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From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: public confessional (was fat smelly boyfriend)
Date: 22 Aug 92 05:55:27 GMT
Organization: McNugget archaeology:  reconstructing yesterday's chicken today

In article <1992Aug22.011518.442@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit) writes:
>llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>
>> i have no clue why i'm posting all this, btw, in case anyone was
>> wondering. but there it is. wheeee. thud.
>
>Don't worry, it's a common theme, lots of us do this. For some reason there's
>something reassuringly confessional about discussing your private thoughts
>with ten or twenty thousand complete strangers.

It means you'll go to heaven.  Confess to the Group Mind and it will
forgive you.  A touchy-feely sense that They care and nauseating waves
of unconditional positive regard will be yours when you die.

It also means my sister will go to heaven, because I've been peeking
at her life with my binoculars from 3000 miles away and reading her
mind and all along I've been confessing her thoughts instead of my
own.  It's odd that she never thinks about her daughter or her
husband, and that she thinks about computers so much.

As you can tell, my sister is a very confused person.

-- kbl Pickup line: "If I killed all the other women on Earth,
would you go out with me then?"
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:40:51 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Aug15.053037.6084@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>Why does everyone ignore *my* posts? Isn't my angst good enough for you or
>something?

Not only am I not ignoring them, I'm even reading the useless lines
in the header.  Like "Organization: Wellington City Council."  No angster
could actually be ON the city council, could he?  Unless it's an unelected
and powerless body appointed by the Queen (tm) at the behest of the 
bald, loud, and obnoxious ghost of Muldoon (tm) -- is it?

I myself ran for the Chapel Hill city council in 1979 and came in last.
The guy who came in next-to-last (and was thereby elected to the last
available seat) was recently convicted of several years of income tax
evasion.  As an angster, I am confident that even if his tax crimes had
been known before the election the result would have been the same.


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From: jlewis@astro.as.arizona.edu (Jeff Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: RE: Job angst
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:14:19 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article  <1992Aug18.210139.27585@utkux1.utk.edu>  kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes -
>
>I am the only person here in my building who has stuff on his office 
>door, and some of it is pretty sarcastic (sarcasm aimed at Oak Ridge),
>and it stays there.  I have multiple copies, stashed so that if someone
>takes something down, it will reappear pronto.  

Sarcasm...no we don't get that here anymore...since I was the only one
who used or understood it...they gave it up.  Multiple copies of my
wity sayings just might do the trick....I have a habit of editing my
farside cartoons to direct them at the evil overlords here.

>In any case, I have never heard of anyone hassle a grad student this way.

OH..its a very well know sport in these parts...`kinda I am going to give him
more shit than _I_ ever got.` If I EVER get THAT sadistic...please shot me.

>Can they kick you out?  If not, I would just say: "Bag your faces, bozos!"

Physically? GOD I hope not...but they could cut of my source of data for my thesis
and then there is the paycheck thing to consider....guess I will just have to
take it...oh the pain..the pain..

>Might I suggest a chainsaw?

hmmmmm...not sutble..and too much noise...mustn't wake the neighbors.

>Get a mohawk hair cut.  Dye it orange.  Work nights so you don't have
>to see your boss. Communicate with him via email, or leave notes tacked 
>to his door (but under no circumstance should you leave dead animals).  
 
Made the app. to get my hair cut and dyed.
Changed my working hours.
Left notes on my boss's door with a dagger....


Jeff 

'You see I try sir.  I'm not an insubordinate man by nature.  I try a
 respect and everything, but it's not easy because he's such a smeghead.`
                                            Lister _Red Dwarf_
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: horntho@eng.auburn.edu (Jake Martling)
Subject: Re: WHY, HELLO AGAIN, DAVE! (right-justifie
Reply-To: horntho@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:20:43 GMT

In article 78088@ut-emx.uucp, llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
> 
[Anal retentive BS deleted]

> i'm currently arguing with my best friend about whether or not it's
> anal-retentive to have a box full of disks that are all completely
> filled (0 bytes free) that were made that way on purpose.
> 
> doesn't everyone?

It's only anal retentive if one of the following is true:
A. You color code them according to the days of the week you most often use them.
B. You filled all of them with right-justified text ONLY.
C. The box they are kept in is crocheted, and each diskette on the inside of the box has its own hermetically sealed plastic envelope, which is inside a paper envelope folded over in a perfectly straight line with exactly one 1" piece of Scotch tape fastening the paper envelope shut.
  
If any of these apply to you, you are truly sad and should be disposed of on sight.
 
Jake


Newsgroups: alt.angst,alt.suicide.holiday
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Angst is Volleyball?
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 00:31:59 GMT

After having not played volleyball in almost 14 years, my friend
John just did so.

He noticed the following.  Angst is seeing the volleyball (1) coming
straight at one's face when one is wearing glasses and (2) hitting one's
face embarrassing oneself completely in front of the cute girl
on the other side of the net, who probably doesn't give a sh*t whether
one lives or dies.

<sigh>

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From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: France angst
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:28:25 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

Recently there was some angst posted here about France and the French.
I refer you to Calvin Trillin's refutation, which I (probably mis-)quote
from memory:

"Most Americans think that everyone in France looks like Maurice 
Chevalier and goes around saying things like 'Sank heaven for leetle
girls.'  Then they get there and are confronted by some sullen
bureaucrat demanding the answer to questions like 'Grandmozer's
maiden name?'"


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From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:15:59 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug14.135828.27350@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.011744.25705@beaver.cs.washington.edu> boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>>jethro@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mary Ellen Paul) writes:
>>[well, never mind the formalities.  Let's get to the meat of this.]
>>>I'm tall, smart, and don't have big boobs.
>>
>>These are grave problems, but they all have the same solution.  As my
>>mother always said, "A lemming that dreams of flying like an eagle
>>just ends up plummeting to a horrible, grisly death."
>"You can soar with the Eagles but a Weasel will never get sucked into a 
>jet engine"
>[And on and on for about 30 or so lines...]
>
>Can you say "flame bait" ?


yes, i can, and that's precisely why i am ignoring it. give a twit like that
attention, and you make his day.

pathetic, isn't it?

bah.

--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 08:59:02 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>             I mean we all encounter someone of the appropriate gender
> every once in a while whose clothes we would like to rip off, and
> whose body we would like to have our way with for days if not weeks,
> verily in an orgy of savage, unrestrained, sweaty lust.

What's this "once in a while" shit?!

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Dead City Angst
Keywords: Perth Australia Location
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:35:53 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <1992Aug19.075750.10183@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au> parker@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au (John 'Cheshire' Parker) writes:
>Angst! 
>First, people will probably flame me for ressurecting Location angst.

Nonsense!  It is a popular source of angst. Revel in it!

Is there a government lab located in Perth? IF yes, provide details.
I'll add it to the list.

>You Probably dont realise how incredibly BORING Perth really is. It has
>repeatedly been judged the worst city in the world in terms of boredom.
>It is in the middle of nowhere. The nearest real city is three days away by
>car. And that is across the biggest desert in the country. The most fun to be
>had is to go and 'group gloom' at the local Alternative night club. (There is 
>only one of this Genre, so the Punks, Goths, Indie boppers and Hippies battle
>for control)
>

Ahem....  Boring?  In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, we only have 3 marginally civilized
bars, and they are Barbie/Ken blue collar places.  A few other places to go
if you wanna get knifed or shot. 

The only Alternative night club in Knoxville closed a few months ago.
The last time I was there, there were 6 people in it.  Not too far away
was a sports bar the size of a bowling alley with hundreds. We have no
Punks, Goths, Indie boppers, and only a few Hippies.  We do have lots of
Barbies with big hair, and Kens with brushcuts.  

Boring!!!  Boring????  


>Oh, and before you ask, Yes I have got a Girlfriend, and we are happy.
>We are merely saving to get out of this hell hole.

How did you manage to find one of those?   Did you bring her with you on your
descent into Hell?  Has she found it in her heart to forgive you?  You should
hear what Oak Ridge physics wives say about the place.


>Cheshire.

						Meech
From: jeanette@hpmcaa (Jeanette Skelton)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:57:50 GMT
Organization: HP Cardiology Business Unit - McMinnville, OR
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Alex Bienek (ABienek@acorn.co.uk) wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, what is a smart(tm) girl. How is that a girl can have
> a Phd in astrophysics or molecular-biology yet be unable to grasp
> the workings of the internal combustion engine, a system less complex
> than your average water molecule. It has always seemed to me that
> to understand any area of science you need to be able to understand
> systems and it therefore follows that you should be able to
> understand any subject which is controlled by a logical system.
> 
> And yet, if I had a penny for every smart(tm) girl I've met who
> couldn't wire up a plug or set the timer on a VCR I'd have
> seventeen pence by now. Ten dimensional super-strings, no problem,
> check the oil, no chance.
> 
OK, I'll bite....even with an advanced engineering degree, I don't 
understand internal combustion engines. This isn't because I'm unable
to understand them, but because I'm too lazy to expend the effort to
learn about them. Furthermore, this isn't a sex-linked characteristic.
I work with mainly male engineers, and have noticed this same tendency
in men -- I've seen how long it takes an electrical engineer to hook
up a simple car stereo. Also, every time I go to my brother's house,
I have to set the timer on the VCR for him (that little flashing "12:00
12:00 12:00" really annoys me). So here we have two examples countering
your wild claims, which obviously proves that your assertions are false.

Jeanette
> 
> (There showing 'Crazy People' on Sunday, hope it's as good as the trailer)
It isn't.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: A new source of Angst.....
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:18:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.151944.17254@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>... which is why I angst for the future of the country every time I hear
>some supposedly intelligent, educated person say with "I 'vote for the 
>man, not for the party.'  I'm an independent."  The result of their
>"independence," of course, is that they leave the nominating to the
>Boss Tweeds.  And then, before the general elections, they whine and whine
>about the shitty candidates put forward by those nasty ol' political
>parties (whose decisions they refuse to influence).  Then the go into the
>booth and split their tickets, ensuring divided and deadlocked government,
>just to prove their "independence."
>

Of course, the real problem is that there is not much difference between
the Republicans and Democrats inspite of what Republicans and Democrats say.
The agenda of government is only minimally under its direct control.  They
can muck about with civil rights issues, like race, and abortion, crime, and
labour laws, but the forces that create jobs, that might allow reform
of the health care system, the elimination of poverty are out of its
control. That is that changes these areas are strongly resisted
by the people who have the most to lose, and these people pay big bucks
to the two parties not to do anything.  Lobby groups that act on behalf
of wealthy special interest groups..... Of course, course there are
lots of special interest groups involved in the civil rights things mentioned
above.  But all this shit about family values is just a smokescreen to
distract people from the real issues.

If we can feel good about our simple virtues, all these things like 
a lack of jobs, education, access to affordable health care, can be made
to seem irrelevant.  

Life in this country is not going to get better no matter who is elected.
If anything it will continue getting worse.

						M
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:34:27 GMT

dave budd (zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug14.101653.15768@bnr.uk> datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
: 
: >I _was_ going to book a week off work, load up my bike and head for Europe (:))
: 
: At least you've GOT a bike.  My wife 'convinced' me it made sense to sell 
: mine and get a car.  NO WAY can you rub your knee on the tarmac in a tight 
: bend in a car.  NO WAY can you average 60 over 20 miles of country lanes and 
: villages.  NO WAY can you get it airborne on 'repaired' manholes.  NO WAY 
                                                                    ~~~~~~~~
: can you pick up women without even trying....I think that's why she wanted 
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: me to sell it.
: 

AH AH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHahahahahahahahahahahaha..........

Pick up women!      AHAH AHAHAHAHH AHAHAH AHAHAHHA hah ahha haha haha haa aha..

Sound of wrists being savagely sawed through by new Swiss Army Knife.  I just
_knew_ it would come in handy for something.   :(

Went to a HellishNightClub on Friday.  Danced with my friend (male, OF COURSE)
lots of girls came up  and  danced  with their  girl friends right nect to us, 
some of them smiled,  some of them kept coming  back to dance alongside us and
so it went on and on and on until the slow music came on.  I turned to some of
the friendly women  and  asked if  one of them  wanted a dance,  she _totally_ 
ignored me  and started dancing with her friend instead.   It wasn't like this
when  I  was  at school  which was before I got married which was before I got
divorced.   The incident  hurt  me  so deeply......  Personal shit deleted....
I think that I must  be mourning  the  _death_  of  my wife,  Alpha  bimbettes 
shouldn't have caused me so much angst.

I am _sure_ I will meet someone somewhere I can have a relationship with.
Don't know where, don't know when.....


Nick The Disturbed (seriously).


BikeAngst>- All the women I talk to go away when I tell them I drive a bike.


"The time is right for loading my bike with luggage, my wallet with dosh, 
 my  mind  with heinous chemicals  and  heading at  breakneck speed  for 
 another country."
-Nick Pettefar, One Man In The Shits, Act II.
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 13 Aug 1992 11:08:40 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:


>And yet, if I had a penny for every smart(tm) girl I've met who
>couldn't wire up a plug or set the timer on a VCR I'd have
>seventeen pence by now. Ten dimensional super-strings, no problem,
>check the oil, no chance.

What you are observing, is a pure example of a host/parasite
relationship, or in terms of the system theory, one way/one purpose link
What I mean is that the female attitude generally is "Let the men do the
dirty work". Of course there is a portion of society generated stereo-
types and roles that signify that technology related items are basically
a masculine field. Don't forget that female defense systems have evolved
in a "man's world".

>Alex

the NEXUS.
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: 22 Aug 92 19:23:01 GMT
Organization: depressed

schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:

>Hah!  I've got you beat on that tale.  A couple of years ago a women was
>gored by a buck's antlers when the deer ran straight through the
>windshield of her car while she was driving on site at night.  She was
>killed.  Does it get any worse than _this_?

What an insensitive remark! My great-grandfather was killed by a stray
bull running into his car. I have spent the last 72 years trying to
forget that terrible accident but you just had to ruin everything by
ripping up those old wounds.
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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: University of Tennessee Oil and Lube Center
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:13:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.151624.15639@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <h38mahn@lynx.unm.edu> jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug16.162455.24849@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:


[Vultures and Ravens]


>Well, the problem at Brookhaven is the deer ticks.  You must live
>in perpetual fear of contracting this most nasty disease from tiny, tiny
>insects that grab on to your ankles whenever you walk through the grass.
>you see, we have the largest wild deer population at the site that I've
>ever seen.  They run the place like vermin.  The redeeming factor is
>that they're still pretty to look at.  The damning factor is that
>they're like giant, organic vacuum cleaners for ticks.

Score:      Vultures       Ravens        Deer/Deer ticks    Barbie/Ken

Los Alamos                     x
Brookhaven                                     x                 x
Oak Ridge        x             x               x                 x

I'd like to add "rednecks on coke" who are growing dope out in the 
mountains.  Makes going for hikes a bit risky if you get off the trail.

Anything else?

					Meech
From: ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 15 Aug 92 10:29:12 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England


In article <17725@acorn.co.uk> ABienek@acorn.co.uk (that's me) writes:

>>ObAngst - Damn, no summer again this year.

and rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel Bah) retorts:

>you bastard.

And greetings to you too.

>how about "damn, no water again this year.."

Well, despite almost constant rainfall day in day out, week in
week out, etc, we are told we have a water shortage and cannot
use hosepipes, and all our bills will have to go up, and we will
have to have metering, and why ? 'cause they built too many
bloody houses here, that's why, 'cause they thought there were
jobs here, so everyone came to live here, so now there aren't
any jobs.

And after a couple of years without seeing the sun you start going
crazy and you want to go and lie in the desert and fry

>bah.

Anyway, more importantly, I see further down this thread that my comments
about Smart(tm) girls not being able to understand car engines or
wire-up plugs has been explained as 'these girls are too smart to
be interested in such menial things', or 'girls are more interested
in an intellectual challenge'.
I guess I chose bad examples, they were just the ones that sprang
to mind. What I was trying to say was that I perceive I lack of 
ability to assimilate the rules of a system which is outside their
personal field. 

But anyway, Rachel also writes:

>certainly it scares the deltas. they are socially inept enough as it is, and 
>believe that a woman's looks are the most important thing about her.

So:
                    Delta male
                    /          \
                  _/            \
                  /|            _\|
                 /                \
                /                  \
      Delta female            Alpha 'bowhead' female
                .              /   /
                 . :          /  _/
                ...:        |/_  /|
                   .        /   /
                    .      /   /         --->-- strong angst force
                     Alpha Male                
                                         ...... weak angst force
                       

The delta females will maintain that the so called 'weak angst force'
doesn't exist but observations suggest to me that it does.

Alex.