickg@netcom.com |   --- Universal Marketing Department motto
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Alarm Surprize! (was Big mac's and students)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 06:46:48 GMT
Organization: Weasels with big mag wheels 'n' fog lights

In article <R8RcsB4w165w@wabworld.atl.ga.us> bill@wabworld.atl.ga.us (Bill Berbenich) writes:
>
>I have heard a recent (like the last month or so) remake of K.C. and The 
>Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go" on the radio (and you people all 
>thought I just listened to talk radio and Rush Limbaugh!).  It was enough 
>to bring tears to my eyes.

And this should be enough to bring vomit to yer shoes: There's an entire
CD out by a band called Erasure(*) which is nothing but Abba covers.

Isn't this one of the signs of the end of the world?

(*) Erasure is yet another one of those pasty-faced-English-boys bands
which features two models and an impressive array of computer equipment.
Personally, I think they sound like a blatant rip-off of Yaz/Yazoo,
except that they suck. !Al could probably go into more depth on this;
they're more his type of, um, music.
-- 
We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers crystals.
Let's see if they notice the difference.
From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Rewriting History
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:56:21 GMT
Reply-To: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.


Oh, well thank you very much for the clarification, Sister Mary Magnificent. 

JZ
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.music.rush,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,rec.food.pets
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: God I hate TrivialIzers
Followup-To: soc.singles,alt.sex,alt.religion.kibology
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:48:16 GMT

russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:

] In article <1992Oct9.144451.3050@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
] >russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:
] >] 
] >] Peeve: unrelated posts in inappropriate newsgroups.  I don't have the
] >] ability of a drieux to select inappropriate enough groups that they
] >] somehow fit after all... still, I'm OK at the unrelated posts part.
] >
] >
] >Trivia Question Time:
] >
] >What Sort of a Sick Mind would LOOK for a 
] >relationship in the crossposting pattern?
] 
] Trivial answer time:
] 
] Mine.


GOD THIS IS SO MODELESS!!!!


ciao
drieux


will hack food for Unix.....


-- 
Modern Day Problems:
In any case, don't give up, just type slower :-).
Chimo
Bob.
From: bls101@deakin.anu.edu.au (The New, Improved Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: My eyes
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:05:18
Organization: Australian National University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.15.26


When I die and go to Heaven I intend to have some pretty serious words with
God about the eyes he saw fit to bestow on me.  To put it simply they don't
work properly.  To go into details:
o I've got poor quality lenses which won't bring all the light rays to a
  common focus.   
o My eyeballs don't match the lenses so my retina is in entirely a
  different location to that of the general region where my astigmatic
  lenses are trying to focus the incoming light.  This means I have an
  effective focal range of about 4 whole inches.  Beyond that everything
  just fades into a useless blur.  
o I've got a permanent groove in the bridge of my nose from years of
  wearing THICK glasses.  
o I got so used to the total lack of any effective peripheral vision that
  when I first got contact lenses I couldn't walk through doorways without
  bumping into the sides because I was still automatically compensating for
  my once non-existent peripheral vision.  
o I run a much greater risk than the average of having my retinas detach
  and send me totally blind.  
o I spend hundreds of dollars a year on little pieces of plastic to stick
  on my eyeballs.  
o I spend hundreds more on the solutions to keep them clean and countless
  hours of my time keeping them clean so I don't get an infection and go
  totally blind.  
o If I want to permanently fix my eyes it's going to cost me several
  thousand dollars and involve letting some maniac burn off the surface of 
  my eyeballs with a laser.

ExtraPeeve:  I dropped one of my contact lenses the other day and the cat
ate it!  So I had to spend $200 to get a new pair.  I'd have killed the cat
only it cost me $150, *not* including food and vet bills.

What I want to know is are my eyes the result of a spending spree in Sears?
Was I blessed (huh!) with the ACME Supa Vizual Perception System Kit (tm) in
your choice of colours for only $19.99?  That's right!  Only $19.99.  Buy
now!  I suspect this can be the only rational explanation since my eyes are
clearly of shoddy quality and the various components do not match.

Why me?  What did I do to deserve bargain basement components?  

Hey booter, where can I get one of those Icthus fishes with feet and Darwin
written underneath?  This God guy has got to go!  

Cruc-if-y him! Cruc-if-y him!

!Peeve:  The new production of Jesus Christ Superstar.  Where do I get my
"I love Judas" T-shirt?
--
bls101@syseng.anu.edu.au
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've 
 never tried before." - Mae West
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Banana Marley
Keywords: Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Bob
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:20:44 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <BvsxCJ.2AB@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
~After Not_Al had posted his comments about the Banana Splits, I felt
~moved to ask him if he had noticed the same thing I had about the theme
~song.  His reply was way too good to keep to myself, so here it
~is (reprinted with permission):

whoaaa there!! Peevetown floozy sending e-mail to !Al Someone's gonna be
MIGHTILY upset if he gets caught with lipstick on his header!!

-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          Vommen
                                             Bladmagen
                                   Loepmagen
                        Naetmagen
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Commercials!Commercials!
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:36:06 GMT

(pre-peeve: Having to wait for a subject line
to die off so I can retrieve the thread...)

Peeve:  I seem to have been watching too many
commercials lately - to the point where they are
getting stuck in my brain.  Sound familiar?  I
think that's how the "Commercials" thread started
off a few weeks ago.

Bacground:  Out here in California (and possibly
around the world - I only know here), there's
a chain of Pizza stores called Little Ceasar's.
The TV adverts for this chain seem to have been
developed by an advertising firm with a stutterer
on the staff.  They call all their specials with
double names - eg: CheeserCheeser, PicnicPicnic,
and so on.

More background:  My car has been prescribed some
extended bed-rest with major surgery, so I've been
taking the bus for a while.  Most of the bus peeves
I can come up with are covered much more fluently
by !Al, so I'm leaving them alone.

What is apparently unique - or at any rate not
peeveworthy on !Al's busses - is that we have busses
with racks behind the driver where they put an 
assortment of bus schedules, route changes, rider
information and so on.  There are also special
busses set up for the local sports industry.

This brings me to the peeve.  The bus I was riding
on the other day had flyers for the San Jose Sharks
Hockey Team.  The flyers had been spread across the
rack, and what I read was:

Shark!Shark!  Bus!Bus!

I've seen way too many Little Ceasar's pizza ads...

Diana
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Power Codgers
Keywords: Surly Rent-a-Cops, Crossing Guards, drunk with power
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:51:15 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <xcjp1kb@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
~
~      o o (bite me)
~ ~~ o 
~|..|                "Well you shouldn't have it here anyway."
~c >|          __   /
~ \^/         .  \ / 
~ /><\  )    <  )|
~/    \m      `  \
~\ \ -----   /   |
~ \  |   |
~Figure 1: Arguing with Surly Rent-a-Cop

This is a classic. If Bogroll was still here he'd be sick as a parrot with envy.


-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          Vommen
                                             Bladmagen
                                   Loepmagen
                        Naetmagen
Xref: sparky alt.peeves:15289 alt.politics.correct:5634 talk.religion.misc:17858
From: SECBH@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.politics.correct,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Esoteric Skinhead O'Connor (Was stuff about Mac D's)
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:00:29 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

In regard to Sinead O'Connor's tearing up the Roman Pontiff's picture
in television:  The fact is that the pope claims to be the head of state
of a foreign country - as well as a religious leader - he and his
outraged followers had better get used to the fact that in this day
and age his secular position alone makes him fair game, and that
the secular leader this time/religious leader that time stuff is a
rather tired dodge at this point in history.  The Roman pope and his
church are no less in the business of politics than the fundies and the
bornies are with their Pat Buchanans, their Falwells, Sheldons, etc.

Jack Carroll
Xref: sparky alt.peeves:15361 talk.religion.misc:17930
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Oh How the Pope has taken oveer Geoff's Mind
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:30:29 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
] 
] Why do people say "'Roman' Catholic?"  Isn't that redundant?  I'm not
] aware that there's any other kind.  


You are doing very good now....

Just Keep Thinking that and forget all the AngloCatholics
as a starter.....

Why do you think they are commonly called 'Anglicans'

Because they have all the Angles????

Well Saxon On that One Papist PigDog!!!

ciao
drieux


-- 
Modern Day Problems:

Don't Just Rock the Vote
Kick OUT THE JAMS!
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Usual Trivia
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:46:36 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <17750@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>Peeve: Bicycles and the behavior of adults thereon. Why do cyclists
>in Berkeley, who cannot possibly exceed or even meet the 25mph street
>speed limit, insist on pedaling in traffic on University Avenue during
>rush hour?

Because like many bicyclists, they feel that their shit doesn't stink
because their mode of transport is politically correct, consumes no
natural resources and doesn't pollute.  Their apparent emotional insecurity
allows them to convert this into the belief that they're therefore justified
in getting in the way of others who only want to get from A to B, but are
guilty of the unspeakably heinous crime of automobile ownership.

Harping on the idea that bikes, like cars, are vehicles, they interpret this
to mean that they have equal right to the roads -- any and all parts of them
-- regardless of the problems it causes for others, or the danger it creates 
for themselves.  People like this deserve to be run over by large American
sedans, be paralyzed from the eyebrows down, and be confined to beds for the
rest of their miserable days, collecting bedsores and watching endless
Donahue reruns, where they'll be permanently out from underfoot of the 
rest of society.


Geoff


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From: rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Bike peeves
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:23:54 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Melbourne


On the subject of Peeves/Bikes....
I ride a bike to University... 

	Peeve1: People who think all cyclists are granola head chickenshit PC
		lycra fetishists.(wearing Dr Scholes sandles with socks no 
		doubt)
	Peeve2: I had the perfect opportunity to broadside a Roller last week
		I braked..... damn (the dumbfuck did a U-turn without looking)
	!Peeve3: HITTING a Porsche last month, and scraping my brake handles
		down the metallic grey door, wiping off the side mirror.
		(The driver was Yuppy trash talking on a mobile phone,
		and did a left turn into me without indicating/looking)
		I guess I could have braked or gone into the gutter, but it's
		not all that often that an opportunity like THAT comes along.
	!Peeve4: cycling past a fresh half pigs head lying on the road... 
		magnificent, just like the "split-dog" in return of the
		living dead.. uh, thought this was alt.tasteless fer a minute.

AListair

afs@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Freshers
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 17:41:07 GMT
Organization: Discount Auto Parts
Keywords: Lala la, lala lala, lala la, lala lalaaa

In article <Bvr81G.HJD@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
>
>Hmm, not too sure Babs'll like you referring to her like that Jeremy. Does
>she even *have* a plaid shirt?

Is she still *alive*? She hasn't posted since mid-summer. She wasn't killed
by a large rock falling off a shelf or anything?

>bout of good taste, _The Big Breakfast_ was going to be showing The Banana
>Splits, something I haven't seen since I was about 5. So, at the assigned
>time of 7.25am this morning I switched from my regular diet of financial
>news and deeply important serious world events to watch Fleegle, Bingo,
>Drooper and Snork (just what the hell *were* they, anyway? I always found
>the idea of a kid's show where the cuddly characters looked like the
>results of an explosion in a taxidermists rather amusing) falling over a
>lot and hitting each other. The peeve? They only showed the titles and
>about 30 seconds worth of the actual show. I left the room for a minute to
>take a leak, figuring I wouldn't miss much, and it was *finished* when I
>came back. No "Size of an elephant!", no little girls singing in Spanish
>and playing guitars, no banana buggies, *nothing*. What's junk culture
>coming to these days...

ObAnswer: "Stan reminded me it's about time to make an announcement. Uh,
absolutely *none* of tonight's proceeds are going to go to Ethiopia.
<crowd cheers> Actually, a good 50% of all the monies made tonight are
going to be invested in Twinkies for *the band*. <crowd cheers> And just
so you know the honest breakdown of the money that's coming in, the
remaining 40% will be divided up amongst *the band*. <begin playing
Banana Splits song>

Yes, !Al, the memory of the Banana Splits is being kept alive through the
valiant efforts of The Dickies, a very fine <speed metal/punk/thrash/
whatever-the-hell> band. It's things like this that restore my faith in
humanity.

Peeve: The Banana Splits song is the last track on the CD. It's rather 
disturbing to have the CD player switch discs from the Dickies to the 
Grateful Dead in a matter of seconds: "Dickies, Dickies, Dickies!!!
<click> Looook out of aaaaany window..."
-- 
We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers crystals.
Let's see if they notice the difference.
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 11:39:43 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <5lfp3q-@lynx.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.

Oh, SPEW!

I thought that no rational person would -purposefully- try
Macaroni cheese more than once!

I bet you use that 'soap' processed cheddar as well? SPEW ++!
[Increment SPEW and factorialise it!]

Next you'll be posting scintillating articles on how wonderful
Alphabetti Spaghetti and Spaghetti Oops are!

Sheesh.

Dac
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: McDonald's and the IRA (Re: Big mac's and students)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:34:28 GMT

jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey) writes:

: >(Give Ireland Back To The British!)
: 
: Peeve:  Why are the British (or as they pronounce it "Brish") so
: determined to give back Hong Kong, but so detemined to keep
: Northern Ireland ?  If there was a Hong Kong version of the
: IRA who were trying to unite Hong Kong with China, would the
: Brish change their minds and decide to keep Hong Kong ?  Maybe
: the best compromise is rather than having Northern Ireland
: part of either the UK or the Republic of Ireland, make it
: part of the People's Republic of China -- make it a two
: for one deal.

I like it. Then England would have their own Near East - close
at hand.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.peeves