HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:05:28 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <92100.154608SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers) writes:
>No, it was my attempt to obfuscate exactly who I was planning to engage
>in sexual relations with this weekend.  Being bisexual and nonmonogamous,
>I frequently find it useful not to define the gender of the person I'm
>planning to have sex with, lest someone get the wrong idea.  I also find
>it useful not to remark on the exact relationship between myself and
>my sex partner, unless I feel like engaging in a long discussion.  (Like
>this one.)

Sounds like fun - just what would be "the wrong idea"? 

ObPeeve: bored out of my skull.  I know that there's a lot to do, but
i was managing someone else's fucked up newsfeed overnight.  I really
don't know why I should care except it feeds my system and keeps the
folks I feed from calling me.

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232
From: tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:17:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: talon.1992Apr15.081703.7847
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services

In article <11064@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>
>
>Geoff, when I met you at JZ's house that one time, I thought to myself
>that you looked a great deal like Darren Stevens from "Bewitched". In
>other words, a clean cut and respectable brunette white man from the
>suburbs. I kept wondering when Samatha would show up.
>

Really?? Which one, the one with the greasy hair or the second one?

I loved that show.

I suppose as a rule it's the respectable looking ones you have to watch 
out for.

ObBob: Flack

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Tim's to do list ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1. Get old, die.
2. I must not think bad thoughts.
3. Get mine before this fetid rotting contaminated carcass we 
   call Earth collapses about our collective head.
4. Read a good book.
5. Eliminate homicidal clones of self.
6. Consult hyperintelligent aliens about personal life.
7. Make itemized account of all precious bodily fluids.
8. Play basketball.
9. Start making up excuses for Judgement Day.
10.Collect ozone in tiny little bottles, sell as souvenirs in 20
   years, get rich.
11.Sublet my office space to toxic waste disposal firm, put the
   money in life-insurance.
12.Redeem cereal box top for Hubbel space binoculars.

---------Tim Mefford      tim@physics.orst.edu-----------------
From: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Iain M.^H^H Banks (was Re: Russ is Everywhere)
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:38:44 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

In article <5403@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>, bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
(poultry in motion) writes:
> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
> 
> +> Peeve: I have never found a used bookstore (in the U.S.) that has
> +>    *any* Iain Banks in stock.   :-(
> 
> +I recently ordered the three books in his series "Use of Weapons"
> +etc. They sound keen.
> 
> OOOH, Andy, are you *as* *scared* *as* *I* *am*?

!Peeve: Embra is Iain Banks country. Hence most bookstores contain
some or all of his work.

Peeve: When he was running for the position of rector of Embra
University, he turned out to be a joke candidate who was not taking
the election seriously. This lowered him in my esteem.

!Peeve: You can tell his science fiction from his Real Literature
since in his sci-fi he writes under the rather transparant nom de
plume of Iain M. Banks. I've read most of his sci-fi and it's pretty
good, but his literary talent is wasted on that genre. It's true
that when someone who cut his teeth on Real Literature (The Wasp
Factory, The Bridge etc.) goes and starts competing with sci-fi
writers he has the advantage of the one-eyed man in the kingdom of the
blind, but since he can write real books, he should.

!Peeve: His latest work has just come out, with no middle initial
in his name. The Crow Road (I think that's the title) looks 
distinctly promising, and it's a fat 500 pages. The blurb in
the dust cover says it's his best yet. If it rivals The Bridge, I'm
looking forward to it.

Peeve: Still only available in hardback, it's priced 16 pounds. Can
I wait for a paperback edition? Hmm, I dunno.

Peeve: The bookshop I saw it in had had a book signing session with
him the previous day. Drat. I couldn't have resisted a signed
edition.

yours peevishly,
Paul.

"Each of the symbols psi^{i=1,...,8} also denotes a particular vibrational
mode or state (Chhandras) in Hilbert space, created or destroyed by its
corresponding operator. With these three operations afforded by the quantum
principle, one obtains the identical 3*8=24-fold structure corresponding
to the first richa (verse) of the Rik Ved."
  - from the Natural Law Party's electoral communication, April 1992
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: April 9 (d. all of the above)
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:51:25 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Apr13.153146.24974@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:

>  !peeve: My new ford Ranger Sport with the 160hp V6, and 5spd
>  manual...Everytime I drive it, my penis gets longer.

Why is it that my mind visualises a complex set-up involving pulleys,
tow-rope and a masochistic desire for enlarged manhood?  Come on!  No
amount of wishful thinking will ever make its maximum size increase -
have you thought of silicon implants?

:-)

(smiley inserted because boys seem to be a bit sensitive about
references to their opti/pessimism when it comes to knob-size)

Babs (all I can say is thank God I haven't got one to be paranoid about)
From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Iain M.^H^H Banks (was Re: Russ is Everywhere)
Date: 9 Apr 1992 00:11:27 GMT
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: cslab9c.cs.brown.edu

In article <31236@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
>
>!Peeve: You can tell his science fiction from his Real Literature
>since in his sci-fi he writes under the rather transparant nom de
>plume of Iain M. Banks. I've read most of his sci-fi and it's pretty
>good, but his literary talent is wasted on that genre. It's true
>that when someone who cut his teeth on Real Literature (The Wasp
>Factory, The Bridge etc.) goes and starts competing with sci-fi
>writers he has the advantage of the one-eyed man in the kingdom of the
>blind, but since he can write real books, he should.

Ah, Paul, Paul, your biases betray you.  Dunno why, but when Banks decided
to write sf he chose a subgenre known uncharitably as "space opera."  Space
opera is a field so hackneyed that, since the '40s, even the hacks have
shunned it.  Despite this, he's written some good stuff.  _Use of Weapons_
beats his mainstream _Canal Dreams_ any day.

But there are sf writers out there who beat Banks like a dog.  Not many, but
enough.  Try Ian McDonald, Lucius Shepard, or even the heavily-overrated
William Gibson.

Peeve1: People with biases.

Peeve2: People who use the word "sci-fi."  I hate to denigrate, but nobody
	with a clue has said "sci-fi" since the 1950s.  It sounds like
	something Dr. Seuss would say.  "I am the Sci-Fi.  I speak for the
	Geeks."

Peeve3: Isaac Asimov.
Peeve4: He's dead.

Peeve5: That I didn't have the guts to make #4 an Anti-Peeve.

>!Peeve: His latest work has just come out, with no middle initial
>in his name.

Peeve6: It'll probably take about a year to hop the Pond.  Do they wrap the
	manuscript in wax paper and send it across the Atlantic by Carrier
	Walrus, or something?

c
From: tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More Bitter Irony
Keywords: Losers
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:44:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: talon.1992Apr13.004451.8436
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services


     Although I'm sure the rest of you know, for Geoff's benefit;
Sam Kinison was killed in a car accident this weekend.

     The bitter irony comes in when hearing that Sam Kinison, who
frequently vomited on stage from drunkeness, was involved in a drunk
driving accident, and realizing that he wasn't the one who was drunk.
Some high school kid in a pickup crossed the median.

     I didn't particularly like him, but I am a devotee of irony.
It seems that he had only been married for six days and was on the 
verge of turning his life around, including his alcohol problem.
 
ObBob: McFerrin

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Tim Mefford           | "There are three kinds of lies:
                            |  lies, damned lies, and statistics."      
  tim@physics.orst.edu      |          - Benjamin Disraeli
________________________________________________________________
From: steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gif
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:20:44 GMT
Reply-To: steveb@erich.triumf.ca
Organization: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In <1992Apr15.144342.24685@orlith.bates.edu> ahubbell@orlith.bates.edu (Arlyn Hubbell) writes:


>Peeve:  Gifs.  Enough already!  Do you *really* think I care what you
>        look like?  

Do you really think we care that you don't care?

Fuck off with your whining.  Take it to alt.whine.

Peeve:  After requesting GIFs from everyone, they finally arrive just after
I get back to Canada and no longer have any means for printing them out.
-- 
_|\ |V| /|_  Steve Bougerolle, U. of British Columbia Physics Dept.
\  \| |/  /
 >_______<    STEVEB@TRIUMFER.BITNET
     !                                   STEVEB@ERICH.TRIUMF.CA
From: lane@dismnt.enet.dec.com (Mickey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lemon Gin, Rape
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:24:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: ryn.1992Apr6.162450.6538
Reply-To: lane@dismnt.enet.dec.com (Mickey)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) sez:
>ObPeeve;  Vice - President Danforth Quayle.  It worries the shit out of
>me that you 'Merkins have an electoral system which allows someone with
>the brain of a fake quartz crystal to get that close to supreme power.

Fake, you say? Hmmmm..... That worries me, too.
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 19:16:33 EDT
From: Brent Langdon <32JJCB3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Just Posting
 <1992Apr1.170554.25523@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <ktjvnmINNqq1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
 <9338@wrgate.wr.tek.com> <ATAYLOR.92Apr2153706@karnaugh.nmsu.edu>
 <3290@equinox.unr.edu>

   My peeve is when people post just to see their names.

                              Brent Langdon
                              Brent Langdon
                              Brent Langdon
                              Brent Langdon
                              Central Michigan University
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 20:19:16 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
 <t!mjxrf@lynx.unm.edu> <nkmjmvl@lynx.unm.edu> <269@bbx.basis.com>

In article <269@bbx.basis.com>, russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) says:
>
>I still can't find socks whose heels don't go in a few months.  I hate
>tossing perfectly good socks except for the inch wide hole in the heel.

Try socks from the GAP.  I've had some of my GAP socks for nearly 5
years, and they have yet to get any holes in them.  (I mean the standard
GAP socks, not the fancy kind.  The standard ones come in an astonishing
array of colors, and can usually be found at half price (about $2, rather
than the usual $4) at the end of the season.

Peeve: When a manufacturer takes a perfectly good piece of clothing,
and puts a stupid logo, seal, or patch on it.  I was unable to buy any
comfy shirts at the GAP for over a year when this was trendy.

Peeve2: When a manufacturer puts shoulder pads in an outfit in a secure
way, so that those of us who prefer not to have shoulder pads in, say
slouchy sweaters, have to perform surgery to remove them.

AntiPeeve: My most favorite shirt was given to me by an ex-boyfriend
4 years ago when I didn't have anything to cover myself with at his
apartment, and it's still wearable.  (In fact, I'm wearing it.)

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
"In particular, knowing what I do now, I wouldn't marry my second
 wife again.  The best thing we had going for us was a good sexual
 relationship, and I've since learned that it's not too hard to find
 those."                            --Walt Haas, a net.personality
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Engineers
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:23:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: autodesk.11099
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <STEINAR.92Apr15164815@faust.solan.unit.no> steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf) writes:
>Jennifer Mina writes:
>>Peeve: Engineers -- Need I say more?
>Yes.
>I _like_ my engineer.  Except when he insists on flipping though all the
>channels five or six times, just to make sure there really isn't anything
>worth watching on TV.  Other than that he's very good to have around.


I don't think that is a syndrome associated with engineeritude. I suspect
its a strong desire to find a sporting event, even logrolling, when the
only things on TV are smarmy soap operas and news broadcasts obsessing about
some local disaster such as a baby in a well. I generally turn on the TV
and leave the room. It works better that way. It convinces potential
burglars that there is some weird bottom feeder who watches "Love
Connection" incessantly.

Peeve: "Love connection" What a stupid show. I don't know why I watch it.

!Peeve: "Cheers" reruns.

ObPunishment: FOrced incarceration without a remote unit on the TV.

ER

--
*"I mean it could make a big difference in your life if you thought that 
*you didn't need to depend on some musty old dogma thats riddled with
*translation problems, and started acting from the center of your own being."
*					-Owen Rowley
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More Bitter Irony
Keywords: Losers
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:45:27 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Apr13.004451.8436@talon.ucs.orst.edu> tim@physics.orst.edu 
(Tim Mefford) writes:

>     Although I'm sure the rest of you know, for Geoff's benefit;
>Sam Kinison was killed in a car accident this weekend.

Thanks, Tim; I appreciate your efforts to keep me informed.  :)

As a connoisseur of irony, I'm sure you'll appreciate the fact that I was
the first among the Team Fizzball crowd to learn of this.  I read about
it in Saturday's paper.  When I brought it up that evening, in the company
of mssrs. Banta, Scearce, Poller and a few non-peevers, all I got was a
semicircle of blank stares.  Andy even went so far as to ask me what the 
punch line was.


>     The bitter irony comes in when hearing that Sam Kinison, who
>frequently vomited on stage from drunkeness, was involved in a drunk
>driving accident, and realizing that he wasn't the one who was drunk.
>Some high school kid in a pickup crossed the median.

That was quite a trip, wasn't it?  I was surprised to learn that he was
straight at the time, myself.  The last I heard, beer cars were found 
scattered near the crash site, but it hadn't been determined whether they
belonged to the driver od the pickup.


>     I didn't particularly like him, but I am a devotee of irony.
>It seems that he had only been married for six days and was on the 
>verge of turning his life around, including his alcohol problem.

Kinison was one of my alltime favorite comics (which probably comes as no
surprise to anyone familiar with his style), and I regret that I never
had the opportunity to attend one of his performances.



Geoff


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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Paying by check
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:02:52 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Apr16.041408.283@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> pjl@sunb4.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas) writes:
>
>	I still can't figure out why people pay by check.  The only time
>	you have to is to pay your bills, but when you're out somewhere,
>	pay by credit card or maybe something even as radical as cash.

YOu have obviously never been mugged. Credit cards are really bad
because the thief can tap into thousands of dollars. Even though
you are protected up to 50$ on a stolen card, the thief is rewarded
with stereos and tanks full of gasoline.

>	I know, I know...supermarkets don't take credit cards.  Why not?
>	They seem to be the only kind of store that doesn't.
>
>	Peeve: Supermarkets don't take credit cards.


Lots of them do. Lots of them have ATM card readers as well. You
are, no doubt, still shopping at the country store where Festus and
Rufus play checkers on a board placed over the pickle barrel.

Peeve: Muggers.

!Peeve: Haven't been mugged lately.

ER
--
*"I mean it could make a big difference in your life if you thought that 
*you didn't need to depend on some musty old dogma thats riddled with
*translation problems, and started acting from the center of your own being."
*					-Owen Rowley
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Poasters unmasked
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:28:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia 
Followup-To: alt.peeves

In article <1992Apr9.224821.15145@odin.corp.sgi.com> Jeff Zurschmeide writes:

>I think the time is ripe for posting some physical descriptions 
>of us. But to be fair, I think we should describe each other. 
> [ ... followed by several deadly accurate descriptions ]

Of course, Jeffi is too modest to include himself in this rogue's gallery,
so I will provide illumination for the wider audience.  BwahaHEH(tm).

First, think of Chris Elliot (from the Letterman show, or "Get A Life",
which may still be broadcast by Fox).  Add a feral gleam to the eyes,
a permanent leer to the jaw and lips (if JZ were to introduce Mother
Theresa to the Pope IN THE VATICAN the leer would be intact), and a
somewhat casual appreciation of the finer points of sartorial matters.
Now imagine Chris Elliot after 12 cups of coffee, an intramuscular
injection of ibogaine, and half a blotter of Mickey Mouse Blue Star
acid: this is Herr Zurschmeide on a Good Day.

I don't mean to imply that Jeff Z is either a drug hobbyist or a loose
cannon waiting for the opportunity to explode in a hideous orgy of
violence and pointless vituperation, I'm just advising caution in the
making of sudden moves if you happen to be within arm's reach of him
on one of those occasions when the wind blows hot out of the Central
Valley, the moon is up, and all the exits are blocked.

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "A musicologist is a person who can read music 
rickg@netcom.com  |   but can't hear it." -- Sir T. Beecham
From: bberbeni@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Gif
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 20:11:55 GMT

ahubbell@orlith.bates.edu (Arlyn Hubbell) writes:

>Peeve:  Gifs.  Enough already!  Do you *really* think I care what you
>        look like?  

>- Arlyn

Sorry.  I won't do it again.  (sure, bill)

As far as anyone caring what I look like, I figure that the ones who do will
take a look and the ones who don't will pass it by.
--
"Wow!  That was intense!" - Otto
"A repo man's always intense." - Bud
..after car chase with Rodriguez brothers
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: advertisement pricing
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:08:11 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Apr10.183947.19325@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> 
pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Pauline M Muggli) writes:

>peeve:  advertisers who try to fool me by pricing items at 
>$ 2.99 or $ 2.95  as if i'm going to truncate 99 cents and think
>*wow* it's only two dollars.


How about the sales that grocery stores have periodically, in which they
offer N of something for a certain price?  Quite a few times, I've walked
up to the register with N-X items, only to have the cashier stop in his/her
tracks and say, "Uh, those are three for a dollar, sir."  I *know* that!
If I wanted three, I'd have grabbed three!  Failing to respond to their
little proce-ploy like they expect me to never fails to throw a monkey
wrench into their process.


Geoff


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From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Where'd he get his name?
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:34:30 GMT
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Bill Berbenich writes:
>About the GIFs - I want to see all of the wimyn of alt.peeves.  How many of
>you wimyn are in your 20s?

There is a GIF of me in a file system somewhere in Finland.  Anyone who
wants it can find it himself.

Still having a bad week, 
-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

ObPeeve: No one has asked me what Flodnak, Inc., does in weeks.  Could it
be people are figuring it out...?