HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Kids N' Stuff
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:45:53 GMT

jflint@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jesse Flint) writes:

>I want somebody to explain this to me:

>Peeve: Kids. Children. I DON'T like them. Not only don't I like them,
>I HATE them. Whiny little snots, spoiled (especially here on Long 
>Island) crabby crying little anklebiting shits. Here I am, working
>in a toystore, and the place's full of the whiny little bastards. Makes
>me want to sterilize myself with a boxcutter.

Jesse, my man, you are obviously in the wrong vocation.  If you hate kids
and children, get a job in an abortion clinic.  That way you can "cut them
off at the pass," as it were.

>!Peeve: The cute girls who come wandering through the store.

!Peeve:  Georgia's Age of Consent is apparently 14.  I seriously doubt that
I'd want to boink a 14 year old, but having the option is what freedom is
all about.  I did have a brief stint with a 17 year old, but the age diff-
erence between us is 'only' 7 years.  Since I turned 18 or so, I haven't
seen a 14 year old that I'd want to boink.  Has a lot to do with their
mental age, I suppose.  That, and I'm not as perverted as some people.

>Peeve: They either all have boyfreinds or children.

Well maybe they don't especially want to stay with their current boyfriend
and they'd like for you to help them off the hook?  And as far as children,
I share your sentiments.
--
"Take me down where the love honey flows,
 kiss you nice, nibble your toes."      -B-52s, Good Stuff
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: Coming soon...
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
	<1992Jul23.052254.15134@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:52:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.052254.15134@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
   --
   <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. >

Would those be Ariel square fours? A favorite anti-peeve of mine! The 1931
500cc model was black, with a chrome tank, and dual fish tail mufflers.
1932 enlarged to 600cc and 1936 it went to 995cc. Lovely.

/PeeveSupremo: 1950 HRD Rapide. 998cc of sweet Vincent.

Larry of Arabia couldn't have picked a better way to die.

L.
"Yeh, Buddy..            | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)|  _~~_
 I've got your COMPUTER! | % Physical Science Laboratory        | (O)(-)
 Right HERE!!"           | New Mexico State University          |  /..\ 
 (computer THIS!)        | Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 88003    |   <> 
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are CORRECT, mine, and not PSLs or NMSUs..
Because the plot demands.. an EVIL man!
From: pierre@cs.UAlberta.CA (Pierre Honeyman)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: BDI
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:15:31 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Peeve: BDI's who pretend they can read, but we all know they really can't.
Example: I am a lifeguard at a pool here in Edmonton.  To make life easier
for the patrons, we have signs near every pool saying what the hours of
operation for the pool are (at our facility we have 4 pools open to the
public).  What invariably happens when a pool is closed is that some BDI
will wander by and look at the sign, not read it of course, but just look
at it.  The sign says "This pool is closed", it has the date on it. 
Of course what happens next is this moron will either:

a) Just jump in the pool anyways, thinking that the sign meant some other
pool

or

b) Come and ask one of the lifeguards if the pool is open.

I have no complaint about people who didn't notice the sign, my complaint
is about those who go and stare at the sign for a few minutes before doing
this.  Sadly enough, it's a common occurence.
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Male bonding
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:10:16 GMT

Peeve:  This whole "male bonding" pop-psych thing.  What the Hell is it about
        some women who figure that just because I like drinking beer with and
        playing sports (like bowling and golf :) with my male buddies, that
        also means I want to tie them up with leather or handcuffs (or
        whatever)?

Peevefully,
  -Bill
--
"From each, according to his ability,
to each, according to his needs." - Democratic party leaflet (sound familiar?)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Micro Beards (was something else entirely) 
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:31:18 GMT

In article <+jkmyra@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

>Wait a minute, wait a minute. All of that stuff is *60s*. Sure, it existed
>in the 70s, but it didn't have the same tackiness as the "Ten-four good
>buddy; keep on truckin'" t-shirts which karma-jockeys prize.

	This reminds me: the 70's Preservation Society is an *actual* group,
and will sell you compilations of 70's music.  They do not, however, sell
8-tracks, only cassette, LP, and CD.  What's the point?

>Peeve: What's the deal with those micro-beards? Y'know the ones that I'm
>talking about; the things that Peter, Paul & Mary used to wear. (Well I
>never saw Mary wear one, but maybe she did too.) Is it the new hip
>thang to do? 

	I have a sneaking suspicion this is related to the "tail" craze of
 few years ago.  To wit, everybody kept their hair trimmed to some length
 they were comfortable with, but just to show their daring, devil-may-care
 attitude towards societal norms they let a small strand in the back grow
 to whatever length it could reach, and it was carefully oiled, waxed, or
 braided for maximum effect.  (pardon me while I wretch).  Those of us who
 starting avoiding barber shops many years ago just laughed as the breeze
 whipped our locks into our mouths and tickled our tonsils.

	Peeve: my own hair becoming part of my meal due to wind.

	Anyway, the micro-beard is the latest craze because, get this, you
*don't* actually have to grow a beard!  That's it!  In additio to looking
like a young Colonel Sanders, it takes a maximum of one week to grow a
mini-beard.  Those of us with real facial hair have now taken to leaving it
scruffy and untrimmed, just to show those young slaves to fashion that it
takes more than a week and some testosterone to generate a true beard.  It
takes dedication, an allergy to shaving, and the ability to ignore all sorts
of helpful tips on beauty, such as "Why don't you just trim it a little?"
"Because I *LIKE* it long, asshole!  Fuck off."  Works every time.


--
<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: charless@sco.COM (charles stross)
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more. . .
Organization: The Somewhat Contagious Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:04:44 GMT
Keywords: Losers


In article <16927@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>In article <1992Jul14.055339.10843@cs.yale.edu> elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott) writes:
>>In article <16807@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>>>
>>>Thank God for the Pogues. They have imagery. They make me want to go
>>
>>Argh!  The one time I heard the Pogues I almost barfed.  I haven't spent
>>years developing my sense of pitch just to have it tortured by some Irish
>>dude who couldn't carry a tune if his life depended on it.
>
>
>Oh boy! I think I will make copies of Diamanda Galas' "Black Mass"
>and *really* torment you with it :-). How about Laibach's "Sympathy
>for the Devil"?  No, Diamanda, definitely. Heh. Heh.Heh.

Yeah  -- especially "This is the Law of the Plague" and "There are No
More Tickets to the Funeral" -- totally visceral! You could follow
it up with Siouxie Sioux's version of "The Lord's Prayer" and
then the entire "God in Three Persons" albumn by The Residents.
At the end of which he'll be _begging_ you for Shane McGowan's
whiskey rasp. ``It's music, Jim, but not as we know it!''

ObPeeve: a couple of months ago I had the opportunity to go see
Laibach perform on a Thursday night, followed by  Diamanda
Galas on the Friday. Being a fool (and tired, due to 
recent pressure of work) I decided to give Laibach a miss.
If I'd seen both performances I'd probably have spent the 
weekend in an exhausted catatonic stupor, but what the hell.
Next time (if there is a next time) things will be different.

ObMotto: Death Through Music.

>One of these days I tell y'all about how our Owen tormented the EST
>office with Diamanda at top volume through the walls. We needed more
>room in the computer room and their office was in the way. Heh. Heh.

Has the Nuremburg war crimes tribunal been reactivated and notified?
If not, why not?? 

>ER
>--
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>I don't know when it was that I scratched Fate's car door, but I should have
>left a note. --Tim Mefford

-- 
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WARNING: The opinions voiced in the preceding electronic document are the
product of a warped mind. Take two before meals. Now put the following in
your sigfile: {LineEater Vaccine: Bush CIA Drugs Revolution Perot Murder}
From: pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (pauline muggli)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: a few random peeves
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:45:38 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Originator: mdtll@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu


peeve:  people who stroll across a car path in a parking lot between
the parking spaces and the store.  this is not normally a
problem unless the people walk at a diagonal or down the middle,
looking anywhere but at cars coming at them.  when they finally do
notice you in your car, they are inevitably in the middle of your
path, and act as if they are a deer frozen by the sudden illumination
of headlights.  

there was a lady yesterday who was doing this, and when she saw
me, actually stopped, turned around, looked at her car, turned
around, and began to continue her slow pace to the store.  once
she hit the sidewalk, her pace returned to what would be
considered normal - i.e. twice as fast.

peeve: having so much ice/frost in the freezer that i have to
defrost it.

peeve/anti-peeve:  the temperature outside will make standing in
front of an open freezer enjoyable, but the thought of my frozen
food melting will make me not enjoy defrosting the freezer.

weather peeve:  having the humidity hovering around 50% when the
temperature is in the mid to upper nineties.

weather peeve:  when the temperature doesn't drop to seventy or
below at night.

weather peeve:  knowing the humidity is making me irritable, and
not being able to do anything about it.

peeve:  watching a pbs show "hate on trial" about the white
aryan nations/metzgers and about 2/3 of the way through, having
the audio go to a buzzing like the tracking was off.  it took
the station half an hour to notice/fix it.  (this was about a
civil suit brought by the family of an ethiopian man who was
beaten to death by skin heads.)  what made it worse, was after
20 minutes, it seemed they were trying to do something, because
every couple of minutes a phrase or two would come through only
to be continued by more buzzing.

anti-peeve: the same show is repeating tonight.

pauline
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: yarvin@highlite.uucp (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Organization: Gotham Communications Research
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:54:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.052709.16176@highlite.uucp> yarvin@highlite.uucp (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>
>True, they're fun; or "psychologically addictive," as the Goebbels groupies
>put it.  So are bungee jumping, Ferraris, gumbo, and sex.  Whatcha going to
>do about them, you putrefied reincarnation of Cotton Mather you?

On the other hand...

Peeve1:  Bungee-jumping is banned in Florida.
Peeve2:  The top-line Ferrari is illegal on American streets.
Peeve3:  Federal shellfish inspections are cutting into our
	 constitutional gumbo rights.

Maybe it's best not to give people ideas; you never know what they'll
ban next...

c
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott)
Subject: Re: names! names! names!
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:02:01 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.174726.10010@email.tuwien.ac.at> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
>elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott) writes:
>
>Ah, that's the solution! Peeve: People posting from other people's
>accounts. Or do you have the same problem as me?
>
>The confusing names peeve:
>

Yes, I share your problem to some extent.  My parents decided to name me
after my father, who was named after his grandfather.  But, because having
two Bruces in the house would be confusing and because my father doesn't
actually like the name Bruce, I would be called by my middle name.  So I
ended up as B. Alexander Elliott III.  With a name like that, I think I
was destined to end up at a WASPish, stuck-up enclave like Yale.

Yes, going by my middle name causes problems, but since my mother was
considering the girl's name "Linnet", I think I'm happy the way I am.


Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Chimpanzees/Olympic Games
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:06:44 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <40075@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:

>The Olympics. I don't plan to watch them if I can possibly avoid it.

But...

>Peeve: Another peeve by proxy. Anyone see the Swaziland team during the
>opening ceremony? 

You mean you actually CHOSE to watch the opening ceremony?  The most
tedious and americophilic part of the entire peevesome caboodle?

Am I the only one who sees some slight inconsistency here?

Babs
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: hypocritical Guvmints
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:17:24 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:


>Anyway, now that you've sold the Flat From Hell, I want my contribution
>to your mortgage relief back....


Sorry but due to the selfish and inconsiderate actions of the
FlatmateFromHell I'm afraid there is still some litigation to be
concluded before anyone gets any cash. Anyhow the massive sums I
contribute to the exchequer every month probably cover the pittance they
pay people in Universities. That's *my* money, Mike and I want it back.
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: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Serge A Thill)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: more advertisements
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:06:17 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

charless@sco.COM (charles stross) writes:
: It's obvious; we've been at war with them for 750 out of the past 
: 1000 years. It's a cultural thing; ``remember Agincourt!''
:
: Actually, this explains a lot.
: 
: Why the hell else do you think the government is building a new
: nuclear weapons factory at AWRE and comissioning more Trident
: subs when everyone else (except the French) are disarming?  The
: Cold War, an era in which we lived in fear of an all-out global
: nuclear superpower confrontation, is being replaced by the
: new World War Three paradigm: the half-hearted trans-Manche
: nuclear midi-power confrontation. Both sides co-operate in 
: developing new war machines like the Eurofighter, and in 
: building old ones, like Tornado, because (a) it's cheaper, and
: (b) it gives them a chance to spy on the other side.

They don't. Build their own ones. European cooperation has not yet
succeded to make the the French and English build the same war planes.

!Peeve: French and English engineers discussing the design of some
future common warplane. 

: Still, pretty soon now Major is going to do exactly what all 
: politicians do in the middle of a depression that won't shift, and demand 
: the return of Normandy. 

So why didn't he do that ages ago? Or has Britain not yet reached
the middle of its depression (sorry, its world recession, as it is known 
here)?

He seems to have opted for invading the Dordogne instead. Tactics involve
trying to make the local property market collapse by bying as many houses
as possible and driving the prices up, followed by getting as many houses 
repossessed as possible. And finally creating a refugee crisis of homeless
and displaced people. (Extensive large-scale testing of that tactic was
mostly successful applied at home.)

The French fight back by blocking supply roads.

:                             [...]
: Me, I think I'll emigrate to Scotland. (Scotland's traditionally
: tended to ally itself with the French, hasn't it? Explains
: a lot.)

Also last time when Major had to fool the people, he seemed to talk more 
about "defending the Union". If you want to escape trouble, emigrating to
Scotland may not be the most approriate move. Unless of course you belong 
to those optimists who expect the depression to end by 97. 

In that case I know a governement that would be interested in your 
persuasion talents.

ObPeeve: The thought that somebody might ask where the peeves are.

--
Serge Thill.      E-mail: serget@cogs.susx.ac.uk
                  Other Networks: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: SysAdminPeeve (was 35, and mind already starting to go.....)
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:12:34 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <Jul.22.10.08.22.1992.21023@cadenza.rutgers.edu> masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
=>bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
=>
=>>Peeve:  Site Administrators ...
=>
=>[ etc usw fnord plugh ]
=>
=>>I believe it is all the result of a
=>>little Napoleonic/Perotista weasel of a man who was once here but who
=>>has since departed the campus (and who may even be reading this peeve
=>>from his current site).  The guy was on a serious power trip.  A real
=>>control freak of the first water, he was.  I worked for him.  He hired
=>>me.  He was a jackass.  He left no friends and no sympathetic ears
=>>behind him because he was a predatory little shit who could care less
=>>about the people who made him look successful.
=>
=>Why do so many sysadmins fit this mould (sic)? Does the job attract
=>antisocial little office generalissimos?
=>
=>There was a droid I shall call "Larry Solomon," 

Reminds me of someone I know. Lets call him ...
No, let's not (just at the moment)



-- 
-Jeremy Henderson        egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk   

(or am I?)
From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Radio stations
Date: 25 Jul 92 22:06:01 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ

In article <1992Jul24.215703.6152@lmt.mn.org> chazl@county.lmt.mn.org writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.020814.909@syma.sussex.ac.uk> serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk
>(Serge A Thill) writes:
>>adwright@iastate.edu writes:
>>: Is there any known way to stop "achy breaky heart" from playing inside my
>head?
>>Get a disk from Duran Duran that features "The Reflex". Listening to that song
>>once should be sufficient. 
>
>Oh, thanks a lot.  Just the mention of "The Reflex" has caused it to take up
>permanent residence in my brain...and I don't even know all the words.  Thanks
>loads.
>
>"The reflex...da da da da da da da da da da daaaaah"
>
>chaz
>
>

The mind's habit of latching on the most annoying songs is peevesome
indeed.  Take Richard Marx's "Hazard" (please).  Why oh why did that one
stick in my head like a bad cold?

And I can't cablehop for fear of running into a current TV offer for Frankie
Vallie and the Freaking Four Seasons, leaving me with

	DAWWWNNN GOAWAY EYMM NOOO GUUUUD FER YEWWWWW

screeching through my mind again...

And another thing.  Those people who spend hours fiddling with random sig
generators, just to infest the net with bizarro lines from some damfool kids
show.  Sheesh.
-- 
Jim Davis               | "Rules bite!"
jdavis@noao.edu         |   -- Pete's brother Pete
From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Peevingsong
Date: 31 Jul 92 11:56:12 GMT
Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front

And lo, potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) spake unto the masses saying:
>
> it *almost* fits to the beverly hillbillies!

Yeah, uncanny, that's exactly what I thought. If you look at the words
though, there's absolutely *no* obvious reason why this link should have
been made.

Hypothesis 1: All songs *almost* fit to the Beverley Hillbillies.

Hypothesis 2: My mind is going.

LauraPeeve: "Laura Potler (GSFC)". Apart from the basic mystery of what the
GSFC stands for (she's told me, but I forgot. Goddard/Goddamn something...)
something very interesting happens when you try to reply to mail from
Laura because, in arriving, it somehow becomes truncated to "Laura Potler
(GSFC" i.e. the closing bracket *vanishes*. Attempting to reply to this
causes the mailer to sulk, refuse to send your mail and ten minutes later
send you a delivery message to tell you again.

Mind you, that's nothing compared to what the mailer is capable of doing to
Jenni's address...

--
		Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
     "The water shines/A sheepdog skips across the face/A dozen times"
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: car/driving peeves
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:41:50 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <76788@ut-emx.uucp> Jonathan Powell writes:

>Well, so here in Austin there's also the thing about the road designers
>who were intentionally ambiguous.  I just know the guys were sitting
>around going "Boy, *this* one will *really* make them wonder!"
>
>Two manifestations of this:
>(1)  There are left turn signals (you know - the ones with the arrows
>pointing left) at alot of the intersections (though regrettably not enough
>of them).  However, they only have three lights - red, yellow, and the green
>arrow.  So, having learned to drive in a city where the signals make sense,
>I'm left wondering something:  If traffic is clear, can I legally turn when
>this signal is red, but the other lights (for the people going straight) are
>green?  Or does that red light mean I can't go at all?  They were nice
>enough to put a little sign there to help me understand.  It says "Left Turn
>Signal".  I *know* it's a left turn signal.  I'm in the left turn lane.
>There's one of those little whooshy only-lane white arrows painted on the
>pavement.  How about putting a sign that tells me what I *don't* know?
>Wouldn't that make more sense?

It's me, right?  I'm the only one who doesn't see the point to this?
What's the problem?  Red light mean "stop"; green light mean "go";
yellow light mean "go faster, quicker".  If there's an ambiguity
lurking about in this taxonomy I confess it's evaded me.

What's a BDI?

>  Logan

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "It sure was a lot easier to be a political radical
rickg@netcom.com |  when I wasn't making any money."  -- Chris Baldwin