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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: peevefest east 92 (v1.1/B, subsection F, mod 2)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 12:34:36 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow
Keywords: bats, speaking in tongues, walt disney, the ag building by the library, disk drives the size of washing machines,...

In article <1992Aug23.182410.4770@umbc3.umbc.edu>, potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
|> 
|> attended peevefest east last night along with michael, jenni, david, marc, 
|> and alex. what a nice group! go figure. :) :)
|> i think i can safely say that a good time was had by all.

Well, a good time was had by *me*.

|> obpeeve: people that speak for other people. 

I would have agreed with you.  Everybody seemed to have fun. Lotsa laughter
and booze.

|> thanks to jenni for suggesting it and michael for getting us organized.

Seconded.

|> i say we do it again. (and since joy was only busy that one day of the
|> year, she should be able to make it! :) )

Hear! Hear!  It was definitely worth the 5-hour drive to Maryland.  I'm not
sure it was worth the 5-hour drive home, though.

Peeve: I-95 between Washington and Richmond.  On 3 separate occasions, the
traffic just *stopped* for reasons that I have not discerned *yet*.  It took
me 2 1/2 hours to drive the 90 miles from 495 to Richmond.  This was on a 
Sunday afternoon, too.  I can just imagine it at rush hour on a Friday.

|> young hostess: how is it that 6 to 20 people are meeting here but none of you
|> 	have ever seen each other?
|> me: um, we've corresponded over a computer network.
|> yh: that is soooOOO coOOOol!
|> me: um, yeah.

And thanks to Alex for pointing out the sign that was obviously meant for
the BDIs of the world.  We fested on the front porch of TGI Friday's.  To get
there, one had to walk through the restaurant, past 20 feet of glass that   
faced the porch, until we encountered a glass door that was clearly marked
"PATIO".  Don't think I'd've ever found it without it.

Peeve:  Nobody looks like you think they do.  Jenni is a blonde (which she
may have actually mentioned in this group) when she should be a redhead,
Laura has long black hair when it's supposed to be short and brown, Alex
is entirely too young and clean-cut, and Marc hasn't really posted enough
for me to make a mental image of him.  Michael has posted a GIF, so that was
no mystery.

ObNyeah: We got a detailed explanation on why Alex is called "The Lemming".
If you wanna know, then you should've been at the PeeveFest.

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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:01:46 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Yesterday I had the dubious pleasure of spending some little time in a
hospital waiting room. Among my fellow waiters were a large number of
brats. Sitting opposite me was a horrible slob with $100 trainers and
a silly haircut. In his charge was a ghastly creature that I hesitate to
call a "child", since that gives children in general a bad name. In the
corner of the room was a box of toys for the amusement of little monsters.
Anyone familiar with the parlous state of the National Health Service
can readily imagine that these toys were not in very good condition, and
consisted mainly of filthy teddy bears with no ears, two large plastic
spiders missing some legs, and some dilapidated childrens's books with
most of the pages missing. The creature opposite me was busy trying to
reduce the stock of usable playthings still further by hurling them
around the room and stamping on them. Whenever one of the other children
picked up a toy, the wretch would tear it from their grasp and subject
it to attempted destruction. Sometimes he would simply push over smaller
children for no reason.

The point is not really to describe how a particular child should have
been strangled at birth, or to wonder why a caring society had not
castrated the father long before he was of procreating age, but to 
mention that this child was called "Scott". Now whenever you come 
across a horrible child, you can safely bet your last bit of beer money 
that it will be called one of a small number of names. Number one
candidate is "Wayne". Number two is "Darren". Number three is "Scott".
The question which remains to be answered is of course whether this is
genetic or environmental. Is there something about incredibly stupid and
antisocial people that leads to them call their son Scott, or is it that
the child, finding himself with such a name, decides to act the part.
The evidence is unclear, but as an indication, consider the name itself.
In Houston, for example, there are undoubtedly just as many idiots per
capita as in Edinburgh - more, I'd guess, but I don't remember anyone
calling his son "Texan". So why does a Scot label his offspring "Scott".
This lack of imagination suggests a profound feebleness in the cranial
department which, I suggest, is passed on genetically.

However, the study continues.

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 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Qui courrait dans l'herbe
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From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: alt.alien.visitors, the ultimate anti-peeve
Date: 25 Aug 92 09:35:07 GMT
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baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
: 
: ObPeeve: This semester is going to force me to become a "morning person". I
: have hated these people all my life. They run around at ghod awful times in 
: the morning, waking up those of use who are civilized enough to sleep well
: past dawn. Now, after once again coming to the realization that there are 
: just not enough hours in the day, I must arise at, or before, dawn to get all
: the things done I need to do.

you'll only become a morning person if you start liking it and
chirping to all your friends about how much better your life is now
that you're getting up early in the mornings.

you won't have anything much to worry about even then, because it'll
be only a matter of time 'til one of your more sensible friends
commits justifiable homicide.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
you mean there are people who *like* being awake when it's light out
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:02:42 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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In article <1992Aug26.142644.13539@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com 
(A. Jing Hippy) writes:

>Oh please.  This is hardly peeve fodder at all.  My grandparents up in the
>north Georgia mountains were named William Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Cochran.

Yeah, I saw them in Deliverance.  <duck>


>Nobody knows what they were on when they came up with these names.  They're
>not family names (thank *god*), and I've never heard most of them anywhere
>else.  All I can figure is that they had some sort of hang-up about "v"
>sounds, since it appears in every single name. 

When I was in junior high, I knew this family whose four daughters had
neames all ending in -een: Doreen, Colleen, Noreen, and one more that I
forget.  Fittingly, they were all a pain in the ass.  

I don't understand why parents would go for a common theme with their
kids' names -- or follow any particular pattern or tradition, for that
matter.  Kids are individuals, and their names should reflect that.  


Geoff


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From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:35:36 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>In article <25294@castle.ed.ac.uk> scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach) writes:

>=>Does this explain why we can't predict earthquakes yet?

>No problem. Predicting them *accurately*, that costs extra.

So you can predict them *inaccurately*, then? Not really a lot of use is
it? No doubt if the guvmint shelled out a lot more money for
Geophysicists you would be able to predict them a little less
inaccurately and produce a good case for getting even more money. What
next one wonders? The Edinburgh Uni deptartment of Cold Fusion?
T

-- 
Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions. 				   tjc@ed.ac.uk

Yes, I carry a grudge. If someone pokes me in the eye, I'll poke both of
their eyes. larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)
From: scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Jeffrey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:35:54 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <25243@castle.ed.ac.uk>, egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

	[ Diatribe against Scotts deleted ]
> 
> However, the study continues.
> 
	We're not all bad, I can assure you.

Peeve:  I get called "Jeff" a lot.  So much so that I'll answer to it.  The
peeve is being called Jeff even after pointing out my first and last names; 
whether it be on a written form or verbally.

Peeve:  I'm getting tired of hearing U2 songs (they played here in the area
recently).  I used to like 'em too, but now they give me a headache.

Peeve:  A couple of weeks ago, a highway sign was put up for a "SKI AREA 
NEXT EXIT".  Now, why did they do this in the middle of the summer?  They
aren't having any events there that I'm aware of.  Couldn't they do other
(much needed) road work and wait until, say, October to put up the sign?

scooter

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From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 07:55:56 GMT

Geoff Miller (geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM) wrote:
: 
: One of my coworkers is a guy named Duane.  People are always calling Duane
: "Geoff," and me "Duane."  It's not restricted to one or two people, either;
: it happens a lot.  I don't understand this, because although our offices
: are adjacent, we handle different segments of our department's business and
: we certainly don't look anything alike.  For one thing, he's from Michigan.

I have an idiot-genius of a friend (mentioned here previously re: third 
shift) who rather often calls me 'Gary', and our friend Gary 'Dave'.  Not
too bad, except that I'm a 6'3" WASP, and Gary is a 5' Oriental.

We just call him Karl.

ObPeeve:  Karl will probably pick this week to read alt.peeves
!peeve: ~

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinzd@picard.med.ge.com
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Originator: curtis@boa.cs.Berkeley.EDU
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:33:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.201550.328@hhcs.gov.au> makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin) writes:
>
>I'm afraid the US and US citizens get a rather bad write up in the
>Australian press. :-|

Carl, you seem like a sensible sort, so I'll waste a moment
and explain the facts of life to you.

The essential component of power is not having to care what
other people think.  This is a statement so brief and pithy
I should repeat it a few more times, until it's thoroughly
piledriven through your granitic skull, but I'll trust to
your native (if repressed) intelligence and let it go with
this brief reminder.

Now, there are a few perks that come with being the One &
Only Superpower, as well as the straight-out Greatest Nation,
On Earth.  One of them is the ability to pave over just
about anywhere on the planet that's short of tank parking in
the time it takes you to get your Lada started.  Another,
and I hope I'm making myself PERFECTLY CLEAR here, is the
ability to ignore the opinions of bite-size continents in
the South Seas.

Did that come through loud and clear?  Good.  Now I hope,
and FULLY EXPECT, that we'll see no more insolence from Down
Under.  After all, this is America.  Manners are everything.

c
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Parents who subject their kids to strange names (and watches)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 00:47:28 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <1992Sep3.005734.5204@wetware.com> diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
>
>[...]  At any rate, her parents
>decided to honor the latest celebrity of the time,
>as often is done today, and name their new-born
>daughter in honor of the event.
>
>The name they saddled my 'great aunt' with was:
>
>Ione Yosemite Park(*)

And then there's Lawrence Eagleburger, our current Acting Secretary of State,
who for reasons best known to himself named each of his three sons Lawrence.
(A fine name, if you ask me.  Too bad he can't spell it correctly.)

ObPeeve: My new watch.  After several years of wearing cheap battery-powered
watches, I keep forgetting to wind it.

ObAntiPeeve: My new watch.  It's a Soviet tank officer's watch, bought at
the street market near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.  It's about half a
pound of stainless steel, with a winding stem the size of a pencil eraser.
It's got a rotating bezel and a red star above a picture of a tank on the
face.  This watch could whip the tar out of a bushel basket full of ordinary
men's watches and emerge without a scratch.  Every time I strap it on, I
feel like I'm at the head of a column of T-80's about to storm through the
Fulda Gap and smash the revanchist forces of Western imperialism, winning
victory after victory for the truly peace-loving peoples of the world.

ljd
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: baldwin@polaris.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Contest!
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 20:58:41 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
Keywords: Losers

In article <la9rouINN2qo@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>In article <7skn9+b@lynx.unm.edu> baldwin@polaris.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) 
>writes:
>>I have had a dog named Bob for over ten years, so I should know.
>I was at the beach one time and some people nearby had a dog named John.
>I thought that was a wee bit on the bizarre side, and still do.  Why would
>anyone give a dog a human name?  "Arf!  I'm John, and this is my master,
>Fido!"

	Hmpf! Actually, I have never known a dog who had the personality of
a Fido or Rover. Bob, quite simply, had to be named Bob. If you knew him,
you'd see what I mean. Bob is spending his twilight years at a retirement
home for dogs I used to own run by my mom in Texas. He is the only one left,
so I'm sure you'd be welcome to drop by and visit him.  BTW, the New and 
Improved model of dog was named Becky.

	What I can't understand is how a parent can name their offspring Ralph.
Ralph is a dog's name and should not be hung on a person. It just seems
unnatural.

ObPeeve: I get a call from a customer who says he is having a problem and
needs a fix right away. I tell him that I will figure out what the deal is
and give him a call back. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to find out the
answer, so I call the guy back. That was about an hour ago. He seems to have
left for the day, but no one there knows for sure. So much for it being
really important.

-- 
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: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:43:48 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <xncn5_d@lynx.unm.edu> baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
=>In article <25243@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>>In Houston, for example, there are undoubtedly just as many idiots per
=>>capita as in Edinburgh - more, I'd guess, but I don't remember anyone
=>>calling his son "Texan". So why does a Scot label his offspring "Scott".
=>>This lack of imagination suggests a profound feebleness in the cranial
=>>department which, I suggest, is passed on genetically.

=>	Obviously, you were not in Houston for long enough. Or you just didn't
=>pay close enough attention. In the 8 years that I lived there, I knew 4 people 
=>whose real first name was Tex. It is short for Texas with 2 of them. For the 
=>other 2, I never found out if it was there given name, or some hellish nickname 
=>they'd picked up.

I was there for 5 years (it just seemed like 5 lifetimes) but I'd assumed that
people called "Tex" were just nicknamed after their favourite text-processing
software.

Interesting that calling your child after where you live is a cross-cultural
indicator of extreme stupidity. I suppose it cuts down on the number of names
you have to remember.



-- 
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From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:15:50 +1000
Distribution: world
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <l9q86nINN88p@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce) writes:

>> who he is? i'm sorry, a., we don't allow those in peevetown. this is *america*,
>> I see.  Racial discrimination.  Well I never.
 
> Being American is not a matter of race, 

No, it's more a matter of mind.  Or a matter of foreign news
agencies.  I'm afraid the US and US citizens get a rather bad
write up in the Australian press. :-|

>                                          it's a matter of choosing your
> immediate ancestors in a particular way, or else years of tramping
> through forests of paperwork.

Or owning a couple of newspapers. :-(

Carl.
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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Fergiegate
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:27:34 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Aug31.232056.26981@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> In article <la594mINN7vb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>>In article 11567@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU, curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>>> How about Divine [for Queen of the USA]?
>>
>>I don't know if you were *deliberately* Geoffing, but Divine is even
>>deader than Freddy Mercury.
> 
> Even better!  We'll parlay this into a Real Sob Story.  The undiscovered
> monarch, who kicked it before a grieving nation recognized her true heritage
> & appointed her Queen.  Gaudy tomb - in Hollywood - with decor a la Liberace.
> It'll draw tourists like flies on shit.

I dunno... sounds a bit too... too... Evelyn Waygh-esque for me.

Mike "Right out of _The Loved One_
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S. Zraly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Fergiegate
Date: 2 Sep 92 10:03:07 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston Dept. of Math & CS

curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>
>	[...]
>
>It'll draw tourists like flies on shit.

Flies on shit draw tourists?  MUST be in Hollywood...

-- 
Mike Zraly		Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
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			The mighty sender, ...
				-- HENRY V: Exeter to the Dauphin
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: lozanoj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Jones)
Subject: Where were they when wit was handed out?
Summary: Read the post...
Keywords: Damn SNL to Hell!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:30:06 GMT

Is there anyone more peevesome than somebody who has no sense of humor
of their own and has to recycle material from Saturday Night Live to
get laughs?

Case in point: The stereotypical blonde sorority Betty sitting next to
me as I write this. She wouldn't be so DAMN annoying if she didn't 
punctuate every other sentence out of her mouth with the words "UH! MAH!
GAH!"(sic), just like the "Three Sorority Girls" skit on SNL.

And the worst thing is, I think she actually believes she's being
witty because she and the girl she's talking to break anew into peals
of laughter everytime she does this.

I'm hoping that by the time I finish this post, the two loudmouths will
have left the Macintosh Lab so I can get some real work done. This is
kind of a double peeve, using the campus Macintoshes. I wouldn't be here
listening to these sorority queens if the power supply on my Mac wasn't
on the fritz. The second peeve is that I invariably wind up with a virus
after using the campus machines (computer, not biological).

AntiPeeve: While rummaging through my bag, I was delighted to discover
that I brought along my Walkman. Good thing I never clean this sucker
out, or else I might have to suffer listening to the Jabber-wock twins
instead of XTC.

Jones
-- 
James "Jones" Lozano      | 
University of Colorado    | Don't ask _me_, I just sleep here!
lozanoj@ucsu.colorado.edu |
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Sue Me
Keywords: "I sue *.*"
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:09:01 GMT
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In article <1992Aug30.154626.163@bbxrbk> russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:

>The evening paper ran a photo that ran these two billboards together
>as though they were next to one another.  The first thought I had was
>that we should lock the 2 lawyers in a room together and let 'em have
>it out, the winner to determine the proper course of action for the
>both of 'em.


They ought to put Chinese handcuffs on their dicks and let 'em fight it out.



Geoff


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From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings(was alt.alien.visitors)
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:22:59 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus

In article <1992Aug26.135532.7151@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>The only way to face the fact that you must be up at that Ghodawful hour is
>with coffee.
>*very* *strong* coffee.
>Lots of it.
>Drunk "Black as midnight on a moonless night." (tm David Lynch)

peeve: coffee breath.

-lp