HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
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
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:26:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.163007.10269@u.washington.edu> reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler) writes:
>>
>>[A tale of a man, his mistress, a radioactive source,the conjugal bed,
>>and hot pursuit by health physics deleted]
>>
>The story has too many elements of an Urban Legend: 1.  Not
>directly observed by the teller.  2.  Close enough to expected
>reality to be believed.  3.  Inconsitencies (usually
>overlooked): a.  getting past the lab door counters;  b.
>locating tryst scene after car trip.  4.  Tabloid interest
>factor.
>

Sorry, bub.  This one did happen. I wuz there. This happened in the building
next to wear I worked at the Oak Ridge National Lab.  

1) I didn't in fact see the gentleman in question tracking the radioactive
   goop around the parking lot and our building. I did, however, receive a
   memo to the effect that it happened.  The memo stated something to the
   effect that if one had been in the vicinity of the affected area one should
   have one's shoes checked.  And I did see the Men in White scraping up the
   parking lot.

2) See 1.

3) Inconsistencies reflect my inability to write a narrative.
 a) The stuff was on the floor.  It didn't set off the door counters for some
    reason, and the gentleman in question neglected to use the generously 
    provided geiger counters located all over the building  to check his shoes.
 b) Tryst scene was located by identifying the fellow in question who was 
    working in that lab.  He was traced to a party in a house in which I used
    to live, and which was also searched by The Masked Lads in White.  The
    irradiated gentleman was seen at the party with said young lady by the
    host of the party, whereupon said host informed said Masked Men of the 
    whereabouts of the trysters on the following moringin.  So says the 
    host, and a few other people who were at the party.  I did not attend
    said party, so this is 3rd hand.

4) I admit the tabloid interest factor.  Nontheless, it is a real incident.


						Meech
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: Oh no!!!!
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 05:53:23 GMT

Ken (kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu) wrote:
: It's finally happened!

Hmmmm...looks like a dangerous trend here, the posting of minimalist notes.
Be aware that with this crowd, you're leaving yourself open to almost anything
in the way of interpretation.  For instance:


1> you were LBJF'd
2> puberty
3> got/lost/quit a job
4> started/finished/quit school
5> aliens have invaded the earth
6> Dan Rather reports that he's an alien

You get the idea.....So, I thought that since we'll probably all be rather silly
about it, I'd start things off.

ObAngstComment:  I think I'll do the lifequake thing.
 
--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinzd@picard.med.ge.com
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
Subject: Douglas Coupland's _Shampoo Planet_
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Queens Univ., Kingston, Ontario, Can.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:34:51 GMT

Douglas Coupland's new book _Shampoo Planet_ is out in hardcover.



Newsgroups: alt.angst
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Usenet angst
From: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'the Bard' Hobbs)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:41:15 GMT
Reply-To: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ

Whatever I post, someone flames me, or sends me mail saying "why was this
posted to..."?

My barely adequate psychic defences are crumbling.

anthony
--
Anthony Hobbs             the Bard                hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz    
OverPope, First Holy and Unreformed Church of Frozen Yoghurt - romantic poet - 
synth player extraordinaire - kate bush is goddess - hail Eris - praise "Bob"!
DISCLAIMER: I am not Romanian and was not head of the Securitate for 15 years.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jeanette@hpmcaa (Jeanette Skelton)
Subject: Re: Oh no!!!!
Organization: HP Cardiology Business Unit - McMinnville, OR
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 19:30:07 GMT

David Hinz Mfg 4-6987 (hinz@picard.med.ge.com) wrote:
> ObAngstComment:  I think I'll do the lifequake thing.
>  
Great! Do one for me, too.

Jeanette
From: dewind@acsu.buffalo.edu (Idbil Fubar)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Job decision angst
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:33:16 GMT
Organization: UB

hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:

>First:  I know I'll get flamed for this.  Tough.

Not by me...The Ennui monster is keeping me from flaming anyone.

>I'm faced with a very strange situation.  I'm currently going for two
>promotions, either of which have a possibility of coming through.  Also, it
>turns out that I may have a strong possibility of getting a better job out
>of state.  Here's the angst:  What to decide?

Dude...personaly I would stay with the folks You know.  Seeing as my sourse
of Angst right now is that all of my friends are graduating and moving away.

>Oh, and "That's not angst, at least you have a job" is not what I'm looking
>for, but if it makes you feel better to post that, have a blast.

Yeah I have a job too...two of them right now...AND THEY SUCK!!!
Don't work for anyone that can't spell Patrick on the first try ok?

-Id
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Insanity Angst
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:00:14 GMT

Why is it that Pauly Shore can act crazy and get away with it?

					Meech
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: principles angst
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 12:29:50 GMT

earthbound misfit, I (kilroy@acme.gen.nz) wrote:
: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
: 
: > [...good job vs anti-drug-testing principles angst...]
: >
: > i still haven't decided. my best friend is saying basically "go for
: > it. you want the job, it's no big deal." but he's a goof. i dunno.
: 
: Stick with your principles.

<flamebait mode on>

Yeah, stick with your principles, and flush your career down the toilet.
Principles are great, but sometimes you have to be realistic.  If you 
want the job, bite the bullet and fill the cup.  If you don't want the
job, don't.

<flamebait mode off>
--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinzd@picard.med.ge.com
From: ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Angst
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:09:51 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Sep2.203941.22969@physics.ucla.edu> smolin@physics.ucla.edu (Smolin) writes:

>Aha!  There were only 4 lines of dots.  What gives?
>..

Maybe you are forgetting to hit return on the last
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:42:40 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug25.194537.9872@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.172008.9758@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>
>>ObAngst: i only managed to obtain half of my textbooks from the library, and i 
>>can't afford to buy the rest. i guess i'll live without them...
>>
>
>Have you considered a life of crime, or selling a kidney?
>					M

well, sorta, except that enough of my organs are messed up already to make 
selling them a little dangerous. 
hmmm. crime, on the other hand, could be fun. any ideas?

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
Subject: Re: Reality Angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 06:55:41 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy) writes:

> So I live all inside my own head.  I feel this conflict:  I don't
> condone the anesthetized, insulated life that I lead, there's a
> life I'd rather lead and these darting glimpses of it are so
> seductive, and yet I jump back into the mundane cycle.  This is
> today's angst, time and again getting high on these flashes of how
> my life might be, and repeatedly getting slammed back to the
> reality that what I want is precisely what my life isn't.

> AnotherAngst:  First-time posters to this newsgroup tend to catch
> hell.

Depends. Mostly it's when they're the TrulyClueless and haven't read any of
alt.angst before posting, so they don't have any idea of the culture and
wonder why they get flamed.

You seem to have an idea of the culture. Your paragraph above sounds far too
much like my life. It's great, huh?

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Gaelic Birthday
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:27:35 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Does anybody here know the Gaelic for Happy Birthday?  My work colleague is
Irish and I want to surprise him.  This is as exciting as it gets around here!

I'm seeing a woman tonight......  Oh my god!  I wish I was thinner, I wish I
was taller, I wish I was sexy, I wish I was handsome, I wish I had a car, I
wish I had a well paid permanent job, I wish I had a house, I wish I wasn't
divorced with four kids, I wish I was younger, I wish I wasn't so nervous, I
wish I knew how to chat to women, I wish I knew how to chat-up women, I wish
that I was attractive to women, I wish I could find a woman who liked me just
as I am!


Nick (deep breath!!)   Born to be wild (and lonely).
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jeff McAffer)
Subject: Re: freedom angst (was a new source of angst)
Reply-To: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Organization: University of Tokyo, Good Times Department.
	<+whn=0h.despair@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:12:04 GMT


In article <+whn=0h.despair@netcom.com> despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) writes:

 >I agree with everything excepting one point:  freedom = 1/security
 >
 >This is an inexcusably optimistic opinion, but I think if people are
 >given freedom and at least a chance at a happy life there will be little
 >crime.  People commit crime because they do not respect their life or others,
 >and if they had this reverence for life no amount of freedom would make
 >criminal behaviour tempting.  Please excuse the liberal use of "crime" here,
 >I am not in the mood to change it.  What a pitiful, idiotic way to feel about
 >human nature, but I'm a fool.

I *think* I disagree.  You seem to talk about two concepts; freedom
and reverence for life as though they are separate.  My reverence for
life dictates that I live it with as much freedom as I can get.  They
are the same thing.  I don't try and hurt anyone.  I don't try and
commit crimes.  Sometimes it happens.  But I don't NOT do things because
someone may get hurt or a law broken.  If I break a law why is it that
immediately I have done something wrong?  Why is the law not
questioned?

What is crime anyway?  Today's definition seems to be something like
"anything out of the norm" or "something not deemed socially/morally
acceptable".  It occurs to me that if we had more freedom, (and
admitted others to have this freedom) the definition of "crime" would
change.  As freedom increases the number, things defined as crimes
should decrease.  Unfortunately (for the concept) our responsibility
for our own actions and happiness would increase.  I don't think many
people would/could accept this.

Sadly, we seem to maintain our concept of crime and create more laws.
Look at Kanata, an anal retentive yuppie city near Ottawa (sadly in
Canada.  Perhaps Kanata will vote to separate :-) There was so little
"crime" happening there that they decided to invent new ones.  So now
they have laws against what color you can paint your house, the color
of your roof, your mailbox, parking trucks in your driveway, putting
your car on blocks for repairs, ...  They actually pay people to go
around and give out ticket for this stuff.  What's WORSE is that your
neighbors call the city and complain and get them to come out and give
you a ticket.  It's like living in one huge condominium! Get a life!

Why do we have speed limits anyway?




--
atode, |m         -- My PEZ dispenser is a god.  I bow down to its yellow
                     beak in the hope that cherry nodules will gush forth.
From: machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala )
Subject: Re: A new source of Angst.....
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:47:28 GMT

kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:

>Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>> ObAngst:  99% of the readers of this newsgroup are libertarians.

>Am I? And if so, why is it so angstful?

If America were 99% libertarian, we wouldn't be in all the trouble
we are NOW!

ObAngst: Moving this week to main site. In a build which houses wafer fabs,
constant hammering and nasty chemicals. To a cubicle. so long private office,
so long close-in parking. so long pleasant atmosphere.
--
                                 ROMANES
                                 EUNT 
                                 DOMUS
Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: A new source of Angst.....
Date: 2 Sep 92 23:08:51 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Jesper Lauridsen (rorschak@daimi.aau.dk) wrote:
: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
: 
: >But he was elected because he promised that he would stop inflation, and
: >unemployment.  Remember, Hitler was initially democratically elected.
: 
: Which doesn't make much of difference. You were writing that many people
: in the now former Soviet would like to have the old system back because
: that would give peace. I'm pointing out that substituting freedom and
: turbulent politics with peace and dictatorship is a bad idea.

in your value system, yes. in mine, too, for that matter. but i don't
have the right to impose that on anyone else. lack of freedom is
peaceful for some people, and you can't decide for them that they want
to give it up. when they're ready, they will. (as they've
demonstrated). 

: Do you remember the Kurds? Everybody was offended by the no actions of the
: west. Then suddenly something was done and the issue quickly dissappered -
: it went so fast that several signatures were caught off guard.

it's not that i object to interfering in the affairs of other
countries; it's just that the interference is arbitrary and done for
ideological/business reasons. even that wouldn't be so bad (most
countries act in their own self-interest) if it weren't pretended that
there's some great humanitarian absolute good being served here. the
hypocrisy of assuming that the us knows best and acts out of unselfish
concern for the rest of the world depresses me.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"the poet with a keyboard/ holds a handful of death/ seducing midnight"

Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: Usenet angst
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:45:38 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.062257.6299@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>> Whatever I post, someone flames me, or sends me mail saying "why was this
>> posted to..."?
>> 
>> My barely adequate psychic defences are crumbling.
>
>I no longer worry about it, I simply don't take the Net seriously enough to
>become offended.
>
>Note that I said "no longer". I've got this theory that after a certain
>amount of exposure to Usenet, individuals reach their Bogosity Threshold and
>either:	(1) don't read the Net any more 
>	(2) keep reading but don't take it seriously
>	(3) do a KPD and take everything too seriously. (hi Kent!)

hehehehehh...What exactly does one *DO* when one is Kent, does #3 and
proceeds to embarass himself in front of virtually the entire net :) :) :)?

Corollary to #3:Don't take the net so seriously....especially your part in it..

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
to hell so to speak".--Spalding Gray "Monster in a box"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Subject: Re: angst
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:11:53 GMT

In <1992Sep2.062745.22405@physics.ucla.edu> smolin@physics.ucla.edu (Smolin) writes:

>9/1/92  11:31 pm

In and of itself, or an event that happened then?

-- 
ben
fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
"Get the hell out of my way!" - John Galt
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins)
Subject: Re: A ""What the hell?"" Angst theme....
Organization: Math dept. Tulane University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:43:20 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-25335]: crawfish.math.tulane.edu

In article <23AUG92.01492248@vax.clarku.edu> wcox@vax.clarku.edu writes:
> 

[Angstful story deleted.]

> Sigh....

I am in exactly (well, ok, almost exactly) the same situation.  This girl
and I hit if off great at the beginning of the summer.  She had broken up
with her boyfriend recently, but assured me (ahem) that they were never
getting back together again.  (Stop rolling your eyes.)  Since we hit it
off so well, she left to work in NJ for the summer.  Since neither of
us had much money we couldn't do the phone thing very often so we wrote
lots of letters.  Well, she got back last night (Saturday), and wouldn't
you know it, but her ex-boyfriend comes to talk to me on Friday night.
(Coincidence?  You make the call.)  Of course, he found me in a
near-inebriated mood at the bar I've been going to every friday
night for two years.  Before this, we got along OK, as well as circumstances
would allow.  So he comes to me, tells me he wants to get back together
with her (it's starting to get a little strange, eh?).  I basically tell
him if that's the way he feels, that's fine with me but I am not going to
"step aside."  (I really couldn't give a damn how he feels.)  So the trick 
here is that HE has been talking to her all summer by phone, and she is
staying with him for a week before her place becomes vacant.  So the day
she gets back I get a nasty phone call from her: "I heard what went on last
night, and I'm really angry and don't want to talk to you right now."  This
guy is not a good person.  He fed her some kinda shit and I can't find her 
to talk to her about it.  She's a great girl but if she is this weak I dunno
if it's worth the trouble...

"What the Hell?", indeed.

> 						-Grace

Matt

--
 Matt Hopkins - Tulane University - Dept of Mathematics - New Orleans
        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?"
From: dombart@muli.saar.de (John Raoul Dombart)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: A new source of Angst.....
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:44:38 GMT

jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower @ Netcom - Online Communication Services
(408 241-9760 guest)) wrote...

>kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>
>>After watching the Republican convention on TV, I have a new
>>source of Angst--as a result of not being allowed to vote.
>
>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!"

How about this: If elections had any real effect on policy,
they would have been forbidden already for a long time.

R.D.


----
  /\ muli - may unexpected love increase
 /..\ Helmut Kohl is alive !
/_\/_\ dombart@muli.saar.de
From: kimy@cs.umd.edu (Yong-Mi Kim)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: relocation angst
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:14:50 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742



I moved here about three weeks ago.  Classes haven't started yet.
I don't know anybody here.  Driving around here terrifies me (it
would terrify you, too, if you had to pay what I have to pay for
insurance around here).

I think a suburban campus combines the worst characteristics of
urban and rural campuses: located in the middle of nowhere with
nothing to do, impossible traffic, high prices and high rents.

I really miss Chapel Hill.  sniff.


yong-mi
thought she'd blown a tire driving in downtown DC
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Abstractor)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Oh no!!!!
Date: 4 Sep 1992 13:39:57 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:

>Abstractor (nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote:
>: jeanette@hpmcaa (Jeanette Skelton) writes:
>: 
>: >David Hinz Mfg 4-6987 (hinz@picard.med.ge.com) wrote:
>: >> ObAngstComment:  I think I'll do the lifequake thing.
>: >>  
>: >Great! Do one for me, too.
>: 
>: >Jeanette
>: 
>: Did you pay him ?
>: 

>That's a rather personal question, dontcha think?
>Dave

Oh well, Dave, didn't mean to be undiscrete but "inquiring minds want to
know" as Rachel would say. And as an Abstractor I have to keep track of
those things -:)

the NEXUS>
          "Getsumei no michi"
From: fsdhp@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Justanote (TM)
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:41:40 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tiny li'l note (TM):
I am moving to Juneau, the capitol of our land.
Leaving FBX is always a weird gamble just cause its
my lifelong home nearly ..... So now I have a combination
of hope and fear instead of the usual existential despair
and ennui.
I hope I get bitnet there as I'd miss reading alt.angst
which I consider very funny.
xxx ooo
David Pennell
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (Ken)
Subject: Re: Oh no!!!!
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:47:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.055323.17366@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>Ken (kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu) wrote:
>: It's finally happened!
>
>1> you were LBJF'd
>2> puberty
>3> got/lost/quit a job
>4> started/finished/quit school
>5> aliens have invaded the earth
>6> Dan Rather reports that he's an alien
>

I think I've experience all of the above except 6, but none rather recently....

Yes, I am concerned....

						Ken

Newsgroups: alt.angst