HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Shoe goo
Date: 9 Jan 93 06:30:13 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <1993Jan8.152000.10001@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>Ahh... the destruction has begun, then.
>
>As the 21 year old brother of a 5 year old boy, I may as well tell you,
>It only gets worse from here, Jeremy. Your RugRat will begin teething
>soon... and EVERYTHING you own will get chewed.

Is this phenomenon something you can have fun with?

For instance, can you give them a pit bull and watch the fun, as they
begin chewing???

   don
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: I Don't Care
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 13:15:06 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <C0GuFp.5vG@news.iastate.edu>, z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Cereal Killer) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan7.001516.20728@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
|> >In article <1993Jan6.223539.15543@novell.com> Contents may have settled during Shipping writes:
|> 
|> >>Princess Leah was played by Carrie Fisher.
|> >
|> >Sorry, Jack, but if you'll check your sources I think you'll find Carrie
|> >Fisher played John Belushi's ex-girlfriend in "The Blues Brothers".  I
|> >think that makes it two-nil in my favor.
|> 
|> 	She played both.  Trust me.  Or look it up.

No, "Both" was a different character in Star Wars. Looked like a cross between
a penguin and an iguana. Or was that Madonna in "Dick Tracy"?

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From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Downtown Drew)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.sex
Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
Date: 12 Jan 93 04:26:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson) writes:

>In article <5953@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>, bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Mack 
>Daddy) writes:
>> >>The PC word for today is 'persons of color'. 
>> >"Minorities."
>> The correct term is "Differently numbered", you White Male Racist Oppressor.

>Shouldn't that be:
>     Numerically challenged
>or maybe
>     Quantitatively disenfranchised

"Challenged" is bad because it implies that it's a handicap, which it is,
but you don't want to point that out.

>ObPeeve: the particular phrase "person[s]/people of color".
>I can appreciate what the coiners of the phrase were after, but it's the most 
>cumbersome phrase I've heard in a long time.

"Colored people" works a lot better.
-- 
"And tell me, how did you come to have so many children?"
"Well, Groucho, I love my wife."
"I love my cigar too, but I take it out sometimes."
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: The South (was: Re: Peeves about Teenagers)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 05:04:22 GMT

In <ATAYLOR.93Jan7141749@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:

>ObPeeve: DamnYankees who move to Atlanta and try to speak
>	 with a southern accent; I met a guy in the DFW

Nosy!

We never knew you cared!

Defacto head, southern.net.cabal,
  -Bill
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Dizzy
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:10:42

Larry Cunningham posits:
>Peeve: Cancer. With Dizzy it was in the pancreas.
>Peeve: The other big C. It got Roy Orbison.
>
>UnrelatedPeeve: Saddam. Looks like he needs to have his ass
>                handed to him once again.

Actually, there is a relationship here.  The Fates have been taking
away a disproportionate number of the Good Guys and the Mostly Okay
Guys lately, compared to the Bad Guys and the Mostly Yucky Guys.

Or, as the six-year-old philosopher Calvin put it, "It's hard to be
religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of
lightning."  

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: I Don't Care
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:01:18 GMT

In article <1ifdkhINNnjl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:

>>Peeve1:  Is it just me, or has this Amy Fisher business gone on far too long?
>
>Didn't she play Princess Leia (sp?) in Star Wars?

Hardly.  That was Amy *Irving* (Steven Spielberg's influence over George
Lucas is legendary).

Or was that Princess Daisy?

>Geoff Miller			+ + + + + + + +        Sun Microsystems

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "Loud is good." 
rickg@netcom.com |   -- Frank Loesser
From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Not peeve - this is too good!
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:46:22 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:

>Oh happy day!  "Fly Delta - get bumped!"

DELTA:	Don't Ever Let Them Ascend

- Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu).
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From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Rolls R. Merlin)
Subject: Re: Holiday peeves
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:57:52 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard


Don Baldwin writes:

>Peeve:  Smarmy calendars.  Why couldn't Toshiba make some cool Japanese
>        event/legend the basis of their calendar?  Something like the
>        revenge of the 47 Ronin...

So would the page for December have `Pearl Harbor through a Zero gunsight'?

AirPeeve1: the Zero -that such an ugly aircraft would perform so well
AirPeeve2: the X-3 Stiletto -that such a ]<00L aircraft would perform so poorly

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From: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:58:13 GMT
Reply-To: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Organization: LaserMaster Corporation

In article <5953@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>, bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Mack 
Daddy) writes:
> >>The PC word for today is 'persons of color'. 
> >"Minorities."
> The correct term is "Differently numbered", you White Male Racist Oppressor.

Shouldn't that be:
     Numerically challenged
or maybe
     Quantitatively disenfranchised


oh never mind.

ObPeeve: the particular phrase "person[s]/people of color".
I can appreciate what the coiners of the phrase were after, but it's the most 
cumbersome phrase I've heard in a long time.

chaz


..must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think...
LaserMaster Macintosh Typesetting Tech Support
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Group Labels (was: Orientals . . .)
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:31:20 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <5mg=s_C@engin.umich.edu> gybeho@engin.umich.edu (John Senger) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan11.142228.4887@bnr.uk>, bedford@bnr.ca (Richard Bedford) writes:
|>>drieux, just drieux (drieux@wetware.com) wrote:
|>>
|>>: Does Anyone Know the PC term for persons who are
|>>: Ethnically Cleansed?
|>>
|>>Usually I would call them 'Dead'.
|>
|>How about "metabolically challenged"? (with no disrespect intended towards
|>the terrible events over there...)
|>
|Or how about "Failing to fulfill their wellness potential" as stated in
|one of those books on PC-speak
|
An X-peever
 
!peeve: every sysadmin problem I seemed to encounter early in the week
seemed to be solved by plugging a cable back in.

peeve: every sysadmin problem I encountered at the end of the week required
a kernel change.

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: I Don't Care
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:11:34 GMT

In article <lkol7gINNcnb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> 242 lbs before cooking writes:

>Foolishly, (Rick Gordon) writes:
>>This is not a promising opening.  Mr. Poller apparently thinks he'll make
>>a stronger case if he flatters me first.  We'll see about that.  
>
>That wasn't flattery, Rick.  That was a blowjob.

"The sincerest form of flattery," as Shakespeare once said.

>>On with the challenge!
>
>That I should have such lofty standards.  Someday, I'll reach the
>level of consciousness where I can kick lame dogs and spit in the eyes
>of babes.

This will never do, Andy.  Science has shown us that babes respond
positively to an assertive, confident approach, but if you spit in their
eyes (or practically anywhere else), they gather up their lipgloss and
leave the premises pronto.

>>Sorry, Jack, but if you'll check your sources I think you'll find Carrie
>>Fisher played John Belushi's ex-girlfriend in "The Blues Brothers".  I
>>think that makes it two-nil in my favor.
>
>Wrongo, Rick.  She played the ex-hosebag of Jake Blues in "The Blues
>Brothers."  The dean's wife played John Belushi's girlfriend in
>"Animal House."

And thrashed her soundly at canasta.  Yes, I remember it well.

>>No, afraid not.  Grasping at straws, are we?  No matter, it was *fun*
>>matching wits with you, ah ...
>
>*Matching* wits?  You make it look more like collecting them and
>trading them with your friends.  Hardly a match made in heaven.

I think you're just grumpy because I didn't trade any with you.

>>Well, then.  Who's next?
>
>So many gauntlets, so little time.

Is that what you call them?  Cute name for malnourished orphans in the
snow, I must say.

>banta@abingdon.sun.com

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "Loud is good." 
rickg@netcom.com |   -- Frank Loesser 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Half a babe, half a babe, half a babe, onward....(Was: women without rhythm)
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<mhart.726175591@blackjack>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:15:17 GMT

<In article <mhart.726175591@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
<In <1i9pp8INNhdc@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Mahmoud ibn-Purplehazi, net.terrorist) writes:

<>bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Mack Daddy) informs us:

<>>!Peeve: Half of my wife has natural rhythm.

<>The front half or the back half?

<Why not the top half or the bottom half?

	Tsk, tsk. In these overly political times, it is obvious
	that the halves in question are the LEFT and RIGHT halves
	of the woperson under discussion...or, for the Ainglish-
	challenged, the "gauche" and "adroit" halves.

	Which of the two has "got rhythm" and which has not
	is left up to those who care about such things...it
	ain't moi, bebe.


ObPeeve: there simply *must* be an appropriately clever remark
	 here about "Bandying a Woman's Name", but I'm too
	 Monday'd to cogitate it up.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:22:29 GMT

In <1993Jan12.145350.20247@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) 
writes:

>In article <C0q4Ix.GMs@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Amy Buttafuoco) writes:
>>Maybe they'll streamline it into "colored people".  That would be fitting,
>>since that's one of the phrases that was deemed so Bad-n-Nasty back in the
>>60's.

>Peeve:  Growing up believing that expressions like that are inherently
>        racist, when in fact their replacements are merely a matter of
>        fashion?  What difference does it make what you call someone (aside
>        from perjoratives like nigger), so long as you treat them with the
>        respect that they personally deserve (or don't deserve)?

The thinking behind the whole PC movement is that, if you change the way people
refer to something, you change the way that they think about it.  This has its
basis in the works of Benjamin Whorf (a Klingon?) and George Orwell; there's a
quote from _1984_ in the _Politically Correct Dictionary_ that Banta or someone
mentioned a couple of weeks ago.

Of course, in Orwell's scenario, the Newspeak program was part of the overall 
totalitarian state, which enforced Newspeak with the Thought Police.  Taken in
this light, the current PC mania, which is supposedly an attempt by the 
allegedly "oppressed" to change thought via changing the language is either 
very scary or very ludicrous, depending on whether or not you're in an 
institution/area where these views are endorsed by The Local Authorities.

?Peeve:  Who invents these neologisms, and why do people listen to them?

--
>---<

Tom Dennis                  | "I have seen all the works that are done
dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu  |    under the sun; and, behold, all is 
(217)384-2504               |      vanity and vexation of spirit."
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: draper@ais.org (Patrick Draper)
Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
Organization: UMCC
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:17:51 GMT

In article <1iffm9INNnjl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>
>"Minorities."
>

Actually, majorities is more correct. Most Homo Sapiens are not white.    


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From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Peeves about Teenagers
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:25:27 GMT
Organization: UNC Charlotte


 
One commonly used definition of "the South" is those States which atttempted
to leave the United States and form the "Confederate States of America"; an-
other is those States which, at the time of the War to Preserve the Union
(also called "the War of Northern Agression" and the "War Between the States"
and "the Civil War"), still practiced chattel slavery.  Texas qualifies on
both counts.
In article <1993Jan4.010527.29222@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
 
>
>In <86064@ut-emx.uucp> logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) writes:
>
>>You're just *trying* to provoke me, aren't you?  Today in the Dallas/Fort
>                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Worth metro area, it rained.  Then, while the roads were still wet, it
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>froze (i.e. 30F, -1C).   Over in Fort Worth (~800,000 in population, I
>>think), they have ONE truck for sanding the roads.  Combine all that with
>>the typical Southerner's inability to drive on icy roads (which are hard
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>for *anyone* to drive on), and you get over 300 traffic accidents including
>>2 fatalities, all in one evening.  Happy New Years!
>
>Logan, you're just trying to provoke me, aren't you?
>
>Peeve:  People who consider Texas a part of the South (it is in geography
>        a part of the Southwest) and consider Texans to be Southerners.
>        The Texas/Louisiana state line is the gateway between the Southwest
>        and the South in the Yewess.  Even then, that's stretching things a
>        bit west.  Southern purists draw the line as God did, at the
>        Mississippi River.
>
>I trust you will not make this mistake again?
>
>Love, peace, harmony,
>   -Bill
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Ed
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:56:32 GMT

In article <ll0rb3INNq3o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>In article <bx2r#an@lynx.unm.edu> jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann) writes:
>>Your friend might have a new buddy in the Happy Hunting Grounds soon.
>>My husband and I just had The Talk at the surgeon's.  His lung cancer
>>is pretty early, though, and at best he will lose only half a lung.
>
>Cool!  Do you get to keep the half lung?  Can you take a picture of
>it and scan it in.  I've always had this urge to know what a
>chancerous chunk of flesh looks like.

If there is a Net Prize awarded for postings totally devoid of
sensitivity and compassion, I nominate this one.  For chrissake, the
woman and her husband have just been told that he has cancer.  I find it
difficult to see anything humorous about it.
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Goodbye, Dizzy
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:13:02 GMT

We lost another great one. Dizzy Gillespi (sp?) took his bent horn and
left this bleak old sphere. 

Guess the Good Lord was ready to take another jazz genius into His fold. 
(Though, Miles might not have made it there..).

Peeve: Cancer. With Dizzy it was in the pancreas.
Peeve: The other big C. It got Roy Orbison.

UnrelatedPeeve: Saddam. Looks like he needs to have his ass 
	        handed to him once again.

I've an idea: This time let's just go after Saddam, and skip exterminating
many thousand poor Iraqi cannon fodders in a Mother of All Genocides.

L.
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 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..
I'm so glad to hear you like it here! I took the liberty of removing your legs.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rgordon@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: A rat is a pig-headed moron is a ...
Followup-To: alt.peeves
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:38:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.172029.17164@novell.com> 
Contents may have settled during Shipping writes:

>Peeve:  Where's the Peeve, Rick?

Did I leave that part out?  Sorry.  Oh, here it is, hiding between the
lines: Longwinded obscurantism disguised as debate.  I hate it.

Where did all the animal people go?

>Jack Noze -- jpoller@novell.com

--
Rick Gordon           | "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly
rgordon@nyx.cs.du.edu |  and I did.  I said I didn't know."  M. Twain
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Dizzy
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:00:36 GMT
Distribution: alt.peeves
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <LARRY.93Jan7141302@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
|UnrelatedPeeve: Saddam. Looks like he needs to have his ass 
|	        handed to him once again.
|
|I've an idea: This time let's just go after Saddam, and skip exterminating
|many thousand poor Iraqi cannon fodders in a Mother of All Genocides.

Perhaps we should send in media photographers with Uzi's in the shape of 
cameras this time.  They managed to get pictures of him, yet he's still 
shitting on us.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alekz@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Alekz Vermont)
Subject: morning
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:41:09 GMT


_obvious_peeve:  morning.  seems like it's getting harder and harder for
me to get up in the morning and go to work...makes *no* difference whether
i go to be at 11 pm or 3 am.  no matter how you slice it or dice it,
7:55am still snarfs.  i don't like having to shut off my snooze alarm
every 9 minutes either.

sorry if i wasted your time.  it was getting to me.  :-)

-alekz
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: women without rhythm
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:52:54 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com


mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:

>Why not the top half or the bottom half?


Have you no common decency, man?

Peeve: degenerate perverts (as opposed to fully constituted perverts).



Geoff


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From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Man mauled by lion
Date: 7 Jan 93 05:08:02 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <1993Jan6.095315.1850@fmg.bt.co.uk> pky@fmg.bt.co.uk (Pete Young) writes:
>I'm looking forward to the day when one of these nutters climbs over the
>fence into the houses of parliament and throws some raw hand-grenades to
>the occupants.

Maybe we can get Claudio.Terrorist to supply the armaments...

>Peeve: That the news broadcasts showed any of the footage. I've got
>quite a good imagination. I'd rather just hear the story and imagine the
>details. Crummy video footage I can do without. And what kind of
>`tourist' videos something like that anyway?

A roving talent scout from the people who did "Faces of Death"?

!Peeve:  Reading alt.peeves from home.

      don