HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: FAT SMELLY...
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:27:45 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <16gm95INNnnh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov) writes:
>I wouldn't like to offend anybody but have you guys noticed that the
>minimal significance posts tend to invoke the most responses?
>
>In other words, the rule of the funnel or the inverted pyramide is at
>work. The manifestation of it is puting information content and
>significance where they lack mostly.
>
>Sigh. Yeah, it's easier to talk about fat, smelly ... (whatever)

In fact, "fat", and "smelly" are not the most prominent themes for the
posts in this subject classification. 


					Meech
From: ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: After Death Mints
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:29:25 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Aug15.075115.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsdhp@acad3.alaska.edu writes:

>Shortly after you die ...
>       - You'll be forgotten.
>       - Will be the time historians agree the world/population/animals turned
>         a corner into a new era of happiness, harmony and prosperity.
>       - Safe legal drugs will flood the world.
>       - An unpopular idea of yours will be shown to be absolutely correct or
>         become conventional wisdom.
>       - Practical immortality will be demonstrated, coming into the range of
>         the masses only a decade or so later.

This is all probably true, especially the bit about immortality. Extreme life
extension (several thousand years) could well be possible within the next
century or so. We could be one of the last mortal generations, how is that
for a depressing thought. After all those millennia of human development,
having to live their lives always in the shadow of an imminent demise, we
should fall short of virtual immortality by a few lousy decades.

Ah well, at least we can be comforted by the thought that, assuming there is 
no life after death, our moment of death and the end of the Universe will
effectively be one and the same point in time, from our perspective, and hence
those remaining will not have time to enjoy their immortality.

Alex.
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:08:27 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <1992Aug13.194510.10827@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> tcarsten@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Teresa C D Carstensen) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.172907.14011@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>>Another observation.... I know a few very bright women, and they prefer
>>to date stupid guys, and will even admit it.   The reason for it is that
>>in their work environments which are often male dominated, they feel
>>they must constantly keep on asserting themselves.  So when it comes down
>>to a personal relationship, they want one in which they feel secure,
>>where they have no self-doubt inspired by any sort of intellectual
>>competition with their SOs. 
>
>I wouldn't exactly call it self-doubt.  It's more like aggravation.  I've found 
>that a lot of times, even when a man claims that he wants to be with a woman who
>is his intellectual equal, he feels threatened by the woman's intelligence. For 
>example, one of my ex-boyfriends would never, ever concede that I was right  
>about anything when we were having intellectual arguments.  He was afraid that  
>if I was ever right about anything, then he would be wrong and therefore look  
>stupid.  Who wants to be with a guy who would rather put down your intellectual 
>capabilities than admit that maybe, just maybe, he isn't right *all* the time? 
>Thank god not all smart guys are like that, but unfortunately there are plenty  
>who are.  

I can understand how it might be annoying if you felt like your SO was always
trying to prove you are wrong.  But that is not exactly what I am talking
about.  What I am talking out is bright women with pre-programmed low
self-esteem, who, no matter what you say, always act like you are out
to get them even though you are not.  I think that the constant competition
with men in the workplace leaves them with a complex.  So that they feel 
compelled to say to you:  "Why are you interested in me?  I'm boring! I'm not
beautiful!" and feel unjustly provoked by everything you say, and no matter
what you say, they cannot believe that you honestly care about them, 
even though you do, and they don't hear a word you say, and
then they wind up attached to somebody who has a job mowing lawns, who
seems so outrageously wrong for them, that you cannot but be hopelessly
confused as to why they would even bother speaking to such a person,
because you know you wouldn't.  I don't think that is what you are
talking about.

>> And they want someone who is easy to impress
>>so that they don't even have to try.  

See above.

>Who doesn't?

If people are too easy, they aren't worth the trouble.

					Meech
From: blosser_cy@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: YO, JAKE--YOU WANNA START SOMETHIN'??? >=)
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:09:06 GMT
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

horntho@eng.auburn.edu (Jake Martling) writes:

>And you probably have your computer's mouse in a little crocheted "mouse cozy" 
>too, don't you? You anal retentive weenie...
> 
>Jake

Hey, now--let's not get nasty here, ok? I restrained myself to posting only two
(count 'em--2) messages to this newsgroup this week, and you have to go ahead &
get ugly...didn't you realize the best way to get rid of me, is to refrain from
provoking me? 

Hey, you wanna get ugly, we'll get ugly. I just might come back and post yet a-
nother flurry of insults to this stupid newsgroup! I bet you'd enjoy that, huh,
you bastard--what are you? A sucker for punishment? 

Here I was trying my damndest to get along with this newsgroup, and post angst-
ridden messages like all the other manic-depressives who populate this group...

Besides, I don't even own a mouse.

So there--you no-name low-life slime-sucking pond scum. If you wanna start some
thing, go ahead and start something...I'm ready for a flame war. In fact...I'll
fire up the grill right now. =)

All I want is peace. It's your fault if this newsgroup get's bombarded by anoth
er round of flames.......

Have a crummy day. I hope your dog dies. =)

Kristoph
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Mini-angstcon (was Re: ???)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 03:58:06 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Reply-To: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit)

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

> ObAngst; everyone seems to think this little camping trip of ours is going
> to be a nightmare. i in fact was planning it as more of a get-away from angst.
> nietzche will NOT BE ALLOWED. neither will whining. "resistance is useless".

C'mon Rach, you're planning to get a group of angsters together away from the
real world for a couple of days, and you're expecting HappyFunTimes???

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: New Job Angst
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:03:32 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug13.181435.29786@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.164401.23275@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>
>>ObAngst: time to assign grades to my horde of little darlings. added bonus:
>>sorority rush started saturday, and they're everywhere! aaaaaigh! bowheads,
>>and proto-bowheads! 
>
>proto-bowheads?...does that mean they can still be saved? Or are they a lost
>cause already?


i don't think they can be saved unless someone force-reads them something
like the lyrics to julie brown's " 'cause i'm a blonde" ...(because they
probably can't read themselves..)


bah.


--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Keywords: fat fat fat smelly smelly
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:04:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.011452.14793@uwm.edu> jethro@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mary Ellen Paul) writes:
>
>My "boyfriend" (the guy I waste time with when neither of us
>can find a better way to waste time) has gained 30 or so pounds
>in the last few months, and lately has given up personal
>hygeine.  Even the thought of sex with him makes me queasy.
>But personality-wise, we stomach each other quite well.
>
>I'm tall, smart, and don't have big boobs.  If I dump him, I'll
>never have another date my whole life.  Let's see, should I be
>nauseous with him, or lonely without him  . . . . .

Gee, I know some tall, smart women who don't have "big boobs" and
they're with some pretty nice guys.  One of them is even engaged to
married to one particularly smart, athletic, Nice Guy.

"Smart" is not a detriment.

"Tall" is not a detriment (as long as you're not over 7 feet or
something).

Lack of "big boobs" is also not a disqualifier as far as a lot of guys I
know are concerned.

So, stop being nauseated and get out there.


-- 
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Gary Schroeder	                |  Warning: prolonged exposure to this
schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov         |  .sig may cause retinal damage and 
Brookhaven National Laboratory  |  blistering skin rashes.
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 22 Aug 92 19:31:39 GMT
Organization: depressed

reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler) writes:

>Woody Allen should be required viewing.  (Am I showing my age
>again?)  Age angst?

No, Woody is quite popular amomg the young ...
-- 
 _______________________ _________________________________
| Jesper Lauridsen      |      Life is a spectator sport  | 
| rorschak@daimi.aau.dk |     I think, therefore I angst  |
|_______________________|_________________________________|
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: dh@fncrd7.fnal.gov (don husby)
Subject: First Time
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL
Keywords: Trivial angst
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:43:37 GMT
X-Posted-From: fncrd7.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


This is my first time - please be gentle

Today I make my USENET debut.  I will be posting to alt.angst, 
alt.windsurfing, and news.groups.

ObAngst.trivial.1:
  I have no idea what the OB before angst means, but when in
Angst, do as the Angsters.  Also I only vaguely understand the 
references to Alphas and Deltas (I can safely assume they are not 
references to a favorite fraternity/sorority - probably a metaphorical
reference to gorilla social structures).   I can only guess at "bowhead".

obangst.trivial.2:
  My first week's experience with Usenet:  I made a list, checked it 
twice- planned to browse through interesting news groups, possibly 
digesting one new group per day and then trying to keep up.  This, of 
course, is impossible.  The Dan-Quayle group and alt.activism alone 
have enough posts per day to use up the amount of (guilt free) company
time that I can spend on usenet.  Of course I suppose I could use my 
own time.
Nah.

obangst.trivial.3:
  As far as national labs go, Fermilab is one of the best to work at:
no secret research, not much radiation, a fairly enlightened 
administration, close to a major metropolitan area (Chicago) with
a beach.  The only problem: cold winters.  Also, the bureacracy is 
becoming increasingly retentive since Leon left.

obangst.4:
  Mom's birthday last Monday: dinner with the Family at some 
pretentious suburban place that requires a jacket even when it's
90 degrees and humid out.  Everyone in my family except me is a
starry-eyed Republican - 5 more votes for the Bush-Quayle ticket.
I've given up trying to get them to question their 
Patriotically-Correct beliefs.  They didn't even flinch when I brought
back the souveneir nun's-head from El Salvador. :)

obangst.5:
  I've got real angsts too, but like I said, this is my first time
and I haven't even been flamed yet, but expect some starry-eyed
Republican will take offense to angst.4.

bah?
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Mo'sickles
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:51:19 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

after posting yesterday (day before?) about my wife making me sell my bike, 
this a.m. she suddenly says "we ought to have a motorbike"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny things, women.....coupla days ago she said my hair was too short.....
(Last night I found some of our wedding photos - I look like Charlie Manson 
in a suit)

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
|           It all depends on the size of your ham sandwich           |
|  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44)061-275-6033  |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: ddogruel@nmt.edu (Lazarus)
Subject: Re: mini angstcon
Organization: Dave's Not Here
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 05:54:48 GMT

In article <20381@optima.cs.arizona.edu> menze@cs.arizona.edu (Ed Menze) writes:
>.......................Home of Harmonic Convergence I and II.  Nothing
>like having thousands of new agers hanging around, celebrating the end
>of the 20,000 year "Hell Cycles" on the Mayan calendar.  And, of
>course they'll have that glow of perpetual happiness that came with
>their software lobotomy.  A level of happiness that anyone with at
>least one foot in reality will never be able to achieve.
>
>Sounds like a good time!
>
>Ed

	the crystal freaks and energy vortex worshippers already had
their fun a few weeks ago up there.  there are still plenty of rock
circles marking the vortex sites, and even one that has been altered,
now reading:  eat at joe's.

	at least they can delude themselves into happiness.  we all
know better.  blarg.

	oh yeah, not like i hang out up there or anything.  i saw the
story on the news...



Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:53:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.053037.6084@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>Why does everyone ignore *my* posts? Isn't my angst good enough for you or
>something?


>ObAngst: My girlfriend claims to have *zero* angst. I wonder how this can be
>true, or whether she's really a clone.

Then she is a bowhead and must be shot...sorry....

But seriously, I don't see how anyone who spent any appreciable amount of
time in their skull could not have SOME angst in their life given this
world of ours...

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: First Time
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 00:42:30 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

dh@fncrd7.fnal.gov (don husby) writes:
: 
: This is my first time - please be gentle
: 
: obangst.trivial.2:
:   My first week's experience with Usenet:  I made a list, checked it 
: twice- planned to browse through interesting news groups, possibly 
: digesting one new group per day and then trying to keep up.  This, of 
: course, is impossible.  The Dan-Quayle group and alt.activism alone 
: have enough posts per day to use up the amount of (guilt free) company
: time that I can spend on usenet.  Of course I suppose I could use my 
: own time.
: Nah.
: 


Here I sit , broken hearted,
all logged in, but work unstarted.
First net.this and net.that,
and a hot buttered bun for net.fat.

The boss comes by, and I play the game,
then I turn back to net.flame.
Is there a cure (I need your views),
For someone trapped in net.news?

I need your help, I say 'tween sobs,
'cause i'll soon be listed in net.jobs.


Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
=====================================================================
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:19:01 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:

> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>
> >hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
> >>ObAngst: My girlfriend claims to have *zero* angst. I wonder how this can
> >>be true, or whether she's really a clone.
> >
> >Then she is a bowhead and must be shot...sorry....
> 
> She bloody isn't. She's the exact opposite of a bowhead. She's a sensitive,
> shy, insecure drama student, who's depressed far too much of the time for my
> liking. We seem to spend a hell of a lot of time comforting each other.

If she's depressed far too much of the time, I'd guess she just defines angst
in a different way than most.

> She defines angst in a slighty different way to most. She says she has no

See?!

> expectations, and thus has no angst that things will turn out all right... she
> just takes things as they come. I wish I had that attitude.

So how come she's depressed. C'mon man, we need *answers*!

> DISCUSSION TOPIC: Can we separate the concepts of "angst", "depression" and
> "weltschmerz"?

Welt-who? Sheesh.

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:11:36 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

> Well, my impression from reading history books about Oak Ridge is that
> it was located in this area for the following reasons:
>
> [...reasons deleted...]

Okay, so for the benefit of us non-residents of the Yoo Ess would you care to
tell as exactly what Oak Ridge does (apart from produce mutated frogs)?

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Keywords: fat fat fat smelly smelly Angst physics
Organization: Center for Advanced Breakfast Technology Research
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:09:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.035105.9178@nmsu.edu> storm@acca.nmsu.edu (Keith C. Estanol) writes:

>MoreAngst:
>I've discovered, much to my dismay, as others have discovered, that
>if one souce of angst disappears, another walks right up  and takes
>it's place.  For example: Once you've gotten over the 'oh my GOD,
>she's cheating on me' angst, you then get the 'oh my GOD, she knows
>I'm a jealous bastard and is leaving me forever!' (insert wailing
>sound here).   

You've just discovered(or proven) the Third Law of Angstodynamics:
Angst is neither created nor destroyed, merely reformed and transferred.
How do people increase or lessen the amount of angst in their lives then?
Simple: As one source of angst ceases to generate angst for someone, it leaves
them to become a free-floating angstoid. It will gravitate automatically
towards the closest person who is sensitive or vulnerable to that particular
form of angst and stick to them, kind of like an enzyme.

So what does the CABTR have to do with this?
Well, during my recent lack o' PopTarts, I've discovered a new PopTart Deprivation
Angstoid. I had suspected this at first, but only yesterday proved its existence.
I talked to the Special Projects Board and they agreed to subsidize me for the
immediate future in my research into Angstial Emissions from Kellogian Toaster
Pastry Charged Vacuum Envoidments(borrowing a term from a well-respected colleague
and Time Lord)

What this means to you:
Whats this means is that the CABTR now has several openings in the Special
Projects Office for graduate assistantships in the study of "PopTart Angst".
To apply for one of the posts, please send me mail with your qualifications
and a short essay as to why this particular project interests you.

Look at it this way all you starving angsters:
If nothing else, At least you know you'll be getting fed.
---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Dead City Angst
Keywords: Perth Australia Location
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:44:18 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <1992Aug19.165541.15776@microunity.com> ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.143553.20233@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>[...]
>
>> You should hear what Oak Ridge physics wives say about the place.
>
>"Fuck you, I'm leaving"?
>

Ah, you've been there!
					M
>-----
>
>The worst place I've lived (so far) was a small town in Arizona, near
>Flagstaff.   I had no car, so I was stuck.  There's no punks, goths, hippies
>or people who can carry on a conversation more complicated than
>"where's the beer?"  Anyone who had any brains left the town as
>soon as possible.
>

Was this Winslow?  Been there!

[The tale of the 3 bars, thuggery, tourists, cowboys and other peoples' wives
deleted]

Sort of fits in with the "Look Before You Sleep" motel in Winslow where
the rooms are $12.95/night!!

>Yeeha.

Wahoo!

					Meech
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score update)
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:48:01 GMT

In article <#r!nwwb@lynx.unm.edu> jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann) writes:
>>
>>>Score:      Vultures   Ravens   Deer/Ticks    Barbie/Ken    Rednecks  
>>>								      
>>>Los Alamos   N/A        x        N/A           N/A           N/A    
>                                                 ^^^
>Rather optimistic on your part, no?  B/K are _everywhere_.  Though
>the delta/alpha ratio is higher here than most places.
>
>>>            Radioactive
>>>            Wildlife
>>>Los Alamos   N/A
>               ^^^does plutonium-scavenging jimson weed count?
>>
>>		Monster Trucks   Low riders
>>		All The Rage
>>Los Alamos     1/2 X            XXX	
>>Brookhaven 	X!
>>Oak Ridge 	X
>>

Duly noted!

>Off to the lovely lava beds of Idaho...

Have fun!
					Meech
From: despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Degree and nature of angst (was Re: FAT SMELLY...)
Summary: all caps give me gas.
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:07:33 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <something> nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov) writes:
>I wouldn't like to offend anybody but have you guys noticed that the
>minimal significance posts tend to invoke the most responses?

Oh dear.  The most depressing things available for me are mundane.  The 
horror of the evil of banality in others is surpassed only by the shocking
and teeth-gnashing revelation of the same, in myself.

Sublime, epic, extreme angst is delicious. 

-- 
Scott Hanson		This has been a recording.
despair@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.angst