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From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: A Definite Not-Peeve, involves money
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:46:21 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard


Don Baldwin writes:

>You know, these cheery messages from Bill B are really starting to worry
>me.

There is something suspicious here.  First he was worried about the Fatal
Attraction type lady and then he was telling us about a potential bedmate.
There's also this class he was "too embarrassed" to tell us about.  I think
he's bumped someone off.

-Dave

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From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: So this is Christmas
Date: 18 Dec 92 10:07:39 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Xmas !Peeve: Imagining what your girlfriend will look like in the present
you bought her.

Xmas Peeve: Realising that you'll never persuade her to wear it.





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===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          

This message cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Bloody good value if you ask me.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: A Definite Not-Peeve, involves money
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 04:28:04 GMT

There is a definite Not-Peeve/Anti-Peeve coming down the pike and it involves
a substantial chunk of change (money, for the jargonally-impaired).  No hints
yet, but it looks big.  BIG big.

Details as they become known, but there are no acts of perversion involved
in this thing as far as I know (or can recall).

Life is definitely good!  I am so excited I can hardly stand it.
xxxFx.fkl
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.religion.santaism
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: Santa Claus
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:33:49 GMT

<In article <BzCzKv.58M@bailgate.gpsemi.com> dcoyle@holly.gpsemi.com (Diarmuid Coyle LDC X2414 AKA "The Terminator") writes:

<   WHAT you mean Santa Claus is NOT real!!??

	This calls for more expertitude than alt.peeves 
	possesses; I'll add the appropriate newsgroup.

	Well, Santaists?
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Other Side of the Chanukka Bush
Keywords: hohoho, rudolf, moishe, treeworship, saturnalia
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:55:23 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

Scott "Dancin' Fool" Hampton writes:
>>>Peeve2: Mormons. All of them. Humorless gits, useless wanks, hard working
>>>unimaginative mind numbingly closeminded puritanical soulless lackwits.
>>	Yeah, there are a few of them like that.

          <stuff deleted to save space>

>>	No *ability* to dance, but dancing is not forbidden.
>
>Tell that to the Bishop. In Latin dance (tango, cha-cha, rhumba, lambada),
>you're supposed to dance close, and that's BAD. Very bad. So bad my wife and
>I had to go out at least twice a week for years before all the sin potential
>had been exhausted. A good night of dancin' is at least as good as sex, and
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>if you do the horizontal mambo afterwards.....
>

Guess you married the wrong woman...or maybe you've watched "Footloose" once
too often!

>>	Peeve: basing views of people on religion.  As with any broad
>>classification of people, it is undoubtedly going to be wrong when
>>applied to a vast majority of the group, and just as useless as
>>classifying people based on race, gender, or virtually anything else.
>
>Dan, my in-laws would be mind numbingly annoying regardless of their
>religion. But they got all that good book belief and they don't have an
>ounce of toleration. They are REPRESENTATIVE members of their community who
>are considered to be a bit too liberal in small fuckwit town Colorado. The
>entire city is mormon owned, as is the city and county council, and you
>gotta drive over 70 miles to country swing and have a shot of TQ.

Sorry Sherlock, I know plenty of mind-numbingly dull people here in
California.  People so boring that it would make your skin crawl to
be in the same room with them.  I also spent most of a week in Iowa
last Summer and met a surplus of cool people.  There are boring people
everywhere and fun people everywhere

>Besides which, I don't have to be a rational generous person to peeve. It
>kinda gets in the way, if ya know what I mean.

No, but it would be we'd appreciate it if you peeved better than the
Dalhousers...

   don
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.angst
From: harry@timesink.chi.il.us (Harold Platypus)
Subject: Re: Fuck Christmas
Organization: Big Bulging Buffalo Bladders -R- Us
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:51:44 GMT

In <lier0bINN6p2@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>
>>The only value I find in Christmas is in my kids
>>excitement on Christmas morning. 
>
>Great.  Just what I need.  A couple of yipping carpet chimps at five
>in the morning after The Night of the Nog.  It's not normally until
>noon that I've sandblasted the layer of scum from the inside of my
>mouth.
>
While you're at it, why don't you blast the small bits of dead nerve
tissue from between your ears with a .45? I'd sleep better knowing
the likes of you could never procreate...

>[tear jerking blithering cropped]
>>rest of the world still believe... then she smiled and said   
>>	"Daddy... I Love You"
>
>Did you unzip you fly and say "Prove it?"
>
You're one twisted motherfucker all right...

>Peeve: Seemingly reasonable people that procreate and can no longer
>view anything from other than a parental point of view.  Christmas is
>a commercial cluster fuck.  That some fat, scruffy hobo with lousy
>fashion sense make your kids happy concerns me.
>
*We* make our kids happy, not Santa Claus. The way we choose to do that
is our concern, not yours...

>drew
>banta@abingdon.sun.com

Yeah, Christmas is a too commercial. That it's a cluster fuck for
Drew-like people is a shame... for them. Everyone makes their own bed...
- Harry
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu (Scott M Hampton)
Subject: Re: bait (was: Re: Malcolm X)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:26:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.161339.5709@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>In article <3d-r3n_@lynx.unm.edu> baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
>
>chris, wake up and smell the coffee [tm ann landers (or was it dear abby?)].
>this woman wants you. bad.
>
>peeve: that men don't bake goodies as a way of luring women.

	Hon, you wanna swing by and try my Baklava? Guaranteed best. And the
torte....mmm. Mousse, pies, and tasty pastry all available at a low, low
price. Really. I promise that the service (!) is as good as the food!
-- 

Scott M. Hampton             Woulffe            shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: MalcolmX
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:59:47 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <92Dec14.163428.21169@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca
(Charles Parr) writes:
>It's about the attitude that makes a hero out of an asshole, just
>because the asshole undergoes a change of heart.
>
>MalcolmX was an asshole. He was a racist, violent criminal, and
>he used his influence as a 'leader' to directly and indirectly
>cause death and suffering to quite a few people. The fact that he
>later repented does not change this fact.

Sorry Charles, I disagree.  From what I know about the man, he did not
cause death/suffering, either directly or indirectly.  He started out
as a violent thug/burglar, was busted and served his time in jail.

After he came out of jail, he was indeed a racist jerk.  He did not,
however, preach race war:  rather, he said that black people must defend
themselves and work to obtain their rights by any means necessary.  There
is a big difference between saying that all whites should be killed and
saying that people should not tolerate the withholding of their rights
or passively accept physical abuse.

SEE the movie, Charles, and then decide what you think about the man.

>If Dahmer suddenly began preaching macrobiotics, vegetarianism,
>and world peace, would we hail him as a saint? 

Malcolm X wasn't a Dahmer or a murderer; he didn't preach race war.
In fact, in the movie we see him averting a riot, when he could've
started a violent struggle by saying a word.

I still maintain that Malcolm X may have aided Martin Luther King by
making some bigots think "Gee, we can work together with this guy
(MLK) who's being gentle and non-violent...or we can fuck with the black
people more and have this other guy at our throat."  Tough choice...

    don
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S Zraly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Games
Summary: what the fuck...
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:17:38 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston

scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Free) writes:
> [ lists games & thangs, including several Barbie(tm) toys ]

thespian@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Stephanie M. Clarkson) writes:
> [ paraphrased: the gold old days weren't ]

booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>For me, as a female nerd, there is another perspective. Recently Mattel
>made a talking Barbie who whined "Math is HARD." [...]

Well there's always "Marine Corps Barbie"  Alas she has no ObGun but
is clothed in her best don't-I-look-like-a-1970s-airline-hostess
dress uniform, but its a start...

I'm still waiting for Sinead O'Barbie...

Peeve: buying for 7-year old girls who live in VERY conservative towns
(where girls "just don't do" things like science and math) and is about
as materialistic as they get.  She's a nice enough girl (my
sister-in-law) but every time somebody asks her what she wants, she
wants Barbie-this and Disney-that.  This does not bode well.  Hopefully
she'll like the telescope and stuff we're sending her instead.

Peeve: Disney.  Disney is a business and its business is making
children demand that their parents take them to the same movie ten
times over in the theater, buy the videocassette of the same film when
it is released, and purchase as much licensed merchandise as possible.
They are good at their crafts -- I mean both animation and child
psychology, er, marketing -- but there is a slickness about them these
days that I do not recall from years gone by.  Perhaps it is my aging,
perhaps it is their jumping on every popular bandwagon that comes
along.  Aside from the animation technology, they just don't seem as
innovative as they were in their prime.

Peeve: Saw the Muppet Christmas Carol (don't ask) -- didn't realize it
was a Disney film.  Damn! they got their paws everywhere!

!Peeve: Irony in same movie, which is pretty preachy about rich folk
"sharing the wealth" just as Eisner is doing his best to avoid paying
taxes.

-- 
Mike Zraly		Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
mzraly@cs.umb.edu	And any thing that may not misbecome
			The mighty sender, ...
				-- HENRY V: Exeter to the Dauphin
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bickham@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Scott Bickham,C17 Clark Hall,56079,2737038)
Subject: Re: Bleeding heart liberals
Originator: bickham@msc2.msc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:18:35 GMT

From article <1992Dec12.194033.20585@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, by bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mister Bill):
> 
> Well, there WERE the Atlanta Crackers (and the corresponding Negro League
> team, the Black Crackers - really, I know my Atlanta history).  Now when
> was the last time anyone heard the word "cracker" used in any enlightened
> (hee hee) way?  And that was a word or name describing a group of white
> guys, thought up and used by white guys.
> 
> So just patch your hearts up before they bleed all over that one.  Ponce
> de Leon Park, where the Crackers used to play, is now a strip mall.  But
> if you go there, keep your clothes on, okay?

So Bill, are you offended by the Buffalo Bills?  I would think that
cartoon-like mascot they parade around the stadium would be an insult
to any upstanding citizen such as yourself.  After all, why should *you* 
have to suffer because of the name your parents gave you?  I think a
boycott is in order ;-)

Scott
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Eyes Are Everywhere
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:29:01 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Dec14.113925.5063@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell) writes:
~In article <29445@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes (of me):
~>
~>The pathetic mewling of the net.drag.queen is heard again in Netland,
~>proving that feminazis are not the only humorless bone-heads in Peevetown.
~>
~
~Owwee! Spitting blood, Jeremy. What's the matter, L'il Em been spiking your
~milk with powdered glass?

You seem to have got something backwards, Gordon. But perhaps I should have
expected that.




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This message cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Bloody good value if you ask me.
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves,soc.singles,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Media  Wars
From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 23:17:45 GMT
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac

In article <1992Dec10.204523.16405@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:

>What is MOST Annoying to me is the sorry fact that:
>
>(a) the somlians did NOT mine the beach.

Does this mean you would have been content if they had done so, and a Marine
or Seal had died, or just content if a media rep stepped on one?

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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: Re: this is great!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:40:19 GMT

In <14DEC199214532967@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> scam@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JOE JR. 
SAGGIO) writes:

>Another Peeve;

>Stupid activities;

> o Monster truck pull 
> o World Wrestling Federation (WWF)

During my infernal eight-month sojourn in St. Louis a few years back, I ended 
up working as a "live-in aide" for a ninety-four-year-old man who had had two 
strokes; it was not actually the worst job that I've ever had, except for his 
preferred entertainment:  watching professional wrestling on cable, AT AN
EXTREMELY HIGH VOLUME.  (Did I mention that he was almost deaf?)  He had this 
huge projection TV, a VCR, about a zillion channels, but that was it for him: 
Rowdy Roddy Piper, Kerry Von Erich, Sgt. Slaughter, and the like, at about 90 
decibels or so.  Oh, and I was supposed to tape these televised slugfests, so 
that he could watch them again, and again, and again...

In an effort to hold on to my sanity, I tried to diversify his tastes just a 
little by trying to get him to watch G.L.O.W., Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling, 
possibly the cheesiest "athletic" show this side of American Gladiators.  This
was an outfit run by Sylvester Stallone's mother (no, really!) and combined the
usual inane antics of pro wrestlers with the day-glo leotards and corny 
monologues of Marvel Comics superheroines.  My personal favorite was Dementia,
who wore a tattered wedding dress and Beetlejuice-type makeup, and periodically
attacked her rag doll with an axe... my dream date made flesh.

The old guy seemed to get a kick out of it, but the woman who came to relieve 
me on my weekends off put the kibosh on it, saying that "that's just not what 
he should be watching."  It was just one more way for her to get revenge on me
for not continuing to "relieve" her when she came to relieve me... but I 
digress.

>although I guess it would be a good old time to grab a couple greasy, 
>onion-laden EYE-talian sandwiches and a Pabst Blue Ribbon an' head on 
>down to the arena for one of the above.  

Sounds good... make sure to get extra peppers on mine... and make that beer a 
Guinness Stout, eh?  PBR is so... whitebread.

--
>---<

Tom Dennis                  | "I have seen all the works that are done
dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu  |    under the sun; and, behold, all is 
(217)384-2504               |      vanity and vexation of spirit."
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From: flame@hell.edu (Mephistopholes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.tasteless,alt.evil
Subject: net.stupidities
Keywords: idiots geeks losers
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:34:02 GMT
Reply-To: dev@null
Organization: Hades

PEEVES:

Nerdy netisms like "net.personality." Really, any two words normally separated by a space that mysteriously wind up getting a period between them. Geek city, man.

And what's this business about the "!" operator in front of the word Peeve? Not to mention the infamous wordlets like "ObUL", "ObJoke", and of course, "ObPeeve."
ObGoBlow: DUUUUH.

Another thing that gets my goat is moronic ".sig" files with all of those cutesy little graphics and witticisms in them. Get a life, people.

And what about the brainless name lines like 'Joe "I'm an Idiot" Blow' that you see in certain newsgroups? What goobers.

I may as well throw in my "$0.02" (another net.stupidity) about the bazillion different "smileys." I think I am going to spend my free time categorizing and indexing different smileys. Hmmm... let's see -- here we have a smiley with a _handlebar moustache_ ":{)", and over here, your _regular smiley ":-)". Laughs aplenty, I'll tell ya. What losers.

While I'm at it, there's a lot of ugly elitism against ethnic groups like "newbies." "Newbies" should correctly be called "chronologically challenged." I happen to be a newbie, and not chronologically endowed like the rest of you oppressive scum.

---
"If I was a loser, I would have a .sig too!"
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Eyes Are Everywhere
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:12:58 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <29445@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
writes:
>[re: bum banging]
>
>~Millions of pounds of taxpayers money later poor Jeremy still hasn't a clue!
>~Get some condoms Jeremy. 
>
>The pathetic mewling of the net.drag.queen is heard again in Netland,
>proving that feminazis are not the only humorless bone-heads in Peevetown.

Jeremy,

How can you say things like that?  After all that we've shared together...

    don
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From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The dog ate my homework
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:50:39 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
Organization: The Tea Party Of The Vicar

Paul Crowley writes:

> Of course, your entire networked file system can disappear piece by
> piece at around seven on Friday evening when you have more deadlines

.. and that was the reason why I was forced to post from festival.

> than you can think of all at once coming up the next week and you *know*
> that no-one will fix it until Monday morning.

it is, however, fair to mention that it has been fixed Saturday.

Could be worse. After the previous weekend's fire alarm my directory
was fried (literally) and reappeared only long afterwards.

This is all the compunerdy details you'll get from me.
 
C.T.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.politics.misc
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Media Wars
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 20:05:18 GMT

In <CINDY.92Dec13143847@solan10.solan.unit.no> cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:

[...mining or causing other mayhem on Somalian beaches, for the benefit of the
 reporters...]

>And i bet some of you thought Norwegians were pacifists.

Different things pacify different people, Cynthia, my good woman!  That sort
of mayhem would be VERY pacifying for me, 'specially had it been Dan Rather
down there catching hell.

ObCatName:  Wolf - after Wolf Blitzer.  A friend of mine in journalism school
            named his cat that.  Cool cat, and I am not a cat person.
From: eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com (Erik Radmall)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Palestine.
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:46:03 GMT
Reply-To: eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation

In article 92Dec11223238@peak.nmsu.edu, larry@peak.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
> That's it, folks. A peeve unto itself. Palestine, Texas. I just got back
> to O Fair New Mexico, after a week in wonderful Palestine.
> 
> Just in case you care about correct [Texas] pronounciation, the phonetic
> spelling is Palisteen. Based on the Texas pronounciation of Amarillo
> (rhymes with Brillo), you know these folks are fussy about being correct.

I love some of the pronunciations around Rochester, NY. For instance, the town
Chili is pronounced ChieLie instead of Chilly. And Charlotte is pronounced
with the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first. And Rochester is
pronounced Rochstr. Just had to get it off my chest...
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: my anticipator got old
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Anticipation is keeping me waiting
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:35:34 GMT


In article <LARRY.92Dec16102249@peak.nmsu.edu>, larry@peak.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:

[sad story deleted]

	The guy wiggled my anticipator, and suddenly everything is normal 
	again!

Dit it hurt? How 'bout a GIF?
--
Pog mo thoin!

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: Work peeves
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:18:56 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:

>people keep bugging the shit out of me.

Here's an idea: get your officemate hooked on reading the newsgroups.  She'll
be so busy with her newly found source of information, entertainment, and
conversation, that she won't have time for the phone and other interruptions.

Dunno if that'll work for your boss.

-Dave
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