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From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Potential peeve
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:06:14 GMT

jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:

] 3) "Partner" who is feeling pleased at no longer looking like
] she has a basketball under her sweater and fancies celebrating
] return to normal shape.

Sounds like a drieuxish peeve to me - 
"Women- all they want is SEX".

Diana
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Liberal Toadies
Organization: a2i network
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:35:11 GMT

It's been rather a long time since I voted for a Presidential candidate
who won, so I suppose I should feel good.  But this guy is about my age,
dodged the draft like I did, and listened to the same sort of music that
I did.  What group did he pick for his theme song?  Fleetwood fucking
Mac!  We're gonna have "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"  bouncing
over the air for the next four years.

I'll show him.  Whenever he makes a speech, I'll just shut off the
TV sound and put "Ripple" on the stereo.  Maybe I'll eventually
figure out the lyrics...

Phil "Ripple copyright 1970 or so, Garcia and Hunter" Gustafson
-- 
Phil Gustafson <phil@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Liberal Toadies
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:58:21 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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In <1992Nov4.124510.20760@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
[in reference to my quip about Bush not following up after the Gulf War:]

>Wellllllllll..... he *is* (albeit briefly) Commander-in-Chief of the armed
>forces, so what he says pretty much goes in that forum.  The same is not
>true when he's dealing with congress.

Most of the battle wasn't within the U.S. armed forces, it was on the
international stage, and involved a great deal of successful cajoling
and coalition building.  It seemed to show that he had powers of
persuasion he was unwilling/unable to muster in dealings with Congress.

>The fact is that except for the C-i-C title, the presidency is a pretty weak
>office.  The biggest weapon that the president has is the veto.

But there lots more to leadership than by-the-book power.

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"I get so tickled debunking bad personal philosophy." - Milquetoast
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Space Age Outerwear and a challenge
Date: 13 Nov 1992 01:10:42 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Nov12.112320.8816@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>
>I don't know about you, Curtis, but I am a little chary about sending my GIF
>to the net.  God knows where it would end up.

"WARTHOG2.GIF", in alt.binaries.pictures.bestiality?  God, Mike, you
have the most provincial paranoias.

I'm a busy beaver right now and have neither scanner nor camera,
but I promise I'll get around to it.  Look for the Rabbi Mojevich,
coming soon to a newsgroup near you.

c
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: fucking BDI motorcycle drivers
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:27:22 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Nov5.204702.8026@asl.dl.nec.com> drinckes@nzl.abk.nec.co.jp 
writes:

>Congratulations.  You found an idiot.  What do you want, a medal?

>Would you like all us bikers/motorcyclists to post whenever a car driver
>(cager/tin top) slacks us off?

>What danger were you in?  None.  What danger was the rider in?  Heaps,
>all of their own making, granted.  Here, if you want someone to overtake,
>you usually pull over - or is that too obvious?

>Chill out dude.


Uh, Doug?  <noknoknok> Anybody in there?

Bandy didn't use the incident as a platform from which to heap abuse on the
motorcycle community at large.  He related a BDI incident in which the 
featured BDI happened to be riding a motorcycle. Asshole drivers aren't 
restricted to any particular number of wheels.  Can you grasp that, or shall
we get out the water cannons?

What's all this thin-skinned crap I see from you motorcycle types lately,
anyway? I never even heard the term "cager" until about a year ago -- 
and before you say it, no, it's not because I don't get out enough. 

"Cagers" this, and "cagers" that, those "Kill a Biker -- Go To Jail" bumper 
stickers, etc.  If you pansies are so bloody nervous, perhaps you should 
trade in your obnoxious, noise-polluting toys for '63 Rambler station wagons
before you end up paralyzed from the eyebrows down, dreaming about bedpans 
and spending the rest of your lives working on your bedsore collections 
because you got tense and smarted off to an automobile driver.

And before you're tempted to spout off at a "cager" once too often on
the road, please remember that you're just a flick of the wrist away
from being turned into so many kilos of dog food.  Your balls are in our
hands.  Don't make us want to squeeze.

"Cagers," my ass.


Geoff


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From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Squirrel
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:15:39 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:

>So I saw this squirrel.
>It was gamboling merrily in the middle of the road.
>So I hit him.  With a soft thunkathunk.  In the head I think.

Is that a Harvest Quaker Crunch you're eating?

Aren't you worried about the squirrels?

BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID....

The HarvestQuakerCrunchEatingPsychoSquirrelLiberationFront has sworn revenge!



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-- Squirrels With Attitude
From: Tony Lezard <tony@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Driving with Parking Lights!
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:30:08 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:

> 	What I hate are those idiot drivers that drive with those #%^&%#&%$^
> fog lights on.  On clear nights.  With perfect visibility.  If they're so
> blind that they need 2 sets of lights to see, *THEY SHOULDN'T BE ON THE 
> ROAD*!!!!!!!!  So, as a result, I leave my high beams on when they go
> past.  Most of them are too dense to get the message.

Much more irritating are BDIs who leave their rear fog lights on. I have
to apologise for mentioning this again - I must post this one here twice
a year. I only mention it again because it's my number one peeve, and
only yesterday evening I was stuck behing some old bag with particulary
bright rear fog lights who wouldn't know a clue if it ripped the roof
off her car and beat her senseless with a copy of the Highway Code.

--
Tony Lezard IS tony@mantis.co.uk OR tony%mantis.co.uk@uknet.ac.uk OR things
like tony%uk.co.mantis@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay OR (last resort) arl10@phx.cam.ac.uk
       "Christians have Jesus, dogs have Pavlov." -- Bill Berbenich
From: library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: I've always been a .... (BDI)
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:11:48 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: library@merlin.comlab

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>You know, I keep hearing about these machines, and I see the phrase "pull
>the lever" used quite often in connection with voting (but not nearly often
>enough in the context of capital punishment, alas), but I have yet to
>encounter a voting machine that actually *has* a lever, much less a shitload
>of them.
>

I've followed these accounts of these weird and wonderful contraptions which
aid Yoosans to vote and find myself totally overwhelmed with admiration.

Back in Scotland the most difficult choice I ever faced was put an X at
one out of four (with a pencil tied to the table).
Here in England it got better, for one Parish election, I was presented
with a list of nineteen and up to 12 Xs to use. It took from 11pm to 330am
to count those!

I always thought it was Yankee bragging that everything was bigger and better
in the US than everywhere else in the world, but it's obviously true. 

Big budget debt, masses of BDIs, the occasional(!) big ego, and now huge
machines to help you vote!

awestruck,
Gordon
From: ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: C&H Sugar Peeve
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:34:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


	Recently there have been a series of commercials on local
radio for C&H Sugar, which is grown in Hawaii. These ads are
basically all the same - they feature some old "sugar farmers"
getting to eat something made with their sugar, and praising the
taste of whatever it is because it has their sugar in it. Now for
the peeve. The people in these ads act as if there is no modern life
in Hawaii. They have the farmers saying how you cannot get "Jelly
Belly" jelly beans in Hawaii, they say you cannot have high tea in
a fancy hotel in Hawaii, etc etc, all with extremely dumb accents. 
Geez. You can have high tea in any one of the hugely overpriced
hotels on Waikiki... you can buy "Jelly Belly" jelly beans at any
supermarket or (miracles!) the MALL. Yes, in Hawaii we eat chocolate
cake and scones. People do not all live on sugar farms, and even if
you DO Oahu isn't all that big, it is NOT much trouble to go to
town.
		Maiko
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Awful Temptations
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:06:30 GMT


	
	There is this growing desire within me to 
	mail hoser@diploma.mill.dal.ca < /etc/termcap
	several hundred times.

	Would someone please talk me out of this?

ObPeeve: asking for such help on alt.peeves is like shouting
	 "Throw me that cement block!" while drowning.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Moose stuff (was Presidential weather)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Somewhere West of Nowhere
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:22:30 GMT


In article <1992Nov5.130008.13999@dg-rtp.dg.com>, cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|>In article <dk#q9!q@lynx.unm.edu>, baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
|>|> !Peeve: My moose slippers.
|>*I* have moose slippers!  In the words of the young hostess at TGI Friday's
|>in Greenbelt, Maryland (site of PeeveFest East '92): They are soooooooooo
|>*COOL*.

Peeve: I keep lobbying the family EVERY Christmas for a pair of bear feet,
but so far, no good.
!Peeve: bear foot slippers - Much kooler than moosefoots.

--
Nolan "Man enough to do woman's work" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197
From: jdm@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Moore)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Monty Bleedin' Python
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:48:27 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SSCPRICK@HASARA11.BITNET (Rick Jansen) writes:

>>~
>>~> But the worst, the absolute worst, the most appalling spectacle of our
>>~> age, is the mealy-mouthed twerp Palin, and his nauseating global trips
>>~> in which he travels in luxury from place to place bleating inane and
>>~> superficial remarks about the places he's visiting and dispensing the
>>~
>>~I'm sorry, but travelling across waterways in a very small and extremely
>>~rickety dhow while suffering from diarrhea is obviously some new and
>>~exciting use of the phrase "travelling in luxury" I wasn't previously aware
>>~of.
>>
>>Yeah, right - and I suppose he slept in a ditch, and hadn't eaten for
>>days?
> 
>Luxury!
>Now, when I last travelled I had to stay the night in
>a garbage bin, and broken glass for a breakfast.
> 

At least you had a garbage bin!
From: smstang@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (DAVID STANG)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: un-funny DJs
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:08:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I do not understand why every morning the radio dial
is filled with obnoxious chatter. When I turn on the
radio going to work, I want to hear music and not
empty-headed banter from people who appearantly think
they are amusing. Even the Classical DJ has been
attempting to make yuk-yuk by hurling insults. 
You would think SOMEONE would try to market to those
of us with more than a speck of a brain and actually
play music and shut up!
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (All of our represanatives are still busy; please continue to hold)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: paradigm = death
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:01:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

boneham@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Kevin Boneham (CH)) writes:

"paradigm = death"

Gee, I have twenty cents...
-- 
"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
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Penis Envy (was: JENNY'S blah blah blah) 
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 20:08:25 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

In article <17913@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>
>Peeve: Freud perpetuated the myth of penis envy. Its silly. Its something
>very tender that belongs in a body and is not. 

In psychology technical terms, this state of existence is known as "not
gettin' any." This is usually cross-indexed with "angst."  

>Dogs have the good sense
>to keep theirs tucked in so they don't hurt them. Humans are just asking
>for trouble.

I can see it now: "Gosh, Mary Lou, if you don't let me put ol' Wiiiiiiiild
Wilbur inside you, I'm a gonna get in trouble. First thing you know, I'm
gonna cheat on my taxes. And later, heck, I might even be a serial killer.
So do society a favor, Mary Lou, hike up that skirt and help save the
world."

>Also, if I got one of those, my lifespan would be shortened
>by 8 years. No way, Jose!

But think of the raise <heh> in your paycheck. 
-- 
"Society sucks. Pay it no mind." - Cynthia Heimel
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
Subject: Re: Driving with Parking Lights!
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:41:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.015706.671@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
>
>Gee, what part of North Carolina do *you* live in?  "Seldom rains for
>more than 20 minutes at a go"?  I had no idea that the weather was so
>different in Chapel Hill than Cary.  When I first moved up here 8 years
>ago from Atlanta, I couldn't *believe* how often, how long, and how hard
>it rains here (I'm sure that the southwestern peevers and any northwestern
>peevers that may exist are scoffing at this statement for completely
>opposite reasons).

I suppose it's a relative thing.  I was born in NC and I'm still
recovering from a three years' exile in Boston.  I had severe difficulties
dealing with some of the local weather concepts there: gray, acidic snow
for instance, and the Great Defrosting, where the whole winter's
accumulation of dogshit melts at once come the spring thaw (the SW corner
of Harvard Yard in front of Lamont library is the classic site for this -
fieldtrip reports to alt.tasteless).  Once I got back here, I stopped
bitching about the weather, even though I thought central North Carolina
was an armpit in the summer and a mudpit in the winter.

But WeatherPeeving is a stale endeavor, and beside the point, which is
that as far as I can tell, the NC State Legislature is a collection of
officious freezer eagles who'd be overpaid at $4.25/hr. and overused if
they were in session six hours every other year.  If they had lives, they
wouldn't have time to legislate on the position of our dashboard knobs and
decree new State Fetish Objects, i.e., the Plott Hound as the State Dog,
which took up a country shitload of debate time last session.  As state
legislatures go, it's not a major league loony-bin like, say, Texas', but
it's a good solid AA team. 

>In honor of your location, I'll do something that I never thought I would
>do and quote our illustrious senior senator.  This is probably the 
>wittiest thing that he has ever said, and was uttered while the state
>gummint was debating the possibilities of building a zoo.  Said zoo is
>now in Asheboro, NC.
>
>|If you want to build a zoo in North Carolina, why |
>|not just put a fence around Chapel Hill?          |
>|                            --Senator Jesse Helms |

Of course, now we have a Senate delegation that makes the State
Legislature look like a miracle of enlightenment.

In case thre are any State Legisloids reading...
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.sex
Subject: Re: JENNY'S LESSON IN FLAMING (was Re: the Devil's Day (and the Devil's Night))
Keywords: I HATE CROSSPOSTERS
Date: 11 Nov 92 05:05:42 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves,alt.sex
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <BxI282.E05@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu 
(Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:

>Date rape isn't a joke.  

Depends on which end of the shlong you're on, I suppose.


>Of course, some posts to me refer to my gender, just as some posts to Banta
>refer to his not insignificant mass, some posts about Geoff comment on his
>likeness to Jeffrey Dahmer.  But that's not the basis of ANYONE's persona.

As far as I know, any resemblance between me and the alt.tasteless poster
child is strictly one of spirit, since none of the people who've mentioned
us in the same context have actually met me.  I've been told, on different
occasions, that I look like Bob Weir, Luke Skywalker, Dave Barry and Dick
York from Bewitched (the last of which I find difficult to believe), but 
nobody's ever told me in person that I look like the Ginsu Man from Milwaukee.

Peeve: The big to-do over date rape awhile back.  When it actually happens,
it's a serious matter.  But given the shrillness of those they opposed, I 
admire and applaud the courage of those who publicly questioned the motives
of the original "study" in which many of the supposed "victims" didn't even
consider themselves to have been raped. 


Geoff "Lie down, I love you" Miller


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From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
Subject: Re: FRATBOYZ (Was: A quick biology lesson)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:41:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.174232.10154@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>In article <Bx96Lr.1K0@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
>writes:
>>Well, I was reading through alt.peeves, trying to get a bit of a grasp of what
>>it's all about when I encountered the following:
>
>Good luck, I'm sure that you'll eventually figure things out.  In the
>meantime, I suggest you keep quiet, lest somebody notice you and grind
>you into an oily spot on the floor.

	Too late - Steve has terminal foot-in-mouth disease.

>>In article <Bx8y9x.20p@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu
>(Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>>>Um, Dac, honey.  My sense of humor actually gets sharper & nastier the
>>>worse of a mood I'm in.  
>>
>>   The only excuse is that Jenny is euphorically happy. First date? Happy
>>President "I'm-a-draft-dodging-butt-kissing-prez-who-will-turn-this-country
>>upside-down" Clinton was elected? Tying your own shoes now? 
>>   In any case, nothing in this whole world is worse than one who judges, yet
>>can't meet their own standards...
>
>I just HAD to reply to this.  You see, I'm happy that Clinton won.  Moreover,
>I helped him win!  Other people in this newsgroup also helped him win too,
>so your whiny political frothings probably won;t go over very well here.

	Hang your head in shame, Don.  You just contributed to the downfall
of the Free World.  Shame on you!  ;)

>Do we care that Clinton dodged the draft?  If I had been in his shoes, I
>think I would've done the same thing.  Personally, I need to hear a real
>good reason before I'll travel halfway around the world and kill people
>I don't know and "Because we say you have to!" doesn't quite cut it.

	Hey - it worked up to that point.  And in Kuwait.  Why stop now?

>Maybe CLinton is going to turn the world upside down; maybe he's coming
>at us with charged cardiac paddles.  I still think that beats Bush, who
>had a garotte around our collective necks and was slowly choking the life
>out of this country.  

	Hell, I wanted to see Perot win.  Ah well.  Anyone know if he's 
interested in moving north?

>Do you have any more sage political comments to offer?

	Excuse me... (gales of derisive laughter) Sage?  STEVE FRANKLIN????
Oi.  (wiping tears from eyes)  I haven't had such a good laugh in a while,
Don.  Thanks.  ;)

	Hell, we elected Brian Mulroney.  Twice.  "Those in glass houses..."

	Sean

-- 
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada                    Don Cherry for Prime Minister in
01SSMITH@AC.DAL.CA or smith@ug.cs.dal.ca	'93 in Canada!
Disclaimer:  These ideas are mine...ALL MINE!!  'Cause noone else'd want 'em.
From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pavlov's Lab Supervisor
Date: 7 Nov 1992 05:39:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

In article <lfg0mvINNdvf@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>Post Election Day !Peeve:  My vote is apparently no longer the kiss of
>political death it's been since I voted for Jimma Cahtuh back in `76.

Yeah, it's a pretty weird feeling, isn't it?  I have this sense of
dread now -- for the next four years, I won't be able to say, "well
what did you expect?  *I* didn't vote for him...".  But on the other
hand, Clinton seems to be capable of staying awake for Cabinet
meetings, and his offspring squeezes pimples instead of little old
ladies' savings accounts, so I guess it can't get *too* embarassing.

ObPeeve:  Dianne Feinstein.  Somehow I just don't see her and Barbara
Boxer as "Cagney and Lacey".  We'll see what happens, I suppose.

-- 
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                        |       "You are--a senator."
  carolo@cse.ucsc.edu   |  -W. Shakespeare   (Some things never change)
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