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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Full moon peeve
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:00:56 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Peeve: Full moons. When there's a full, moon, I can't get to sleep. It dosen't
seem to matter if the moonlight is shining in my room or not. Not only do I 
not get much by way of quality sleep, I have strange dreams when I *do* finally
mamnage to nod off. Even worse, I can only remember them for an hour after I
wake up. Euccchhhh. At least I have managed to survive another one. Full moons
are the February of the lunar cycle.

Oh well...
Mike 

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If females got as weak-kneed over poultry as they do
over fuzzy mammals, there'd be hordes of hysterical PETA broads picketing
every chicken farm in the country.
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: California: who needs it? (was Re: Mall of America)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 17:30:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Followup-To: alt.peeves

In article <1992Aug15.095250.29786@mr.med.ge.com> David Hinz Mfg 4-6987 writes:

>Elaine Richards (booter@Autodesk.COM) wrote:
>: [ About Minnesota: ]
>: Only VIkings and natives can live there. The place is exceedingly
>: cold in the winter.
> 
>Yes, but we can BREATHE THE AIR.

Personally, I wouldn't trust something I couldn't see in my lungs.
 
>I guess 'problem' is a relative term.  I'd much rather put up with a bit of
>discomfort a few DAYS out of the year (when it's REALLY cold) than to put
>up with Califonian attitude, climate, and environment.

You got a problem with that, pal?
 
>The reason you have the jacked-up real estate prices & smog is that there
>are TOO MANY CALIFORNIANS.  If someone moves in to CA from civilization
>(read: anywhere else), it is merely because they don't know any better.

As long as they leave their "civilization" back where they came from,
it's OK by me.  We don't need it.

>Why ANYBODY would want to live in an overcrowded, smoggy, crime-ridden,   
>unstable (mentally, geologically, etc.), crackpot infested state, is totally
>beyond me.

WHO'S UNSTABLE??!!

>We don't have to bring our water in from hundreds of miles away, we have
>an agriculture system that can support itself and the region, we have four
>different seasons, and we have very few Californians.

You'll have more soon.  People are leaving The Golden State in large
numbers.  What with the riots, the earthquakes, and the prospect of
even more T-shirt vendors, the terror grows.

>Oh, and we don't have Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and Richard Nixon living
>here either.  

This is, like, totally unfair, dude.

>Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "Loud is good." 
rickg@netcom.com  |    -- Frank Loesser
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Why can't I work in Europe?
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:15:47 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <883my=r.rickg@netcom.com>, rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
> In article <1992Aug11.174450.6919@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> 
> Assuming you're asking this question for more than just edification 

Wrong assumption.

>the implication is (and correct me if I'm making unwarranted
> assumptions) 

Consider yourself corrected.

>that you'd like someone to translate one or more of your
> letters of rejection.  I'm sure you'll appreciate the delightfully
> recursive nature of your predicament, considering the information content
> of the letters.
>
 
I had already figured out *basically* what it said. The letter has that 
"rejection letter" look about it. I was told the company dealt mostly in 
English, and was therefore surprised when the letter arrived in German.
Mike
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: editors and line noise from hell
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:01:48 GMT

	The telcom office is less than 50 meters from my house, where
I happen to do most of my peeving.  The line noise, shitty editor I am
forced to use, and general annoyance factor thanks to the telcom office
so close by are a major peeve of mine.

	If I had a chance of posting from home with out line noise, I'd
do so. As it is, I hope you can read what I typed instead of what appears.
I really hate the breakup of AT&T, since my home noise has just gone up
since the govmint decided this was in my "best interest".  Screw em!
I figure a revolution isn't too far in the future, and they are quite
easy targets for my scoped rifles...

	Line-men live, desk-jockeys die!  That's my battle cry.


--
<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. >
From: whitlock@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu (Reid E. Whitlock)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: RADIO SHACK FASCISM
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:51:48 GMT
Organization: Darden Center, University of Virginia

Those of you who have recently shopped in a Radio Shack outlet may have 
encounteredthe salesperson requesting, at time of purchase, your last four 
digits of your phone number (or was it SSAN?), and your address and name. 
This is ostensibly "for our records". I pushed further (not having been in a 
Radio Shack in a long time and not being aware of their proclivity for data 
collection) "what EXACTLY will you do with this information?" I was told 
that it would permit Radio Shack to send me promotional material (as if I 
need more junk mail!). I said "no thank you". And told the gentleman that I 
would not give him any of the information he had requested. At this point he 
said "THEN I CANNOT SELL YOU THE DIGITAL ALARM CLOCK YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO 
BUY". He claimed that without **at least** my name being coded in, he could 
not complete the transaction --- the computer wouldn't let him!!!

Now this seemed to me a particularly insidious form of big-brother fascism, 
and I of course, made a scene in the store stating that as long as I paid 
cash I had a right in a retail outlet for a purchase of under twenty five 
lousy dollars, to remain ANONYMOUS! He said, according to Radio Shack, I did 
not.

I personally think the store should be boycotted until it changes its 
policy (nationwide, mind you), but what peeves me more is that chains/
franchise empires like this one use this tactic, tying us all in to master 
databases to be used who-the-hell-knows-how ?
From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: PRO-smoker's peeves
Keywords: Tobacco Nicotine
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:39:20 GMT

bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
>At any road intersection, there is always the smoker who will blithely toss
>his butt outta the car.

I've heard it said that the average motorist cares so little for his
environment because he spends so little time in it.

s
From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: HISSERS
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:13:38 GMT

rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
><chew> <chew> <chew>

><spit>

Ahrve seen them thar cowpoke movies too, boah, an y'all forgot the

<ding!>
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: ]<razy ]<atz (was: Packaging and Stuff)
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 18 Aug 1992 15:16:18 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, MenloPark, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



Peeve:  Cats that are unclear on the concept.

When I was in junior high school, I had a cat that would dutifully 
report to the litter box upon hearing the call of nature.  So far,
so good.

Then she'd promptly turn and hang her ass out over the gunwale and
let loose.

BonusPeeve:  The way so many people will include the "Re:" when they
change the Subject line, e.g., "(was: Re: Packaging and stuff)."



Geoff


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    "Tipper has been opposed to dirty songs since 1985, when she and one of
    her daughters were listening to a Prince record and a dirty part came
    on, and Tipper -- realizing that the only alternative would have been
    to turn off the record player -- wisely decided to have her husband,
    Al, hold Senate hearings.  The happy result is that today's dirty
    recordings carry warning labels, thereby enabling impressionable young
    people to find them more easily."
                                        -- Dave Barry
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:00:59 GMT

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

>!Peeve: Street motorcycles with two-cycle engines seem to be getting
>mercifully scarce.  Those are the most obnoxious, although Harley-Davidsons
>are a close second.

ah, harleys ... the vienna section of "hell's angels" resides
fairly near to my apartment. plus my bedroom window goes out
on the street. musically speaking, both the length of the attack
curve, as well as the maximum amplitude of the signal are fairly impressive.


-alex


-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@lurch.twg.com (Nolan "Save a tree" Hinshaw)
Subject: Intellectual property (was Vegetarian arrogance)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: The Paperless Office
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:14:28 GMT



In article <92Aug17.205516.25601@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
|>>Now, Rick, if you can't pick out the peeve in what I cross-posted
|>>over here, you should email whatshisname ofr one of those "CLUES"
|>>he likes to post.

In article <1992Aug18.144259.10192@bbxrbk>, russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:
|>I've been meaning to get to this post, but I just haven't had the
|>time.  I've got the time right now, but my cold is making me feel as
|>though my head will explode any moment now - so be prepared to see a
|>sudden end to the post.
|>
|>Nolan: you stole my gag.  Here I've been merrily posting, meeting
|>peevers and folklorists and happily giving away "CLUE"s, and you steal
|>my gag.  After meeting me once.

Hey! It was so good I couldn't resist. Besides, it saves paper.
|>
|>Nolan, meet Mr. Brass Knuckles.  Mr. Knuckles, meet Nolan.

Hi, Nucks. Pleeztameetcha.

|>
|>Russ "aghast at the violence potential" Kepler

Remember, Russ, imitation is the sincerest form...

--
Nolan "Waste bandwidth, not paper" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it
 with a computer." David Wittenberg, in Risks Digest 13.70
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: The Man With No Brain (Was: The world...)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 20:32:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Followup-To: alt.peeves

In article <1992Aug20.185602.22683@eos.arc.nasa.gov> Rick Shrum writes:

> [ Quoting several prominent flameheads, then gets down to business: ]
>Other phrases starting to drive me up the wall:
>"Get a clue"
>"Inquiring minds want to know"
>"Your mileage may vary"
>"BZZZT! Wrong!, But thank-you for playing."
>"Anal retentive": See explanation for homophobic. Psych 1 students learn
>a new catch phrase.
>"<sigh>"
>"choice" (just "choice"...)
>"Get a life"
>"NOT!" On second thought, I still like "NOT!", but only when its well-executed.
>
>Thats all for now!

A bangalore torpedo in the concertina wire couldn't have done a better job
(considering the newsgroups the quoted article was cross-posted to) of
exposing alt.peeves to the biggest yammerheads on the net.

Get the water cannons ready.

>                            R ****
>                             I
>                              C
>                          **** K	

Ouch.

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "Loud is good." 
rickg@netcom.com  |    -- Frank Loesser 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Why can't I work in Europe?
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:29:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.133533.6979@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:

>Mais, non, Madam. Je parle seulment les deux langues officieles de mon pays.
>Je m'excuse.
>
>Translation: no, Ma'am. I only speak the two official languages of my country.
>Excuse me.

	That explains it.  Had you written your application in French, you
would now be employed by a German firm in the position of tree-planter.  For
the reference to this, remember the joke: Why are the streets of Paris lines
with trees?  So the German army can march in the shade.

>I'm just making a point, although I'm going to get flamed for it. Let's face 
>it, though, you people would flame me for my looks if you could.

	Are you going to post a GIF, or do we have to keep guessing?


--
<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. >
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:47:35 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:

>Obviously you're part of the small clique of road users that
>habitually uses both blinkers, flashing hazard style, to indicate
>which way you -might- turn, eh? "Gives 'em a 50/50 chance!". Feh.

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

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

FoFP
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S. Zraly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Political Peeves
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:51:22 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston Dept. of Math & CS

dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dave Archer) writes:
>Peeve:  Republicans.  
>
>I was going to say something about Buchanan being a Nazi, but I understand 
>there's some law against the 'N' word in PeeveTown, so I won't.  I'd punch 
>him in the nose if it wasn't for those pesky SS goons guarding him.  

Actually ol' Pat has done some boxing in his time, and would probably hold
his own without the bodyguards, provided you weren't carrying a gun.

The secret service are there to stop bullets.

>	[...]
>
>I'd also bitch some about those Young Republican types that get everything 
>handed to them by their parents and have never worked an honest days work, 
>but I won't

You won't, eh?  How about the young Dems who were coddled, or the young
apolitical folk who were coddled in youth?  Pampering the young isn't
solely a Republican habit (dare I mention the K-word -- "Kennedy"?)

I am fairly liberal -- hey I go to a public college in Massachusetts,
whaddaya want?  But no matter how much the Republicans fill their platform
with the venom of conservative religious fundamentalism (more ObFlameBait)
it doesn't change the fact that the Democrats are no strangers to extremism
of one sort or another.  Remember that not every Republican is like Pat
Buchanan, or Ronald Reagan (go ahead and flame him, he won't mind), or
George Bush, or whomever you think of as the epitome of Republican
knavery.  Nor is every Dem like (insert fave Dem here).

Peeve1: If you haven't guessed by now it's voting parties instead of
	candidates and issues, a sleeper of a peeve if ever there was
	one.

Peeve2: I can't help it, in this context I'll mention it: George Bush.
	It's not a matter of politics, although I do disagree with his
	politics, it's his personality: self-righteousness bugs me,
	especially from individuals whose moral compass points to polls
	instead of poles.

Enough!  Let's get back to important things like catshit and low-SAQ
drivers!

-- 
Mike Zraly		An effective way to deal with predators
mzraly@cs.umb.edu	is to taste terrible.
From: nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Packaging and stuff
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:21:09 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan

cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:


>2) The age old question:  Why do hot dogs come in packages of 10, but
>   hot dog buns come in packages of 8?  You gotta buy 5 packages of buns
>   and 4 packages of hot dogs to make that come out right.

Up here in the frigid north, hot dogs *and* hot dog buns come in packages
of 12.

>5) What sadist invented the glue that they use on that first sheet of
>   toilet paper?  Why does it have to be so hard to start the roll?
>   And doncha just love it when the glue bleeds through the first few
>   sheets so that the first 1/2" or so is useless?

SortofrelatedbathroomPeeve:  Why do women insist upon putting those fuzzy
       seat covers on toilets?  These devices from hell make it hard for
       men to piss, since one has to hold the seat of the toilet up, while
       relieving yourself in a doubled-over position (It's especially
       bad for me, since I'm 6'3").  
       
'NutherPeeve:  Women who complain about men leaving the seat on the toilet 
               up.  Is it so hard to turn around and look to see if the 
               seat is down?  

-- Mark
From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The declining standards of cinema swordsmanship
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:14:41 GMT

charless@sco.COM (charles stross) writes:

>by the mid-fifteenth century plate armour
>was so light it compared favourably with a modern flak jacket/tin
>helmet combo.

Was it any good at stopping AP frags?

>The myth of the incredibly heavy mediaeval knight turns out to be a
>Victorian invention if you trace the historical evidence.

The bloody Victorians at it again. Stand that one alongside the
"Scotch" myths. Clan tartans, skean dubh, Royal Frigging Deeside.

To charge blindly off into an entirely irrelevent direction -- it is
Friday afternoon, after all -- the one good memory of Royal F.
Deeside I do have (besides climbing Lochnagar, which doesn't really
count) is that of sitting on a wall outside a hotel in Ballater.
Ballater is a truly wierd place. It is composed entirely of hotels,
and a caravan park & camping ground, with the single exception, as far
as I could see, of a newsagent's shop.  The population is 90%
transients (90% of whom are over the age of 65), 10% hotel staff (90%
of whom are under the age of 25), and 1 newsagent (of indeterminate age
and provenance). It also appears to be the yappy dog capital of
Scotland. Perhaps Our Favourite Smurf should move there. We went into
this newsagent's with the idea of asking the proprietor to recommend a
pub. He said "Ah, yes, the pub.  I remember that. It closed in '63."

Be that as it may, we were sitting there on that wall sculling our
absurdly overpriced drams, while along from us a nice young Youssanian
woman was trying to take a picture of her nice young Youssanian
partner. He was not in the mood, it seemed, and nothing she did to try
to get a smile out of him worked. Funny faces, rude gestures, nothing.
Nor could the other party of Youssanians present - the *loud* mob -
the ones performing iilicit sexual acts with the potted plants on the
terrace - make any emotion register on his face, Well, our nice couple
had probably flown 3,000 miles to try to get away from such creatures.
So it was make or break time. She had to make him laugh, even at the
risk of plunging him into a depressive fugue.

  "President Quayle!"

She got her photo.

S
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Eugene V. Debbs)
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: CPUSA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:30:36 GMT


In article <1992Aug20.153201.25194@umbc3.umbc.edu>, potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
[citation deleted]
|>what? a man secure in his masulinity? a man who doesn't need a car to define
|>who he is? i'm sorry, a., we don't allow those in peevetown. this is *america*,
|>by gum! try a communist country.

|>peeve: dwindling communist country options. (according to ronnie, communism 
|>	is dead.)
|>
What's the difference between the USA and Russia?


The USA still has a Communist party ! Hyuck Hyuck!

--
Nolan "Mort Sahl was right!" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it
 with a computer." David Wittenberg, in Risks Digest 13.70
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Keywords: Losers
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:08:29 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Aug19.223113.19025@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
>
>How about Woody Allen?  He files a custody suit for three children
>and then admits to being in a relationship with his 21 year old 
>adopted daughter.  Actually Mia Farrow might have had sole custody 
>over the 21 year-old involved, but still, I think he'll be losing 
>that suit.  Talk about screwing the -- let me rephrase that -- 
>shooting yourself in the foot!  I guess the Lolita themes in Manhatten
>and his upcoming picture were a little more personal than I thought. 

You cannot get custody of a 21 year old. A 21 year old is an adult.

He is suing for custody of his two adopted children, Moses age 14 and
Dylan age 7 as well as his "natural" child, Satchel age 4.

My take is that any parent who gives a kid a stupid name like Satchel
should be fed to the wolves in the schoolyard.

He admitted to screwing around with the 21 year old Ms. Previn. Farrow
took Dylan and Satchel to a pediatrician in Conn. to look for signs of
abuse, which triggers a state investigation whether there is evidence
or not.

I remember when I was a kid hearing that Farrow threatened to drown herself
off the coast of Rhode Island in order to coerce Frank Sinatra to divorce
his wife and marry her (he did).

I think the whole bunch of them are more than a little loopy.

Peeve: That I know or care so much about celebrity gossip.

!Peeve: That my life is reasonably private (read dull, dull, dull)

ER
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