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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 12:58:56 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <1992Aug14.154115.286@hhcs.gov.au> <1b808fa4.ARN230b@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <24899@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <24899@castle.ed.ac.uk>, M Holmes writes:

> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
> 
> >Obviously you're part of the small clique of road users that

> Ah, in the Yookay it's different: having all four lights flashing means:

I only answered this so that I could preemtively highlight that
I, again, used the term 'clique' without authorisation from
net.cop.wannabes and various lurkers.

> "Look. I have hazard lights so I can park anywhere I please..."

This is when Drieux's solution of 'NukeThemTillTheyGlow' really
comes into it's own.

Dac
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From: ed.beaulieu@madness.network23.com (Ed Beaulieu) 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: ...
Date: 22 Aug 92 08:55:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Terminal Madness BBS - Newport, RI - 401-848-9069
Reply-To: ed.beaulieu@madness.network23.com (Ed Beaulieu) 

        God, I hate my boss.....
                                                                                               
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:58:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Followup-To: alt.stupidity

In article <BsvwEH.Lzt@wpi.WPI.EDU> Peter Alan Dutton writes:

>So I assume he is upset with me because I disagree vehemently with the
>concept of flashing one's lights at people. So I think it's not too
>far off to infer that he preforms said action. So am I to assume that
>people who flash their lights AREN'T obnoxious from this example? Or 
>am I supposed to be so blown away by his eloquent retort that I should
>resign from this newsgroup forever? What I submit to the readers of
>this group is: what is his point?

Sweet Jesus on a skateboard, this clown doesn't *know* what newsgroup
he's posting to since some enlightened soul (who'd better watch his
step) took tasteless out of the Newsgroups: line, rather than the
logical, ethical, moral, and NONstupid move of removing alt.peeves
from any contact with this inane drivel.

I have attempted to remedy this dreary situation.

>Peter! (not Richard!)

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "Loud is good." 
rickg@netcom.com  |    -- Frank Loesser 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Why can't I work in Europe?
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:01:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.081540.9227@email.tuwien.ac.at> alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
(Alexander Vrchoticky) writes:
>>ObGermanPhrase:  Du haBt (?) schonne augen, meine freundin.
>
>strange. few people *i* know actually *hate* beautiful eyes :-)

Yep.  I've also always despised sehr gross brusten...

    don
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mike Sybok learns about human anatomy
Date: 15 Aug 92 13:37:37 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Aug13.090829.17936@email.tuwien.ac.at>, alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky) writes:
> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> 
>>c) We're usually doing the nasty before I have time to notice any lubrication
> 
> tsk, tsk, tsk. how inconsiderate. 
> 
Hey, what else did you expect from a sex crazed fratboy?
Mike
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:15:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.143528.25609@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
>Just had the radiator on one of my cars repaired.  116 bucks, but that's 
>*This* peeve involves picking up my car, and the glorious aromas of stale
>grease and cigarette smoke that it magically absorbs after just a few
>hours in a garage.
>Yes, I *know* it's a dirty job, but they couldn't have had any need to be
>inside of my car for more than a few seconds as they were moving it from
>its parking place to the garage and back.  What must the guy have smelled
>like to be able to skunkify my car so quickly?

did you check the odometer? maybe they went joy riding in your hot rod...?

peeve: when the mechanic changes the radio station.

-l "car people. feh." p

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From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:48:53 GMT

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>I agree.  Don't get me wrong, I like the sounds Harleys make.  But then,
>I like the sounds Rolls Royce Merlins make, too, and I wouldn't be all
>that enthusiastc about my house being buzzed by P-51s and Spitfires
>while I was trying to sleep.  The problem with Harleys is not how they
>sound, but the fact that they're so damn loud.  And the guys who ride
>them always seem to go out of their way to wind them up to 9000 RPM
>when they accelerate away from a green light.  I can hear them clear
>across town.

	Geoff!  You of all people should know the only sound a Harley
makes at 9000rpm is the <tinkle> <wham!> <thunka> of rods being
spewn from the engine cases.  Anyway, I love the sound of a Harley
as much as anybody else, and I also enjoy the sound of an inline four
pushing 10,000rpm.  Music to my ears.  However, in the wee hours of
the morning, music is the last thing I wish to wake up to.  My bike
is a 115hp 750 Honda with an open Kerker exhaust, and you can bet
that I keep the noise down to a sedate, low rumble when cruising
through a residential district.  It's just good manners.  I've never
even gotten a second look from anybody (well, not because of the
exhaust note, anyway).  Harley riders, or anybody else, that have
loud exhausts should follow my example and keep the RPM low and the
throttle barely cracked in these instances.  I enjoy hearing it, but
only in moderation.

>One interesting byproduct of the motorcycle helmet law that went into
>effect in California this year is that one sees Hells Angels wearing
>helmets now.  Somehow, it doesn't look quite right, sort of like a
>samurai wearing a ballerina's tutu.  ("Is that your tutu, Desmond?")

	I'm still trying to discover a perfect mounting system for the
rams horns on my helmet.  Velcro doesn't withstand 140mph headwinds, and
rivets would only crack the shell.  I suspect glue would be similar to the
velcro idea.  Any ideas?


--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Engraved truck bumper (Was Re: "Bad Boy Club Stickers")
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:47:23 GMT

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

> BoneUsPeeve: New Mexico seems to be the land in which pickup trucks (real
> manly ones, not Japanese suburbia ones) come with *engraved* rear bumpers.
> I wouldn't mind having one, but not if the bumper said "Joe Bob's Ford,
> Lovington, New Mexico" in two-inch-high letters. Gawd, that's almost as
> bad as those pseudo-sports cars with huge "Official Pace Car" decals on
> the sides.

I never saw engraved truck bumpers until I moved down here.  Most engraved  
bumpers I've seen identify a dealer in a rural, ag (usually Eastern New Mexico)  
or Texas town ... dealers in urban areas (Albuquerque / Las Cruces / Santa Fe)  
really don't seem to do that..  

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From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: peeve o' the day
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:25:09 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac writes:
>> There are battery operated vibrators on the market that can be used as
>> a substitute for those which operate off the mains.
>
>Thankyou for sharing your experiences with us, Banta. 

Actually, that was just the claim they made on the Home Shopping
Channel.  Geoff called me when he saw the ad and asked if it was true.
I'll tell you the same thing I told him: never trust representations
made about discontinued items.  I'll stick to my eggbeaters stuffed in
a wool sock, thank you.

>I just
>don't know how the readership of the newsgroup could carry on
>without having at least a smidgeon of insight into your very very
>weird life ...

It's just laying down a base level of absurdity.  Try using it as a
lower bound rather than an upper bound.  *Someone* might get a chuckle
out of it.

>Computerdweebitry. Prolly in the same category as masturbation
>aids, at least for you, eh?

Hardly.  I have no qualms about discussing masturbationn aids on the
net.  Have you recovered from your Big Whack Attack?

>[My partner is blissfully unaware of this conversation, even
>though she is at the computer next to me, {reading mail}, no
>doubt she would have words to say, should she espy what is
>transpiring.]

It would probably have to do with the word "laptop" and how it
evokes images other than her in your mind.

Lunch calls.  Later.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"If you add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
This, my son, is entropy."
From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:26:19 GMT

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

>Just a question, Scott. What the hell are you blabbering on about?

I suppose you want me to rewrite it in French, but I couldn't even
begin to try, so you'll just have to be left scratching your head.

>=>And, for the record, I've no idea how to boot a Sequent. 
>You and a whole bunch of other people chez vous, evidemment.

"evidemment"? Snort. Pull your trousers up, mate, your assumptions
are showing.

S
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Freudian peeve
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:58:51 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Peeve: using rn and /henderson/ha to trawl through a newsgroup
  (rec.bicycles if you must know) to find places where people 
  have taken my name in vain, and discovering that the only time
  this happens, the poster was in fact referring to my *father*.

As if it isn't enough that he fucked my mother!!

-- 
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-Jeremy Henderson            |  Une souris verte
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Qui courrait dans l'herbe
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Subject: Re: The declining standards of cinema swordsmanship
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 01:58:08 GMT
Organization: BMR Armoured mercenaries: Where brutality is job one

In article <1992Aug11.120435.1542@sco.COM> charless@sco.COM (charles stross) writes:
>
>In article <24713@castle.ed.ac.uk> eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge) writes:
>>The worst, the very worst cinema swordsmanship is shown in the
>>medieval films.   Not only was the armour so heavy that if a knight
>>got knocked off his horse and thrown to the ground he couldn't even
>>stand up without help but the swords were heavy - and I mean two-handed
>>heavy!   There is no way any one-handed slash parry and thrust situation
>>could have happened whatever Robin-of-Camelot-Arthurian-Lockesley-Hood-of-
>>Sherwood may suggest!   In fact Monty Python probably came closest to an
>>accurate portrayal of a medieval duel in their Holy Grail film! 
>>
>>jill
>
>Er, it ain't necessarily so. According to those of my friends who're 
>into mediaeval combat studies, by the mid-fifteenth century plate armour
>was so light it compared favourably with a modern flak jacket/tin
>helmet combo. A typical suit of plate armour weighted about 30-35 
>pounds. 

    Yep, add 3-4lbs for a broadsword, and around 10-15lbs for
    a shield (If the Knight is using one, by this time armour was
    so good that the shield was going out of style).

    But you can add 5lbs in sweat soaked into the padding of
    the gambeson, and that gambeson was fairly heavy as well.

    Earlier armour was both heavier and more cumbersome, the
    weight peak would have been around the 1250, with full
    chainmail Hauburk (knee length shirt) at around 35lbs,
    chainmail leggings around 20lbs the pair, a barrel helm
    and chain coif with steel skullcap, adding another 10lbs
    Hevay quilted leather and wool padding at god knows
    how hot and heavy, and a shield in excess of 15lbs

    And these bozos invaded the middle east! Which brings
    me to my peeve. I am actually descended from these
    supermen, who could wear all that shit and fight, and
    live to tell the tale. But whilst I got their lack of
    good sense, I didn't inherit their physiques;-)




 The _main_ problem with heavy metal armour was heat 
>prostration, just like the NBC suits used during Desert Storm -- nobody 
>could stand more than a couple of hours in a hermetically sealed 
>rubber or padded iron suit on anything but a temperate day.

    Yep, the Duke of Suffolk (or was it York?) croaked this
    way at Agincourt. Not a mark on him, just keeled over in the
    press and quietly expired.

    I wonder how many casualties in the US forces happened as
    the direct or indirect result of wearing stupidly heavy
    clothes in a desert?


Regards, Charles
-- 
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: PRO-smoker's peeves
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 23:49:20 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
Keywords: Tobacco Nicotine

In article <1992Aug12.181901.13621@bert.eecs.uic.edu> artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:
>Peeve:	Car ashtrays you can't reach while you're driving.  I prefer a
>	window, anyway, but having the option would be nice, without
>	having to take my eyes off the road.
	
Peeve: People who flick their ashes out of the window when there is someone,
namely me, sitting in the back seat. Flicking ashes out of the window, in itself
doesn't bother me as most of the ashes seem to end up in the car anyway, which
is why flicking them when I am in the back does peeve me. 

!Peeve: Whenever someone does this, because you are sitting behind them, you
are in a perfect position to reach up and slap them on the back of the head.

Peeve: A goofball friend of mine just never learned the consequences of 
flicking ashes on me in the above manner. He, my brother and I recently drove 
to California and I sat in the back seat most of the time. He is probably
suffering from brain damage now from getting hit on the back of the head so
many times.

Peeve: What in the hell were we thinking?!? Somehow it was decided that instead
of a nice leisurely drive to Flagstaff, a night in a warm bed at a friends
house and then a nice leisurely drive from Flagstaff to Albuquerque, it would
be much more fun to just drive from San Diego to Albuquerque all in one day.

ObServation: Gila Bend, AZ is a truly miserable place to stop and get lunch.

Peeve: I knew this already, but we stopped there anyway. Once, a long time
ago, on a trip from California to Texas, we actually stayed over night in
Gila Bend. My dad apologizes every time I bring this up.

!Peeve: My brother and his friend had to go from Albuquerque to Houston the 
next day and I didn't. 

-- 
Chris Baldwin                | Robert Johnson invented the pickle! 
baldwin@carina.unm.edu       |                         - Adam Reid
          If I were a carpenter I'd hammer on my piglet. -- TMBG
From: reykja@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Reykja Sigurdsson)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 11:57:54 GMT
Subject: music from the hot place
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.peeves

This is a common peeve but quickly becoming an obsession! 

There is one act of aggression which never reaches the crime reporters: it 
has got to be LOUD MUSIC! It has got to be those who feel as though it 
is acceptable to force their crud taste in music on everyone within a mile
radius! 


Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Friend-of-Rodent-Catchers)
Subject: Re: Lakcwitz (was Re: Random Peeve)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: The Back Yard
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:38:04 GMT


In a previous peevish incarnation I spake:

Meself> I agree. Mike *smirk* is not a lakcwit. He's dyslexic. 'Splains lots.

In article <1992Aug14.005643.1568@wetware.com>, diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) 
	writes:
CW> Hey!  I resent THAT!!!  Gives us dyslexis a bad name, y'know!
CW> Geoff!  Sic 'em!

Ah, delightful FelineFemale and Foe-of-Rodents, dyslexia's not the problem.
Old Mike *smirk*'s too lackwitted to rise above his dyslexia. It's the
WitlessDyslexia that's the problem

CW> Peeve:  I can't think of anything more clever to say.
CW> Dyslexia does strange things to the thought processes
CW> on output, also...

Are you sure it's the input? Maybe it's the mileage. Lookie me, f'rinstance.

Meself> He's prolly also a limpwick.  'Splains more.

CW> Not going to volunteer to find out - have enough
CW> on my hands convincing the PYM that HeteroSeXuality
CW> is NOT a DeathKult!

Actually, Mr. Sybok reminds me a bit of another limpwick on a different
gnuzfroop - a lad from somewhere in the southwest of the USA who spoke with
pedal appendages in oral cavities and then attempted the good old weasel when
caught with trousers around knees. The Kneeling Limpwick. Remember him?

--
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"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: 3rd shift and the real world
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:19:10 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



I live in a fairly high density area, with fourplexes on one side of my
street and duplexes on the other, plus several apartment complexes
nearby, so as I've probably complained, I'm frequently the unwilling 
target of door-to-door salespeople.  A corollary of this phenomenon is 
that I am also quite often the reluctant recipient of telephone solicitation,
including but by no means limited to the infamous scratchy-voiced Cancer Lady.

As a result of this unwanted popularity, whenever I try to take a nap
outside my normal evening sleeping hours, I can *depend on* being woken
up unless I make a it a point to take certain precautions.  It's really
amazing how dependable that is; it's just like clockwork.  It always
happens between fifteen and twenty minutes after I fall asleep.  To 
prevent this, I have to turn off the telephone so that the answering 
machine will take all my calls, and put a Post-It on my front door saying
"Day Sleeper" or "Go Away!" or some such thing.  

Of course, even when I've done this stuff, I sometimes get woken up in
other ways, most often by the little screeching machine downstairs being
released into the driveway under my bedroom window for some recreation
with Daddy.  

Last Satyrday morning I was awakened at 7:50 AM by a group of tree surgeons
wielding chainsaws across the street.  I couldn't believe it; this kind
of thing hardly serves to dissuade me from the suspicion that the human
race is getting progressively dumber.  It apparently never occurred to
these morons that people generally tend to sleep late on weekends after
rising early all week, and that they pize this small but important pleasure
highly.  So I put on a pair of shorts and a T-shirt and went stomping
out to do battle with the forces of darkness.  Rounding the corner of
my building as I approached the street, I suddenly saw that the offenders
were all Mexican immigrants who probably didn't even speak English, and
were more than likely just casual labor, so I muttered, "Screw it!" and
went back inside.  

Then the following morning, the thirtysomething parents downstairs had
an overnight houseguest who rose bright and early and commenced to get
the aforementioned little screeching machine all stirred up by playing
with him boisterously.  They were all quite fortunate that I'm not a 
gun owner.

Someday, when I win the lottery, I'm going to buy at least fifty acres in
the Santa Cruz Mountains and build a house right in the middle, insulated
on all sides by wilderness.  And I'm going to install land mines, tank
traps and rabid Doberman pinschers around the perimeter.



Geoff


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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:24:43 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article l982omINN6us@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
> Peeve:  Ignorant elementary school teachers who'd call me "Godfrey"
> during roll call on the first day of class.

"That's 'God' for short, Mrs. Fuckwit."

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Brian Scearce                               bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
        The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
          It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.