HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: SGI RS4000 'Crimson'
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 23:14:40 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

I recently perused the coffee stained pages of the July issue of
BYTE magazine. As an owner of an almost orphaned machine, I
sometimes wonder if it would be a wise idea to upgrade.

Usually I get better. Deem compunerdygeekism included. 

However, I got SERIOUSLY peeved whilst reading a three page
spread in the 'News' section of the magazine.

It was all about the new release SGI/MIPS RS4000 Crimson machine.

Who needs 64 bit CPU architecture?
Who needs access to up to 48Gbytes of IPI2 connected disk storage?
Who needs 256Mbytes of memory
Who needs 48 bits/pixel graphics cards, that can draw a million
vectors per second, and up to 370,000 filled polygons per second?

Who needs multiple serial, parallel, and network connectors, a
twenty inch monitor, and a RS3000 code compatible processor that
is capable of punching out 104,000 dhrystones/sec?

   $$$$              $$$$$                  $$        $$        $$    
    $$               $$  $$                 $$        $$        $$    
    $$               $$   $$    $$$$$       $$        $$        $$    
    $$               $$   $$   $$   $$      $$        $$        $$    
    $$               $$   $$   $$   $$      $$        $$        $$    
    $$               $$  $$    $$   $$                                
   $$$$              $$$$$      $$$$$       $$        $$        $$    
                                                                      
                                                                      
Only $US110,000 and I could own this lump of hardware. Heck, I
even like the colour of the box!

Some days it is even harder to come to terms with not being an
independantly wealthy slob with access to keen computers.

!Peeve:  My partner doesn't understand any of this desire.
         Reality is cool too. 

Peeve:  Pournelle's opinionated user garbology in BYTE.  If I
	needed some bozo to laud the features of "Windows 3.1",
	for ghu's sake, I'd listen to Bill Gates more often!

Peeve:  CJ Silverio gets to work at SGI, and I get to work at the
	Australian Taxation Office. Sheesh. It might be alright
	if I got a staff discount, but, of course, I don't. Fuck
	it all.

Dac
--
[My 68030 machine is only capable of 5,000 dhrystones/sec. Pathetic.]
munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac      David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
  prolix!dac%eyrie@labtam.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
        dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au      I post .
prolix!dac@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au            . . I am.             +61 6 290 2215
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mall of America
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:24:48 GMT
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Elaine Richards (booter@Autodesk.COM) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug18.003026.1@gumby.mgi.com> thompson@gumby.mgi.com writes:
: >They still haven't learned. There isn't a square foot of carpet or anything
: >else that might absorb sound in the entire Mall of America. The whole place is
: >one big echo chamber. There's nothing quite like the background noise of
: >100,000 people in a concrete, glass and steel building.
: 
: 
: 
: Way cool! Let's go there and scream our lungs out every day for a week.
: 
: They will get carpeting in there.
: 
: Or toss us all out.
: 
: ER

Aw, but Elaine, your little footsies might get cold up in the frigid north!
If you do come up though, don't bother renting a car, I can lend you my
mosquito saddle & reins.

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com
From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:26:54 GMT

In article <24806@castle.ed.ac.uk> fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:

>The solution? They're going to include a psychometric test in the
>Driving Exam. This will enable them to weed out "aggressive types' who
>are unfit to be awarded a licence. It's a good idea, though I find it
>hard to imagine that these psychometric tests can't be fooled by the
>simple expediency of giving the expected answers.

Here in the States, the insurance companies just assume that any male
under the age of 25 is an "agressive type". Single male, I should say.
Now what peeves me about this is the nice letter the insurance
company sends to all its victims (oops, subscribers) that tries to
logically explain its policy. 

Yes, I know that single males under the age of 25 are more likely to
have had an accident in the last year. But this does not prove that 
any one of these persons is more likely to have an accident in the
future. But they penalize the good drivers along with the bad by
virtue of the similarity in age, gender, and marital status. That's
viewed as OK. But just let them TRY to peg insurance rates to race...

>In a survey on a british motorway, 90% of drivers figured their driving
>ability was "above average". It sure must be bad somewhere else....

I've heard stats like that around here, too. People are vastly
similar, aren't they?

Peter!
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:42:25 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

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...?

This conjures all sorts of images, l""p, but very few of them have anything
to do with cars.

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.

| peeve: when the mechanic changes the radio station.

Grrrrrr.....

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|Despite decades of market research, markets       |
|proliferate and there's no cure in sight.         |
+--------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: "There's one in EVERY car" (Was: Mechanics and their ilk)
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:48:01 GMT


<In article <1992Aug18.143528.25609@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:

<   In spite of all of this, I *refuse* to get one of those little plastic 
<   thingies with the cloyingly sweet smell of pine to hang in the car.  I'd
<   rather have the stench.

	Wassamata, didn't you see "Repo Man"? 

	Hmm. Or maybe you DID!
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Brookside
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:24:34 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

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

>In article <9208171452.AA08344@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Gordon.Riddell@prg.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>=>Margaret is also not a catholic,

>Oh yeah? So what's she doing "worshipping" in a Catholic Church?

She's eyeing up the talent :-) Pay attention, Jeremey and write out one
hundred times : "I must pay more attention when watching Brookside."
T

BrooksidePeeve 1: Sammy and Owen are back together. If I were Owen I
would have bludgeoned the whinging bitch nine months ago.

BrooksidePeeve 2: Anna, the nice bit of Polish totty, looks certain to
be written out.


-- 
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)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (!Arthur Lyman)
Subject: Re: Arthur Goes Fishing (Was: Intellectual property) 
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: !Third District Court
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:21:55 GMT


In article <ATAYLOR.92Aug20141404@gauss.nmsu.edu>, ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
|>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...

That's righy, Nosy.  I gotta fat lip that's hangin' right out there where a
hook can get at it.

--
Nolan "I'm not an attorney nor do I play one on TV" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it
 with a computer." David Wittenberg, in Risks Digest 13.70
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"
From: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Great for microwave ovens!
Keywords: Losers
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:56:51 GMT
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu
Organization: Up the,

In article <1992Aug17.181037.7854@nlm.nih.gov>, harris@ironic.nlm.nih.gov (Nomi Harris) writes:
|> Microwave Anti-Peeve: I was recently introduced to a really cool
|> phenomenon involving microwave ovens and ordinary table grapes.
|> Cut a grape in half, but leave the halves connected by a bit of
|> skin, and lay them out on a plate.  
|> Anyway, turn on the microwave and watch as the grape emits huge
|> sparks!!  You'll hardly believe your eyes!  Any explanations for
|> this effect?
|> 
|> The person who told us about the sparking grape has tried other
|> fruits, but didn't find any others that worked.  Clearly further
|> experimentation is in order:  we should try various kinds of grapes
|> (with and without seeds), raisins, cherries, etc.  I'm working on
|> the grant application.  :-)
|> 
Gee, that's a good one.  Usually only metal will spark in the microwave.
where did you get these grapes anyway?  I've heard of trace metal amounts
in food, but this is ridiculous.

|>(Gratuitous grammar peeve:
|> people who announce they're going to "lay" out in the sun.)

Oh, hell, make up your own joke.

Aside to Booter, try half apple half blackberry, or better yet, half
huckleberry, picked in a mountain meadow this last weekend with your own
hands, prepared otherwise as an ordinary apple pie.  But be warned, once 
you try it, there will be no going back.


Obpeeve:  Hiking five miles while heavily burdened to a gorgeous campsite
on Friday, taking a hike up a peak with a spectacular view on Saturday,
only to return to camp, nine miles later, to find a family of fifty(or so)
loud screaming kids have camped 30 feet from my tent.  And this is in    
Washington, it's not like other sights weren't available a half mile away.
We moved camp, by the way.  Tyranny of the masses wins again.

A final Olympic peeve:  The reason the whole thing is meaningless is quite
simply a lack of parochialism in our global village.  If you have a big bad
'rassler in your cranny of the world who has licked everyone around, seeing 
him tested against the best from the other corners of the globe means 
something.  Seeing the same five sprinters who've raced against each other 
the week before, and will race against each other the week after, doesn't
come to a speed bump of beans.

ObBob: Mathias
 
-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major
medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options.
Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal.
          Tim Mefford___________________tim@physics.orst.edu
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: peeve o' the day
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 13:01:45 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <l8vj62INN2jc@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <l8vj62INN2jc@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, 242 lbs before cooking writes:

> 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.

Sheesh. How to turn a 'process 2Mb in 20seconds program', into a
'2Mb in twenty minutes' program, depending upon how lazily I do
the code. Thank ghod I don't have to have my code reviewed at
home!

Peeve: Code reviews.

Some dork at work object to me declaring a variable 'junk'
without commenting it. So I commented it:

   int junk; // This variable holds the contents of pi to four
             // billion decimal places, and is overwritten at whim.

He wasn't impressed.

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

Nothing keeps me out of trouble excepting power and telecom
fuckups. 

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

Obscurity is your special skill, right?

Dac
--
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Minister of Silly Dorks)
Subject: Re: Why can't I work in Europe?
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: International Association for the Prevention of Network Idiocy
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:02:32 GMT


In article <1992Aug11.174450.6919@ac.dal.ca>, 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:

[a truly pathetic WHINE about lost employment opportunities in Europe]

It's CLUE time, Mikey! Those employers over there are reading YOUR postings to
the net. They already know they don't want you or any other wankers of your
ilk anywhere near their enterprises. Wanna guess who else reads you? Good luck
getting a job ANYwhere.

Go slide back under the blankets and amuse yourself some more.

|>Gotta go.

It's down the hall, Mikey. I hope you can hold it that long.

--
Nolan Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it
 with a computer." David Wittenberg, in Risks Digest 13.70
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Firewall time again (was Re: Random Peeve)
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:01:32 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Aug10.184828.6901@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>
>I don't throw parties. I don't drink beer. I don't piss on newsgroups. Not very 
>eloquent, but there you have it.


I dunno, feller. Maybe you should throw a party, drink a lot of
beer, get up on the table and soliloquize and then (after the beer
has moved,uh, southward) piss on a few newsgroups.

ER

--

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"I can't help it, I was born sneering."
			-Pooh Bah
From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Clothes that fit
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:15:28 GMT

booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>Peeve: I cannot afford a $1400 Chanel camel coat.

In any case, for it to be of any use, you'd have to have your $1400
Chanel camel first. Unless, that is, you have a remarkably deformed
back.  GIF time?

>Peeve: Worrying about "comfort" in my clothes tells me I am getting old.

I suspect that it means that you're getting sensible. The prices on
most "fashion" clothes seem to me to be directly proportional to the
product of the absurdity of their appearance and the physical pain
they give to the wearer.

BTW, in case anyone is wondering, I'm not an old fogey; I'm a young fogey.

S
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: RADIO SHACK FASCISM
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:57:01 GMT

<In article <whitlock.63.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> whitlock@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu (Reid E. Whitlock) writes:

<   Those of you who have recently shopped in a Radio Shack outlet may have 
<   encounteredthe salesperson requesting, at time of purchase, your last four 
<   digits of your phone number (or was it SSAN?), and your address and name. 
<   This is ostensibly "for our records".

	A friend...well, not really a friend, more of "some guy
	named Sandy I used to know who was rather a jerk" once
	told me that Radio Shack salespeople have a QUOTA of
	names/addresses that they must meet per month....hence
	the pushiness of some who may be, shall we say, a bit
	low on the totem pole of Radio ShackDom.

	Geoff's solution is appropriate to the level of 
	intelligence involved, although giving 01sybok's
	name and address has a certain charm to it as well.

ObPeeve: I remember when Tandy first bought Radio Shack. A former
	 ham I knew at that time commented "There goes the
         neighborhood". How right he was......


Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Subject: Re: Vegetarian arrogance
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 20:55:16 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <#96m_+m.rickg@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
>In article <92Aug14.221525.26424@acs.ucalgary.ca> Charles Parr writes:
>
>>In article <1992Aug10.080510.4115@rtf.bt.co.uk> traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub) writes:
>>> [ ... ]
>>>Why lie? It's pretty obvious that you are not interested in vegetarianism.
>>>You have been sucking recipes off this newsgroup for over two years but
>>>you are still an eater of animal corpses.
>> [ ... ]
>>I read this group for the recipes as well. To give you an even
>>bigger case of indigestion, you squealing evangelist, I often
>>modify them to include *meat*. [ ... ]
>
>Recipes?
>
>The closest thing I've seen to a recipe hereabouts was Al Crawford's
>description of haggis, but even that lacked some vital information (oven
>temperature, lung texture, and so forth).
>
>I'm not going to recommend crossposting this to a newsgroup where it
>might be contaminated with the slightest hint of relevance, but I
>will suggest you read the line in the header above which offers a
>clue as to what *this* newsgroup is about.
>
>Or perhaps you were polishing your Geoff Miller impression and wanted
>an unbiased evaluation from our panel of judges?

Well, it wasn't supposed to be a Geoff Miller impression, but
yeah, I figured this was the place to post a peeve.

Now, Rick, if you can't pick out the peeve in what I cross-posted
over here, you should email whatshisname ofr one of those "CLUES"
he likes to post.

Did it really sound like Miller? I suppose that the man I like
to think of as "Geoffry "Dauhmer" Miller" has been an influence
on my style...But I rather fancied it was original.

Regards, Charles

-- 
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Goosed at the Deli
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:33:11 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <4319@equinox.unr.edu> malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes:
>The other day at a local deli, I saw a sign advertising "smoked goose breast".

>I guess I expected something like turkey breast.  What this meat turned out
>to be like, however, in both appearance and taste, was more like the greasiest
>pastrami (I mean literally dripping grease) you've ever seen.
[etc]
>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?


Yes, goose is a very greasy bird. It has about one inch of fat all around
it when you get a whole bird from the store. YOu stuff it with bread
and oranges, bake the hell out of it and throw out the extremely
greasy bread and oranges. Its delicately flavored, but very greasy.
Greasy food is best eaten piping hot on a bed of rice-wild rice mixed.
Its sweet, also. I think this is why its a wonderful holiday treat.

Peeve: Cleaning up after cooking your goose.

!Peeve: Goosing the cook. (sorry, its an old kitchen cliche.)

ER
--
	>elle@midway.uchicago.edu writes: >>drp@dosbears.uucp writes:
	>>Robin's Egg Blue      69-er                           69-ee
	>It's quite a trick, working out the difference between the two.
	>(Is this like "let's do 70:  you do me and I'll owe you one"?)
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Advice, and resumes.
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:52:03 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Geez, I am starting to get tired of people giving me employment advice.
One person says " Your resume says too much. They want to find that stuff out 
when you get to the interview."
The next person says "your resume is too short. go into more detail."


I wish there were some internetionally accepted standard for resumes.

Ah well... 
Mike(y)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
If females got as weak-kneed over poultry as they do
over fuzzy mammals, there'd be hordes of hysterical PETA broads picketing
every chicken farm in the country.
					Geoff Miller
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Xref: sparky alt.peeves:13491 talk.bizarre:25919
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: uk.misc,alt.peeves,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Handwriting (was: Spelling Flame)
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:59:02 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <yBZFPB9w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
=>john@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Alive and Kicking) writes about pens vs
=>computers:
=>> But can you use your Psion Series 3 for important things such as:-
=>[...]
=>> 4. Gouging out Earwax.
=>
=>No, you use cotton buds for that.
=>
=>Actually, the stupid warnings on the back of packs of cotton buds really
=>annoy me.  You know, the ones that say "DANGER: DO NOT STICK COTTON BUDS IN
=>YOUR EAR".
=>
=>Well, pardon me, but apart from sticking them in your ear (or someone else's)
=>the only use I can think of for cotton buds is cleaning the heads of cassette
=>decks.  Perhaps I'm just not imaginative enough.  I'd love to know what the
=>manufacturers think they're for.

There was a jolly worrying article in the Torygraph recently about a woman
who went deaf after drying some water from her ear with a cotton bud.
The doctor they spoke to says he sees 2-3 people a day with problems caused
this way. Apparently it's quite easy to dislodge them little hearing bones.
From now on, my ears are staying dirty, and if that offends you, tough!

(The manufacturers claim that the buds are for wiping snot from babies'
noses)


-- 
-Jeremy Henderson            |  Anisotropic
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Density tensor!  Truly
       			     |  a wonderous thing.
			     |			(Joe Green)
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Vegetarian arrogance
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:42:59 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <92Aug17.205516.25601@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
>Now, Rick, if you can't pick out the peeve in what I cross-posted
>over here, you should email whatshisname ofr one of those "CLUES"
>he likes to post.

I've been meaning to get to this post, but I just haven't had the
time.  I've got the time right now, but my cold is making me feel as
though my head will explode any moment now - so be prepared to see a
sudden end to the post.

Nolan: you stole my gag.  Here I've been merrily posting, meeting
peevers and folklorists and happily giving away "CLUE"s, and you steal
my gag.  After meeting me once.

Nolan, meet Mr. Brass Knuckles.  Mr. Knuckles, meet Nolan.

Russ "aghast at the violence potential" Kepler
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