HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Pauline M Muggli)
Subject: advertisement pricing
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:39:47 GMT


peeve:  advertisers who try to fool me by pricing items at 
$ 2.99 or $ 2.95  as if i'm going to truncate 99 cents and think
*wow* it's only two dollars.

peeve:  people who do fall for this trick.

peeve:  an ad that says "only three ninety nine per month."  this
was an ad for leasing some big car.  based on the dollar amount
in my checking account, i don't hear 3 hundred and ninety nine
dollars, i hear 3 dollars and ninety nine cents.  which is exactly
the point of phrasing it that way.

i'd rather just have them say, "if you have to ask the price of
leasing this automobile per month, don't bother, you're too poor."
or "if you make under "x dollars per year, change the channel."

anti-peeve:  humorous ads.

obweapon:  a used car salesman in a plaid coat and white shoes.

pauline
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:45:01 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <kuj9lmINNtl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

[Lurks around at night spooking people]

>I suspect that one reason I tend to make people uneasy in such settings is
>because I have a fast, purposeful stride, even when I'm not in any partic-
>ular hurry.  It's just the way I walk.  Oh well, it's their problem, not
>mine.  I figure it's better to make that kind of impression on people than
>to have them assume that I'm some kind of harmless milquetoast.


Geoff, when I met you at JZ's house that one time, I thought to myself
that you looked a great deal like Darren Stevens from "Bewitched". In
other words, a clean cut and respectable brunette white man from the
suburbs. I kept wondering when Samatha would show up.

It must have been the large machine gun and bandolier that made these
people nervous. Else, you must have gotten a Mohawk and nose ring since
I saw you.

Peeve: Crime.

ER
--
*"I mean it could make a big difference in your life if you thought that 
*you didn't need to depend on some musty old dogma thats riddled with
*translation problems, and started acting from the center of your own being."
*					-Owen Rowley
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From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.config,talk.bizarre
Subject: CFD: misc.jobs.offered.sorry
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:43:00 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd

Don't'cha just hate it when someone posts their resume to misc.jobs.offered.
Don't'cha just hate it even more when they post their `I'm sorry I've been
such a fuckwit' message a few hours laters (normally after suffering heavy
email flamage). And now to top it all, we have a total-and-utter-clueless-fuck
who posts a second sorry message, this time apologizing for spelling Berkeley
wrong in his first sorry message.  Like, if I was a potential employer, I'd
be falling over myself to employ these people, I really would. Why don't they
just post to alt.don't.employ.me.because.i'm.a.total.and.utter.clueless.fuck
and have done with it.

Tx. [``I see a great need'']
--
-- Tim [O'Donoghue] <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <...!uunet!uknet!canon!tim>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jpoller@novell.com (Contents may have settled during Shipping)
Subject: Anti Peeve 
Organization: The Electoral Collage
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:33:26 GMT

Anti Peeve:  Just showing up in the Bay Area, a new NewsGroup:

	alt.flame.psu

Go Get 'Em!!!!

ObPeeve: People who put innocuous irrelevent titles and topics in the
wrong groups.

jlp
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Lex Talionis, 'To The Pain'
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 11:37:15 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <ku60c0INN4tk@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Apr8.194132.22571@igor.tamri.com> <ku7nukINNait@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
 <1992Apr9.065007.16316@news.iastate.edu>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <1992Apr9.065007.16316@news.iastate.edu>, Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian writes:

>  banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
> >
> >I'm 6'6", son.  Just because Geoff Miller is 6'2" and you look up to
> >him, don't assume that's true of everyone you look up to.
> 
> 	I think it is high time some GIF's were posted to this group,
> specifically JZ, drew, Geoff, and the rest of those Californicators
> who spend inordinate amounts of time making me laugh.

I'm game if you are, Sorenson ...

> (though I'm sure Interpol has a pic of him already), Babs, Steve, and
> the rest of the *major poasters* on here (that includes you, dak,
> though you inherently agree to allow us to make fun of your rotund
> presence in the middle of a barren wasteland) really deserve not

Thanks, bastard.

Dac
--
p.s. Poasters? Sheesh.

ObPeeve: It's getting cold at night.
munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac      David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
  prolix!dac%eyrie@labtam.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
        dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au      I post .
prolix!dac@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au            . . I am.             +61 6 285 2537
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Engineers
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:02:19 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <9473@wrgate.wr.tek.com> dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (David Munroe) writes:
>At least if an engineer peeves, he'll be specific.  To a fellow engineer
>he might say "the setup and hold times are screwed up and it'll take 6 weeks
>to turn the chip!"  To a non-engineer friend, he might simply say "we've
>got a hardware problem that delays the schedule by 6 weeks".

It's kind of funny, but I was having a conversation in a diner (a
!peeve, a real honest-to-God diner) at lunch that went sort of like
this:

"Well, we'd like to kill the uucps so I was looking into doing an
auto-dial and establishing a SLIP and nntp'ing over the line using
V42bis or something.."

When I realized that I was talking to a sales type and that all of the
people, including the counterman and the cook were looking at me as
though I was from another planet.

I love cybercrud talk.

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232
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From: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.good.news
Subject: Recession anti-peeves
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:58:31 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

What's so peeveworthy about the recession? Consider the following fine
characteristics:

1.) Cheaper houses, cheaper cars.

2.) Gives Labour a stick to beat the Tories.

3.) Gives you an excuse not to have a job.

4.) Hardest hit are the most schadenfreude-inducing sectors of the
    economy: advertising, property development and the financial
    services. Those swine deserve a bloody good hiding, as Barmy
    Bernie would no doubt put it.

5.) Stops "green consumerism" in its tracks.

6.) If you lose your job, or your investments suffer, or you have to
    sell your house, at least you can look back in ten years' time and
    say "I was part of it!"

So re-elect Major! Re-elect Bush! Lets let this recession run and run!

yours not-so-peevishly,
Paul.

"Each of the symbols psi^{i=1,...,8} also denotes a particular vibrational
mode or state (Chhandras) in Hilbert space, created or destroyed by its
corresponding operator. With these three operations afforded by the quantum
principle, one obtains the identical 3*8=24-fold structure corresponding
to the first richa (verse) of the Rik Ved."
  - from the Natural Law Party's electoral communication, April 1992
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Geographic areas (was Re: pocquers (was Re: Smoking Surrogat
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:50:33 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis) writes:

>By the bye, what's the difference between club soda and seltzer?  I used
>to think they were the same thing, but I see them sold side by side, under
>the same brand names.  Does seltzer have no salt, or is it Kosher, or what?

Seltzer has no salt.  Uh, I think.  I always look at the label.

Having parents from a "pop" region, and growing up in a "soda" region,
I grew up saying "soda-pop".
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"It's not an adult feature unless someone's gooey at the end."
 -- Bill Hicks
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Just One Gynaecologist
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:40:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: igor.1992Apr15.214052.10319
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco

In article <31708@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
(Not Al Crawford) writes:
>WARNING - Extremely Compunerdy Peeve Follows.
>
>ObVeryCompuNerdyPeeve: Why the hell doesn't free() work? When you're
>developing an application that requires the best part of 50MB of memory for
>even a small data set and is liable to go berserk if given a large one,
>it's decidedly peeveful when you discover that despite your best efforts to
>allocate as much store as you can dynamically and release it at the first
>available opportunity, free() doesn't actually free anything. It just sits
>there getting bigger and bigger. Bloody stupid machine.

You know !Al, I felt the same way when I first discovered that free() doesn't
free anything.  Then I discovered that it DOES free it to the extent that
your next malloc() will probably grab the free()ed memory.  And you also
have the option of not calling free() but keeping your own, internal
free page list.

!Peeve:  Multiple interesting options

        Don
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			Bush for  President in '92!
                                 ^
                                 Ex-
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From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.bizarre
Subject: PoliticalKorrectnessPeeve
Date: 7 Apr 92 09:34:19 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper


why do so few people remember cristopher columbus as:

the Man who misplaced asia.


ciao
drieux


ps: still worried that there are reds in the
state department who Lost China!!!!
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bush for (Ex)President in '92!
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:48:58 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:

>As for empires, you might look to the British Empire to see where
>that road leads:  once a center of knowledge and civilization, they're
>now nothing but a penniless and decadent nation of inbred pederasts

Hey dude, that was the *English* empire. leave Scotland out of it.

Peeve: Scotland unfortunately is in it. Well and truly. And it looks
like staying that way for at least another five years.

!Peeve: Now that Bill Clinton has admitted breaking English Law,
presumably taking Noriega as an example, it'd be ok for the English to
go into the US to arrest him. This would provide much amusement in
Scotland.

Not that most USAn's would mind if Slick Willy ended up doing bird in
Brixton. George Bush would though, he needs him to get re-elected.

Peeve: I didn't even know the name of a broker that was open for
business at 2am this morning.  Water shares were a sure thing once it
was obvious that Soapy Major was back in.  I'm gonna hate finding out
how much they've gone up.  It's been a bad day. 

FoFP
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: peeve dump
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:07:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.163407.481@ryn.mro4.dec.com> lane@bot000.enet.dec.com (Mickey) writes:
>
>potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) sez:
>>antipeeve: i shot a gun for the first time last week. a 45. didn't hit the
>>	target at all! :) still, i'd always wanted to experience it. 
>
>Shooting = something you do.
>Getting shot at = something you experience.

peeve: people like this. 
[M-I-C see? you're anal retentive 
 K-E-Y why? poor potty training, i expect]

anti-peeve: the new atrium in the building where i work.

peeve: birds that get stuck in atriums. you'd think they'd make it
	so just one of those windows could be opened. which brings
	me to yet another...

peeve: non-openable windows. why, there oughta be a law against
	such things.

peeve: people who give away the right of way as if they're oh too
	polite to actually follow the laws.

peeve: people who don't know where the ends of their vehicle are
	thereby performing a 348 point turn when they could be doing
	a 3 point turn. 

-l "cmonback, cmonback, cmonback..." p







-- 
-lp **************************************************************************
* What do you tell forever's children when it's their turn to hurt and heal? *
* What ever spins the grim tornado can also turn a potter's wheel.           *
************************************************************** --Bill Danoff *
From: dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (Dave Munroe)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:16:05 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.

In article <92098.151649JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) writes:

 >ObWierdness: Really fat people who wear shorts... If I weighed, say,
 >250 lbs, I sure wouldn't be rushing the shorts season.  However, I've
 >seen probably four of them today in shorts, and they were all female.
 >Go figure.

Let's see, where did I put that?  Oh, yes:

 "Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy
  and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.
 -Earl Wilson"

-Dave
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.bizarre,soc.singles
From: action@cbnewse.cb.att.com (timothy.d.acton)
Subject: Re: what should I do?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:23:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.100248.24792@wetware.com>, drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
> 
> Friday I ran into a young lady and asked her for some midol.
> 
> the following monday she ran into me and I was complaining
> about water weight, feling bloated, and being generally crabby.
> 
> Is this something a guy should worry about?

Only if your breasts become abnormally large and
tender to the touch. 

Next in the Enquirer- LARGE BREASTED MIDOL MAN
                      AQUITTED ON PMS DEFENSE!

Tim

> 
> ciao
> drieux
> 
> 
> 


Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Subject: Re: Death Peeve
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:31:57 GMT

In article <kulvppINN5fa@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>
>Who's Sam Kinison?
>

       One thing about the Sam Kinison accident that I failed to
point out previously:  It isn't very difficult to imagine the 
last 30 seconds before the crash, is it?



"OOHHH, OHH, HE'S ACROSS THE MEDIAN, OH, OH, AUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......"


ObBob: Goldthwait

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Tim Mefford           |           "vidi, veni"      
  tim@physics.orst.edu      |    -Julius Caesar on Cleopatra
________________________________________________________________
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: April 9 (d. all of the above)
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:15:19 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <1992Apr13.153146.24974@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
>  !peeve: My new ford Ranger Sport with the 160hp V6, and 5spd
>  manual...Everytime I drive it, my penis gets longer.

Only in Calgary.  Around here it takes at least a Ford F250.

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Bush For (Ex)President in '92!
Originator: yarvin@turquoise.CS.Yale.Edu
Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:24:26 GMT

minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch) writes about:
>... peace and freedom and justice .... to be established as the norm of
> international behavior ...

and about how everything could be beautiful, if ... what?  I didn't quite
catch it.  If you're going to argue that these things are achievable, have
the decency to tell us how, rather than mumbling vague generalities.  Talk
about something other than just the goals; I'm sure we all agree (*) they
are nice ones but that doesn't excuse the act of pursuing them in a
buttheaded way.

>BoringPeeve: Having to repeat the obvious to people who will understand  
>it on their own eventually, but too late and only after they've done  
>their damage and perpetuated their attitudes.

Peeve: people who portray an incompletely specified agenda which aims at an
ill-defined result as being "obvious".

!Peeve: P J O'Rourke's new book _Give War A Chance_.

(*) Except possibly Tim Mefford.

--
Norman Yarvin						yarvin@cs.yale.edu
 "Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future." - Niels Bohr
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:28:20 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:

+ObSigPeeve: That the all-time best sheepdog song, "Sleepwalk" by Ultravox
+(in which every word in the chorus can convincingly be replaced by
+"Sheepdog") is useless as a signature quote since "Sheepdog! Sheepdog!
+Sheepdog!" gives absolutely no hints as to what the song is *supposed* to
+be.

Hopelessly falling
I can't find my sheep flock
Destined to herd or explode!

<brrrm brrm> Sheepdog!  <brrm brrm> Sheepdog!

-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"It's not an adult feature unless someone's gooey at the end."
 -- Bill Hicks
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jpoller@novell.com (Contents may have settled during Shipping)
Subject: Re: Wives of (Re: Engineers)
Organization: The Electoral Collage
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:52:37 GMT

Dripping spunk with everyword, toth the sloth says:
=> 
=>    Me: "What the &*#^ did you do that for, I was watching?"
=>    Wife: "But, you didn't say anything when I sat down..."
=> 
=> Like I'm supposed to?
=> 
=> By this time the climax of the ending is over...
=> 
=> Sheeesh.....

And I thought you were supposed to watch those types of flicks WITH
your wife.  Unless of course, she sat down cause she already
climaxed.
=> 
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Lex Talionis, 'To The Pain'
From: dpl@aber.ac.uk (David Philip Langstaff)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: ChirpChirpChirpChirp
Date: 16 Apr 92 11:18:49 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

In article <31724@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
>
>I'm also peeved by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sure, it's supposed to
>have reduced world tension but it's *also* robbed me of about the only
>foreign radio programme worth listening to - the Radio Moscow World
>Service.

Surely you must have listened to the One True Voice of world broadcasting ?
yes, I'm talking about Radio Tirahana, the Voice of Albania. For those
who may have missed this gem of the airwaves, I can extend only sympathy
that you will never know the true zenith of balanced and unbiased reporting.

As well as the thrilling statistics about the latest output from the
Enver Hoxa WorkHorse of the People tractor factory and the predictions
of increased electricity from the Enver Hoxa Light of the People Electricity
Utility there were the cultural performances of folk songs from the Enver Hoxa
Food of the People Collective Turnip farmers.

But the balance came into its own with the foriegn news desk, here was 
plucky little country refusing to kowtow to anyone. Its not every day you can
hear news casts like....

  "shhhh...crackle.... imperialst forces of the united states...crackle..
   whine.. in an unprovoked action....defencless peasants. zzzztt...
   Forces belonging to the revisionist counter-revolutionaries of the soviet
   union.... oppressive might of the russians.... whrrrr.... Meanwhile in
   China... bourgoise regime... treachorous deals..... capitalist warmongers..
   bzzz... united states. Once again... brutal regime... ssssss.. greece
   attack on the common people... "

At the end of the 5 minute news broadcast attacking most governments
around the world would come an appeal to join The Friends of Albania,
which judging from the rest of their news service, must have been a
fairly exclusive club.

ObPeeve: Easter holiday time, and the roads around here are starting to
fill up with morons who insist on driving on any road with any form of
curve in it at 25mph. They make up for this by driving through all the 
villages at 60mph as these have houses in them which reminds them of
cities and makes them feel safe.

Ob!Peeve: A week off.

ObWeapon: Felonius Flatulence.



-- 
Dave Langstaff | Janet:dpl@uk.ac.aber.cs | Disclaimer: All my own work. 
Any views expressed are those of the author alone. | Phone:(0970)622838 
After-life, After-shave, don't hold with any of it, bleugh! - Sir Henry 
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From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.bizarre,soc.singles,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Don't Blame Me, I tried....
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:36:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: grover.MARTINC.92Apr15113654
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: /theta/theta5/unc/martinc/.organization
In-reply-to: drieux@wetware.com's message of 13 Apr 92 04:15:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.041552.3556@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:

   1. why do you think they call it FLAK?

   2. cogito, ergo Palamino: getting DesCarte Before DesHorse.

Ooof.

   ciao
   drieux


   ps: had the KentralKommisariateForKorrectDuetch accepted
   my original plan it would have been Called either FLiegerAbwehrKannone

   or my personal favorite:

   AusSkyFallenDownenPlaneSplatterenBoomenGrosseKannoneFurZurGreaterDefenseOfTheGrandAndGloriousFatherLandTheOneTrueDefenderOfAllCivilizationLikeOurBigHugeHumongousHeManManlyMaleMasculineThrobbingLordDominators.

That's "...GrandUndGlorious..."
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu/(ne crm@cs.duke.edu) 
O/Department of Computer Science/Sitterson Hall/UNC/Chapel Hill, NC 27599
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper.  -- Eden Phillpot, I'm told.  Anyone have a better reference?