HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score Update)
Organization: Math dept. Tulane University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 23:01:19 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-3510]: crawfish.math.tulane.edu

THIS one paragraph RIGHT HERE causes me no end of angst:

In article <1992Aug22.221545.7252@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu  
(SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
> 
> This is one place where I may disagree.  That southern drawl makes the
> women sound very sexy, even though they are just Barbies.  Trouble is
> that they almost never say anything interesting.  An intelligent woman
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> with a southern accent could own me.  I would have no defence. 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (they DO, indeed, exist!)

I'm SO glad you reminded me of it.

Matt

ObAngst: School starts in a coupla weeks.  My last vacation was
December.  I get to jump from 9-5 work two days a week to studying
for orals and teaching class the other 5 days a week, for an
undetermined amount of time.  Why am I doing this?  There are no
jobs waiting for me.  I could have quit long ago and gotten paid
bazillions of dollars for sitting and programming, but I said "no,
I'll go do something I really like".  I am an idiot.

--
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 "Do you hate people?" "No ... but I seem to feel better when they're
          not around." - Barfly  "Do YOU suck da heads?"
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
Date: 16 Aug 92 14:22:23 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Aug15.000510.6774@rdr.com> randy@rdr.com (Randy Tidd) writes:
>and ask her what time she gets off of work.  When she replies (it doesn't  
>really matter what time), ask her if you can buy her a cup of coffee at  
>one of the nearest coffee shops (all decent coffee shops stay open until,  

Oh yeah right.  Angsters tend to be people whose pulse goes up to 150
just when trying to dial the phone number of a MOTAS while cowering in
the safety and privacy of their own homes.  And you're advising this guy
to ask a stranger for a date *in public* while a line full of impatient
hungry customers breathes down his neck?  

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not stupid 
enough to suggest that seriously.  So the only other alternative is that
you're deliberately and sadistically setting this guy up for a total
disaster.  If he doesn't commit suicide after his upcoming humiliation,
he *will* have a good, angst-provoking story to tell the net.  Which is
why we're all here, after all.  So, all in all, pat yourself on the back
for a day's alt.angst work well done!  :-)

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From: martin@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Martin Gorman)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Keywords: fat fat fat smelly smelly
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:18:13 GMT
Organization: British Telecom

rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:

>In article <1992Aug15.040354.891@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>>> i'm tall, smart, and i do have big boobs.
>>
>>It must be density, clearly she is my DreamGoddess! Rachel, I want to have
             ^^^^^^^
>>your children and run away with you to a small unpopulated sub-artic
>>isle.
>>
Well, you said it.
From: llama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Date: 22 Aug 92 19:47:23 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mak@spuddy.uucp (Mark Kellaway) writes:

: hey I'm 29 and I've still got it bad. You're right though it did set in at
: about 25, guess its kind of a shock starting work in the Real World(tm) after
: dropping out of an academic life. At least you could kid yourself you were
: contributing to the sum total of human knowledge, out here in the wasteland
: your just an extremely small cog in a big wheel that goes round and round
: and never gets anywhere

i dunno... i never really felt like i was doing anything real in
undergrad. it was a lot of fun, and i enjoyed doing my thesis, but the
more i learned the less i was sure of. i think part of the problem
was being in a very scientifically rigorous psych department and
simultaneously being in a liberal arts honors program that had me
dealing with basic epistemological questions. i stopped believing
almost everything. whee.

: >schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder):
: >I've been seriously considering your "Lifequake Theory" for the last few
: >months now.  Maybe I should just jump.
: >
: go ahead I might even work up the courage some day and do it myself.

i dunno if i'd recommend it; it had some unfun bits to it. but on the
whole, i'm glad i jumped. i can't imagine going back to what/where i
was before... it was so *dull*. chaos/uncertainty/angst-filled living
beats yuppiedom.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"hey! you're going the wrong way!"
"world's round, right? i'll get there." -- dallas radio ad
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:47:35 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Oil and Lube Center

In article <machala.713820464@delphi> machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala ) writes:
>
>Oh, _god_ do I hate that flashing "12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00... ad infinitum"
>but this is alt.angst, not .peeves. Anyway, a person (any sex) who can whip
>out a ten-dimensional superstring has no business changing the oil in a car.
>that's what epsilons are for. I've met plenty of EE PhD's who can't change
>a light bulb or program a VCR. Not that they can't do it, it JUST DOESN'T 
>INTEREST THEM! OH! OH!
>

Yeah, and I wonder how much further we would be in the study of superstring
theory if all those automobile mechanics  were interested in understanding
them.  
						M
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins)
Subject: Re: Dead City Angst
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-13439]: crawfish.math.tulane.edu
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:49:26 GMT

All this talk about living in terrible cities... tut tut tut.  I just
*have* to do this.  In New Orleans, we have:

A different bar for each day for over a year (and plenty are
open till 8 or 9 am),
plenty of coffee houses for the next morning (or on your 
way home :),
Jazzfest,
The French Quarter (with accompanying Bourbon Street),
Music, music, music,
museums, museums, museums,
and, oh yes, Mardi Gras.

Of course, sticking out (har) the humid summer months is a little
trying, but hey, you can walk a block outside your home and get a
50 cent beer.

I'd be hard pressed to find another city I'd enjoy living in as much.


Matt
--
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        matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (NeXT Mail accepted!)
 "Do you hate people?" "No ... but I seem to feel better when they're
          not around." - Barfly  "Do YOU suck da heads?"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: Rebel without a grant (was fat, smelly)
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:50:29 GMT

In article <RSHOLMES.92Aug19123132@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>In article <17861@acorn.co.uk> ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:
>
>>ObAngst: Milk producers putting half a litre of milk into a pint carton
>>	 and charging the same price. Look, instant profit increase !
>>	 In the UK our pints, pounds and miles are under constant attack
>>	 from those nasty metric foreigners.
>
>Eh? You're complaining about getting 1.06 pints for the price of 1?
>
>Liters are BIGGER than quarts, son.
>

Not in the British Empire, bub.  The imperial quart is 1.14 litres, if
I remember my conversion factors correctly.

						Meech
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: A new source of Angst.....
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:19:44 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <+a-ny=k.jamesh@netcom.com> jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower) writes:
>Sorry, Meech, but being able to vote doesn't necessarily help...
>Like Boss Tweed said, "I don't care who does the electing, as long as I
>get to do the nominating!"

... which is why I angst for the future of the country every time I hear
some supposedly intelligent, educated person say with "I 'vote for the 
man, not for the party.'  I'm an independent."  The result of their
"independence," of course, is that they leave the nominating to the
Boss Tweeds.  And then, before the general elections, they whine and whine
about the shitty candidates put forward by those nasty ol' political
parties (whose decisions they refuse to influence).  Then the go into the
booth and split their tickets, ensuring divided and deadlocked government,
just to prove their "independence."

ObRelationshipAngst:  This is the political equivalent of dumping one's
SO, not because one really wants to, but to prove one's "independence."
As an undergraduate I was engaged to a woman who did this to me mainly
because her headshrinker told her to -- now *that's* independence for you!

Bruce "Now is the time for all good angsters to come to the aid of
their party" Tindall
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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23)
Subject: Re: alt.angst angst
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:50:43 GMT

In article <77719@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>hmmm. it's weird to have angst about angst, but this group inspires
>it. after six years of calling bulletin boards all over texas and
>never hesitating to express opinions loudly on just about anything, i
>find myself having a hard time jumping in on this newsgroup. 

Welcome, don't fear, angst is angst. Just because yours is different doesn't
mean it doesn't belong.

Personally, most of the stuff I see here is nothing to me, so I don't post.
(How many did I surprise with my presence? No group is safe from me!!! hahaha)

But, I've crawled out of the 'trix to say welcome and feel free to post.

As for me, you'll find me on alt.suicide.holiday most of the time, or alt.prose
or rec.arts.anime, or, or , or just about anywhere actually....

Hmmm, maybe I should leave something.... yeah...

Slip the tape into the player
Press the button
The sounds begin
Raise the blade
Turn it in the light
Feel the edge
Sharp
Good
Raise your arm
Look for a good place to start
There on the back
Press the point into your flesh
The blade slips in easily
Don't go to deep
Move the blade to the music
Feel the pain
The burning sensastion
Blood wells
Taste it
Bitter
Metallic
Beautiful
Continue cutting
Just breaking the skin
Let your emotions guide your hand
There
It is done
Look at the pattern
Store it
Close your eyes
Feel all the nerves
Focus on the pain
The sweet pain
Listen to the music
Blood dries
Music ends
Fold the knife
Place it back in your pocket
Throw on your jacket to hide your art
Go out and face the cold world

-megazone, in a reflective mood, 6/23/92

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From: machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala )
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Keywords: money angst depression paranoia
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:02:09 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments

despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) writes:

>In article <mumble> mak@spuddy.uucp (Mark Kellaway) writes:
>>In article <mumble> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>>(uh oh, this sounds like "my angst is better than your angst" posting...)
>>
>>shouldn't that be my angst is worse than your angst ?-)

>Now wait a minute.  It depends upon your preference.  Many people enjoy
>depression, and half of them don't even know it.  Hell, there's people who
>don't even know they're depressed...

What I would give to feel depressed! 
What I would give to feel joy.
What I would give to feel ANYTHING!
Except lethargy and duress.

--
                                 ROMANES
                                 EUNT 
                                 DOMUS
Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 06:43:10 GMT

Chuck Machala (machala@delphi.hc.ti.com) wrote:
: 
: What I would give to feel depressed! 
: What I would give to feel joy.
: What I would give to feel ANYTHING!
: Except lethargy and duress.
: 
: Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments

Interesting....of late, I had been thinking to myself that it's been a long
time since I've felt...well, I guess 'involved'.  I've got a good job which
I enjoy, etc. etc. etc., but I don't have any thrills in my life.  I have 
hobbies, sure, and a life, but nothing really THRILLS me.  Am I just getting
old (25), or cynical, or jaded, or just realistic?

TurboBah.

--

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SAAB - Because you get what you pay for.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com


Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Volvos (Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:48:12 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

>No Dave, you see, it's a line from the film 'Crazy People'. I have yet to see the film,
>but it introduces the amusing concept of telling the truth in adverts,
>or at least being a little bit more realistic.

OK.  It's not so much the actual Volvos as their drivers anyway


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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Organization: University of Tennessee Oil and Lube Center
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:53:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.231249.4756@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>Borland?  Is that a misspelling of Bore-Land, i.e., Tennessee?
>

Aiiiyyeeeeeeeeeeeeyaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: France (Re: a girl in McDonalds
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:42:23 GMT

dave budd (zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug17.004519.1159@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> adem1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Adam Edward         Demeter        ) writes:
: 
: >and am Manically depressed, I feel pain when people say 'France' 'Paris' &
: >'French'
: 
: Sylvie.   Fontainbleau.   A single line of dark hairs all down her spine.
: Why'd you have to mention France you b-----d?
: 
: ProBah++ v1.0

I've just started to make friends with a Sylvie who lives in Brighton.  Not the
same one?  She is French and I must say I have a penchant for Francofems in the
extreme.

Au revoir Mon ami

Neek  (French for Nick).
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: After Death Mints
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 01:11:00 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:

> machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala ) writes:
>
> >immortals. The single _biggest_ problem facing the world as a whole is over-
> >population. And you would like to end the only possible remedy for this
> >problem?! 
> 
> That's why we're so much worse off than our ancestors were a hundred years
> ago, right?

A hundred years ago there wasn't the same population problem.

> Eternal youth for everyone means:
> 
> - Social Security vanishes.
> 
> - The gifted don't fade and die.
>   (If brilliant inventors get into a rut, well, at least they can teach.)
> 
> - People have selfish reasons to plant redwoods.

  - too many people for an already overcrowded planet.

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: dfong@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: When they Don't Know Angst Poem
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:11:49 +1200
Summary: angst, innocence, ignorance, love, death et al.
Reply-To: dld1@waikato.ac.nz
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

 tis but a DRAFT... but It's fairly complete
  <Untitled_As_Yet>

Tell me : Why do I walk in the rain ?
 What could make me act this way ?
  Day after day, except possibly
  Maybe it's true what my heart feels for you.

 Rain falling into puddles,
  your effect on my mind, oh so muddled.
 Your face fills my sight,
  your image my mind.
 My heart fills with love,
  but could you fulfil my life ?
 You stand so close, and yet so far.
 The distance, short and long
  slowly breaking the heart
 Could you find the love in your heart,
  or will I just end up falling in the Dark.

 But all I get is silence,
  And in the twilight my heart breaks,
 But if I walk in the rain maybe no one will see me cry.

 Dropping off the edge,
  Into an endless fall
 Just for that love to be returned,
 I would I give it all.

 Life, Fate, what games you play
 People just walk up and then away
 And death comes and sits by your side
 Wondering if you want to go and play that night.

 So I bid you Adieu,
  as I walk along the road
 And only in my heart,
  do I whisper quietly
   "I love you"

       Douglas, August 1992

--         Douglas L. Davey                "...I'm going slightly bONkers..."
--       Dreamer@Waikato.Ac.Nz                 Third year B.C.M.S. Hacker
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From: blosser_cy@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: WHY, HELLO AGAIN, DAVE! (right-justified text)
Date: 16 Aug 92 16:46:07 EDT
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

My life is so filled with chaos, discord and entropy that I find it quite
comforting to have at least a little bit of order on my computer terminal
hence, my right-justified text.

Good enough explanation, Dave? =)

Have a crummy day,

Kristoph
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:16:53 GMT

dave budd (zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug13.100022.6735@bnr.uk> datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
: 
: >Angst:  Three fems did the dirty on me in two days!  A new all low record!!!
: 
: Shouldn't this be in alt.sex.tasteless or something?
: ;->
: 
: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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: |  put things in it.   {attribution? I nicked it from Readers Digest} |
: |  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44)061-275-6033  |
: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

Sigh!   If only.....  :)

Just got our 'phone bill....  Three hundred f*cking notes!   Sheeesh!  I love
living in England!   I think that most of them were run up by my housemate
trying to get a job.  He now has a job, he started two weeks ago.  I have
asked BT for an itemised list.  I hope it doesn't show that most of the charges
are mine to 0898 Lonely Hearts numbers.  I know I get desperate some lonely,
dark, late, nights, but I don't think I have run up that much of a bill. :(
I will have to pay it, I suppose, as he hasn't any money and won't be paid for
ages.  I can't wait for the gas and electricity bills to 'pop' through our
door.

I _was_ going to book a week off work, load up my bike and head for Europe (:))
but I reckon I shall have to wait until next month now.  I was going to go to
Scandinavia but I think it will be too cold in September, I will head for 
Budapest instead.  Of course, it would be nice to have someone to go with but
I can dream.......   A holiday by myself, I wonder if I will enjoy it?  At 
I only have an _electric_ razor!

It's funny (no it's not) how, when you have a slight excess of money, something
ALWAYS comes along to turn it into a slight (joke, I mean huge) deficiency! :(
I always end up with vehicles in illegal states because of this.  I need tyres
for my bike, (I had to wait two months to tax the bloody thing!) but now, I 
will have to wait until next month.  I hate riding on bald tyres but if I don't
pay the 'phone bill, it will be disconnected and that would be disastrous!  (No
more Lonely Hearts calls!!!!)


Nick          DoD 1069         MAG 73516     Oh lor, oh lumme, oh crikey!


Any girlies out there who want to have a free holiday?  (Dream on Nick.. Women
would sooner cut their own throats open with nail scissors than spend any time
with the likes of you.  I'm not even fat and smelly! :)  )
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:59:15 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:



>there's nothing wrong with two people just having sex because both of
>them feel like it *as long as* both people are aware that that's all
>that's going on (and everyone plays safe). picking up someone for a
>fuck is fine, so long as it's perfectly clear to both people that it's
>just a fuck. i went through a promiscuous phase a couple years ago,
>and i've never really thought of myself as a waste of human flesh. it
>was just what i wanted to be doing at the time. i got bored with it,
>so i stopped. <shrug>

I'm sorry but I'd like to return to the original point that Lucifuge
made. To fuck just for the fuck is shallow. Exactly because the involved
in the sexual act "are aware that that's all that's going on". It's
simply an act of sexual mechanics, without the warmth and emotional and
if you want intellectual involvement in what's going on. And this
involvement gives you the most of sexual satisfaction and togetherness
if you are really "together". No wonder you got bored. I was also when
I was younger *grin*


the NEXUS>
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: alt.angst angst
Date: 15 Aug 92 03:15:27 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes regarding alt.angst:


>That's probably the real reason this seems insular: it's not angst any
>more, it's a ritual.

I said it already.

the NEXUS