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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:58:13 GMT

In article <959mgwn@lynx.unm.edu> jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.191307.24056@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>>Score:      Vultures       Ravens        Deer/Deer ticks    Barbie/Ken
>>
>>Los Alamos                     x
>>Brookhaven                                     x                 x
>>Oak Ridge        x             x               x                 x


  		^^^Very clever.  I laughed when I saw this.


>>I'd like to add "rednecks on coke" who are growing dope out in the 
>>mountains.  Makes going for hikes a bit risky if you get off the trail.
>>Anything else?

Do we really _need_ anything else?



>You know, it stands to figure that they would put National Labs in 
>godforsaken wilderness areas (nothing against wilderness areas, mind you)
>with an uneducated local work force.  


Sure.  Where else could the government buy vast areas of land for a
nickel in the 40's?  Answer: Godforsaken Wilderness Areas.  Although,
due to national security considerations, they never gave the future
mental well-being of their imported employees much thought.  :(

Culture exists in a Land Far Away, I just know it.


>above examples don't hold a candle to others I could mention, but won't
>-- 
>"I have heard of people communicating with rocks. I personally prefer
>dogs or trees." -J. Winston
>"I hope you don't get as confused as I appear to be." -ibid.


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From: despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Keywords: money angst depression paranoia
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:58:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

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

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

Regards

-- 
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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 Krystal Burgermeister
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:31:25 GMT

Looks like Oak Ridge is doing pretty well!!!!

Score:      Vultures   Ravens   Deer/Ticks    Barbie/Ken    Rednecks  

Los Alamos   N/A        x        N/A           N/A           N/A    
Brookhaven   N/A        N/A      x             x             x
Oak Ridge    x          x        x             x             x
Windscale    N/A        N/A      N/A           N/A           N/A
Stanford     Really?    N/A      N/A           Really?       Tragic!!

            Radioactive       Pigeons     Ants    Monster   Baptists
            Wildlife                              Trucks
Los Alamos   N/A               N/A         N/A     x         N/A
Brookhaven   N/A               N/A         N/A     x         N/A
Oak Ridge    x (frogs,          -          x       x         x
             anything 
             herbivorous)
Windscale    x (frogs,         N/A         N/A     N/A       N/A
             multi-limbed)
Stanford     N/A               x           x       N/A       N/A


Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 20:04:59 GMT
Organization: UNM Janitorial Staff
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)

In article <1992Aug16.162455.24849@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>
>Oh, I forgot to mention the flock of vultures that hangs out in the parking
>lot of my building at the Oak Ridge National Lab.  I kid you not!  They
>get sighted once in while.
>
Los Alamos is infested with ravens.  No one has shot them here for
almost half a century, so they're almost tame.  How about Brookhaven?

Jenny
-- 
"Feet disgust me.  I would've cut mine off, except that I like kicking things."
-R. Hep (nj)
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Keywords: fat fat fat smelly smelly (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid)
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:20:06 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

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

[stuff deleted and I felt bad about it]

>Personally, I am attracted to intelligence.  In this Land O Barbie dolls
>that is a rare commodity.

>Flamboyance is in, substance is out.

>					Meech

Thanks for telling me that, Meech. I thought that this was only my
opinion because I'm so EVIL. Now I see that a Saint has the same
perception of things in "this Land O Barbie dolls". No more delusions of
a possible mistake... Boy, my wild Angst and my doomed loneliness in the
U.S of A. are eating my heart again...

Please, please Meech, take your gun and shoot the unbeliever!

Yours,

the NEXUS
From: fsdhp@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
Date: 15 Aug 92 15:26:37 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Steve Smith writes:
> PS: I have more than 2 friends.
> -- 
>       ___________________________________________________________
>      (_____    |   (______    Internet: steve@cse.fau.edu
> ___________)___|__________)   Bitnet:   S_SMITH@FAUVAX

--------------------------------------------------------
Get This! More than TWO friends?????
Who allowed this rat on alt.angst, anyway????

sign me

Miffed,

David P.

P.S. Furthermore, HIS friends probably LIKE him.  Go figure.
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:25:22 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992Aug14.071700.23012@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:

>Oh boy, I did it again.  While trying to antagonize our Guest Twit From Hell <tm>,
>I unintentionally offended someone else.  Sorry Dave, you were'nt the target.

Don't it give you angst to know you're always going to offend people you 
dodn't intend to?

ObAngst: Manchester Business School's North West Working Group's Netware 
         Lite setup (nuff said)

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From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Dead City Angst
Keywords: Perth Australia Location
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:54:01 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

Hey, I read that when John Glenn orbited the earth in 1963, everybody
in Perth (the one in Australia, not the real one) turned on their 
porch lights and spread white bedsheets in their yards, so that when
Glenn passed over them he would drop all the scientific shit he was doing
and look down and see a bright glow coming from the edge of the continent.

And this couldn't have been more than 29 years ago.  How much fun do you
want in one city in one third of a century?  Chill out.  Here in Chapel 
Hill the last interesting thing was when the U.S. Army occupied the place
and liberated the slaves in 1865.  
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From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score update)
Date: 21 Aug 92 07:03:59 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:

: Well, at Los Alamos you do get spiders and insects the size of a Geo
: Metro crawling through the lab buildings late at night. 

cool! send me one; it would solve both my kitten problem and my
transportation problem all at the same time.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left" --gunbunnies
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 17 Aug 1992 22:06:12 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

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

[my boring stuff deleted]

>On one hand, I agree that sex for sex's sake is not an inherently
>bad thing.  I mean we all encounter someone of the appropriate gender
>every once in a while whose clothes we would like to rip off, and
>whose body we would like to have our way with for days if not weeks,
>verily in an orgy of savage, unrestrained, sweaty lust.  This can be fun, 
>but as pointed out above, it may have certain elements of shallowness 
>associated with it.  Which is why people do get bored of it. Why people do 
>more of this when they are younger....  Why people may do more of this when 
>they are unhappy, because quick and easy responsibility-free sex can be a
>placebo which can make you feel better-- in the short term at least.
>And they do it for other reasons.

Totally agreed.

>And, of course, these days sex is not necessarily so safe, so it may
>not be such a good thing to be promiscuous.  But that is another thread
>again.

Weelll, better to die that way. At least you know, you can be definitely
famous *grin* as long as "we, molecular biologists" don't find the cure.
Then it will just turn to an ordinary viral desease with no prospectives
for popularity... *angst*

>I think the ideal may be best expressed by the quote from "The Good
>Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford which I posted yesterday.  But that is my 
>opinion.  Others may disagree.

>					Meech

Believe it or not, that's exactly what I had in mind posting my remark,
Meech.

the NEXUS>
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:07:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.005156.1791@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>Here's the text of a Radiation Safety Bulletin I got in July last year.
>
>*******  start here ****
>Frogs exhibiting detectable levels of radiation, some dead and some alive, have
>been found on the South Central portion of the Laboratory.  They are
>thought to have migrated from the 3524 retention pond where they
>hatched.  The levels of radiation present are not excessive and do not
>constitute a significant threat of exposure to others but are well above
>background and the frogs should be treated with the same degree of
>caution as other low level contaminated items.
>
>Should a frog "hop" into or be found in your area you should:
>
>1)  Contact health physics and have the frog checked for radioactivity.
>
>2)  Return the frog to the 3524 retention pond if it is alive.
>
>3)  Manage the frog as radioactive waste if it is dead and found by
>    health physics to be emitting detectable levels of radiation.
>*******  end ************


Working for a Health Physics group here at Brookhaven, this cracks me
up!  Humorously enough, if this sort of thing happened here, we'd have
to write some equally amusing warning.  I can see it now.



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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly operating system
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:55:22 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug15.142322.17665@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <1992Aug11.143308.18626@wam.umd.edu> sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell) writes:
>>if people work with each other.  Sorry about the prose Im a new unix user.
>
>Oh, don't apologize.  After you've used Unix long enough, you'll be
>saying things like "grep ksh pipe" and you'll forget how to write prose
>altogether.  Until you do, though, I think people will be perfectly
>willing to tolerate your sounding like a prose-speaking Earthling for
>a little while longer.

Worse yet, you'll start doing things like piping everything through an awk
script and then piping the output through sh or ksh when an * would suffice and
start trying to pronounce things like 'fsck' and 'ttytab' at which point people
will look at you really weird like you just said something horribly rude or
have Tourettes or something. A fellow UnixGod(tm) was actually hauled off and
shot behind a local restaurant because he offended the Waitroid when she caught
him making a switch() code fragment based on the menu items. 

---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: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: Manicures for the Homeless
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 06:13:13 GMT

kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>
>>i'm tall, smart, and i do have big boobs. it doesn't make a difference. the
>>smart part scares 'em every time....
>>
>>bah.
>>
>
>This is something I don't understand.  It happens, and it's totally weird.
>I have this female friend who is very intelligent, who just got a Master's
[...]
>How do guys spot her as a non-bimbo without even speaking to
>her, I dunno.

Don't you?  For example, if you saw a certain sort of sardonic grin,
or saw a look that says "this whole place is absurd"...  I doubt you
can very well read someone's intelligence from her face.  But you can
sometimes be pretty sure of one or two of that person's attitudes, and
that may give you a hint.

>But it happens, and it makes her mad.

It sounds like these people aren't hitting on her because they
correctly understand their odds.

>Personally, I am attracted to intelligence.

But a non-brainy sort probably would have little use for wit and
brainy conversation.  Add in thoughts of "she probably thinks she's
better than me" and "a more average sort could understand me better",
and intelligence becomes unattractive.  It's no mistake.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 05:03:39 GMT

blosser_cy@lrc.edu wrote:
: Hello, I'm back. Hahahahahaha...bet you thought I'd dried up and shriveled
: away like a rotting corpse, stranded in a desert, inches away from a water
: fountain (how's THAT for an ironic twist of fate?) but hey, I've been work
: ing and I simply don't have the time to post nastly little flames anymore.
: At least, not at the present (about this time those who hate me are laugh-
: ing hysterically and crying with relief...I know, I *know*!) But, hey, for
: those devoted fans who love me dearly--don't weep...didst thou think I had
: abandoned thee? I'll be back in two weeks--when school begins--& then I'll
: have all the time in the world to whip this sorry little group into shape!
: 
: Have a MISERABLE day, you pathetic little bastards. Mommy doesn't care and
: neither does your dog. In fact, he died of cholesterol poisoning yesterday
: afternoon...dumb mutt didn't watch his diet. =)
: 
: 								  Kristoph

Interesting....On my terminal anyway, this whole thing is both left and right
justified.  We are obviously dealing with a seriously anal retentive type here,  
if he composes his notes to line up such.  Obviously, there is an obsessive-
compulsive aspect to our dear Kristoph that he needs to work through.

Just thought I'd mention it.

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com
From: jlewis@astro.as.arizona.edu (Jeff Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Job angst
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:39:09 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

After just getting beaten about the head and shoulders
in a staff meeting today I have a need to dump somewhere
..and where else is better than here?

I was informed that, to paraphrase.."You may be intelligent
but this is the real world now son...and your attitude
towards this company is not going to be tolerated..." My
boss comes on to me like my father having one of `those`
talks designed to set his wayward son on the path to
correct behavior.  I was told to clean my desk..take down
the farside cartoons..(I have a notice over my terminal
that says -

        What is this mysterious force behind our national desire to
     avoid behaving in any way that might be construed as intellegent?
     People behave as if intelligence were some sort of hidous
     deformity.  To cosmeticize it, many otherwise normal cititzens attempt
     a perculiar type of self-inflicted homemade mental nose job designed
     to lower the recipient's socio-intellictual profile to the point where
     the ability to communicate on the most mongolian level provides the
     neccessary certification to become one of the guys.

and was order to remove it)..because it might offend some corp. Pres.

ACCKKKKK!!!!

It is in general agreement that my work in good...my thesis research on
track and meaningful...but my sense of humor and general view of the world
is waaaaay the hell outta wack!

So...where is that sharp knife when you need it - at least self inflicted
pain leaves no one to blame but yourself.

I thought I could deal with being called inept..genarally incapable of dealing
with anyting that might be crititcal....but to have this load of shit dumped
on top of that...ACCCK.

Now is the time for some serious inner reflection...but I probably wouldn't
like what I found.

I was asked to think about if I am "qualified for this job" -
What do I think, am I qualified? Wow, that's a heavy
burden. How can I make a difference? _Can_ I make a difference?
Surely I am but a single guy, alone as it were in the vast
universe thing. Maybe I can change the world. Perhaps I've
looked at life from upside down.  Maybe I should put on a one-man
show and talk about my true inner feelings in an emotionally-charged
gut wrenching autobiographical account of my warped adolescence and _then_
watch the grant money come in!  That would show em.

But then again . You decide. You do it!
I'm sick of this! I can't make a decision! I'm no good at this
sort of thing! It's up to you. I'm passing the buck.

ACKKKKK

Jeff - alone and lost in the vast universe thing
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend (and strange states of matter)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:10:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.035150.4841@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>But the other point that I would like to make is that as bad as
>things may seem, is it really better to rant and rave rather
>than apply some more constructive approach?  Constant bitching
>can alienate people, and who needs to lose friends (if one
>actually has any)?  Plus, constant Negative Nattering can enhance
>one's state of Negativity, make a bad situation worse.  I mean,
>instead of bitching about Oak Ridge, I could be looking intensively
>for another job, and although I am doing that, I am not really
>putting a huge effort into it.  So I am accepting my unhappy existence
>in TN, rather than doing anything about it.


Have you been peeking at my life at night when I'm asleep and
plagurizing its contents?


>Of course, by claiming that being cynical, and negative is not
>necessarily good, I leave myself exposed to the flagellation of
>other readers of this newsgroup.  Verily, I am sure I will receive
>a sound thwacking.  

Not from me.  I'm just another black kettle.




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From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Degree and nature of angst (was Re: FAT SMELLY...)
Date: 14 Aug 1992 21:05:57 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) writes:

>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. 

Quite so. But overeating causes obesity. It should cause angst to you,
doesn't it? Well, it's not really necessary to get fat...


>Scott Hanson		This has been a recording.

the NEXUS.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jeff McAffer)
Subject: PEZ and PopTarts (was: Re: fat smelly boyfriend)
Reply-To: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Organization: Dept. of Infomation Science, University of Tokyo.
	<Bsurv9.Ezv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Aug13.035105.9178@nmsu.edu>
	<1992Aug13.140939.20152@linus.mitre.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:35:21 GMT


In article <1992Aug13.140939.20152@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:

 >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)

Great, thanks.  I was riding high after some very dear friend 'back
home' couriered me some PEZ.  "This is the life" I thought to myself.
What more could I possibly want?  Now you have reminded me that I
haven't even smelled an empty PopTart envelope in months.  Now I have
to work on getting someone to FedEx me some double chocolates. (Hint
hint) How much do those puppies weight any way (heh, way cool
sentence)?  Think they could pass as printed matter?  (there's that
sort of zigzag design on the bottom) My toaster is all primed and
ready to go.  ( I toast one while eating around the edges of the other)

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                     Art!!  Is that you in there?!