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From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 04:18:14 GMT
Organization: Barfin' Billy's Diner o' Good Eats

In article <92243.210300SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>I also have a metal bookcase from Sears which has worked out quite
>well during the year-and-a-half I've had it.  The only annoying thing
>about it, in fact, is the amount of time required to assemble and
>disassemble it.  It even included the right amount of hardware.

Must have been because of all the nasty letters I wrote to them. For my
19th birthday my mom got me metal shelving from Sears. (Hey, it was probably
to get even for that lawn mower we got her for Mother's Day.) Anyhow, I
was pretty psyched because I figured that I could line one of my walls
with shelving and put all of my books and stereo stuff on it.

Hah.

First of all, *no* screws came supplied with the shelving. I ended up using
screws from my Erector set. They worked fine, but I was annoyed. I was more
annoyed a few minutes later after my fingers were slashed by the unfinished
bits of metal on the insides of the shelves. And I was way mongo fuck-me-
now annoyed when I finshed putting the "industrial quality" shelving together,
filled one of the shelves with records, and it bent.

A few months later I threw the industrial-strength tissue paper away and
converted to cinderblocks 'n boards. 

d "dear sears, please accept this dead fish as a token of my esteem" h
-- 
"I used to be an extravert until I decided I hated people. I hate parties,
I hate classes and I hate going to the supermarket."  --Melissa Paterson
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:20:22 GMT

In article <la8pp0INNkee@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>*potential* exists.  Actually, the time has come to put together
>another little set of drawers, since my video tape collection has
>increase at nothing short of staggering rates.

does she like photographs? [nudgenudge]

-l "winkwink" p

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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:45:50 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <+6dng=r@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

[Dan bravely battles a Black Widow spider with paper towels]

>Albuquerque: Where Death lurks behind the bathroom sink.
>Whoops, hope Booter doesn't read this post...


Black widows have nothing on Irish divorcees.



ER
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From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:16:06 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

>Exactly!! Give that man a carrot!! Now if you'll just write to your MP and
>explain how you'd like to pay more taxes to support this research and pay
>geophysicists a decent salary.....

ObJohnWayneQuote: "That'll be the day."

I did write asking that all geophysicists be rounded up and herded onto
cattle wagons for a trip to a 'resettlement camp' in the country but he
never replied. Odd that...
T

-- 
Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions. 				   tjc@ed.ac.uk

Yes, I carry a grudge. If someone pokes me in the eye, I'll poke both of
their eyes. larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:39:31 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <17546@autodesk.COM>, booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
> In article <l9nnqoINNifp@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug26.192259.26464@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
>>(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>>>peeve: coffee breath.
>>BiggerPeeve: Morning Fecal Mouth.
>>Geoff
> 
> 
> 
> !Peeve: If I am going to have a stomach, at least they've invented
> coffee and chocolate to put in it.
> 
Yep. Chocolate: Sugar, fat, caffeine, cocoa. For me, those are the four main
food groups. I think if there is (or was) a Judeo-Christian God, chocolate
is his way of saying "Sorry about the Eden thing."

Mike (Belgian chocolate groupie)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room
Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 19:33:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.152717.6325@iscsvax.uni.edu> hosch2263@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
)
)        On the diatribe against dumb children's names as mentioned in the
)hospital waiting room, the dumbest male I ever met was named Clint.  This
)conjures up an image of big and stupid, and in this case, was accurate.  I
)don't know if this guy ever got out of sixth grade.
)        The runner up bullies I knew were Scott and Wayne, both belligerent and
)not too bright.  The dumbest name for a girl has got to be Mary. (Apologies to
)any devout Catholics out there.)  
)
)        Kitten

Really?? I knew a bully named Wayne too! and dumb is definitely the word for
him. xample:

	In sixth grade, i transferred to a R.Catholic grade school for 7-8,
because my mother had realized that I was an atheist, and this was a (failed)
attempt to save my soul.

	I made a number of friends, including Arthur, who _had_ been one of
Wayne's few friends there. Wayne was pissed off by this, so he picked a fight
with arthur in the Schoolyard at the end of the day.

	He tried to kick Arthur in the balls (he was a sadistic guy, eh) and
Arther grabbed his left leg. Wayne, immediately tried to kick Arthur with the
other leg, with the obvious result.

	He fell flat on his back, on the concrete, in front of 10+ classmates.

--
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Contest!
Keywords: Losers
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:45:10 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <1992Sep01.181811.22697@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:

> [ ... ]
>Why a contest?  Well, because I'm bored and Peevetown has been really
>dead lately.  I expect my home village to keep me better entertained.

This is the darkness before the dawn, or the calm before the storm, the
chili before the heartburn, choose your own metaphor.  It's the
beginning of September, which means another freshman class is about to
be unleashed onto the net.  A month from now you'll remember these days
of relative inactivity with wistful fondness.

>What was the name of Nick and Nora Charles' dog?

Astrid?  Panzer?  Bastard?  Damn, I used to *know* this stuff.

>      Tim Mefford           |           "vidi, veni"      

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "Make no mistakes. The Republicans believe that this
rickg@netcom.com |  remains Ronald Reagan's election to lose, that he can
                 |  lose it, yes he may lose it, but it's Ronald Reagan's 
                 |  election to lose even now." -- Dan Rather, 18 Aug 92
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From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: ME SIR! I KNOW! (Was: Fergiegate)
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<1992Aug31.232056.26981@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
	<1992Sep1.182734.7257@ac.dal.ca>
	<1992Sep2.022604.20458@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:14:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.022604.20458@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:

[tyrant-loving forlock-pulling stuff deleted]

[britlitref deleted]

<   I recommend conservatism in your use of fancy-sounding
<   literary references; it's much better to keep your
<   mouth shut and be thought an ignorant ass, than to
<   open it and remove all doubt.

	I can name that in one:
	Sam Clemens.

ObPeeve: I don't win anything and even if I did it would be in the
	 SemiUnitedKingdom.
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From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Sue Me (Was: Children called "Mike Holmes")
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:36:27 GMT

In article <41dn0ch@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

> The most peevesome of these puppies is an entire series for a shyster
> named Ron Bell. Like Elvis, Ron Bell is everywhere. He's on at least
> five billboards in Albuquerque, and even has a sign in the airport. Each
> of these signs bears his "scowling" face with the slogan "I sue drunk
> drivers." It's rather pathetic, actually, because he looks like he's
> about twenty years old. His face is offset by a large mustache that must
> be quite heavy as it seems to drag his features down so that he resembles
> a basset hound.	And his face is *everywhere*; there's no escape.
> 
> It wouldn't be nearly so bad except that there another guy who likes to
> put his mug on billboards in Albuquerque. This other guy sells real estate
> and his slogan is "I sell Albuquerque." This guy's name is Ron *Campbell*.
> Now the really scary thing is that the real estate Ron has a seriously
> cheesy beard; it's *got* to be fake. And, even with the beard, Ron Campbell
> looks *just like* Ron Bell. Hmmmmmm.
> 
> Albuquerque: The city where people pay perfectly good money to put their
> faces on billboards. 

It could be worse ... you could be in El Paso, where the city's sign ordinance  
allows you to place billboards 300 feet (100m) apart, on the same side of the  
street.  That's about 20 billboards per kilometer of road, folks.  El Paso is  
without a doubt the tackiest city in Mex^d^d^d the United States, even more so  
than Las Vegas or suburban LA.  
  
obPeeve - People that come into my office, wanting to build something that  
would be a gross violation of the Las Cruces zoning code, like a 200' tall  
McDonalds sign, an oil refinery in a residential neighborhood or a home made of  
chicken wire and plaster of Paris. 
"But you can do it in El Paso ...".
"Fine. then do it there."

Read my sig ...

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From: nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly)
Subject: Re: Sue Me (Was: Children called "Mike Holmes")
Keywords: "I sue *.*"
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:27:02 GMT

hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

>In article <1992Aug28.182121.28397@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>>
>>peeve2: everybody sues in this country. this means that in between reruns
>>	of lucy and andy griffith there are gobs of commercials from 
>>	sheister, gonif, & gonif, ambulance chasers.
>>
>>-l "i'm not a lawyer but i play one on tv..." p

Peeve:  Canada has recently (how recently I don't know) changed the litigation
        laws so that lawyers can operate on a contingency basis.  Great.  Just
        when I thought that we weren't going to go the same route as the U.S.
        
Peeve2:  People with no brains (and the lawyers that take advantage of them).

Explanation of Peeve2:  

   In the spring of 1991, my friend Rob was rear-ended by some woman.  It was
icy, and Rob had just finished backing out into the back alley.  He saw the 
woman turning into the back alley in his mirror, and she started to skid, so
he tried to get going, thus giving her some extra stopping distance.  She 
slid into him, almost writing off her k-car, while Rob's mustang sustained 
only a broken taillight.  Neither the woman nor her son were wearing 
seatbelts, so they both kissed the dash.  Rob jumped out of his car, asked
how the woman was doing, and looked at the cars.  The woman told her son to 
"run and get grandpa", which he did.  It turns out that the woman got charged
with driving too fast for road conditions or something, but the fact remains:
she was the one at fault.  
   This spring, Rob gets served with papers informing him that the woman is 
suing for the damages to her car, her son, and herself.  To me, this is like
running over a pedestrian on the sidewalk and then suing him for denting my 
car.  
   Is this what we in Canada have to look forward to?  The thought makes me   
cringe.  Soon we'll have cheezy lawyers on the local tv channels, not just
the Detroit ones.

-- Mark
From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:56:15 +1000
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <eYVBr*r00@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>, dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (David Andrew Clayton) writes:

>> Murdoch's a Yank.  An immigrant from Aus to the US true but now a
>> Yank.  Like Greg Norman, Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen.
 
> Peter Allen's dead, Carl.

Oh!  Ok.  Following Peter Allen's "Career" wasn't something I
spent time on. :-)
 
> Oh, I see, you were alluding to the state of the other
> new-murricans. Carry on ...

Gee Ta. 
 
> [How's your pink spangled zorch suit holding out, eh? :-)]

I put in a bid for Keira's.  It was about the right size. :-)


Carl.
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From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: 1 Sep 1992 15:10:33 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Dan Hillman) writes:
[ mulings sympathetic to Al's and sonJa's pre-fab furniture plight ]

It never ceases to amaze me that a collection a seemingly intelligent
and creative people figure that some Taiwanese sweat shop can form the
pieces to build elegant furniture so much better than they can.

Book shelves? Piece of cake.  You can build wooden book shelves with a
hand saw, a drill, and a screwdriver.  You can consider the $25
expense in tools an investment toward the future.  Metal shelves
require that you have a hacksaw instead of a wood saw.  The yellow
pages will list somewhere in your area where you can buy steel stock.
Simple angles and band pieces run several pounds to the dollar, making
home built shelves a bargain in anyone's book.

Several years ago, I got tired of our stereo equipment sitting on top
of cardboard boxes and the CDs and video tapes spread across the
floor.  The LPs were stuck in a cardboard box to one side.  In four
days spread across two weekends, I bought wood for and built a nice
stereo stand with compartments for the LPs and drawers for the video
tapes and CDs.  It cost a little time and a total of $200, since I
used birch instead of pine, to customize the design of a piece of
furniture I saw advertised in a furniture catalog for $400, some
assembly required.  And I ended up with something that looks far
better than a plastic-veneered stack of particle board.

Peeve: "Furniture" made of particle board, pressboard, and stamped 20
guage steel.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
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"If you add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
This, my son, is entropy."
From: fuzzy@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Fuzzy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings(was alt.alien.visitors)
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:49:32 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Aug27.080318.8432@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>
>BonusPeeve:  Everything that Sears sells.

Peeve: department store 'specialty sections' (sears 'crap central' and 
monkey-wards 'lectric ave.' that go on about having all the major brands
under one roof.  HAH!!  for the most part, they sell absolute crap...and they
have the nerve to tout themselves as a major force in the home entertainment
retail industry....who ever heard of a major stereo shop selling speakers
by the single???  what sort of person would actually go out shopping 
with the intent to buy only ONE speaker???  I can understand the new
center-channel video speakers, but buying a single MAIN speaker??  I've 
often wondered if places like sears and monkey-wards would actually let
you get away with buying one speaker....

relatedPeeve....places that sell all the components, but don't sell  all the 
little bits of wire and cable to hook them all up....

Fuzzy
--
The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major
medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options.
Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal.

fuzzy@sage.cc.purdue.edu
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Evelyn Waugh (was re: Fergiegate)
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:00:17 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Sep2.022604.20458@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> In article <1992Sep1.182734.7257@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>>>
>>> Even better!  We'll parlay this into a Real Sob Story.  The undiscovered
>>> monarch, who kicked it before a grieving nation recognized her true heritage
>>> & appointed her Queen.  Gaudy tomb - in Hollywood - with decor a la Liberace.
>>> It'll draw tourists like flies on shit.
>>
>>I dunno... sounds a bit too... too... Evelyn Waygh-esque for me.
>>
>>Mike "Right out of _The Loved One_
> 
> Have you _read_ Evelyn Waugh's _The Loved One_, Mike?  
> 
> It's not about people.  It's about dogs.
> 
as I recall, it's about dogs who are buried in gaudy Hollywood cemetaries,
Coitus^H^H^H^H^Hurtis.

> I recommend conservatism in your use of fancy-sounding
> literary references; it's much better to keep your
> mouth shut and be thought an ignorant ass, than to
> open it and remove all doubt.
> 
Speaking from experience?

> "but then we've already done _that_, haven't we?"

Well, *I* haven't... you are referring to yourself and...
M.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Subject: Re: *Canadian* Football
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 22:27:46 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <1992Aug25.104000.16380@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
>dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) loses his atlas:
>> > parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > 	This really is an !Peeve, since I do like football. I'm sure that 
>> > there are plenty of you who can use the same thing by just removing the '!'.
>It is possible that Charles is referring to Canadian Football. When have
>you ever seen an 8-12 hour *football* game???? Cricket perhaps, but
>FOOTBALL?

My opinion of football is about the same as my opinion of world
hunger: I know it has to happen to someone, but I'd rather it
wasn't me.

You, dear friend, have wrongly attributed this quote to me.

I will shout loudly: I HATE FOOTBALL just to get the point across

I now return you to your regular scheduled drivel. 

Regards, Charles
-- 
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person
From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:54:20 +1000
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <1b87e640.ARN239f@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>, dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:

>> > habitually uses both blinkers, flashing hazard style, to indicate
>> > which way you -might- turn, eh? "Gives 'em a 50/50 chance!". Feh.
 
>> Must be a *very* small clique 'cause I've never seen that. 
 
> Rooly trooly? So you're A *BLIND* wannabe Volvo driver! 

Not that a Volvo is something I end up feeling damp about in the
morning I could live with a 9000 turbo. :-)  I think I'll give
the hat and gloves a miss though. <ptuie>
 
>> Probably from around Pearce way.  I know it couldn't be you as
>> you can't drive, indeed you have much difficulty in fitting into
>> the poor Corolla.
 
> My learners permit ran out on the 5th of August. I have to renew
> it and then get a fucking license. The taxi fares to and from
> work [$11.20 both ways - $22.40 a day] are killing me.

Catch a bus!  I'm sure it's cheaper than hiring the forklift
Semi.

(Yes it's cheap shot day today.  Cheap at half the price.)

> Peeve: licenses.

ExtraPeeve: 5 year minimum licences, fiddled to end when your
birthday is divisable by 5 and costing $100.  
 
>> > Thank ghod you don't drive a Volvo, Carl.

Oy!  The big <insert gender of choice> had nothing to do with it!
:-)
 
>> My Mazda suits me fine. <grin> 
 
> Japcrap. [Yeah, I know, they were voted by Choice readership as
> 'least likely to cause trouble'. Don't proselytize.]

Hey I didn't know that, thanks! :-)  Actually the NRMA mentions
them in one of it's publications as "one of the easiest to
steal". :-(

!Peeve: It's almost invisible to Police scrutiny!  I can do
stupid things like change lanes without indicating, cut people
off, weave from side to side etc, without being hassled by the
bods in blue.

Peeve: The real reason it's invisible is that there is so many
fuckwits doing exactly the above things on the road the fuzz
don't knwo who to book first. :-(

>> Ahhhh Yes. Mr Wayne "Volvo 360, gloves and a hat" Myles.  (Shudder)
 
> He'll get you for that. Maybe. 

Maybe is right.  I haven't heard from him in ages.
 
>> ObPeeve:  People who don't drive, in fact who have never even
>> been in the right hand seat of a car who feel they have the ghod
>> given right to dictate how you drive.  They're usually the same
>> idiots (BDIs?) who ask you for a lift saying "It's not far out of
>> your way is it?". 
 
> Guilty as charged, bastard.

<smirk>

Carl.
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