HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: s0454850@let.rug.nl (J.P. Prenger)
Subject: Re: Fuck Christmas
Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:02:17 GMT

In article <LKW9s*JI0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
>From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
>Subject: Re: Fuck Christmas
>Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:38:23 GMT
>In article <BzCtC4.KMC@nic.umass.edu>, Jenny Gutbezahl writes:
>
>> Jenny "Still listening to my old Alternative Tentacles albums and fondly
>> reminiscing" Gutbezahl
>
>I have nothing pithy to add. I just like reading 'Gutbezahl'.
>It is so optically close to 'Beelzebub' that I smirk every time I
>see it.
>
>No offense, Jenny. 
>
>[And say hi to Satan for me, eh]
>
>Dac
>--
>[Who used to have a post office box '666', but the bastards
>changed it to '4666' during some pointless renumbering exercise]

'666' eh? I read a .sig from someone in some group which said something 
like: ''667': yep, I'm his broter. :->
>
jpp

>dac@prolix.apana.org.au              David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
>dac@prolix.sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
>                    <Using ARN on an Amiga 4000. Yay!>
From: henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: cross-posting peeves. Again
Date: 28 Dec 1992 07:07:46 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

In article <LARRY.92Dec27031740@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu
(Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:

>Peeve: People who smatter their electronic philosophical flatulances from
>       hell to breakfast on the net, apparently in the blind assumption that
>       their subject is so universally relevant.

>(I better be careful here, with my own electronic philosophical
>flatulances, eh?)

Peeve:  People who don't distinguish between general electronic flatulances
	and electronic *philosophical* flatulances.  The post EEditCW cited
	was the former, his own was neither.  You want electronic philosophical
	flatulances?  Go to talk.philosophy.misc, everywhere you look you find
	electronic philosophical flatulances. 
				  
Peeve:  Talk.philosophy.misc, and the electronic philosophical flatulance
	therein. 


Matthew J. Henken :-{<*I'll* be doing the flatulating around here, thanks.>]
henken@ocf.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: As I look around me I see... PAPER!
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:02:48 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of PowerBook 180 Lust

In article <1992Dec21.103550.9723@ac.dal.ca> revenge1@ac.dal.ca writes:
>
>"Jesus Christ! WHY did I hang on to all this JUNK?"

Peeve? How is this a peeve? I *know* they sell trash bags in Nova Scotia,
I've seen 'em myself. Hell, if you know what's trash it's easy to clean
up.

The difficult part of cleaning up is the process of deciding what's
trash and what isn't. Each item must be examined, thought about,
and sorted into "trash," "to be filed," and "might be useful someday"
piles. The latter is the one that causes the headaches and fills
the bottom left desk drawer with weird cables, mummified ImageWriter
ribbons, and letters that I've been meaning to respond to since 1989.

The sign of maturity that modern developmental psychologists have
used as an indication of adulthood is the ability to successfully
throw away old class notes. "Heck," thinks our young Dan, "I might
*need* the old 4th-grade report on blue jays."

Either I've groan up or the mess is taking over. I don't seem to have
that report around any longer.
-- 
We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers Crystals.
Let's see if they notice the difference.
From: sjl@compnews.co.uk (Steve Lacey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: A Definite Not-Peeve, involves money
Date: 23 Dec 92 03:03:08 GMT
Organization: Computer Newspaper Services, Howden, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sage.compnews.co.uk
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) writes:
: 
: ObPeeve: It's just started getting cold enough here that you have to
: spend ten minutes every morning scraping the ice off your car before you
: can go anywhere with confidence. And same again in the evening.
: 
Or scraping the ice off the *inside* of your car...
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Popular Entertainment
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 23:12:04 GMT

Peeve:  The upcoming television series The Untouchables.  While I'm not a
        drugee, the War on Drugs really bugs me...and glorifying earlier
        experiments in Prohibition seems like a really dumb idea.

Peeve:  The movie One Good Cop, starring Michael Keaton, an actor who I
        usually like.  The point of the movie's title seems to be that he
        IS a good cop, despite the fact that he steals money from a drug
        dealer.  But he only steals enough to buy his girlfriend and himself
        a house, so it's ok.

BLAH.

    don
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S Zraly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Other People's Cars (Was: A Definite Not-Peeve, ...)
Date: 24 Dec 92 04:27:15 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston

dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish) writes:
> [...] A friend, away for the holiday, has leant me her car,  [...]

This reminds me of a very old

Peeve: borrowing a person's car, especially when the brakes are shot
	and the person doesn't tell you about it.

This happened to me when I was 16, perhaps 17, and worked after school
as a dishwasher.  It was a dark and rainy afternoon.  About 4 pm one of
the cooks, who lost his license for DWI, asks me to drive him over to
pick up one of the other cooks from his (the other cook's) apartment.
One of the waitresses lends us her car.  She doesn't tell us that the
brakes only work when the pedal is practically below the floorboards.
So I start the car and ZOOM! off we go.  The rest is a blur, including
making the left turn through a red light and finally taming the beast
by the time we got to the apartment.

!Peeve: I lived

-- 
Mike Zraly		If you give me six lines written by the most honest
mzraly@cs.umb.edu	man, I will find something in them to hang him.
				-- Cardinal Richilieu
From: logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Meatheads at Utility Companies
Keywords: meatheads, utilities
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:32:06 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <viking.725604242@vincent1.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>     Peeve: Ah, the electric company.  Here, the electric company does
>not, as might be assumed, provide electricity, but is rather providing
>gas and water services.  On three separate occasions I have written
>checks for the current bill at their downtown office, and received
>receipts for same.  The US Postal service was in no way involved.
>On three separate occasions I have not seen these checks credited
>to my bill.  Phone calls indicate that, yes, the money was credited
>to my account on their computers, but whoever sends out the bills is
>certainly not being notified. I'm ready to blame this on Mike Holmes,
>but given the similar problems with other companies I'm more inclined
>to believe it is simply meatheads at all service industries.

Boy, and I thought I was alone.

About 2 weeks ago, I got a little 'official looking' envelope in the mail.
I figured "Oh, American Express is after me again, wanting me to get one of
their cards."  Well, I open it upand what do I find?  A letter from a
COLLECTION AGENCY that the City of Austin has sent after me because I
haven't paid the final bill from my old address.  They said it had been 6
months, so the account was turned over to the collection agency.

There's only one problem - even though the City of Austin has been sending
me bills at my new address, I never received even one bill for the account
at my old apartment.  Nevermind the fact that I specifically requested that
they send the bill to my new adress.  Forget that they said that they
would.

I just want to know how difficult it can be for them to track me down when
my address is IN THEIR STUPID DATABASE.  Can't they just CALL ME ON THE
PHONE?  THEY HAVE MY NUMBER AFTER ALL!!!!  IT COMES PRINTED ON ALL MY
BILLS!

Oh gosh - you can tell I'm upset, because I started using all caps.  I
never us all caps.

To top off the fact that I find it extremely insulting that they would send
my name to a collection agency (since I always pay all my bills on time or
early), they had to do it during finals.

Adios,
  Logan
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves,rec.humor.oracle.d
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: cross-posting peeves. Again
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:09:19 GMT

I think I have a better solution, but I'll save the reference stuff for last,
since you've probably seen it already.


Solution:
A simple modification in one mail-handling server somewhere - 
if crosspost count > 3 then
   1. add rec.humor.oracle to the list
   2. append the infamous woodchuck question to the text




****** beyond here, there be only stuff you've probably seen ******

In article <1992Dec28.190857.13477@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
>In article <LARRY.92Dec27031740@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way writes:
>
>>Grouchy old bastard that I am, I find myself peeved by:
>>
>>     From: cs360@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Geoffrey William Buhl)
>>     Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.culture.african.american,alt.politics.correct,
>>     misc.test,talk.politics.misc,alt.peeves,alt.politics.clinton,alt.
>>     president.clinton,alt.religion.kibology,alt.politics.bush,alt.fan.
>>     rush-limbaugh,alt.rap
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Christ on a crutch! Look at that. Is that *13* cross-posts?
>>You left out alt.matters.of.great.importance.to.all.earth.people.
>> [ ... ]
>>Peeve: That the network accepts cross-posts to more than three or four
>>       newsgroups at a time in the first place. It's too much power to
>>       make available to someone whose testes haven't completely descended
>>       yet.
>> [ ... ]
>>Peeve: That the newsreaders faithfully pick up 13 cross-posts for
>>       someone's reply. It propagates the problem.
>
>Solution: A small modification to pnews, inews, et al.  IF more than one
>group is specified in the Newsgroups: line, AND nothing is specified in
>the Followup-To: line, THEN fill in the string "poster" in the Followup-To:
>line.  Let the perp handle the responses.
>
>>"Yeh, Buddy..            | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)|  _~~_
>
>-- 
>Rick Gordon      | "Loud is good." 
>rickg@netcom.com |   -- Frank Loesser 


Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: movie peeve
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 02:39:06 GMT

In <mueller.724664468@fi> mueller@iwf.mabp.ethz.ch (Mueller Beat) writes:

[just when I was going to whip out the Bill Flame Thrower to suitably
 toast this guy...]

>i can remind two exceptions : 'eraserhead' by david lynch and 'the texas
>chain-saw massacre' by tobe hooper. their score is merely carpet of white
>and grey noise. sort of !peeve.

Yeah!  Cool!

I see some potential here, Mueller Beat (anything like Bronski Beat?).
Just watch it, okay!?

You mention David Lynch's work and you got some points in reserve there,
big fella.
  -Bill

P.S. We've been needing a new peever from .ch for a while now.  Even though
     our ol' Steve Bougerolle wasn't Swiss, but a Canadian, he did post from
     a .ch account.  Makes my eye moist every time I think of ol' Steve and
     his killer ASCII graphics - that and the UUENCODED GIF of the note
     that his psycho neighbour posted upon his door.  *sigh*  So come on in,
     homeboy, but remember that we will be scrutinizing your every syllable
     and will be crouched in the near-distance like the jackals that we are,
     ready to spring upon you at the first sign of weakness.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bleeding heart liberals
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:11:07 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <Bzq7qy.JBF@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
>Russ Kepler writes:
|
|>What can I say about a fellow who get such nice groups?  He could land
|>5-6 rounds all in a row, all withing a inch circle.
|
|Peeve: when you bring a newcomer to the range, they can always shoot your
|own gun better than you can.

Peeve: taking someone to your favorite fishing spot, loaning them your
fishing pole, setting it up for them, and have them catch the most and
biggest fish.  It happened to a friend of mine once.  The other guy 
didn't have a clue how to fish.  After my friend set him all up and handed
him the rod the guy caught the largest german brown trout of the year in
the state of California.  My friend had been fishing this lake for years
trying to get something even close to it.
-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
+==========================================================================+
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Swearing
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 22:37:02 GMT

In <4Jqds*sP0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:

>> Anti-peeve: 38.4 Kbit PPP connections at home.

>I hate you.

>Peeve: People with excellent network connectivity from home.

Damn, dac, we ALL have 38.4 kbps PPP (or SLIP) connections here in the YewWess!

Now here's a frightening thought - I wake up one morning to some strange woman
who keeps shaking me and saying "dac!  wake up or you'll be late!"

And when I reply to say "Leave me the fuck alone, I want to sleep!" it is in
an Australian accent.  But the true horror wouldn't come until I got up and
looked in the mirror...

YIKES!  Just the thought of it gives me the willies!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: Re: Working the Week Before Jesus' Birthday
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:37:21 GMT

In <18235@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>!Peeve: I got a new sweater. Its very cute. It is a cute, femmy sweater
>that is also a note to the world that I am a nerd. The sweater has
>cute little racoons on it. Racoons are nerds of the animal world.
>They stay up all night, have dark circles around their eyes, and eat
>garbage. Yup, that's me all right. I also wash my food before I eat
>it.

Nerds?  No, not by a long shot.  Raccoons are cool.  Remember _Rascal_, by 
Sterling North?  Boy living in Wisconsin around the time of the First World 
War adopts a baby raccoon as a pet, and is heartbroken when he has to get rid 
of it after the 'coon grows up and bites him in a fit of sublimated 
horniness?  Look at it from the raccoon's POV:  he lives the posh life for a 
year and kicks loose when he gets tired of the punk.

The nerd of the animal world, IMHO, is the opossum.  Uglier than a rat and 
twice as stupid... I had a possum come into my house once and crawl under my 
bed, and into the box springs, for absolutely no reason whatsoever--the only 
edible thing that I kept in my room was coffee.  The only reason that I didn't
kill him was that I had no practical means of doing so that wouldn't cover the
floor with possum blood.

!Peeve: _Where the Red Fern Grows_.  In a nutshell:  boy raises two coon dogs,
one of 'em gets disemboweled--by a mountain lion, I believe--and the other one
pines away.  When our fourth-grade teacher read it aloud to us in class, two 
girls were bawling openly by the end; me, I felt that justice had been done.  
Coon-killers--being gutted was too good for 'em.

Oh, lest I forget--happy holidays, the ones that are left, anyway.
--
>---<

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."
Xref: sparky alt.peeves:18650 talk.politics.misc:65988
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Inappropriate Seasonal Greetings
Date: 1 Jan 93 21:14:03 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper


Why Can't people just do the right thing:

Appropriate Seasonal Greetings within the
ProActive Proper Perspective that Provides for
Kultural Sensitivity to the PolyGlot nature of
a Pluralistic Society.

ciao
drieux


-- 
Modern Day Problems:

This is Not a .sigfile addendum to the Post.
You are just reading beyond the edge.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: Rhino virus peeve
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:23:35 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

Bill Berbenich writes:

  That brings to mind a question that I have never gotten a good answer to --
  What is the difference between horns and antlers?

Dan Sorenson -- Cereal Killer writes:

   Antlers are branched horns.


Also, I believe horns are hollow whereas antlers are solid.

-Dave


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From: pky@fmg.bt.co.uk (Pete Young)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: wedding peeves
Date: 21 Dec 92 10:59:44 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: British Telecom
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way (larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu) wrote:

: You left out sawed bed slats..

And novocaine in the vaseline......
-- 
  ____________________________________________________________________
  Pete Young        	  pky@fmg.bt.co.uk        Phone +44 473 227151
 "Cast your bread upon the waters and you will get back... soggy bread"
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bleeding heart liberals
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:52:17 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

In article <1992Dec20.200655.15810@netcom.com>, Rick Gordon writes:

> In article <JEW9s*II0@prolix.apana.org.au> Andrew Clayton writes:
> 
> >Sometimes it would be a lot of fun to see some utter reprobate
> >get his or her just desserts, with a few well placed swipes, from

> Got a volunteer for the part of utter reprobate in mind, dac?

Both the Baldwins.

> It seems the clerical collar weighs heavy around the chaplain's neck during
> this Holiday season.

I prefer not to speak about matters of the cloth when you aren't
taking the matter seriously.

> What manner of spongiform rib-poking is this? 

The sort that appeals to those with spongiform brains.

> Peeve: Hundreds, if not thousands of dollars wasted once again.  Oh, the
> humanity!

Bless thee Rick. Peeve in peace.

Don't forget, this is the age of FOAD on delivery!

Dac
--
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Sox, Dimes and Launderettes
Date: 23 Dec 92 12:16:20 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

In article <18195@autodesk.COM>, Elaine Richards writes:

> >Sheesh Elaine, after one month, doesn't the aroma of unclean

> Not really. When I was a jogger, it needed to go more than once
> a week. Fortunately, at the time, the laundromat was closer and

Washing machines at home are _keen_.

> Another thing I have discovered is that tobacco smoke accounts for
> a large amount of the nasty smell of dirty laundry. Since people

Peeve: smokers. My partner smokes. Diehard fanatic. I don't like
it. I especially don't like being glared at when other diners at
a restaurant notice that my partner smokes, and is indeed going
to light up that killer cigarette just as their table is being
served dessert.

I used to be of the opinion that smokers should just fuck off
outta restarants, but now I'm tempered by my partner's problem.

Tonight we went to a Thai restaurant 'on spec' [i.e. without
booking], and got their to find it almost packed out. When I
asked for a table for two, the waitperson said, 'If you wouldn't
mind being placed in the smoking section ...' Needless to say my
partner was beside herself with glee.

!Peeve: triffic Thai food.

> !Peeve: Fewer people in the area smoke and the restaurants are
> all becoming non-smoking areas.

In Oz, all public buildings [government owned] are non-smoking
areas. It has tremendously improved the work environment, and
many people just gave up, rather than trek down outside to have a
fag every now and again.

Restaurants are getting more and more 'down' on smokers, which my
partner finds annoying, and therefore, I have to do, since she
refuses to go to restaurants that have a non-smoking policy, no
matter how good their food is.

!Peeve, my fave restaurant [The Jehangir] has super efficient
smoke sucking air conditioning, and doesn't mind smokers at all.

Dac
--
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: not a holiday peeve
Date: 1 Jan 93 01:13:24 GMT
Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico

In article <LARRY.92Dec31055655@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
>You'll shoot your eye out, Boy!

Naah, but at this rate I'll likely blow my hand off.  I recovered the
bullet from my workbench this morning - it had turned over and driven
a #8 finish nail quite a bit deeper into the bench.  The bullet was
pretty mangled.

I fired the rifle this afternoon at the range, and all functioned
properly (including the ammo loaded yesterday).  I was mildly
surprised that my left over karma from this year didn't have me killed.

Peeve: I've been on vacation for a couple of weeks now, and I'm still
handling technical requests in email.  

Peeve': That I do this to myself.  I rationalize that no one else
could answer the questions, and that customers aren't patient enough
to wait a couple of weeks; I feel bad anyway.

Peeve'additional: people that write "no one" as "noone".  I wish there
was a way to reach out through the net to strangle them.

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home   russ@bbx.basis.com, bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
"It's better to be quotable than to be honest" - Tom Stoppard
Newsgroups: alt.peeves