HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jeff McAffer)
Subject: Re: belief
Reply-To: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Organization: University of Tokyo, Good Times Department.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 09:19:48 GMT


In article <79136@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:

 >: True, false, right and wrong are all relative terms

Its true (i.e., not false) that the relative to the right of me is
wrong!  That sorta what you meant?

 >pointless. because of various things in my past, i have a real problem
 >believing myself without getting outside confirmation. this leads to

I understand completely but you know as well as I do that everything
you believe is right!

 >an annoying tendency to see things people'd rather not acknowledge
 >about themselves and to confront them with these often-painful truths,
 >mostly because i'm fairly certain i'm right but wanna hear it
 >confirmed.  

Don't you just hate it when someone comes upto you and says: "You're a
real jerk aren't you?"  If you confirm the just say "thought so" and
walk off satisied thinking you're even more a jerk cause you know it
and don't do anything about it.  If you deny they think you are more
of a jerk for not seeing what is *obvious* to them.  I prefer to say
"get a life" or something along those lines. (no offense sine)

 >: >i wish i were religious, like my sister. her reality is all mapped
 >: >out and she knows how it's sposed to go.

Oh to be numb

 >happen, she has a sort-of plan for dealing with them. her religion is
 >convenient, kinda like an icing tube: she puts in this glop of life
 >and out comes a manageable stream that she can use constructively. i,
 >on the other hand, usually end up with a double-handful of glop. it's
 >not incredibly unpleasant, but it does make opening doors difficult.

I will confirm your belief.  Wow, what a great analogy.  If only I had
that when talking with my deeply religious father-in-law.  Sunday
dinner would never have been the same.

Obangst1: I promised myself when I started reading this group that I
would never include an obangst message.

Obangst 2: I just got OS2.  Comes on 30 disks, takes 3 hours to
install, requires 60MB of disk space, *MB of RAM and still doesn't
work.  Where's the angst you say?  all the manuals and error messages
are in Japanese.

Obangst 3:  I am including 3 obangst messages in this post.

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From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (Ken)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Oh no!!!!
Date: 6 Sep 92 21:13:00 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <79135@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>Ken (kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu) wrote:
>: It's finally happened!
>
>aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. it's too late... and the weirdness strike
>forces were about to be dispatched to tennessee, too...
>

I'm becoming a B-b-b-bud man...... Aiyeeeyaaaah!!!!!

Send Shiner Bock!!!!
				Ken
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: belief
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:51:49 GMT

In article <BtyMG9.1s8@acsu.buffalo.edu> dewind@acsu.buffalo.edu (Idbil Fubar) writes:
>llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:

>Trying to find out the truth is better than actualy finding it.  Like learning
>that my SO dropped me because she was pregnant with someone elses kid.  I 
>wished (and still do) that I had never asked why, and had just let it flow
>away.  

Gee, that's pretty bad.  I guess the only thing I can think of off the
top of my head that would be worse than that would be if your SO had left
you for another woman.  I saw it on Oprah.


>Perhaps it is just better to stand around and try not to understand anything,
>read your novels and imagine that the world you read of is the world you are
>in.


Oh, there's an entire _class_ of people that do this.  They're called
"trekkies".

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From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: alt.angst goes to alphaville
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:21:49 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

In <BuF90s.MuD@acsu.buffalo.edu> hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mathew A. Hennessy) writes:

>	I know my bike is out there somewhere.  this past weekend I went to a
>local party/social thingy to meet, you know, women.  Hoping against hope that
>this party would be different, I went without, now this is important,
>expecting the worst.  Turns out the party's lame, the people there are
>intellectual walnuts, so I split after getting my $3's worth of suds.  Wake up
>the next morning and my housemate asks me where I went biking to last night.
>I dash out to the garage in my undies and nothing else, bike's not there.

I's-a-thinkin' $3 buys a lot more beer in buffalo than it does in Indiana,
judging from this story...

-- 
ben                                     fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu

"A tight bunch of bastards who want to win while loving each other"
- Dave Hasbrook, about the Indiana Ultimate team
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: wimmin!
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:04:03 GMT

Therion (HZS@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Sep09.093919.15710@bnr.uk>, datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) Nick
: exists, therefore he angsts.
: 
: Maybe we can hold our own mini-angstcon in England. I'll be spending Sept. 23
: to Oct. 1 over there.
: 
: obAngst1 - doing the once in a lifetime (well, so far) thing and going to
:            England. Knowing that *everything's* expensive over there, and
:            facing the prospect of having to do the 17.9% Visa card advance
:            thing to afford to eat.
: 
: obAngst2 - Holding an angstcon in a country where lots of the women sound like
:            Rachel.
: 
: Do any of you uk types (Nick, Rachel, whomever) have any suggestions or helpful
: hints on sucessfully invading England?  (Besides looting the Tower Armories and
: the Wallace Collection. I'm already planning on that).
:                                                              Therion

It depends on what you want, where you are going and how much you have.

If you want to pop around one evening for a free meal, please do so.  It would
be nice to speak to a REAL person once in a while.  England is a large and
diverse place, so saying you are going to England is a little vague.  Is New
York like L. A. ?

If you need any assistance whilst you are over here and you aren't too far 
away, I will only be too glad to help you.  

I don't think the wimmin over here are any worse than on your side of the Pond
though.  If you have a different accent, that sometimes helps.  Sometimes they
can be tediously facile..... :(  Even the _intelligent_ ones!  Logic and 
emotions tend to do the oil&water thing.


Nick (the Biker)           DoD 1069    MAG 73516   Concise Oxford.

M'Lud.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:41:37 EDT
From: Therion <HZS@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: wimmin!
 <BuF6q8.IIq@nic.umass.edu>

In article <BuF6q8.IIq@nic.umass.edu>, jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny
Gutbezahl) says:

>Gee debbie, if your idea of a desirable evening is doing your laundry,
>no wonder you're in such a foul mood....

This contradicts strangely with your plan file, Jenny ....

                                                            Therion
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: god
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:08:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.222333.860@cis.umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:

>    Let's go to the village common and scream at god.

Okay.  When should we meet?

>    About ten years ago a nightclub owner threw me out for calling him an Ex-
>istentialist fool. It might have had something to do with his gray-eyed wife
>but I still can't get back in.


What's your problem?!  You mean to tell me that you live in an area
where people in bars can utter words like"existentialist"?  Man, you
don't know how lucky you are.


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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
Subject: Re: god
Reply-To: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:28:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.000152.2420@utkux1.utk.edu>, kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (Ken) writes:
>In article <1992Sep6.222333.860@cis.umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
>>
>>    Existential hell is sittin' in the American Legion and listenin' to "The
>>Achy Breaky." I almost became catatonic. I spoke country but even the barmaid  spoke country but even the barmaid didn't flich. I must have
>>didn't flinch. I must have had the wrong accent.
>>
>
>Hey, don't knock the American Legion!  It's almost the only bar in town
>here in Oak Ridge!  Where's my Volunteer cap?
>					Ken

    I knew something like this would happen when I mentioned the Legion. I'm
sorry but I needed to concretize my point. Actually, it's a lot more relaxed
than the jazz and rock clubs I usually go to. In fact, I feel I can get emoti-
onally sloppy and people will think I'm normal instead of "Hey, you, the in-            
tellectual guy with the glasses and long hair! What are you always writing in 
that little notebook? What do you think about...?" And you think angst is a 
joke, huh? HUH?!
From: toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (T.S. Eliot)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Melting angst
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:11:10 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1992Sep11.055117.26520@cs.rose-hulman.edu> waldbyjf@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (persimmon) writes:
>
>First it was my extremities - the fingers began to drip off starting with the  
>tips - but then my hands started to be malleable, and I made all kinds of cool  
>shapes with them. I admit, at first, I thought it was pretty cool, but now, as  
>my head sags like Santa's sack down my back, I am starting to see the  
>disadvantages involved in this transformation.
>
Hey, didn't you pose for a Peter Gabriel album cover a few years back?

tj
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: absolutely pointless, i know.
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:39:44 GMT
Organization: depressed

hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mathew A. Hennessy) writes:


>	love to go to your party

I wouldn't. I suffer from a rare disease called <greek word for
party>fobia. It causes me to go limp, loose my wit (no comments
please) and be _very_ aware of every move that I make. As a result
of that I normally go to sleep much earlier on nights where I have
been to a party than nights followed by a day where I have to get
up early. Show me a party and I'll show you the dullest person in
the world - me.
-- 
 _______________________ _________________________________
| Jesper Lauridsen      |      Life is a spectator sport  | 
| rorschak@daimi.aau.dk |     I think, therefore I angst  |
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From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Oh no!!!!
Keywords: Ken & Barbie
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:53:08 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Sep6.210905.29831@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (Ken) writes:

>
>My name is..... K-k-k-k.... Aiiyyeeeeeyaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!

it's k-k-k-k-ken, c-c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-k-kill me!

or kill me.

bah.

(not bahbie)

--
		-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
From: rfarmer@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rex Farmer)
Subject: Grangst
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 03:29:06 GMT

ANgst is asking to meet with your supervisor at the beginning of next
week to discuss courses and thesis stuff when in your research job for him
this summer you have done absolutely nothing.  Zero.  Zippo.
Angst is having your parent arrive for a visit at the beginning of next week
too.
Angst is having the tidal inrushing wave of dazed excitable undergrads
happening at the same time.
Angst is being guaranteed a five figure income as a student and being utterly
undeserving.

Or not.
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: wimmin!
Date: 12 Sep 92 22:05:57 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy) writes:
: 
: 
: Fascinating.  Even though I find myself pretty much always angsting over 
: one or another man lately, I still really like men and enjoy them more
: than women.  And I think they're way easier to live with.  Course, most
: of the women I run across are pretty ditzy, due to my work situation
: and such circumstances...

Let me guess... you think for a living...

I agree that overall men are easier to live with if you actually
expect an intellegent response regularly, but...

I find the men expecting stereo typical woman. That I do have a problem
with...
: 
: Jeanne

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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
Subject: Re: wimmin!
Organization: Elvis impersonator for roaches
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 02:38:37 GMT

mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris) writes:
>boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>:Please, could someone lend me $50?  Then the hookers
>: might pay attention to me again for a few days.
>
>So where do you get the money to keep up this habit?

I never bought, I just went window-shopping.  Well, I would've gone
window-shopping if I'd had a window, since they give much nicer
product demonstrations to the ones who have cars.  But after that
first time they stayed away from me and said things like "Shoo!" and
"There goes the neighborhood."

Then I tried getting their attention by begging for change and giving
it to them.  But I had a bit of a lapse last week, and now the hookers
won't come near me even for a whole dollar.  Now it's more like
feeding deer: I lay some large bit of change on the ground where they
can see me, stand back fifty feet, and hope one of them gets the nerve
to run up and grab it.  If a man tries to take the money, I flap my
arms and try to scare him away.

I don't know.  Maybe there's a better way.
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: wimmin!
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:10:47 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <92253.093329HZS@psuvm.psu.edu> HZS@psuvm.psu.edu (Therion) writes:
>In article <1992Sep09.093919.15710@bnr.uk>, datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) Nick
>exists, therefore he angsts.
>
>Maybe we can hold our own mini-angstcon in England. I'll be spending Sept. 23
>to Oct. 1 over there.
>
>
>obAngst2 - Holding an angstcon in a country where lots of the women sound like
>           Rachel.

is this a bad thing?
of course it is. who am i kidding?

>Do any of you uk types (Nick, Rachel, whomever) have any suggestions or helpful
>hints on sucessfully invading England?  (Besides looting the Tower Armories and
>the Wallace Collection. I'm already planning on that).
>                                 

go to the lake district. it's glorious. 'nuff said.

ObAngst: i'm not there.

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
From: waldbyjf@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (persimmon)
Subject: Melting angst
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:51:17 GMT


First it was my extremities - the fingers began to drip off starting with the  
tips - but then my hands started to be malleable, and I made all kinds of cool  
shapes with them. I admit, at first, I thought it was pretty cool, but now, as  
my head sags like Santa's sack down my back, I am starting to see the  
disadvantages involved in this transformation.

I think it was something I ate

--
Uner kannt durch's marchenland
waldbyjf@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: AngsTest
Summary: beating a hornet's nest with a very short stick
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 20:56:59 GMT
Keywords: fear loathing


For anyone who would possibly care, this is my first posting to a "real"
newsgroup.  Allez-oop!

             DETERIORATA


Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be
In owning a piece thereof.

Avoid quiet and passive persons,
Unless you are in need of sleep.

Rotate your tires.

Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself
And heed well their advice,
Even though they be turkeys.

Know what to kiss--
And when.

Consider that two wrongs never make a right,
But that THREE DO.

Wherever possible, put people on hold.

Be comforted that in the face 
of all aridity and disillusionment
And despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future
In computer maintenance.

You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe 
Is laughing behind your back.

Remember the Pueblo.


Strive at all times 
To bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate.

Know yourself.
If you need help, call the FBI.

Exercise caution in your daily affairs--
Especially with those persons closest to you.
That lemon on your left, for instance.

Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
would scarcely get your feet wet.

Fall not in love, therefore.
It will stick to your face.




Gracefully surrender the things of youth:
Birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan.
And let not the sands of time
Get in your lunch.

Hire people with hooks.

For a good time call 606-4311.
Ask for "Candy".


Take heart in the deepening gloom
That your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
And reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot
It could only be worse
In Milwaukee.






You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe 
Is laughing behind your back.










Therefore, make peace with your God,
Whatever you conceive him to be:
Hairy Thunderer
Or Cosmic Muffin.

With all its hopes, dreams, promises,
And urban renewal,
The world continues to deteriorate.













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Jeepers, is that it? I was expecting fireworks...

BTW, what is the etymology of ObAngst?  I THINK Iknow what it means...

--

Thomas A. Dennis

"Wherever you go, there you are."
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (Ken)
Subject: Re: god
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:26:25 GMT

In article <79325@ut-emx.uucp> llama@huey.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>
>hmmm... there seems to be a correlation between hair length and
>posting on alt.angst. maybe having longer hair puts more pressure on
>your brain, thereby increasing the sensitivity of your angst
>receptors.
>
>

This brain is useless!  We must find another brain!

				Dr. Frankenstein

>Ken (kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu) wrote:
>
>: You must be kidding?  Our American Legion is The Cocaine Capitol of 
>: East Tennesseee.  You can get any kind of illcit substance you want there.
>: The parking lot is full of Harleys, and very large trucks and beaten up cars.
>
>cool. what's the address again? my life has been too quiet lately.
>

Actually, it's about a 5 minute walk from my apartment.  No need to
drink and drive. C'mon down!

				Bubba (Whoa! My name is Ken!!!  Thwack!)

				Ken then.....



Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
Subject: god
Reply-To: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:23:33 GMT

    Let's go to the village common and scream at god.

    How would Clint Eastwood handle angst? Would he be unforgiven?

    The barmaid strode toward me, a stern visage upon her face. I thought I had
broken some social code.

    About ten years ago a nightclub owner threw me out for calling him an Ex-
istentialist fool. It might have had something to do with his gray-eyed wife
but I still can't get back in.

    "That stops the flesh from putrifyin," Clint Eastwood in _Two Mules For
Sister Sara_.

    Existential hell is sittin' in the American Legion and listenin' to "The
Achy Breaky." I almost became catatonic. I spoke country but even the barmaid  spoke country but even the barmaid didn't flich. I must have
didn't flinch. I must have had the wrong accent.

    "I'm an old man," said the guy at the bar. My teeth chattered.
had the wrong accent.

    
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: wimmin!
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:51:17 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
: Oh, if only I could support a bag lady of my very own.  Then I
: wouldn't just be white trash, I'd also be helping the homeless.  Sort
: of.
: 
: But they'd probably just ignore me anyway, like the women waiting for
: the bus do.  Please, could someone lend me $50?  Then the hookers
: might pay attention to me again for a few days.

So where do you get the money to keep up this habit?

--
Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
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From: bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: wimmin!
Date: 12 Sep 1992 02:24:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) says:

>like men are any easier to live with? roight. you couldn't prove it by
>me. they're difficult at best and downright annoying otherwise. in
>fact, one of the few good things about not having an s.o. is not
>having to put up with men. (why, no, i'm not stressed at my ex and at
>my various male friends and at...)

Fascinating.  Even though I find myself pretty much always angsting over 
one or another man lately, I still really like men and enjoy them more
than women.  And I think they're way easier to live with.  Course, most
of the women I run across are pretty ditzy, due to my work situation
and such circumstances...

Jeanne
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler)
Subject: Re: Insanity Angst
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:37:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.043257.28873@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (Ken) writes:
>Perhaps a more perplexing question:  Why do the Lords of Texas, ZZ-top,
>resemble Jesus?
>
I think the question is phrased backwards.

Bob

Obangst  Reading alt.angst is the bright spot of the day.


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