HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:37:16 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <24946@castle.ed.ac.uk> scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach) writes:
=>egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>>Not to mention "booting the Sequent after the upgrade", right your holiness??
=>
=>Flogging a dead horse could be justified on some grounds - that of
=>enjoyment particularly; it takes all kinds, after all - but whipping
=>the ground that the village idiot suggested it might have been buried
=>under 5 centuries ago is, well, peverse, not to mention pointless.
=>
=>Jeremy, your idea of a well targetted ironical comment is the
=>linguistical equivalent of a B-52 with a belly full of dioxin, napalm,
=>and arclights. Flying towards Nowhere, AZ.
=>
=>Besides, if I'd wanted to start a religion, I'd have taken up third
=>rate science fiction writing, or dropped too much acid, or something.

Just a question, Scott. What the hell are you blabbering on about?

=>And, for the record, I've no idea how to boot a Sequent. 

You and a whole bunch of other people chez vous, evidemment.



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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: More Driving Peeves
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 15:24:32 GMT

In <1992Aug11.195332.26084@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs611a10@umbc3.umbc.edu (cs611a10) writes:

[...]
>Anyone trying to get off at Georgia knows not to
>attempt this going any faster than 55mph. 

This is true.  I speak from experience.

Not only will you get a ticket for speeding, but you will have to zip up
and put your seatbelt on in a big hurry.

Posting from lovely Atlanta, Georgia (via denver),
  -Bill
--
"Among free peoples, the open exchange of ideas
ultimately is our greatest security." - President Ronald Reagan
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mikey's Blunder
From: gcombs@vax1.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:56:29 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: UMKC Computing Services

In article <l8g1csINN8be@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242
lbs before cooking) wrote:

> "If you add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
> If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
> This, my son, is entropy."

  Hmmmm...  Substituting 'Mikey *Smirk*' for 'sewage' and 'alt.peeves' for
'wine' pretty much describes the quality of this newsgroup over the past
week or so.
  Peeve:  Substituting 'Mikey' etc. etc.

- Gerald Combs
     _____     __o          Internet : gcombs@vax1.umkc.edu
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"I was going to join a sorority once, but I already had a personality"
-- Judy Tenuta
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.tasteless
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: peeve o' the day
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 07:45:07 GMT

Andrew Clayton (dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug12.172629.13746@javelin.sim.es.com>, tim clinkenpeel writes:
: > today i found namfucklfuckss' lost pagfuckr ffuckstfuckring
: > undfuckr thfuck copybfuckast whilst playing with doom marblfuck
: > jr.  instfuckad of gratitudfuck i gfuckt accusations of
: > thifuckvfuckry.
: > 
: > a woodfuckn-hfuckadfuckd thfuckory--what would i havfuck with
: > dual pagfuckrs?  thfuck fucknvy of suburban hoodlums?  not
: > dfucksirfuckd.
: > 
: > i'm prfucksfuckntly contfuckmplating sodomizing namfucklfuckss
: > with a gardfuckn wfuckasfuckl (tm).
: > 
: > not only would it allfuckviatfuck thfuck angst, but would
: > crfuckatfuck a mulch that is bfucknfuckficial to my gardfuckn.
: 

Interesting....anyone else notice there is no letter 'e' in the entire
paragraph above?  Hmmmmm...this means something.

ObTasteless: Melba toast.
--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com
From: malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,rno.eats,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Goosed at the Deli
Summary: goosy goosy, ga ga ga
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:57:03 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Xinaian Tourist Bureau

The other day at a local deli, I saw a sign advertising "smoked goose breast".
This sounded pretty yummy, so I ordered 1/4 lb of it, sight unseen.

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.

Being something of a grease fan, I thought it was more or less OK, but the
person eating lunch with me couldn't handle it.

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?

Peeve:   The deli didn't have this stuff out where people could see it
	 ahead of time.

!Peeve:  This deli (Bavarian World at 6th and Valley, for you Renoites out
	 there) in most other ways is outstanding in the extreme.

Peeve:   Finding out that one knows less about something than one thought.

Peeve:   People too chicken (heh) to use the first person.
--
Malcolm L. Carlock                      Internet:  malc@unr.edu
                                        UUCP:      unr!malc
                                        BITNET:    malc@equinox
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: ]<razy ]<atz (was: Packaging and Stuff)
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:58:35 GMT

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>When I was in junior high school, I had a cat that would dutifully 
>report to the litter box upon hearing the call of nature.  So far,
>so good.
>Then she'd promptly turn and hang her ass out over the gunwale and
>let loose.

	I have four ferrets, and April has a kitten.  Said kitten was
litter trained up until about a week ago, when she started shitting in
appropriate corners of the den.  I don't understand.  The ferrets,
though, are the masters of the misguided shit.  Consider this:

	I have a litter box in their enclosure, and they used it quite
consistently until about two weeks ago.  Now they shit right next to it,
apparently not wishing to bother climbing inside and trundling over the
fresh, untouched cat litter in order to reach a corner.  What really gets
me is how they shit.  First, they have to back into the corner.  But wait,
in the feeble ferret mind there is something that thinks the closer the
front paws are to the corner, the deeper into the corner the shit must go.
Thus, I have ferrets shitting on the wall a foot above their litter pan.
It's quite a sight to see a ferret doing a handstand in the corner,
a look of intense concentration (insomuch as a ferret can be thought of
having any mental facilities to concentrate with) on it's pointy little
face.  I sometimes wonder why I keep the damn things, given how little
they regard my unceasing efforts to keep the den relatively shit-free.


--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Clothes that fit
Date: 15 Aug 92 10:27:09 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <24872@castle.ed.ac.uk> tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:
=>egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>
=>>BrooksidePeeve: Anna, the Polish nanny, is likely to be replaced by
=>>Margaret, the carrot-haired-Catholic.
=>
=>No, Anna is the Catholic. Margaret just ran off with a priest. Still I
=>agree that I'd rather drool over Anna three times a week with a repeat
=>on Saturday.

Well I hesitate to quibble with the product of a Jesuit education, but
I'm sure I've seen Margaret clutching a rosary from time to time. Anyway:

!peeve: Margaret found a new job, so the appreciators of foreign muff have
been (at least temporarily) reprieved.


-- 
-Jeremy Henderson            |  Anisotropic
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Density tensor!  Truly
       			     |  a wonderous thing.
			     |			(Joe Green)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mall of America
From: thompson@gumby.mgi.com
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:30:26 CDT
Organization: Management Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Aug17.003920.2746@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>,
allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
 
> The prototype for the Mall of America was built in Edmonton, Alberta,
> Canada about ten years ago.
[much deleted] 
> MajorPeeve: The same Iranian Money Launderers built a monstrosity
> in downtown Edmonton with even *more* glass, *more* mirrors, etc. They
> totally forgot about the concept of sound deadening materials...
> What a goddamn hell THAT place is....

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.
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Media bias
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:18:47 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

Bill Berbenich writes:
>
>Peeve:  Saw some nut driving a (is it a GEO?) Rocky with the sunshade
>        still in place!  He leaned out the window to see where he was
>        going!  The peeve is that it was soooo off-beat that it was
>        funny (if not dangerous) and I wish I had thought of it.

Aw, you can still do him one better: Drive around the same way, but make
sure the "Need help call police" side is facing out.

d "truth in advertising" h

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From: sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Political Peeves
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:16:17 -0500

In article <1992Aug19.183220.15973@igor.tamri.com>, donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:

> 1. All politicians now in office should be voted out
> 2. People who don't want the job should be voted in

Not everyone. We need dan qwayl to be congress's personal piss boy.

> 3. We should add an Amendment to the Constitution that says that, if you
>    put a Bill before Congress and it doesn't pass, you have to pay the
>    salaries and administrative costs incurred during its debate.
> 
> Howzat?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!...I like it!

Scott A. Chasse


Sad but true...

Q:Dan Qwayl, will you run for president in the next election?

A:We'll just have to see come *1994* now won't we?

*SIGH*
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly)
Subject: Re: ]<razy ]<atz (was: Packaging and Stuff)
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:08:32 GMT

alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky) writes:

>geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>>When I was in junior high school, I had a cat that would dutifully 
>>report to the litter box upon hearing the call of nature.  So far,
>>so good.
>>
>>Then she'd promptly turn and hang her ass out over the gunwale and
>>let loose.

>some of you may remember my report about the car drive with the small 
>yippy dog. when that dog (a dachshund) was trained to be housebroken 
>(many moons ago), she'd do something similar: walk up to the 
>newspaper, put the front paws on the paper, and water the flowers 
>on the carpet. 

>then she'd turn and face us with that "see? i *did* do it right!" look.
>-alex

A friend of mine had a pug dog (I think that's what they called it -- looked
like an ugly bulldog), and they paper trained it very well.  So well, in 
fact, that the dog would attempt to shit on any stray gum wrappers
lying on the floor.  

ObPeeve:  Dogs that try to hump your leg.

-- Mark
From: nolan@lurch.twg.com (Captain Saccaromyces)
Subject: Re: Champagne, wine, and beer (was: Re: PRO-smoker's peeves)
Keywords: newbies, champagne, crystal, fonts
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: International Society for the Promulgation of Zymurgy
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:04:11 GMT


In article <BsxpJr.Hr3@wpi.WPI.EDU>, padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton) 
	writes:

[drivel deleted]

|>Antipeeve: I can't tell good champagne from bad champagne, so it doesn't
|>really bother me to get the $2.99 (that's about a pound and a half)
|>bottles of Andre if I need champagne. Ditto for wine. Besides, the
|>worst champagne is still better than the best beer.
|>

Hold on there, Sonny.  How many REEEL good beers have you tasted? I mean
lately? How about St. Sixtus Ale from Flanders or Double Dragon from Wales?
How about Good Old Uncle Gus Maytag's Anchor Christmas Ale? How 'bout Bigfoot
from Sierra Nevada or Old Foghorn from Anchor? How about Pilsner Urquel on tap
at a bierstube just off the marktplatz in that village in the Alps?

Bah! This is a waste of time. Since you can't distinguish plonk from nectar,
I'd wager that you wouldn't appreciate a decent Rheingau Trokenbeernauslese. I
get the impression that you'd be one of the last hominids on the planet that
anyone would choose to be a food or spirits critic.

|>ObOxymoron: Good beer

Let someone with taste buds make that judgement - meanwhile go home and suck
on a ballpark frank.

|>
|>Peeve: The fact that at most parties, the only alcoholic beverage
|>	served is beer. 

That !@#$% ain't beer! It's Horse Urine (TM)!  Most folks on this side of the
pond wouldn't know GOOD beer if it bit 'em.

|>
|>Peeve: Not liking beer is often seen as a liability. 

You drink what you like, I'll drink what I like. Meanwhile, SHADDAP and drink
yer plonk.

|>
|>I prefer to think that I haven't been brainwashed by beer commercials.

Me neither. I don't watch 'em.

Peeve: commercial TV

!Peeve: I don't watch commercial TV

|>
|>Peter!

What's the cardinality of Peter!?
|>

--
Nolan "CAMRA is a great bunch" 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: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 23:30:12 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <1992Aug14.154115.286@hhcs.gov.au>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <1992Aug14.154115.286@hhcs.gov.au>, Carl Makin writes:

> Nah.  In Australia it's legal to have a 100W+ light facing
> backwards mounted on the rear bumper.  It's supposed to be hooked
> only to the reversing lights however that's easily fixed. :-)
> 
> OBPeeve:  People driving along with one blinker going.  Just what
>           the HELL are they planning to do?

Obviously you're part of the small clique of road users that
habitually uses both blinkers, flashing hazard style, to indicate
which way you -might- turn, eh? "Gives 'em a 50/50 chance!". Feh.

Thank ghod you don't drive a Volvo, Carl.

[And if Myles is lurking, insert many smilies]

> Carl Makin, MVS/ESA Systems Programmer, VAX/VMS Dabbler. 

Dac
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  prolix!dac%eyrie@labtam.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: infernal janitor
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:53:25 GMT

Now normally I'm a mellow fellow when it comes to other people just doing
their jobs and all. But I'm finding myself honestly peeved by the janitor
in this place, who shows up at 4:30 PM every night to go to work. Since I
am almost always here till after 6:00, I get at least an hour of him every
work day.

First, there is the business of the "orange" flavored industrial deodorant
he hits both bathrooms with. Intense! I think I preferred the pea smell.

Then, there is his Janitor Cart from Hell, which consists of a rolling 
heavy duty 55 gallon sized plastic wastebasket, with a cloth ditty on it
with holsters for various cleaning aids. It has a diameter about six
inches narrower than the hall and that's where he has it parked. So every
time I walk down the hall to get something off the printer, I have to
doseedo this goddam janitor cart.

If the Janitor Cart isn't there, it's in the men's john, blocking the door
open. You can even take an honest piss after 4:30.

Then there is this ancient Kent carpet sweeper, which puts out enough
noise that it can be heard anywhere in the building, and in this hall, it
reverberates its 130 dB enough to completely disrupt any conversation,
phone call, or thought.

Finally, the poor guy has a dog chain with about 500 keys on it, and it
jingles continuously wherever he is.

I know, I know. He's one of the few people in the building doing something
meaningful. That thought makes it all the worse, and it leaves me strained:

 (!!)
  ~~
L.
"Yeh, Buddy..            | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)|  _~~_
 I've got your COMPUTER! | % Physical Science Laboratory        | (O)(-)
 Right HERE!!"           | New Mexico State University          |  /..\ 
 (computer THIS!)        | Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 88003    |   <> 
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are CORRECT, mine, and not PSLs or NMSUs..
Abecedarian insult: "Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, 
dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous,
kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, 
quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, 
wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning, zoophyte!" 

.. So take this hambone with you. And when you get home, call your mother out
from under the porch and give it to her!"
From: sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Steve J Lacey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: is it time to sleep now?
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:50:55 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London.
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk


Peeve: I stayed awake last night because I hate to meet someone at
Heathrow early in the morning and I didn't want to be late (I have an
annoying habbit of being able to sleep through my alarm clock) Now
it's midnight on the following day and I'm not in the least bit tired,
I bet I don't waake up tommorow morning.

!Peeve: I'm able to sleep through my alarm clock.

!Peeve: I'm catching up on alt.peeves cos I'm awake

Peeve: My modem phone bill is gonna be huge.

!Peeve: I have dialback.

Peeve: I forgot to use it.

Steve.
--
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Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
180 Queen's Gate, London SW7. Phone : 071 589 5111 x5085, Fax : 071 581 8024 
Email: sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk            `Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Packaging and stuff
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:31:06 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly) writes:
>       
>'NutherPeeve:  Women who complain about men leaving the seat on the toilet 
>               up.  Is it so hard to turn around and look to see if the 
>               seat is down?  

Christ yes. Close to the first time I was in my ex's flat which she
shared with four other women, I was presented with a set of Rules. One
of these was that the toilet seat always had to be left down. Once when
it wasn't, there was a Steward's Enquiry at breakfast.

Peeve: If I'd like had a clue, I could've left right then and saved
myself a hell of a lot of bother. Personally, I blame hormones.

FoFP

"my weak points they were noted,
 put away for future use
 she says that she loves me, 
 as she tightens up the noose."     -- Hawkwind "Sadness Runs Deep"
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Psychic Tabloid Horoscope from Purgatory ( Was Re: computer amateur peeve
Summary: Who me? Gullible?
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:16:22 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Aug11.193521.2259@javelin.sim.es.com> tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>
>nuther peeve:  the colossal stupidity and gullibility of the goons on 'psychic
>friends network'.  nuff sed.


Yeah, if they were really psychic, they would not need a network to
get in touch with each other, eh?

Peeve: Nothing interesting in the tabloids today.

!Peeve: I picked up some tabloids a while ago because one had a picture
of the infamous space alien with Bill Clinton (now on my office door near the
picture of said alien with H. Ross Perot) and the other was of interest
on another newsgroup. Well, also they are fun to read. The horoscopes for
Libra there and in the Marin Independent Journal and the San Francisco
Chronicle said that Libras were in for some unexpected money.

Just for laughs, I picked up a lottery ticket. The phone rang that
night at 1:30 and the person hung up by the time I got disentangled
from three cats and a few forgotten magazines. I sat and worried. Oh my
God, what if my dad died? Where else would I get unexpected money? I
had trouble sleeping that night, but figured if I called Dad to see if
he was alive, I'd wake him up from his sleep. I knew it was not from my
life insurance for bandy because he was still posting away with his dre
cape and magic decode-me-harder ring. I later ascertained through
Bubba that Dad was OK and forgot about the lottery ticket. I did find a
penny in the parking lot and was relieved that no one died for me to
get money.

Saturday, I finally checked the ticket.

I won the lottery.

HUGE PEEVE: All that good luck and I only won five dollars.

IHaveNoOneToBlameButMyselfPeeve: I used it to buy five more lottery tickets.
	Greedy. Greedy.

!Peeve: It was amusing while it lasted.

Teeny!Peeve: I found a second penny.

TeenyPeeve: I am still out 98 cents.

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: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 12 Aug 1992 16:16:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <BsvH2G.4yB@wpi.WPI.EDU> padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
writes:

>If someone in a plastic car wants to tailgate at 150 mph, then it will 
>probably hurt him more than me.


I understand that this has become quite a problem in Germany because of
those aggressive, devil-may-care Trabant drivers.



Geoff


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