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From: zeke@dante.uucp (zero kelvin)
Subject: angst
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 23:41:50 GMT
Organization: H&A Computer Services

dear angsters:

    normally i'm a lurker, but i think that this may qualify
    as an appropriate remark for this group.

    when i was younger, i did a few years in the army.  it wasn't
    by choice but the result of a draft notice and what i now know
    was a somewhat misguided sense of duty.

    i was trained as a combat engineer (you know: explosives and all
    that shit).  well, instead of going to vietnam like most of my
    buddies, i got sent to germany where i wound up in an atomic
    demolition unit.  we had these nukes that weighed about 50
    lbs that you could carry on your back.  yield was decent.

    in august of 1968 there was a fellow in czechoslovakia named
    alexander dubcek (sp?) who thought that the time was right for
    his country to distance itself from the warsaw pact.  the russians
    thought otherwise and sent a whole bunch of tanks into prague.

    when these events transpired, my entire unit was moved to the czecho-
    slovakian border in what was termed a "training exercise".

    it is rather difficult to describe the feelings you have when you
    are 22 years old and you realize that chances are something less
    than totally remote that you might have a hand in the beginnings
    of armegeddon.  i think that might be angst.
-- 

-zer0 kelvin
From: despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Job decision angst
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:49:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

The most depressing things for me are when I do something I feel is wrong
because it will pay off later.  When, and if, it does I am no longer in
a position to enjoy the advantages.  I went to school to have more "freedom"
later, I have a job to be more "independent" later, and I no longer feel
that I am truly alive to enjoy this.  Things that I used to love are hollow.
I am getting too upset to continue, and you wanted some advice on how to
choose instead of this drivel.  Please excuse me.

-- 
Scott Hanson		This has been a recording.
despair@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: smolin@physics.ucla.edu (Smolin)
Subject: Re: Angst
Organization: UCLA Department of Physics
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 20:39:41 GMT

Aha!  There were only 4 lines of dots.  What gives?
..
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..
..
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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score Update)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 06:09:19 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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

> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>
> >schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
> >
> >> CLaim To Fame Corner:  speaking of COPS.  I once saw an episode where
> >> they chased a guy driving a stolen car right down the street that one of
> >> my college friends used to live on in Pittsburgh.  It's a small world
> >> after all.
> >
> >I hope you realise that was *your* 15 minutes of fame?! I trust you took
> >time out to savour it.
> 
> Can I purchase more time?

Unfortunately, no, they had a clearing sale on Minutes of Fame and Madonna
bought the last carton.

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Anti Social vs. the Wallingford Bridge Club:  the final chapter
Date: 28 Aug 92 06:35:46 GMT
Organization: Elvis Cleaners of Seattle

"Anti, society loves you."
"That's an insult.  Society is warped."
"Anti, come out to play-ay."
"No."
"Anti, we'll poison your cats while you sleep if you don't come out."
"Even huddled together so you can't think, you're all still dying."
"Anti, we care."
"I don't."
"Anti, we'll have you committed if you don't come out."
"A rubber room all my own with no assholes trying to get me to come
out?"
"Anti, we're your friends."
"You're lying."
"Anti, we've started our own secret club, but we can't tell you its
name until you're a member.  Just this once, we'll let you join.  We
just held a vote on whether we want to egg your house, and we're
split, 3-3.  If you join, you could break the tie.  If you don't,
though, Billy here says he's going to change his vote from no to yes."
"Go ahead and egg my house.  Anti's kind of low on funds right now.
I've got my video camera running, and I like to sue.  I'm good at
faking emotional trauma."
"Okay, then.  She'll have to die."

--
The Kate Bush song was "Rocket's Tail."

-- emb.  Pickup line: "I know I'm ugly, weak, and bad-smelling and I
have no self-esteem and I make boring conversation, but that will all
change if you have sex with me a few hundred times."
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Date: 29 Aug 92 00:03:28 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Abstractor (nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote:
: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
: 
: >well, sorta, except that enough of my organs are messed up already to make 
: >selling them a little dangerous. 
: >hmmm. crime, on the other hand, could be fun. any ideas?
: 
: Yes. Come and kill me -:) KSU will pay you for the job.

hey, if she's doing contract killings, i have this list...

obangst: some days are bad days, when you wake up and think "what the
fuck is the point, anyway?" and sleep an hour longer than you intended
just because you can't find a really good reason to get out of bed
anyway, and you've been out of touch with a lot of your friends for the
last week and so have no clue about any possible parties this weekend
and besides all that, you haven't decided if it's worth a 25-block
walk home to go to a rave saturday night. and the cat wants to sleep
on your head.  i dunno... just a really gray mood today, like november
by the sea when the water is the sky is the water and you can't find
the boundary. maybe it was the piss test. bleargh.

minor things, nothing existential. just life.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" -- gramsc
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score Update)
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:18:58 GMT
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973

In article <1992Aug25.062257.362@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>
>> CLaim To Fame Corner:  speaking of COPS.  I once saw an episode where
>> they chased a guy driving a stolen car right down the street that one of
>> my college friends used to live on in Pittsburgh.  It's a small world
>> after all.
>
>I hope you realise that was *your* 15 minutes of fame?! I trust you took
>time out to savour it.

Can I purchase more time?


-- 
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schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov         |  .sig may cause retinal damage and 
Brookhaven National Laboratory  |  blistering skin rashes.
From: llama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Accents
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:34:22 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
: In article <1992Aug21.130513.6053@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
: >If our schools stressed foreign languages, like civilized countries' school systems do,
: >then I could at least read/speak German at a better level than that of a 3-yr old.
: 
: ...which would be great, assuming that you only want to know a foreign 
: language for your own edification.  If you think it'll help you in your
: career, however, forget it. 

bleargh. careeristangst. i have a b.s. in psychology because psych was
so incredibly interesting and fascinating and cool and i only needed
36 hours and i graduated with 60-some in my major. and there were a
half-dozen courses i really wanted to take but couldn't cram into my
schedule.

why does everything have to be relevant to a career??? sigh. the next
person who says to me "but what good is your degree?" is prolly gonna
get hit. hard.  grrrrrrrr.

: All together now:  It's (or, as the say on Usenet, "its") not WHAT
: you know, it's WHOM you know.  

yet another reason i'm staying careerless for the moment. bleargh.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"ketchup makes the nation great; ketchup keeps us free
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Abstractor)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: faking it
Date: 3 Sep 1992 20:50:42 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:

>quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>
>> >		-just give me what for,     
>> >	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
>> 
>>    THE rachel perkins ? You've had sex with Great Leader Kibo and you're still
>> angstful ? Must be the bows...

>No, *A* rachel perkins. They come in six-packs don't you know?!

>						- k

Oh, yeah, with a warning "DO NOT LICK LID", right?

the NEXUS>
          "Getsumei no michi"
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: A new source of Angst.....
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:49:22 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

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

: The Soviet economy was a failure all by itself, bled dry by the demands
: of the arms race spurred on by megalomania more than US subterfuge.

so they were building up their arms out of megalomania, but we were
just trying to stay up with them? even though we started it?

: I think they were aware that their weapons technology was inferior and also
: they could see that realistically it would rapidly escalate to a nuclear
: exchange which no one would win. But if they could have seen a way.....

yeah, right. has it ever occurred to you to wonder exactly how they
would manage the mechanics of taking over the us? so they conquer
us... then what?? like there's any way they could occupy the country.
like there's any way they could administrate it. it's just not
realistic when you start thinking of it in those terms.

: I think it's just the case the Saddam Hussien has reach the top of
: the list of 'Mad Bastards Likely to Use Them' and for this reason
: alone must be dealt with first.

again, he's not been acting like an insane person, and you gotta think
he'd realize that the costs would far far outweigh the benefits. if
any middle eastern/small country uses nukes, it'd likely be a
terrorist thing, not as part of a war. no one is that stupid.

: ObAngst: I just know I'm going to get flamed for this.

no flames. i just think you haven't thought your positions through to
their logical consequences.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"--long enough and just so long/ will being pay the rent of seem/ and
genius please the talentgang/ and water most encourage flame" - cummings
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala )
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:27:18 GMT

sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>ObObAngst: A friend has been angsting to me over the past few months about how this
>           person he's interested in keeps telling him how hot she is for everybody
>           she sees and the general lack of boinkage in her life but she seems to
>           continuously ignore his offers to help her solve the problem. I've 
>	   laughed a couple times, comfortable in the fact that none of my female
>	   friends would never do that to me....until now. One of them(who I did 
>	   go out w/ for a period and still like ) has suddenly started having sex
>           again and has turned into a raging hormone as a result and feels it necessary
>           to do the same to me. Which of course has aforementioned friend Eric
>           cackling back at me now. What has me convinced this is a cosmic event is
>           that neither female knows of each others existence. Its like some horrible
>           karmic action-at-a-distance.....
>           Moral:*NEVER* *NEVER* laugh at another person's angst. DO NOT TAUNT
>	   HAPPY ANGST BALL!!
>	  

ObAngst:    I am having a very difficult time trying to read these angsts on an
80 
            column screen. 
                                        it
things
                        are                              all over
        stuck
                       the                            difficult!
place
   making                                   extremely 




--
                                 ROMANES
                                 EUNT 
                                 DOMUS
Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments
From: dombart@muli.saar.de (John Raoul Dombart)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:26:43 GMT

kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I @ ACME BBS -
Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand) wrote...

>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.

In addition, itos contact (i.e. not being absolutely lonely) whithout
closeness (i.e. the implied possibility of getting hurt and not simply
being able to switch off the offender). IMHO, of course.

ObAngst: Then why the hell donot we do it in the road ?

R.D.


----
  /\ muli - may unexpected love increase
 /..\ In case of danger NTXIVBW the PRSPN !
/_\/_\ dombart@muli.saar.de
From: tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu (Todd Grupe)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: angst
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:25:39 GMT

> >>In <1992Sep2.062745.22405@physics.ucla.edu> smolin@physics.ucla.edu  
(Smolin) writes:
> >>
> >>>9/1/92  11:31 pm
> >>
> >>In and of itself, or an event that happened then?
> >>
> >
> >Hey!  The guy's a physicist!  How could he possibly be happy?  At any
> >time.  Presumably, his message reflects the homogeneity and isotropy of
> >his angst, and 9/1/92 11:31 pm, a time essentially chosen at random,
> >to him feels as Hellish as any other.  Profound!
> >					Meech 
> 
> 
> First of all physicists are happy...they just don't know it..and if
> they did they couldn't prove it.  If we consider this time to be
> the initail condition,  (ie t=0) and angst is an randomly applied 
> perturbation to the system (ie his life)..then as time increases
> instability dominates.  SO maybe this is just a cry for help 
> ...he wants to reset his life to t=0
> 
> Jeff
> 
	It's really a futile attempt to win over the force of entropy in a  
closed system.  If life, beginning at t=0 at childbirth, is viewed as a  
mathematical progression, the element of entropy inevitably increases,  
manifesting itself as emotional angst.  All the comforting, orderly beliefs  
fall victim to entropic chaos.  As angst (A) varies proportionately to time  
(t), we calculate: A = tC, where C is an Angst Constant.  Reset t = 0, in other  
words disregard *everything* in your life up to 9/1/92 11:31 pm, and angst  
disappears.  This could easily be achieved with a lobotomy.

ObAngst:  Spontaneous human combustion could happen at any time.  Stay away  
from gas stations.
	

Todd
--
tgrupe@watserv.ucr.edu

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From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Abstractor)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Date: 26 Aug 1992 22:15:29 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:

>In article <1992Aug25.194537.9872@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug25.172008.9758@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>>
>>>ObAngst: i only managed to obtain half of my textbooks from the library, and i 
>>>can't afford to buy the rest. i guess i'll live without them...
>>>
>>
>>Have you considered a life of crime, or selling a kidney?
>>					M

>well, sorta, except that enough of my organs are messed up already to make 
>selling them a little dangerous. 
>hmmm. crime, on the other hand, could be fun. any ideas?

Yes. Come and kill me -:) KSU will pay you for the job.

>bah.

>--
>		-just give me what for,
>	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
>      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
>					-Aldous Huxley

--abh

the NEXUS>
          "Getsumei no michi"
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Meech-o-matic
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:31:48 GMT

In _The Money Game_ by the former 'Adam Smith' (with single quotes), now
legally Adam Smith (no quotes), there is a description of financial 
analyst James Dines, whom [']Smith['] described as "slightly to the right
of Nahum the Elkohite. . . . so pessimistic that he must make up 
adverbs  -- 'unmeechingly' -- to describe his pessimism."

So, if being UN-meechingly pessimistic is to be *very* pessimisitc,
how dare a Meech (presumably an optimist) befoul (beclean?) the sacred
cesspool of alt.angst?

Is a change of name in order?  If you want an angstogenic moniker,
I can heartily recommend "Bruce"...
--
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        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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From: llama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: WHY, HELLO AGAIN, DAVE! (right-justified te
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:25:22 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jeff McAffer) writes:

: In article <78088@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
:  >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?
: 
: I used to.  There are great disk library programs that can list your
: disks by free space.  Simply find the disk with the appropriate amount
: of free space and copy.  I probably had 100 such disks.  

hah. i did it all by hand, using stereo shell. do i win? <grin>

: "Oh, now this is bad.  See, this disk has 4K free.  We'll never be
: able to use that.  Most annoying.  Well, we'll simply have to move
: some of the files to another disk and get a more efficient
: distribution.  See, isn't that better?" (All said in the voice of the
: anal-retentive chef from SNL?)

<rofl> where were the hidden cameras?

: However, I do
: have .5 Gigabytes of disk space (1 GB using Stacker) in my PC.  I
: think I have yet to use the 'del' command :-)

i and my miserable 40 megs (70 stacked) hate you. really.

: Question: How to you all feel about doily* mouse pads?  *(shit, how do
: you spell that?)(me, here without a dictionary or an english speaker
: around) (you know what I mean, the little lacy things).  Just curious.

the only little lacy things in my life are neither computer-related
nor subjects for discussion in public. <grin>

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
spaghettios: eighth wonder of the world or communist plot? you decide.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: br048@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Guy Rosa)
Subject: angst not in dictionary
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 20:20:41 GMT


Why isn't "angst" defined in my 2 for .97 New Webster's...
I've only been out of school for three years...
Excuse me, I have a dinner date.

Get a ____!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peace
-- 
      ___                                      
     /  __   /   /   \ /                                         
    /___/   /__ /     |        br048    "no geeks allowed"
                                                       Einstein
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
Subject: Pithy observations
Reply-To: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:40:58 GMT

I lived thru the 60s.
I endured the 70s.
And I laughed thru the 80s.
(by my good friend Bob Thatcher; booted out of Airborne because of a motorcy-
cle (Triumph 750) injury; still hasn't completely rebuilt his beach house
which was blown off its foundation by last year's hurricane; lost his job;
wife left because he won't get therapy; after spending too much money on an 
orange pick-up truck he had to pull out the wiring to get at an electrical
problem; old ladies in supermarket lines sneer at him; hasn't yet adjusted to
new, night job; a friend still won't forgive him for teaching how to get
thrown out of bars; asks if he's crazy or if THEY are.)

	With a lump in me throat
	And a tear in me eye
	I know that I've got
	Pie in the sky.

Smiles, sobs, and sniffles. [O. Henry]

The high-pitched laugh of modernity (or is it post-modernity?).

Ah left mah cheatin' heart on the barroom floor for yew!

One of the leading lights in the bar said, as he passed behind me, "I've
got a new pair of shoes." But he said it in a high-pitched voice and I"m 
really worried.

I wish I was stupid. I wish my liver would fall to my feet. 

Time, being neglected, deserts one. [Antiphon, the sophist]

The thought of Bob wringing his hands as I kept honking my car's horn as I
drove away, is nauseating. It should be illegal.

Nerds, geeks, and wierdos. [_New York Times_, Aug. 19]

I'm an American politician. People expect me to deliver the goods but laugh
when i don't. If this were some flea-bitten, snake-crawlin', ritual smoke-
aburnin' tribal society they wouldn't expect me to do anything.

"In Your Face," a TV commentary on cultural fads and foibles, from America, 
with love, to the rest of the world.

She was such a bad singer I felt like joining the Temperance Union.

In the midst of a pleasant conversation at the bar she said, "...my husband
..." I felt a chill. As Cream's Jack Bruce sang in the fabled 60s, "There's
a mustasche in the rainbow."

Family values? Yeah, sure, I believe in family values. I'd like to get as
many women pregnant as possible.

I need to fill up the spaces in my mind. there's a drought of good mari- 
juana. 

Pragmatists are loud-mouths.

Empiricism, the triumph of hope in experience.

"The summer's over." [The Doors]
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins)
Subject: Re: A ""What the hell?"" Angst theme....
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-28386]: crawfish.math.tulane.edu
Organization: Math Dept., Tulane University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:59:28 GMT

In article <s=cnf7j.despair@netcom.com> despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) >  
The last, and most spectacular one so far (for me) happened while my
> neighborhood was burning along with the rest of my new hometown, Los  
Angeles.
> The metaphors were amusing (and poignant)
Hmmm... We just had a hurricane (which killed the net for a few days here.)

What gives?

Matt

--
 Matt Hopkins - Tulane University - Dept of Mathematics - New Orleans
        matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (NeXT Mail accepted!)
 "Do you hate people?" "No ... but I seem to feel better when they're
          not around." - Barfly  "Do YOU suck da heads?"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: rodney@magritte.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
Subject: Re: angst
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:25:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.062745.22405@physics.ucla.edu> smolin@physics.ucla.edu (Smolin) writes:
>9/1/92  11:31 pm

Ha! you bet.  Those were the days, but over here we called it 9/1/92 8:31pm