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> 
> Whats more i no longer take my daughter for a treat at McDonalds now
> i have found out they donate money (yours and mine) to the IRA.
> For those of you who dont know the IRA, well they are a terrorist
> organisation in Northern Ireland fighting for freedom supposedly.
> In excess of 7m dollars last year.

         Where do you get that information? I have heard plenty of rumors
about the creepy political connections of McDonald's but never the IRA!
First off (without getting into a major discussion about the merits or
lack thereof), McDonald's tends to support right-wing causes like 
traditional famioly values and George Bush. That would be rather 
inconsistent with the mission statement of the IRA which is self-
determination for Ireland and freedom from the British Empire. 

         Another note: it is possible that an organization could 
contribute money to the relief agency in Ireland (I can't recall the 
name -- it is a series of initials similar to NORAID) but they could
not contribute directly to the IRA. The CIA would be all over them like
flies on doo-doo. 

        Check your facts. That sounds like one of those rumors that starts
without any sort of basis in fact. Sort of like "Proctor and Gamble is a 
satanic company" because they used a half-moon in their advertisements. 


-reykjavik



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                             ".....what I was encouraging women to do is to
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From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: gun wienies
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:44:31 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1992Sep30.144838.573@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>In article <56990003@hpscit.sc.hp.com> chrisw@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Chris Wiles) writes:
>>	Major peeve! People who misunderstand cause and effect.
>
>peeve/antipeeve: people that don't understand baiting.
>
>-l "i don't know how i could be more obvious" p

Uhhh - include your "ObGun" in the post?  Something like "ObGun: DE 44
Magnum in stainless" would have been a *real* giveaway.  The more
obscure the reference the better - I'd use something like "ObGun: 1885
Highwall in .38-44" for max obscurity.

ObPeeve: someone else out there will rummage up a bluebook and come up
with something *really* obscure.  I'd hate to start up an "Obscure gun 
reference thang here...

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232

                 Do not throw rocks at this signature
From: The_Tea_Which_Will_Drink_You@ed.ac.uk (The Official Hot Drink)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Satanic Death Toddlers From Hell
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:40:34 GMT
Reply-To: The_Tea_Which_Will_Drink_You@ed.ac.uk (The Official Hot Drink)
Organization: The Coffee Lounge

In article <BvCqp2.30z@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not Al Crawford writes:
> 
> Announcing BabyMould (tm). Simply subdue your brat, place it in the mould
> and pour the quick-setting concrete around them. If you're concerned for
> their safety, inserting, say, the tube of a pen into their mouth so they
> can breathe might be advisable. Alternatively, use duct tape over all
> exposed orifices to avoid the ingestion of the concrete.

And then you'd be required by law to put a notice on it:

	To avoid danger of suffocation keep this BabyMould(tm) away
	from babies and children

ObPeeve: Stupid warning on everything.

And now, for something completely different...

I was cleaning my desk, when I found, lost in a pile of yellowish paper,
the following item, dated October 3, 1991 (ObPeeve: why it takes almost
one year to clean my desk?)

			TEALEAVES SAFERY HANDBOOK

My tealeaves are usually well-behaved, but there are some safety guidelines
you should always bear in mind when dealing with them.

THE JAR. The jars are best kept tightly closed and not exposed to direct
sunlight. If one of the jars starts shaking, just ignore it: it does so just
to attract your attention, usually with the intent of biting you. In any
case, NEVER PUT YOUR HANDS INSIDE ANY JAR!

THE TEA. My tea is specially blended for me. Quality teas are imported from
outside this planet. As mistakes happen from time to time, alien lifeforms
get imported together with the tea. Do not let them scare you. The last time
it happened, it was just an almost innocuous species of Pleidians, resembling
wasps. They stung Not_Al, but he survived.

THE LEAVES. Special gloves are required to handle the leaves, even if you can
open the jar without being killed. As a general safety measure, NEVER POUR
HOT WATER ON THEM. I still remember when I last did it, it was in spring 1986
and I was visiting a nuclear power station near Chernobyl, in USSR. [Editor's
note: USSR did still exist at the time]

EMERGENCY. If any of the jars opens spontaneously, leave the room immediately
via the nearest exit. Do not break a glass to exit, as it is safer to seal
the room before the tea can escape.

DRINKING. You are welcome to drink my tea, this is what it is made for. All
you need to do is to brew it respecting the above measures, and the drink the
result. It is very good for your health, if you don't mind the colour of your
skin or the number of your fingers. Enjoy!

--
WARNING: To avoid danger of death keep this Tea away from the planet
From: bls101@deakin.anu.edu.au (The New, Improved Brian Scearce)
Subject: Re: McDonald's (was Re: Boss Peeve)
Organization: Australian National University
	<1992Sep30.014346.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> <BvE30n.MxF@nic.umass.edu>
Distribution: world,local
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:27:10

jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:

   f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin) writes:
   > jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
   >
   >> My only problem with McD's is that they take away business from
   >> perfectly good diners.  To me, there is nothing that affirms my pride
   >> in being an American like a slice of meat loaf, some mashed potatoes
   >> and a helthy wallop of peas served to me by woman with
   >> HairFromHell(TM) who calls me hon & keeps my coffee cup eternally full.
   >
   >Those diners are still around, Jenny.  We call them truck stops.  A good
   >one will be just like what you described.
   >

   Oh, yes, I know.  But they're dropping like flies, due to the
   proliferation of fast food joints.  There's talk of opening up one of
   these hell holes in Florence, and that'll take away business from Miss
   Florence's Diner, a tribute to Neon signs and Blue Plates.  I'm hoping
   that the talk is just rumor. Florence has a teensy population - I don't
   know if the town can support both.' 

Take heart Jenn[y|i] (Joy?, SonJa?), Mickey-Ds is not invincible.  Listen
to my story and you will be cheered.

About a mile out of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia
and near the University of Melbourne is the suburb of Carlton.
Carlton's main street, Lygon St, is Melbourne's Little Italy.  It contains
more Italian cafes, restaurants, delicatessans, gelaterias, clothing shops
and so on, per square mile than any other place on the continent.  However
it had no fast food joints, inspite of a student population of around
20,000 just two blocks away.  This was a challenge McD could not resist.
Inspite of vigorous opposition they suceeded in bribing the local council
into allowing them to open in the heart of Lygon St.  

!Peeve1:  In less than a year they went broke.

!Peeve2:  An Italian cafe now occupies the site and is doing very nicely
thank you.

--
bls101@syseng.anu.edu.au
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've 
 never tried before." - Mae West
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 23:56:02 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Followup-To: alt.peeves

In article <92273.181405JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu> Joy Haftel writes:

>Peeve:  I can't remember whether Janis Joplin did a cut of "Me and Bobby
>McGee"  or not; all I can figure out was that just about everyone sang
>it.  I even inadvertently heard Waylon Jennings doing it when flipping
>through channels when a country music show was on.

Yup, Janis covered it.  Did you know that song was written by a Rhodes
Scholar?

Well, it was.

>Joy Haftel               "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "Often in error, never in doubt." 
rickg@netcom.com |   --- Universal Marketing Department motto
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: School is Back in Session ( Was Re: Rewriting History
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:16:00 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Sep29.222032.26756@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>esp51@cas.org (Liberal Reformed Bunny-Hugger)  writes:
>>z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Agri-Barbarian) writes:
>>>esp51@cas.org (Granola-munching Bunny Hugger) writes:
>
>>That's quite an assumption there Dan.  Bunny Hugger?  When I was a
>>kid, I shot more quail and rabbits with my 12 guage pump Mosberg that
>>you've had hot meals.
>
>	Yeah, right.  While I admit to partaking of many cold meals,
>I've killed more pheasant with the combine than you've killed in the
>past year with any weapon, not to mention the vast number of hot
>meals I've enjoyed to some degree.  ....

C'mon, Dan, wasting pheasants with a combine can't count for as much
as blowing rabbits into a frothy red mass with a 12 ga.  What's the
power factor of a combine, anyway?

I just want to know what he did with the rabbits after punching their
tickets with a 12 gauge.  Not a lot of Mr. Bunny left after hitting
them with 1.25 oz of lead pellets at 800 fps...

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home
Will hack unix for food 		(.sig stolen from dt - sorry, dt)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: aldavi01@orion.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: Religion / Christian / Usenet peeve.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:05:22 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

BIG peeve: Morons who think that alt.religion.computers is about religion.

For a good laugh, go read the "CHRISTIANS ARE BEING DUPED!" thread in
alt.religion.computers.

ObBonusPeeve: ProgramsWithExtremelyLongMixedCapsIdentifiers.
ob_pv2: _2shrt_syms

Ob!Peeve: Rainy days.
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From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: School is Back in Session ( Was Re: Rewriting History
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:25:06 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <BvCF11.Duy@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>In article <1992Sep29.133513.1815@cas.org> esp51@cas.org () writes:

>>     Excellent flame Elaine!  Indeed, you found my weak spot, namely
>>inability to spell well.
>
>No, Scott, Elaine merely found one of your myriad weakpoints which was evident
>from your post.  My personal experiece is that it's more effective to look at
>someone's post, notice that they are close-minded, ineloquent and barely 
>literate (as you post showed you to be) and then comment on that as opposed
>to saying something like:

[etc.]

Hey, Jenny, you should know better than to have the audacity to actually
DEFEND SOMEONE ELSE on this group!!!  ;-)

Peter!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan H. Evans)
Subject: Re: Testing new newsreader, was: (Re: Mea
Reply-To: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU
Organization: School of Geography, UNSW.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:10:17 GMT

In articlelce geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>
>allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU writes:
>
>>Anyway, that is all past but now I have a new problem: 80+ line posts. 
>>This newsreader automatically wraps lines that are greater than 80 
>>characters... watch the flames flare.
>
>>Does anyone REALLY give a shit? No probably not. 
>
>
>Well, I do, because I don't understand what you're getting at.  It's
>generally considered bad form to post articles with lines greater 
>than 80 characters in length anyway, right?  So it seems to me that your
>newsreader's autowrap function is a feature, not a bug, and something
>to be thankful for because it saves you the necessity of watching the
>length of your lines yourself.  What's the problem?

The autowrap appears on my screen... but it assumes that everyone elses
newsreader *also* has autowrap, so that if I start rambling on about god knows what and continue into oblivion with a completely ridiculous run-on sentence then many of the people of the Net will prolly get all tied up and bothered about it and proceed to flame the hell out of me. 

At least that's what happened the first time I used it.

But that's ok.

Al

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| 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 |

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Xmas already?  (was: Those damn MENTOS commercials!)
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:45:48 GMT

	Today, while watching Used Cars on the television and balancing
the checkbook (how's that for coincidence?), I happened to flip the
channels to see if anything was blowing up on the Discovery Channel.
On my way there, I spy some babes wearing very little clothing.  Hmmm...
Yep, that's MTV all right.  What's up?  A few seconds of viewing and I
discover it's an advertisement from Playboy for some sort of Playmate
christmas-type item, quite possibly a videotape.  I am hardly one to
go against a playmate video in every stocking, but it's September
27th, fer crying out loud!  Great hairy scrotum of Christ, have these
people no shame?  Only a fourth of the year is left before the gift-
giving season!  Get your gift now before we're sold out!  Right.

	Screw 'em all.  I've determined that, by not purchasing until
the last minute, or even the day after, I can get better deals and do
my part to ruin both the economy and the predictions of economists.
Somehow, that makes the Christmas season just so much more satisfying.

--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"I see angels on Ariels in leather and>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | chrome, Swooping down from heaven to >
<viking@iastate.edu      | carry me home."   ---    R. Thompson >
<ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee.>
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Commercials-on-the-brain
Keywords: plop plop fizz fizz
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:34:51 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <adwright.718025055@vincent1.iastate.edu> adwright@iastate.edu 
() writes:


[Mike Zraly's ***>>>--->!!!ENTIRE FUCKING ARTICLE!!!<---<<<*** deleted]


>I lived for two years in a country where commercials in TV were less frequent.

[etc.]


MegaRecurringPeeve:  People who include the complete text of the posting
they're following up to, and then add a paragraph or less of their own at
the bottom!

C'mon, people, you don't have to be a rocket scientist or a net.veteran to 
figure out that that's neither necessary nor a Good Idea.  If you do it 
again, we'll have no recourse but to kill you and eat your brain.


Geoff


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: *Virtual* Reality
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:32:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.030528.24894@cs.yale.edu> yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin) writes:

>
>The phrase in question is "attacks on X's world view."  A person's world
>view is composed of everything he thinks about the world.  Therefore, if I
>were to say that you are a complete airhead, I would be attacking your world
>view.  (Unless, of course, you already knew that you are an airhead.)
>

So, like, are you, like, calling me an airhead?  Or just making some, oh,
what do you call it?  Oh, I know, like, making a hypothetical statement
to prove your point?  Or. like, is calling me an airhead, like, the best
argument you can come up with to refute my point about the interconnection
between philosophy and science?

I'm, like, soooooooooooooo confused by all this.

AirheadPeeve:  Wasting time rebutting someone's attack on your intelligence,
when you could be watching Beverly Hills 90210 and getting some totally
bitchin' fashion tips.  Like what a total waste.

-- 
***************************************************************************
jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu is Jenny Gutbezahl @ Univ. of Mass, Amherst
****************************************************************************
These opinions are all mine.  Flame all you want, I'll make more
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Human sheep
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 17:54:01 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes: 
| 
| Sub-peeve: I'll say Holmesesque if I want to - you don't like it - make up
| your own words!

Not a chance.  I stay away from Hendersonifications whenever I can.

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
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|Dr. Pavlov's distinguished career came to an      |
|abrupt end one day when the doorbell rang and the |
|dog ate the Avon lady.                            |
+--------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: csuley@cs.cornell.edu (Christopher Suley)
Subject: Cardboard, cardboard, everywhere!
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:39:01 GMT

Today in the mail I received a PopularMacintoshMagazine(tm), which I
usually enjoy.  This time, however, it peeved me.

Between practically every pair of pages there was a ridiculous stiff
cardboard advertising insert, or an inane "Subscribe now and we'll
elect you president" subscription renewal card.  I like to lay my
magazines down flat and read them, but the pages would always flip
back over because the stiff cardboard won't lay flat!  So, I spent
about 10 minutes gutting the magazine of all the stupid cardboard,
just so I could read it in peace.  Of course, I tossed all of the
cardboard inserts in the trash, unread.

What I would like is for the publishers to allow me to choose a
"no cardboard" subscription.  That'll never happen, though.

Well, on the bright side, ripping all that stupid cardboard out of
the magazine did release some stress that had been building up, so
maybe it's not all bad.  Of course, when I ripped too vigorously on
a piece, two or three pages of the magazine threatened to rip out
along with it... *sigh*.
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (I would like to return this TOBACCONIST; it is scratched)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Cindy Crawford peeve
Date: 5 Oct 92 07:23:05 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

aldavi01@rigel.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) writes:

>The second peeve is a specific commercial -- the one in which she is first
>dressed in a nice comfy black&green flannel shirt, jeans, and ballcap?  And
>enters her trailer, and comes out wearing some icky, trashy, tacky "dinner
>dress" (or whatever the fuck the call them)?

>THAT's my peeve.  She looks much better BEFORE she goes in the trailer.  When
>she comes out, she's wearing far too much lipstick, and just looks generally
>unappealing.  Gross, gross, gross.

Go away.

There are no feminazi chicks here to impress.

Take it to alt.romance.chat

You have been warned.
-- 
"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
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Those damn MENTOS commercials!
Date: 26 Sep 1992 06:41:20 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: boa.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep26.041317.2278@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>
>speaking of ads of questionable taste... how come we see so many ads for 
>feminine hygiene products yet what about masculine hygiene products, hm??
>surely men are in need of similarly mysterious products.

Tenderubbies Foreskin Wipes.
Extra-Thin Q-Tips, for Cleaning those Sensitive, Hard-To-Reach Spots.
Butt Tampons For Him.
Fuller's Scrotum Polish.

This the sort of thing you mean, Laura?

The cashiers keep them behind the counter.  They won't sell to
you, but if you drag up and act brash, you might get a peek or
two before they catch on.

c
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: proterin@nmt.edu (Paul Rotering)
Subject: Re: Rewriting History
Organization: New Mexiko Tek
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 07:09:13 GMT

In article <lcpgppINNbj4@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:


>Take the CAFE regulations, for example.  The
>government has mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to which the
>auto manufacturers must conform, or else pay fines in relation to the vehicles
>they sell which fail to meet the magic numbers and bring the company's average
>down.  
>
>Because of political zeal and careerism, the anticipated, ever-higher 
>standards have gotten so tight that now the safety of future vehicles is 
>questionable, because the laws of thermodynamics being what they are, the
>things would have to be made of tinfoil to be light enough to meet the 
>standards under consideration.  But it's politically correct (in the most 
>literal sense of the term) to push for higher fuel economy standards right
>now because the private automobile is the political whipping boy du jour.
>But because of the rise of careerism at the expense of representation, no 
>politician has the balls to stand up and announce that the emperor's stark
>nekkid.


True, but there are ways to improve fuel economy without compromising the
safety of the vehicle.  Four valves per cylinder improves my engine's
efficiency.  I just hate having to shell out a few extra kilobucks for
a "performance enhancement."

-Paul