From: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Oh Velejador)
Subject: Re: The University of California at Berkeley
Organization: Do you think you are the only sane one and we are all craxy?
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:15:26 GMT

By the black madonna of Czestochowa.

^L

It helps.

jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
: ~jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
: ~
: ~>nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw) writes:
: ~
: ~>> !Peeve: The Naked Guy at UCB. Neighbors think he's crazy, but he seems 
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gee, what a compliment for this guy. And that in alt.peeves.
                                    
: ~>>only to have taken the constitution's protections to heart and to have 
: ~>>started livin  by his principles.
: ~>                       ^^^^^^^^^^
: ~>I don't think you spell it like that, Nolan.
: ~
: ~principle : (noun) standard or rule of personal conduct.
: ~
: ~principal : first in importance, rank, value etc
: 
: >>>>>>>WHIZZZZZZZZZZBOIIINGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!
: 
: (representation of Mike missing the point)
: 
: I just thought Nolan might have been trying to spell the name of the
: male organ. Get it now?

Could be.

Peeve: All the semantic somersaults that the English language does with `fuck',
`penis' etc. Need I remind a *peeve* earlier on? (Yeah, it was fun to write. 
Et alors?)

Large Peeve: Somebody mentioning the word `art' in the wrong place. Go back
and read the fucking post. Da.

So first the foreigner's disclaimer who has to care about not upsetting local
customs. They use them the way they want and that's perfectly right. But heck, 
this is alt.peeves and peeve it will be. And as long as England stays in the
EC...

Peeve is that it messes everything up. Especially bad as the topic is often 
emotions and passions. So after banging my head two or three times the words
started finding entrance into that reductionist mental filter they call the 
linearizer (fuck is fuck or background noise). It's an understanding problem. 
If you call too much things one word it looses all meaning. Or you turn crazy 
because you put too much and/or wrong meanings into it. There are just so many 
things left after that filter. And it takes the fog out.

ClassicalAntiPeeve: Phoning Peeves. And I just hope for lots of adventure
game problems in the near future.

: Daughter Peeve: Mike mentioned that I have about 15 years to figure out
: what to do if my daughter brings to dinner her boyfriend - a spotty
: bespectacled youth with a Megadeth T-shirt and a hip calculator.
:
: Frightening.

Woman.

: But it could be worse - what if he's a Hawkwind fan?

Either get the rooms isolated or invest into earplug manufacturers. And who
knows? If he's the weird sort he'll end up making you enjoy it.

InTuition: Keeping the calculator for `fuck' at hand.

Yours boringly,
Serge

PsPeeve: Having to dig into yer juvenile readings to make yerself understood.
I'd very much prefer to put different stuff there.

--
Au fond des prisons, le reve est sans limites, la realite ne freine rien.
L'intelligence dans les chaines perd en lucidite ce qu'elle gagne en ferveur.

                                                     AC