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From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Superfluous andRedundant Debate
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:47:34 GMT

In article <11075@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>Peeve: When cats sit and stare, nothing is going on up there.

peeve: unrealistic expectations. what did you expect from a creature with
	a brain the size of a matchbox?

-l "personally, getting fed and lying in the sun sounds like a perfect
	deal to me. what's to think about?" 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 (David Munroe)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Major Poasters (was: Re: Smoking Surrogate)
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:34:28 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc

In article <1ad87a0b.ARN1887@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac writes:

>In article <1992Apr9.065007.16316@news.iastate.edu>, Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian writes:
>> the rest of the *major poasters* on here (that includes you, dak,

>--
>p.s. Poasters? Sheesh.


Well, we've already got a mayor and a PotY, so a major poaster must be some
sort of rank describing other people in alt.peeves.  It goes between captain
and lieutenant colonel, I'd guess.

Oberstgruppenfuhrer Schlongstucker
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jdeutsch@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Jeffrey Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Short gals--->Tall guys
Followup-To: rec.humor
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 12:27:52 GMT

In article <19987@castle.ed.ac.uk> egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) writes:
>In article <92100.234048JIMBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> JIMBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>
>>I LIKE A GIRL THAT WILL FIT RIGHT WHEN I PUT MY ARM AROUND HER.
>>THAT MEANS ONE FOOT SHORTER THAN MYSELF AT 6'3" ( 5'3" IF YOU
>>FORGOT YOUR CALCULATOR).
>>
>>obPEEVE: WOMEN <5'3" OR >5'3". BE SEEING YOU.
>
>I ALSO LIKE THEM TO BE BLONDE, FLUFFY, THICK AS 2 SHORT PLANKS, WEAR
>MOHAIR CARDIGANS AND BE ABLE TO COOK A MEAN APPLE PIE JUST LIKE MY MOM
>MADE.  THEY MUST KEEP THEIR TRAPS SHUT EXCEPT TO GIGGLE AT MY MANLY JOKES
>ABOUT CARS AND FOOTBALL.  I LIKE THEM TO BE CONSTANTLY DIETING BECAUSE
>THAT STOPS THEM WORRYING THEIR LITTLE HEADS ABOUT MENS' STUFF. 
>
>I THINK DAN QUAYLE IS A GENIUS.  IF I LIVED IN BRITAIN I WOULD HAVE BEEN
>ONE OF THE 43% OF THE ELECTORATE WHO VOTED FOR MAJOR.  HE'S ONE HELLUVA
>GUY.
>
>So you think the only role a woman has to play in your life is to fit
>into the right place under your arm?  Jesus, you deserve the
>abovementioned airhead.
>

	Babs, somehow I _really_ don't think that "Jimbo" had that as
his *only* criterion of a good woman-just *a* criterion.

>Babs "There are some truly sad people in this world" Page.

Jeff "There are some truly oversensitive people in this world" Deutsch.


-- 
"A top-secret government study indicates that we wouldn't be any worse
off if we let the economists predict the weather and the meteorologists
predict the economy."
-Paul Harwitz, _Wall Street Journal_, March 19, 1980
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: monson@diablo.amd.com (Steve Monson)
Subject: Re: QuasiKrautFussing
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 17:25:36 GMT

Fastkrauts list some truly ginormous German words:
(Scott Griffith, Sun Lumpyware) writes: Aktiengesellschaften SchellpreBenfabrik

yes, some of these things are pretty big, but imagine having to refer to
something as commonplace as a "garage" as an "Autoreparaturwerkstatt"!
We had a German exchange student staying with us last year, and I asked
him if they really used the whole word all the time, and he said they did.

Still, my favorite German word (recalled for these many years since the
eight grade, where I learned it) is "die Verkehrstreifenpolizistenmutze,"
(with umlaut-u) or "the hat of the policeman on traffic duty".

Steve
-- monson@diablo.amd.com
	The tide gone out for good
	Thirty-one words for seaweed		"The Death of Irish"
	Whiten on the foreshore.		by Arden Carl Mathew
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The Lemming)
Subject: Re: Poasters unmasked
Organization: Yale University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 13:32:57 EDT

In article <matjj8-.rickg@netcom.com>
rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
 
>First, think of Chris Elliot (from the Letterman show, or "Get A Life",
>which may still be broadcast by Fox).
 
"Get A Life" is indeed still broadcast by Fox.  However, no one on the
show is named Chris Elliot.  The star of the show is named Chris Elliott.
This is one of my pet peeves (since my last name is also Elliott).
Wherever I have lived, I have checked the phone book, and the 2-l, 2-t
Elliotts have always outnumbered all the other spellings combined.
Yet, most people tend to assume it is spelled Elliot.  It is a common
enough name that you would think people would get a clue.
 
There is a person referenced in my quantum mecahincs textbook whose
name is spelled Eliott in the index and Elliot in the text.  You would
think they could at least keep the spelling consistent.
 
 
Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
ellbrua@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: c_bill.gif (Look at me!)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 15:19:33 GMT

phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>What a peeveful disappointment.  I thought I was getting a .gif
>of a $100 bill.

Peeveful that you expect one thing, yet come away with much, much
more?  Indeed!

Some people...  (grumble, grumble)
--
"Wow!  That was intense!" - Otto
"A repo man's always intense." - Bud
..after car chase with Rodriguez brothers
From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lust from afar
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:54:26 GMT
	<92103.205659SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Sonja Kueppers writes:
>Peeve: People who assume that any two members of the opposite gender
>who have a good time together want to have sex together.

I second that peeve.  Back when i was living in Pittsburgh (interesting
days they were, too), i hung around a lot with a fellow named Greg.
We had absolutely no romantic interest in each other, and sex never crossed
my mind - i felt more like he was my brother or cousin or something.
A typical activity for us was to spend Friday evening together, making 
popcorn, playing odd music and solving all the world's problems (ahem).

At the time i was engaged, with my fiance - now my husband - over here.

Several people questioned whether Steinar wouldn't be furious if he found
out i was "going out" with other men.  Oh, give me a break.  If we had been
the same sex, nobody would have thought twice about our friendship.  But
as soon as different plumbing comes into play, we must be banging each others'
brains out, right?  

AntiPeeve: Greg still writes me real weird letters on a regular basis.
Nothing feels as good on a rainy, crummy day as pulling a letter from
home out of the mailbox.

Peeve: None of my family or Stateside friends is planning to come
visit me this summer.  (I just visited them at Christmas, before anyone
suggests the obvious.)

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:32:16 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Apr9.225741.15602@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>In article <19951@castle.ed.ac.uk> egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) writes:
>>ObScene:  John Major, wearing a purple lycra posing pouch, going down
>>on Thora Hird
>
>ok, i give. what's a posing pouch?

Posing pouch=item of male underwear consisting of the following items:

1.  A Pouch for the male Package
2.  2 strings holding the thing up (of course, if the boy is feeling
horny it won't need holding snigger snigger):  one round the waist and
one up the bumcrack.  Looks a bit like a climbing harness.

Babs
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:25:42 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <269@bbx.basis.com> russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:
>In article <nkmjmvl@lynx.unm.edu> jennyb@carina.unm.edu writes:
>>Women's clothing quality.  An equivalent pair of anything made for men
>
>Try LL Bean, Eddy Bauer, etc.  Stuff bought from them, though it costs
>a fortune, might end up on your will for your grandchildren to wear.
>
>'course, it might not fit your style if you're into lace and filmy
>things, in which case you might as well find a millionaire to marry.


I think some of the Bean dresses may have lace collars. There are
certainly enough women's garments from both those vendors that
would prevent confusion with female construction workers. I had
a problem with a Bauer shirt in that it shrank, but the rest of
the stuff is OK. Another catalogue shop that makes durable clothes
is Talbot's. For those with a little cash, Ralph Lauren`s clothes
hold up very well. (The ones he sells, I don't know about the
ones in his closet at home.) I had a flannel shirt with horses on it
that I wore to death. It took about 4 years of wearing it once
or twice a week to kill it. I suspect people were beginning to
think I was a member of the Flannel Shirt With Horses on It Cult.

Peeve: The flannel shirt died.

Peeve: Haven't found a super favorite comfy shirt yet.

!Peeve: I did get another flannel shirt from Bauer.

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
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:41:16 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Not Al Crawford) writes:
>No Jeff, it's further evidence that unlike you I don't list "paedophilia"
>amongst my hobbies and leisure activities.

That's right.  Your leisure time activity tends toward punishing
Capt. Blinky while fantacizing about Marcia in a cheerleader's outfit on
Brady Bunch reruns.

Remember, Al, a sinful thought are still sinful.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
Somehow, I have a problem taking a hurricane named "Bob" seriously ...
					-- Akkana Peck
From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lazing on a peevish afternoon
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:45:11 GMT
Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front

And lo, steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) spake unto the masses saying:
>
> Sitting around last night, I was drinking a pint of beer and telling a friend
> here how I planned to get my luggage home.  Then I picked up my ticket and
> looked at it.  Under the "allowance" header it said "23K."

Have you by any chance checked what you are allowed to take in the way of
cabin baggage? I was thoroughly peeved when I discovered what I'm allowed
to take with me on my forthcoming Stateside visit.

Now I'm planning to stay for 3 weeks and, even though this is a reasonable
time, I was hoping to travel with hand luggage only. After the fiasco on my
last transatlantic trip where I was in San Francisco but my luggage was
completing it's 500th lap of the luggage carousel at Heathrow, I wasn't
going through that again if I could possibly avoid it. Besides, if you can
skip waiting for your luggage to be unloaded you can be through customs
before most people have gotten out of immigration.

So I've decided to travel *light*. This means taking almost *zero* in the
way of toiletries and buying it all when I get over there. Sure, I might
end up wasting some but it'll probably be cheaper to buy anyway. This means
I've got to take my clothes and my razor and...well, that's it really. Even
the amount of clothing I need is moderated by the fact that I'm going to be
able to make a couple of trips to the laundry while I'm there, so I
probably don't need more than enough clothing for a week.

Great, thinks I, that should be enough to get everything in hand luggage.
Then I check the baggage limit. 18" * 14" * 6". Now the 18" * 14" is pretty
good, but only 6" deep? What the hell sort of rucksack is shaped like that?
It's virtually flat!! You couldn't get a thick newspaper in a rucksack
shaped like that. The really peevy thing is that the guy at the airline
said I could ignore that for the 747 - true, it's got humungous overhead
lockers - but the flight I'm getting from Edinburgh to London is by 757
which aren't exactly noted for their capacious cabin baggage facilities.

Possible solution - I'm going to *iron* every item of clothing as flat as I
can get it, and then iron it again after I unpack it to get the folds out.

--
		Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
     "The water shines/A sheepdog skips across the face/A dozen times"
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Vinyl Junkies
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:38:53 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Michael Newton) writes:
>-- 
>This sig is shareware:if uve enjoyed it, pls send 5ECUs to this address:
>(apologies if this sig appears twice)<kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> aka Michael Newton
>-- This sig is shareware:if uve enjoyed it, pls send 5ECUs to this address:
>(apologies if this sig appears twice)<kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> aka Michael Newton

You stupid dumbshit,
haven't you ever learned about

 #####     #    #     #  #####  #######
#     #   # #   #     # #     # #
#        #   #  #     # #       #
#       #     # #     #  #####  #####
#       ####### #     #       # #
#     # #     # #     # #     # #
 #####  #     #  #####   #####  #######

   #    #     # ######
  # #   ##    # #     #
 #   #  # #   # #     #
#     # #  #  # #     #
####### #   # # #     #
#     # #    ## #     #
#     # #     # ######

####### ####### ####### #######  #####  #######
#       #       #       #       #     #    #
#       #       #       #       #          #
#####   #####   #####   #####   #          #
#       #       #       #       #          #
#       #       #       #       #     #    #
####### #       #       #######  #####     #

????

Ever notice that when you send MAIL, your .signature file is *NOT*
included and when you POST A USENET ARTICLE, your .signature file *IS*
included?

Either rename it to something like .i.am.a.waste.of.gamates and include
it manually from now on or LEARN THE GODDAMN SOFTWARE!

I hope you graduate unemployed.

Of course, what should I expect from someone who goes by "Kimba" [the White
Lion], one of the stupidest and sappiest cartoons ever made.
-- 
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
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 16 Apr 1992 14:48:15 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lust from afar
 <92103.205659SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> <kujb1sINNhjd@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
 <92104.170118SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> <kulchkINNpdt@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>

In article <kulchkINNpdt@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs
before cooking) says:
>
>Telling us what she is and isn't, (sonJa Kueppers) writes:
>
>>I do have some white cotton panties, but my mother
>>bought them for me 5 years ago.  I only wear them when I haven't done my
>>laundry recently enough to have anything else that's suitable for daily
>>wear.  (Some of my underwear is, ah, meant to be removed quickly.)
>
>How unusual.  Most of my underwear is meant to prevent chafing.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you incontinent?

Most of my underwear is intended to allow me to wear the same pair of
pants more than once between laundry days without smelling like a whorehouse.

Some of my underwear is intended specifically to appeal to the advertising-
induced ideas men have of what is attractive in women.  (Of course, I have
some of the same advertising-induced ideas, so I find wearing lingerie
enjoyable.)

>>[discussion of sex in the afternoon.]
>
>Too bad for you.  Quiet weekend mornings, the picnic table in the
>back yard ... oh well, you get the point.  Have you ever considered
>black lights and flourescent body paint?

No, but you're welcome to come visit and show me.

>And I couldn't help but notice there was one point you glossed over
>entirely.  Would you like to share with us why you won't say whether
>you swallow or not?

Unfortunately, I wasn't sure *what* I you were asking if I swallowed,
being a relative newcomer to alt.peeves.

Therefore, I chose not to answer the question.

>Maybe she'd just left her Nookie Gnawing Decoder Ring(tm) at home
>that day.

One of my friends (upon meeting this woman) suggested she was just
so closeted she didn't want to say.


ObPeeve: People who think AIDS was caused by a conspiracy.

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
"In particular, knowing what I do now, I wouldn't marry my second
 wife again.  The best thing we had going for us was a good sexual
 relationship, and I've since learned that it's not too hard to find
 those."                            --Walt Haas, a net.personality
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 10:30:40 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: noun --> adjective --> noun

Peeve:  People who take a perfectly good noun, add an ending to make
it into an adjective, and then add *another* ending to make it back into
a noun again.

Example: Someone said something to me about "comfortableness".  What's
wrong with "comfort"???   (And yes, I know that webster's says
"comfortableness" is a word.  People tell me that Webster's lists "womyn"
as an alternate spelling for "woman", too.  That doesn't make it a good
idea.)

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
...you may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try.                                  - Beverly Sills
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Vinyl Junkies
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 11:31:15 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <8847@scott.ed.ac.uk> <5408@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <5408@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>, poultry in motion writes:

> kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Michael Newton) writes:
> >-- 
> >This sig is shareware:if uve enjoyed it, pls send 5ECUs to this address:
> >(apologies if this sig appears twice)<kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> aka Michael Newton
> >-- This sig is shareware:if uve enjoyed it, pls send 5ECUs to this address:
> >(apologies if this sig appears twice)<kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> aka Michael Newton
> 
> You stupid dumbshit,
> haven't you ever learned about

etc. etc. 

> Of course, what should I expect from someone who goes by "Kimba" [the White
> Lion], one of the stupidest and sappiest cartoons ever made.
> -- 
> real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us

Aw, c'mon! Didn't you ever grin a little when after some
deep&meaningful claw-fight, the animals all had cute little
bandaids on their wounds?

Kimba had a cool theme song too.

Personally, I preferred watching Thunderbirds. 

Ob Peeve: Having one's newsfeed cut for three days because some
bastard emailed my postmaster with a forged note saying "I'm
going on holidays for three weeks, turn off my newsfeed, ta."

Insert a googol or two "sheesh's"

Dac
--
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: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: PREscriptions, subsiDIARY...
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:29:13 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <10207@cernvax.cern.ch> steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) 
writes:

>Q: How do you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American?

>A: Canadians don't pronounce the 'r' in 'wash.'


Neither do Californians -- dood.



Geoff


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From: mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Psychology (was: Re: Lawyers not Chemists)
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:00:52 GMT

In <kupc3mINNa17@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>In article <STEINAR.92Apr15224301@faust.solan.unit.no> 
>steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf) writes:

>>Try substituting "linguistics" for "psychology" in the above situation.

>>Bleah.

>>"Yeah?  So how many languages do you speak?"


>I once mentioned to somebody that I was taking a course in meteorology
>at the time.  Awhile later, I realized that she thought that meant I
>was studying meteors!  <sigh>


I was talking to someone recently about instrumentation (calm down
Geoff, not avionics), and mentioned a computer database proposal we
had out to the people in the instrument shop here.  I mentioned
that since we were going to propose a nice database, why not expand
the functionality to include the metrology activies.  

Blank stares.

<Blink.  Blink.>

More blank stares.

Them question: What does weather have to do with it?

Me: No, no, _met_rology, not _meteo_rology.  

They still didn't get it.



--
|   Michael G. Hart                   mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|     You think _I_ speak for the government or the navy?  HAH!      |
| Aviation, computers, quality improvement, Northern Exposure, money |
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Accident prone (was Re: NICKNAMES)
Originator: yarvin@turquoise.CS.Yale.Edu
Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:46:56 GMT

Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <5o8uiB2w164w@mantis.co.uk>, tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) says:
>>Peeve: It's no excuse really, unless you're disabled.
>
>What exactly makes you say that?  Some people have better eye-hand/foot/
>whatever co-ordination than others.  People don't say that the only
>excuse for being a slow reader is being dyslexic.
>
>Peeve: People who think that talent only applies to mental things.

But being clumsy is definitely a "mental thing".  (It takes a clumsy person
to think it is not.)  As such it can be improved by mental methods, namely
paying attention to your surroundings.  Intensive courses are not necessary,
just a bit less blithe ignorance of the outside world.

ObPeeve: workmen who dig up the street and short out traffic sensors.  They
turned a really excellent traffic light on my way to the CS department into
a light that constantly thinks there are cars waiting to cross in the
direction I never go.

--
Norman Yarvin						yarvin@cs.yale.edu
 "Self-loathing is one of those odd, illogical leaps of human intuition that
  is almost always correct." -- P. J. O'Rourke, _Give War A Chance_