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From: jen187@mis.csiro.au (Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812)
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Organization: CSIRO ITS
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 02:50:41 GMT

In article <92273.181405JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu> Joy Haftel <JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>
>Peeve:  I can't remember whether Janis Joplin did a cut of "Me and Bobby
>McGee"  or not; all I can figure out was that just about everyone sang
>it.  I even inadvertently heard Waylon Jennings doing it when flipping
>through channels when a country music show was on.
>

Yes she did, but I can't remember the name of the album. If you're
interested, let me know and I'll look it up, I have it at home.
I happens to be the best version IMHO.



-- 

|  Graham Jenkins          |  graham.jenkins@its.csiro.au           | 
|  CSIRO                   |  (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial | 
|  Canberra,  AUSTRALIA    |  Research Organisation)                |
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:39:26 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <Bvp0KE.JKM@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Monsieur Not Al, Cordon Bleu Masterchef) writes:
=>
=>Cheese On Toast
=>---------------
=>
=>Ingredients:
=>
=>Cheese
=>Bread
=>
=>To Prepare:
=>
=>Take the bread and toast it. Put cheese on top. Grill until cheese melts.

For all you Fathers-To-Be out there ;-(

 Toast
 -----

Ingredients:

Bread.

Method:

Put bread in toaster. Take out. Give to "partner". Retire to a safe
distance. Return to bedroom. Wipe puke off sheets. Depart, closing door
quietly.


-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          Vommen
                                             Bladmagen
                                   Loepmagen
                        Naetmagen
From: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Serge Thill)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: NonTraditional Dating Options
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:46:46 GMT
Organization: Between Varga and Sacharov
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
: J. P. Bond writes:
: ] 
: ] In article bob@netcom.com, bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
: ] |>I need a completely different activity for a date on Friday.
: ] |>The traditional "dinner and a movie" are out.
: ] |>Is there anything odd happening Friday?  Any ideas for a
: ] |>non-traditional type of activity?
: ] 
: ]                         [ideas]
: ] 
: 
:                       [better ideas]
: 

11. keep your eyes open while looking for a women. 

--
serge
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Woe is Me
Date: 26 Sep 92 17:03:05 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <lc7f31INNpgl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>Bonuspeeve:  Quarter end.  I *hate* working late on Fridays!  On the other
>	     hand, it helps that I have botle of Pete's Gold Coast Lager
                                       ^^^^^^
>	     on my desk.

(And several in the trash can, it appears).

>Geoff "BHELCH!" Miller

A bit of pressure behind that one.  I go for duration, myself.

-- Russ

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home
Will hack unix for food 		(.sig stolen from dt - sorry, dt)
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From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: Satanic Death Toddlers From Hell
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:06:19 GMT

ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) comments on my nutritious suggestion on how do 
deal with toddlers on busses:

>   What if you and the prey..er..kinder are in Germany?
>   Should one resort to, oh, a thick Austrian accent?

nah. won't work. the language barrier would get in the way.

on to something else ...

peeve: the postman. yesterday was the first of october.
when i returned home in the evening (well, more like `at 2 am today')
i checked my mail (that's snail-mail for all the computer nerds out there). 
the box was empty.

when i left for work today the contents of my mailbox consisted of

    o   junkmail

    o   a `notice about an unsuccessful delivery attempt' for a packet, 
        dated first of october. 

now, there are a number of possible explanations for this. one is 
that the time-space continuum contains a number of ripples around my
mailbox. also, from all we know now, alien intervention is an (admittedly
remote) possibility.

i personally go for the hypothesis that the postman is a lazy bastard
who maintains that it is better that i go to the post-office
to collect the stuff than that he lugs his fat ass into the elevator
and to my apartment. 

-alex

-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
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From: aldavi01@orion.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: Re: Those damn MENTOS commercials!
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:01:14 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

[... much deleted ...]

> ()It's just you.  Or rather where you live.  Bethlehem is basically a
> ()backward, blue collar, slum.  (Having lived there for numerous years,
> ()I can say that with some authority and without fear of too much
> ()retribution)  Here, in the south bay, there are Massengil displays on
> ()the counters at 7-11.  You can walk in and say "I'd like a Mountain
> ()Dew Big Gulp, a cherry Slurpee, and a large douche.  Unscented,
> ()please."

Hmm.  This piques my curiosity -- Are all of the employees of 7-11s in foreign
countries American?

-- 
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From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Boss Peeve
Keywords: Peace Is Our Profession
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:58:07 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Geoff McMiller) writes:
>For reasons that have never been clear to me, the latter seem to regard 
>McDonalds as Evil Incarnate.  It's not just the allegations of rainforest
>depletion resulting from supposed purchase of South American beef; McDonalds
>seems to have become a lightning rod for all kinds of vague, inchoate angst
>emanating from the anarcho-leftist set.  I've detected subtle undertones of 
>this sentiment here and there occasionally in society at large, and it's 
[ etc ]

I don't patronize McDonald, Burger Thing, or any other fast-fud joint.
The reason is simple.  The cater to the median 80% of the populace.
Pick any large segment of the population, and you can bet that they're
ignoring the fringed and going right down the center.

The result of this is they're bland.  You can bet that the New
Exciting sandwich, side-order, or confection is going to have an
entirely neutral taste, entirely mainstream foodstuffs as ingredients,
and salt or high-fructose corn syrup as the distinguishing flavor.

Fast food is the pulp novel of dining.

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
From: chrisw@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Chris Wiles)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:22:36 GMT
Subject: Re: gun wienies
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: alt.peeves



	Major peeve! People who misunderstand cause and effect.

	like: cut my head off cause it hurts and I want the
pain to stop, so stop being a pain.
 

chris
From: henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Rewriting History
Date: 29 Sep 1992 19:13:01 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep29.120046.7163@iscsvax.uni.edu> hosch2263@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:

+> Yes, Logan, I have heard of the Puritans.  They came to America to
+>avoid religious persecution.  Several of the colonies were founded that way.
+>        Utopias don't do well in practice, however.  Anyway, my point was that
+>these people are raising their children ignorant of what the world is really
+>like.

First off, your believing that the Puritans came to avoid religious
persecution and thus to establish some sort of religious haven is so sickly
sweet 6th-grade-textbook ignorant that you make me want to vomit my
testicles up through my nose.  Get a grip, Hon.  It was religious restrictions
on their own terms that they were looking for, and found too.

+>Not all people are white Catholics, and if no one learns tolerance for
+>on another, we'll never get along.

Aw, boo fucking hoo.  Go do some hug therapy and take it to alt.I.wuv.you.

+>                           Kitten

Matthew J. Henken :-{<Grow up, "Kitten.">]
henken@ocf.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: esp51@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: School is Back in Session ( Was Re: Rewriting History
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:35:13 GMT

Elaine writes:

>Scott, I want you to bend way, way over, drop your pants and remove
>that large itcy hair from your rectal orifice.
>
>Then, go over to the blackboard and write the correct spelling of
>Lisbon (a city) or lesbo (a slang term) 100 times.
>
>Once you learn to spell, you can find a job somewhere where you don't
>have to clean up after people in fast food joints that play Musak.
>
     Excellent flame Elaine!  Indeed, you found my weak spot, namely
inability to spell well.  I looked your name up in Websters and found
you to be "a woman of Astolat, who loved Sir Lancelot", as well as
"the mother of Sir Galahad".  That's quite a heritage.  Centuries
ago, you came from the highest stock, and frolicked with the
aristocracy.  What happened over the years?  How did you lose you
upper crust status and become the dried out, skagged out, pox faced,
400 pound, lower bourgeois techocrat that you are.  Sigh....
Well, at least you have your history, your dreams.  Think positive,
mabey they'll invent a time machine some day.

General peeve:  Cows.  I drove through Kansas the other day, through
the beautiful Flint Hills.  Countless miles of rolling prarie lands.
Can you get out of your car and walk around? No.  Its all fenced off
with barbed wire by dick wad ranchers for their Big Mac Bovines.  I
wish I'd had a rifle in the car.  Since then (a month ago) I gave up
all cow products including meat, milk, cheese.  Never felt better,
lost 15 lbs so far.  Still can't spell though.
From: dc_ags@ac.nsac.ns.ca (Don Christie)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: *Virtual* Reality
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:32:14 GMT
Reply-To: dc_ags@ac.nsac.ns.ca
Organization: Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Nova Scotia, CANADA

In article <1992Sep27.212224.7776@cs.yale.edu>, yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin) writes:
>jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>
>Newton was _not_ a philosopher.  He was a physicist.  Of the rest of your
>list of people I know little.
>
>> We all have personal philosophies - even you, Norman.
>
>"If I am to go through life with a set of fixed principles, it seems to me
>rather like traveling a winding forest trail with a long pole in my mouth."
>  - Bismarck
>
>

It's interesting that you should choose this particular quote... methinks
you have a not-so-hidden desire to have a long pole in your mouth... you
know, the one that looks like Kojak with a turtle-neck sweater on, and a cut
in his head.
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: School is Back in Session ( Was Re: Rewriting History
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:55:55 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1992Sep30.152428.16354@cas.org> esp51@cas.org writes:
>   If you wait until the rabbit is about 20 yards away and hit em'
>with # 8 bird shot, it doesn't mess them up too much.  Nothing
>like eating rabbit with crunchy bits of bird shot.  You get your
>minimum RDA of lead that way as a bonus.

Nope - they're still only good for the cats after that.  I can see
that you've never tried doing what you mention of you'd know that
rabbits are only good as a target of opportunity with field hunting,
and no good even for the dogs.

It used to be that you could eat a good cottontail after shooting with
a .22, but no longer - a reasonable portion of their mass is from
parasites.


>   I quit bovine products and meat a while ago.  I have lost about
>15 pounds so far, and have saved about 100 a month on my food
>bill, including the 50 I used to spend at McD's.  I also have
>a lot more energy, as my body spends less time processing
>cow fat and salt and cholesterol and steriods and growth harmones and
>antibiotics and triglycerides and fecal contaminants.

Most likely the weight loss is a combination of water loss and from
not eating fats at McDonalds.  I wouldn't consider any of the McD's
products "meat" in any case...

>Peeve:  Trickle down economics.  The only thing trickling
>is piss down the legs of bonehead working and middle class
>republicans as their jobs are shipped overseas.

How do you go from "trickle down economics" (essentially tax rate
changes spurring investments) to "jobs shipped overseas" (essentially
a cost based mechanism)?

ObPeeve: asshole spouting their version of politically correct (or
electionally correct) rhetoric without understanding or attempting to
understand exactly what it is that they're spouting.

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232

                 Do not throw rocks at this signature
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:06:38 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Oct2.025041.457@mel.dit.csiro.au> jen187@mis.csiro.au 
(Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812) writes:

In article <92273.181405JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu> Joy Haftel <JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>>Peeve:  I can't remember whether Janis Joplin did a cut of "Me and Bobby
>>McGee"  or not; all I can figure out was that just about everyone sang
>>it.  I even inadvertently heard Waylon Jennings doing it when flipping
>>through channels when a country music show was on.

>Yes she did, but I can't remember the name of the album. If you're
>interested, let me know and I'll look it up, I have it at home.
>I happens to be the best version IMHO.


The name of the album is "Pearl," and it contrary to what somebody else
wrote earlier, it came out in 1970, not 1971.


Geoff


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From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: McDonald's (was Re: Boss Peeve)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: world,local
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:38:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.014346.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin) writes:
>In article <BvCpM9.KEA@nic.umass.edu>, jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>
>>My only problem with McD's is that they take away business from perfectly good
>>diners.  To me, there is nothing that affirms my pride in being an American
>>like a slice of meat loaf, some mashed potatoes and a helthy wallop of peas
>>served to me by woman with HairFromHell(TM) who calls me hon & keeps my
>>coffee cup eternally full.
>
>Those diners are still around, Jenny.  We call them truck stops.  A good
>one will be just like what you described.
>

Oh, yes, I know.  But they're dropping like flies, due to the proliferation of
fast food joints.  There's talk of opening up one of these hell holes in 
Florence, and that'll take away business from Miss Florence's Diner, a tribute
to Neon signs and Blue Plates.  I'm hoping that the talk is just rumor.  
Florence has a teensy population - I don't know if the town can support both.'
Fortunately, this area has a LOT of good diners, including Kathy's which has
hands down the best Joe I've ever tasted.  Joe = Real coffee, none of this
chocolate hazelnut cappucino shit.

Long live the Diner !!!


>Peeve #2: Midwest transplants who moan over the lack of White Castle
>hamburgers in the SW.  Does nostalgia really destroy people's brains?
>

Hey, us East coasters love White Castle, too.  YOu can get 'em in upstate
New York, and much of New Jersey.  And it's not nostalgia that destroys
the brains - it's the burgers themselves.

White Castle:  Buy 'em by the Sack, Barf 'em by the Roadside.

>
>What's wort?  Star Trek Stew?  Toad Legs Surprise?  Are you a Wiccan
>by any chance?
>

OH, God, this is really sad.  Wort is a boiled mixture of grains, malts
and hops that's used to make beer.  In this case, the wort contained
lots of black malt extract, crystal malt, rasted barley, Fuggles hops
and a shit load of brown sugar.  It's fermenting even as we speak and
the ton of sugar is really going at it hot and heavy with the yeast, causing
the water in the fermentation lock to bubble like mad & make noises like
the aliens in Repo Man.

Beer Making Peeve:  It's gonna be at least a month till I can taste the
finished product.

!Peeve: That month'll allow a LOT of that brown sugar to turn into alcohol.
-- 
***************************************************************************
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: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Rewriting History
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:51:06 GMT
Reply-To: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <BvE5vp.M9M@fulcrum.bt.co.uk>, Ian G Batten writes:

>I never quite understood what the Government of the time of the
>Mayflower was doing persecuting Puritans.  They had their hands full
>persecuting Catholics.

They weren't being persecuted, really. They, like all fundies, objected to 
anyone else having a different view of things than they did. They petitioned
King Charles to give the CofE the old heave-ho and institute their religion
as the official one, and when Charles said no, they caused so much trouble 
that he had to threaten them all. So they said, OK, you won't play our way,
we'll go to Holland. So they did. 

When they got to Holland however, they found that the dutch (then as now) were
much more interested in interest rates, trade, and chocolate than they were in 
converting to dour puritanism. They didn't care what the Puritans did, but they
weren't about to give up beer and the occasional romp through the tulips just
to please a bunch of kooks. 

So the Pilgrim (accent on Grim) fathers went forth back to England and told 
King Chuck (the great oppressor) that they would make all kinds of trouble
again if he didn't give them some land. Obligingly, (and generously, imho) he
didn't cut all their dour heads off and feed them to a bunch of hogs, but instead
gave them a charter to a big chunk of what is now Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. 

But there were already people around down there. (And a lot of them Catholics, who left 
for essentially the same reasons, only they were *really* being persecuted...)  So the
wise Pilgrim fathers said "What the hell, it's the new world and there's lotsa space,
and besides, what's he gonna do about it?" and set course for New England, figuring
(correctly) that no one else, not the Dutch, not the English, nor any sane person
would ever contest them for that godforsaken frozen rockpile we now call the states
of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. 

So they went there and set up a society founded everything *except* religious tolerance
and freedom of worship. It was a 17th century Rajneeshi town. They burned their
old women and tortured the indians and generally behaved like a bunch of televangelists
when no one is watching......and believed that God in his heaven rejoiced at it. 

Yeah right. 

Peeve: Religious Fanatics. 

JZ
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: School is Back in Session ( Was Re: Rewriting History
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:46:36 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <1992Sep29.133513.1815@cas.org> esp51@cas.org writes:
>Elaine writes:
>"the mother of Sir Galahad".  That's quite a heritage.  Centuries
>ago, you came from the highest stock, and frolicked with the
>aristocracy.  What happened over the years?  How did you lose you
>upper crust status and become the dried out, skagged out, pox faced,
>400 pound, lower bourgeois techocrat that you are.  Sigh....
>Well, at least you have your history, your dreams.  Think positive,
>mabey they'll invent a time machine some day.


My goodness, you do have an obsession with bad skin. Visit the dermatologist
lately? Perhaps you are overdue for a sandblasting.

If you met me, you would know that I am never dried out (at least not at
the rate I consume beer) and that I am certainly not 400 pounds. I am
450 pounds and have sufficient gravitational mass so as to attract small
objects such as pinking shears, wasabi, tongs and housepets.

I am also 7 feet tall and 163 years old.

Let your imagination run wild, churl. Peevetown is laughing at you and
picking up stones (dipped in Oxy-5, of course).

ER
--

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"I just couldn't take the green brain carpet, so I had to kill it."
					-R. Hep
From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Animal Rights Movement (was Re: Death peeve)
Date: 28 Sep 1992 00:52:05 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1a2qkjINNpnb@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>In article <1992Sep26.161744.7787@ac.dal.ca> Sybok writes:
>>
>>*SIIIIIGH*. No. It wasn't. The fellow swerved to miss an animal, lost control
>>of the car, and wrapped in around a telephone pole/flipped it into a ditch
>
>There's a certain perseverance in idealism about an act like
>that, which I must confess attracts me.  Any fool can go to an
>anti-fur benefit concert.  But sacrificing your life to save a
>rat?  That's conviction for you.

If more animal-rights activists did that sort of thing then there wouldn't
be any left after a while and I could go back to eating meat and clubbing
seals in peace.

Anyway, we're not sure what type of animal Ronald swerved to miss - if
it was a moose or a deer, then he didn't really have much of a choice,
animal rights or no. Even a Volvo station wagon isn't much of a match for
a full-grown moose.


Peter!
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (I would like to return this TOBACCONIST; it is scratched)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: on men
Date: 5 Oct 92 04:41:21 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>We also live 8 years longer than you guys, at least in the U.S.

No, it only seems that way.
-- 
"If I had killed her when I had first thought about getting divorced,
 I would have been out of jail by now."
	-- A newly-divorced guy I met at a block party
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Story: choose the proper weapon for the job
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 19:04:25 GMT
Organization: Cheese
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203

In article <1992Oct6.180217.2084@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>
>	<klaxon sound>  Geoff!  Russ!  We've been flanked!  Enemy to the
>rear!  Repeat, enemy to the rear!  You go for the loud speakers, I'll
>take out the catering truck.
>
>	I wonder, how well would an orgy video sell when the film was
>taken from a gun camera?

"Faces and Fannies of Death." Available at a video store near YOU.

-- 
We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers crystals.
Let's see if they notice the difference.
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