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From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: more advertisements
Date: 22 Jul 92 10:55:36 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Organization: The Exploding Hot Drink

Serge A Thill writes:
> 
> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
> 
> : Peeve: French farmers. Like the lorry drivers, but worse. Seems to me that
> : French farmers will protest about, then set fire to, almost anything.
> 
> ....English. Anybody knows why?

They actually protest about, then set fire to anything *not french*.
Especially products from other EC countries. They set fire to the Italian
wine when it enters their waste of space known as a country. The funny
thing is that the French farmer themselves buy it and use it to mix to
their wines, which aren't strong enough otherwise. But just to show
how bright they are, they set fire to half of it while it's transported.

> ObAntiPeeve (Hi ObTerrorist): England playing against France. Especially if 
> you don't belong to any of these nations.

Careful when you use my name. I'm currently nearer to Falmer than to
Edinburgh. And I've already found my way to The School of Cognitive
Science once.

As for England playing against France, I'll find it an AntiPeeve when
I'll see the blood running.

--
The ObTerrorist
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: July 4, 1992 - Global Spiritual Independence Day
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 12:41:05 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <dbfmz-+@lynx.unm.edu>, hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
|> In article <62551@cup.portal.com> John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com writes:
|> >Well is everbody ready for July 22, 1100 PM Milpitas, Calif. time?
|> >I hope to take off then pick E. and go by and get J. then we may all
|> >drop in on Shannon.  It will be an astral convoy.
|>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> Gosh, an astral *Smokey and the Bandit*! My engorged mantool is already 
|> reaching for the stars!!!
|> 
|> Don't forget the platform shoes and the mood ring, John-boy. Four out 
|> of five unwashed holy men stress the importance of 70s accouterments
|> when communicating with the dead.

Glad you pointed this out.  You left out tie-dyed clothing, a bong, love
beads, a peace-symbol necklace, CokeSnuff (tm), a lava lamp, and incense.
In deference to Carol, we'll use patchouli incense (we used to be able to
get patchouli CokeSnuff (tm) too, but I doubt that it can be found any more.)

The procession will consist of a long line of astral VW microbuses with 
Elaine's favorite large flowers plastered all over them.

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas |
|and live in Hell. - Philip Henry Sheridan         |
+--------------------------------------------------+
From: pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (pauline muggli)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: car/driving peeves
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:26:21 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Originator: mdtll@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu


peeve:  having a lot of little errands to run and after
completing the first one, going out to the car, turning the key
and hearing absolutely nothing. 

if this had happened at home, i could have left the car and
returned to my apartment.  but, a small establishment doesn't
like having an abandoned car sitting in their lot over the
weekend taking up one out of 7 parking spaces.  so, i had to do
something about the car right then.

peeve:  the car wouldn't jump start.

peeve:  the battery was dead.  and not knowing if that was the
only problem.

anti-peeve: the battery was the only problem.

peeve:  having this happen on my birthday.  aren't birthdays
supposed to be a time when you get *nice* presents and money?
well, somebody better tell that to my car...

anti-peeve:  getting a birthday check from my parents later that
same day and it was enough to cover the cost of the car battery.

peeve:  having to spend birthday money on a battery rather than
chinese food, books or cross stitch items.

peeve:  people who make a right turn from a side street pulling
out in front of me and then stare in the rear view mmirror as
they're trying to accelerate fast to escape the imminent rear
end collision causing me to apply my brakes.  this was
especially peevesome, because there was a space twice as big
behind my car as in front.

peeve:  people pulling a trailer who haven't connected the
trailer's breaklights to the car.  no brake lights, no signal.

peeve:  the ever popular non-use of signals.  i *hate* when a
car slows down for no apparent reason and then makes a turn.
since there was no traffic, if he had signaled, i could have
gone around him.

pauline
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: hypocritical Guvmints
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:22:49 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:

>Item The First: The Guvmint here has just stomped on the pay rise for
>the UK academics. This pay rise was all of 6% plus 1% "discretionary"
>pay. 

Quite right too! I'm fed up to the back teeth of having *my* tax money
spent subsidising your lifestyle, Holmes. If you want to read news, go
to Glastonbury, drink large quantities of beer and spread wil drumours
round the world's electronic nets then stop sucking off the guvmint tit
and get a real job.

>of living since 1979 and academics acheived only 10% increase. Still, we
>knew that we weren't going to get the 33% needed to redress this henious
>imbalance. Nobody gets 33%.

Hell I got 50% when I moved to industry. You want a job with prospects
and proper pay and promotion procedures? You're working in the wrong
place, buddy.

>I figure since I'm a taxpayer 

Mike, you work (indirectly) for the guvmint. You're a drain on the real,
*wealth-producing* people of this country and I think you ought to stop now.
The *real* taxpayers of this country pay your wages. And I think if most
them knew what they were getting for their money they would be pretty
pissed off.

Peeve: People who call themselves libertarians and then proceed to
whinge that they aren't getting enough money from the guvmint. Get a
real job, Mike, one that creates wealth in the economy. As things stand
your claims to being a taxpayer are a joke. Your a drain on this
country. The sooner the likes of you lot are sold off to the private
sector and turned into theme parks for the plebs the better.
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)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: Re: BDI On Board
Summary: warning... warning...
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:00:58 GMT

In article Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
> Hmmm, suspiciously familiar looking subject line, am I recycling?
>
>[summary of small stick-on triangles that are stuck to vehicle windows] 
> 
> Today I saw a new twist - a car with a "Dog On Board" sticker in the back
> window. Leaving aside the fact that it was a sticker (meaning it's always
> there, even if there isn't a dog in the car) I fail to see the reasoning
> behind this idea.
> 
> I mean, what's the point? 

The small yellow stickers/suction things are not so that YOU can be more
careful to protect whatever is supposed to be in the vehicle with the
sign. The sign is to *WARN* you... so that you can get the fuck away from
the SOB.

For those of you that have large calibre weapons stored in gun-racks behind
your head... the signs also are good for target practice. If you're lucky,
you may also splatter the kid/dog/etc's little excuse for a brain all over
the windshield. 
                                            
           ____                           ________
           |   \ -----BOOM!--->          / /  |( )\SPLAT!
__________ |___/---                 ____/ /_O_|____\_____
|   ___   ||   ___ |                |   ___         ___  \
|__( 0 )__||__( o )|                |__( o )_______( o )_|
    ---        ---                      ---         ---
             ^                              ^   ^
             Large calibre weapon      target   mummy getting splattered.
             firing at target.

Al
_______________________________________________________________________________
| Allan H. Evans * School of Geography * UNSW * PO Box 1 Kensington 2033 Aust.|
| allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU  Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems |
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: drug testing, welfare, and screaming kids...
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:08:05 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <24309@castle.ed.ac.uk> tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:
=>fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
=>
=>>Peeve: I have no kids, but I gotta pay taxes to help out rich brats.
=>
=>Peeve: I don't go to University but I have to pay taxes to help out
=>people like Holmes.

=>FollowupPeeve: Begging letters from my old University. Despite moving
=>several times since graduation I'm still subjected to a series of
=>letters from The Edinburgh University Development Fund asking for my
=>cash. Obviously Mike and his cronies aren't being kept in the luxury
=>they're accustomed to by my tax donations and they would like some more
=>money.

Now, Tone, you know as well as I do that this just ain't fair. I don't think
we can claim that the University keeps Mike in luxury. The person it's kept
in luxury is the stupid prat of an accountant who skedaddled after it was
discovered that the University was n million quid in the red.

=> Previously when I worked for the University these letters just
=>went back with a note explaining that I'd *love* to make a donation and
=>as soon as the university started paying me a decent wage I would. Now
=>that excuse doesn't work. I think I'll start writing to the University
=>explaining that my flat needs new furniture or I want to buy some more
=>books or I need a new computer and ask them for a donation.

That's a ridiculous comparison. I don't see how you can suggest that your
need for furniture and consumer goods can be compared with the University's
need for materials essential for education. Note that I am not referring to
trivia like books, equipment, desks, stuff like that. No, what the University
needs is money for providing more office facilities for secretaries. Who
knows, given enough space, one of them might actually learn to type! We can
but hope.

=>Alternatively I may cover my tracks better next time I move.

It'll never work - they'll hunt you to the ends of the earth and give you a
copy of EDit.


-- 
-Jeremy Henderson        egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk   

(or am I?)
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Picnics
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 18:26:19 GMT

In <adwright.711885742@vincent1.iastate.edu> adwright@iastate.edu () writes:

>Peeve: That one person at a picnic who who says something about the
>"extra protein" when a bug flies into the food.

Reminds me of the time I sat "on the patio" during Sunday Brunch at
The Court of Two Sisters in New Orleans.

The place is under a canopy of shrubberies (saw MP&THG this last wknd).
The shrubberies attract a nervous (furtive, even) bunch of finches to
perch in them.  The finches are little shit factories.

To their credit, the restaurant uses patio tables with umbrellas over them
to "protect" the clientele, but like many other stop-gap measures it isn't
foolproof and the feces still manage to splash into the food, drink, and/or
utensils on occasion.

Wear a raincoat.
--
"Take me down where the love honey flows,
 kiss you nice, nibble your toes."      -B-52s, Good Stuff
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:08:52 GMT

Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>[...] one of the problems with welfare
>in the US is that some people stay on welfare because it pays more than
>some of the jobs out there.  

uh, isn't this more of a problem with the *jobs* than with the welfare?

-alex

-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott)
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:41:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.174630.1@husky1.stmarys.ca> cs226a030@husky1.stmarys.ca writes:
>	If you are stupid enough to get yourself hooked ( and apparently
>someone like you is that stupid), I'm not wild about the idea of forking over
>tax dollars to cure you. State run medical facilities are a good idea, I think.
>HOwever using them for a FUCKSTAIN (tm) whose got lung cancer because he smoked
>three packs a day for his whole fucking life, of some moron whose feeling sorry
>for himself and has gine and managed a cocaine addiction is an unwise expense,
>if you ask me.

I'm sure it's an unwise expense to accept someone into a state run medical
facility because they have heart disease because they are overweight.  After
all, it's their own damn fault.

Or someone who got hit by a car.  Why should I pay money to repair some
FUCKSTAIN (tm) who would have been perfectly safe if he had locked himself
in his house and never come out.

Where are you going to draw the line?  Who should draw said line?


Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: My pet peeve....
Keywords: peeve
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:25:40 GMT

rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:

>derich@netcom.com (Scott A. Steinbrink) writes:

>>My pet peeve is other people posting about their pet peeves...

>  Mine is people posting to complain about those posting about their
>pet peeves.

now listen, both of you, as i am only going to say this once: 

    the last thing we need here is the return of alt.cascade 
    through the back door. what we *do* need is imaginative, 
    funny tirades about topics we can relate to.

this isn't alt.look.mom.i.found.the.f.key, this is alt.peeves. 
now, in contrast to what the name might suggest to some, this newsgroup is 
*not* the right place for petty one-line posts of the `my peeve is that 
frankie ate my cookie' kind. 

> Censorship is alive and well on Usenet!

so is quality control. 


-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more. . .
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:58:59 GMT

In article <39552@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist) writes:
>[...pronounced the same in both. There is an ObPeeve hidden somewhere in
>this brackets ]

peeve: people that make me work for my daily peeve.


-- 
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*    "i may make you feel but i can't make you think" --Jethro Tull *
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
Subject: Re: radio stuff
Originator: yarvin@turquoise.CS.Yale.Edu
Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:08:53 GMT

Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>ObPeeve: Sometomes the BDI driver is a friend of yours. 

Or even worse, a parent.  My father generally drives highways at 55 in the
middle lane, when there are three lanes.  I pointed out to him recently that
cars were passing him continuously on both sides, and asked him innocently
why he was driving in the middle lane.  He replied that studies had shown
that the middle lane was the safest.

Which is airheaded.  Even neglecting the massive discourtesy implicit in the
idea -- he is forcing everybody else to pass him in the other, more
dangerous, lanes so that he can take the middle -- those studies were for
the _average driver_, i.e. someone who drives at a reasonable speed.  They
say nothing about how it is for BDIs who drive too slow.  Making a
continuous stream of cars merge in front of you is probably one of the more
dangerous things to do.

--
Norman Yarvin						yarvin@cs.yale.edu
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (I would like to return this TOBACCONIST; it is scratched)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-serve gas stations
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:44:53 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

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

>In article <1992Jul24.192834.23276@spool.cs.wisc.edu> slv@camembert.cs.wisc.edu (Scott L. Vandenberg) writes:

>>In short, why the hell do we have to stand there and hold the damn
>>handle?  Why have they disabled the mechanism used to keep it pumping?

>It's a method used to differentiate between BDIs and People-Who-Think-
>Of-Using-Their-Gas-Cap-To-Hold-The-Handle-Up-While-They-Do-Something-
>More-Meaningful-With-Their-Lives. Guess which one *you* are.

Gee, Dan, if you're so smart, why don't you enlighten us about
the pumps where the handles don't go up far enough in order to stuff
the gas cap into them?
-- 
"If I had killed her when I had first thought about getting divorced,
 I would have been out of jail by now."
	-- A newly-divorced guy I met at a block party
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Guvmint largesse - The way to go....
From: cs226a030@husky1.stmarys.ca
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:36:42 -04000
Distribution: alt
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada

In article <24259@castle.ed.ac.uk>, fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
> Following article appeared in The London Times 25/7/91
> 
> 
> Dutch local councils could face a wave of applications for sexual grants
> after a high court ruling this week upholding a physically handicapped
> man's right to receive a monthly social security payment for sex. The
> 31-year-old applied to the council in Noordoostpolder several months ago
> for a social security contribution to the monthly cost of the services
> of a female "sexual aid worker".
> 
> The council rejected the claim but was taken to the high court by the
> provincial authorities, which believe it is a duty of local councils to
> provide sexual help.
> 
> According to the provisional ruling, the man is entitled to a monthly
> grant of 65 guilders as part payment for the services of the woman, who
> specialises in providing sex for the physically handicapped at 150
> guilders per one-and-a-half-hour session. The court concluded that the
> sum involved was so small that it posed no burden for the council's
> finances.
> 
> The man, who lives in a home for the severely physically handicapped,
> based his claim on a psychological report which concluded that he had a
> need of sex once a month.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> What I need now is a psychologists report that I become a raving
> Libertarian if I don't get sex once per day. Hell, it's enough to turn a
> chap into a socialist....
> 
> Of course, we'd have to have Guvmint inspectors supervising, we wouldn't
> want them spending their grant on any illegal forms of sex.....
> 
> FoFP




Heh. Illegal forms of sex. In Holland. Isn't that cute.
Later
Mike (*WHAT* did he do with that parakeet ?!?!?!?!?)
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Cryin' baby express ... what to do?
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:54:41 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Jul30.181158.26424@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
>In <1992Jul29.230806.12533@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>Alas, I believe that was Mr.^H^H^HDr. Bougerolle, who has himself apparently
>become an immigrant.
>The job is open.
>Personnel Director!  Where was that notice we were to publish?


Peevetown still has its Firewall. We can wait for BogRoll a little longer.



ER
--
>elle@midway.uchicago.edu writes: >>drp@dosbears.uucp writes:
>>Robin's Egg Blue      69-er                           69-ee
>It's quite a trick, working out the difference between the two.
>(Is this like "let's do 70:  you do me and I'll owe you one"?)
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 15:22:33 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> It is not *illegal* to belong to, say, the communist party.  It *is*
> illegal to take, well, illegal drugs.

But of course.  That's because Communism is not evil enemy of the month,
whereas drugs are.

Of course, before nasty aliens like me are allowed to enter the USA, we have
to say that we've never been members of the Communist Party.  But that's just
a little joke, right?

> First of all, nobody's sending anyone to prison.  They're merely giving
> them a choice: enroll in drug treatment, or stop receiving handouts.

Has it occurred to you that people might want to choose to take drugs?  That
they might do so occasionally, without becoming addicted?

> only receive food stamps.  Second, there is a difference between being
> *willing* to take a drug test, and having an orgasm over the prospect.
> I wouldn't *like* it, but I would be happy to do it if it meant that a)
> people with problems would be forced to get treatment,

If drug use weren't illegal, you'd have Drug-users Anonymous alongside
Alcoholics Anonymous.  You wouldn't have to force people to get treatment,
they'd walk in and ask for help of their own free will.

No doubt during prohibition there were similar schemes requiring that those
found to be consuming alcohol should report to rehabilitation centres or be
imprisoned and forced to do so.  You look it up, it's your country's history.

>                                                       and b) I would
> know that I wasn't eating on $5 a week to finance someone else's drug
> habit (which I don't happen to be quite doing now, but I have done it
> for considerable periods of time since I started supporting myself
> after college in 1990).

Well, given that it costs more to keep addicts in jail than to give them
treatment for their addiction, I'd say your big concern should be stopping
the "war on drugs" and spending the money on rehabilitation centres.  Then
there'd be no money wasted on jailing drug users, and everyone who wanted
treatment would be able to get it.

> Peeve: People who think that people have a *right* to indulge in illegal
> activities.

Yeah.  Let's jail all those law-breakers who engage in oral sex or sex
outside marriage.  They have no right to have sex, so lock 'em up.

> ObHoney: Honey, you better not be one of those militant anti-smokers,
> too.  That would just be too inconsistent.

The rule is simple and consistent.  You can smoke, snort or inject whatever
the hell you want, just so long as *I* don't have to join in.


mathew
-- 
"Even the most bizarre of the unions (probably that between a cat's gall
 stone and a single note 'G' from CNN's ident theme) managed to convey a
 sense of rampant impropriety."  -- 'Fortran Five', Simon G. Lawrence Leonard