HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: The Problem With Stevie (Was Re: JENNY'S LESSON IN FLAMING)
Keywords: I HATE DICKHEADS
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:50:20 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

In <Bxv36L.E5p@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) 
writes:

>Is anyone that much of a sucker for punishment! 

He sorta reminds me of this guy I knew in high school.  Everyone loathed this 
person, and I felt kinda sorry for him, so I tried to befriend him, and quickly
found out WHY everyone loathed him: he had one of the most powerful, 
intractable self-defeating behavior [behaviour] patterns that I've ever seen in
an individual outside of an institution.  Whenever anyone was nice to him, he
immediately began the most obnoxious behavior possible under the 
circumstances, and would not stop for anything--not if you asked him to, not if
you threatened him with bodily harm, not if you tried to ignore him--until the
object of his unwanted attention publicly humiliated him.  Once, in art class,
he responded to a mere gesture of politeness on my part by describing, loudly 
enough for most of the class to hear, his recent tribulations following the 
surgical removal of a cyst from his buttocks, in particular how the 
none-too-gentle removal of a catheter had left him with recurring spasms of 
pain in his urethra.  I tried moving to another table, and he kept following 
me--until I painted moustaches onto the Barbiesque portraits that he was 
working on.

Several years later, I saw him on the Oprah Winfrey show, the subject being 
people who were picked on in high school (I kid you not); he claimed the title
of "King Freak" of our school, and said that the cruelty of his classmates had
almost driven him to suicide.  I laughed loud and hearty!

>He still thinks that this is some sort of a game - I guess he missed Alex's 
explanation.  

I'd say he's missed quite a few things.

>Mike H., perhaps you should add to the FAQ: "How do you solve a problem
>like Steve Franklin?  What is the proper means of disposal of a poor
>writer who has been flamed all over the net so many times that he can't
>even feel the heat?"  I don't expect you to have the answer, but perhaps
>if we all put our heads together we can come up with something.

It may be time to stop standing on ceremony, and compile that kill 
file--although there IS that guilty pleasure that Stevie's public displays 
create--not unlike the guilty pleasure that our ancestors got at watching 
Stevie's ancestors bite the heads off of chickens at small-town carnivals.

--

Tom Dennis                    |  I looked into the abyss,
dennis@alexia.uiuc.edu        |    and the abyss looked into me--
tadg0614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     |      and we both winked.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: charless@sco.COM (Charlie Stross)
Subject: Re: Halfwits.
Organization: SCO Technical Waffle and Blurb Department
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:51:31 GMT


In article <By1FJC.4K8@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
>-- 
>Sean Smith - Dalhousie University  "I'm not paid to think - that's management."
              ^^^^^^^^^ --------->   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

From the mouths of babes ...
-- 
Charlie Stross aka charless@scol.sco.com ..... UNIX oriented text mangler
WARNING: The opinions voiced in the preceding electronic document are the
product of a warped mind. Take two before meals. 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,rec.motorcycles
From: rwalls@twg.com (Roger Walls)
Subject: Re: fucking BDI motorcycle drivers
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:47:30 GMT

In article <1e9bk3INN8tn@roche.csl.sri.com> mhunt@csl.sri.com (Mike Hunt) writes:
>
>  << playing tag with tailgaters deleted>>

Another method of discouraging tailgaters is to start weaving back and forth
in your lane of traffic. The tailgaters probably think that you are crazy
and dont want to be to close in case you have a fit or something. If it is
night when a tailgater is riding on your rear fender, keep a nice even speed
and push the center stand down until it contacts the road. This throws off
a wonderful spray of sparks. The stupid cager thinks that you are about to
explode and backs off.

If all else fails, change to the other lane, slow down and pull off the road,
anything to let the idiot by. You definately do not need a total idiot in
a 2000+ pound vehicle trying to run you over.

		Jolly Roger
From: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: JENNY'S LESSON IN FLAMING
Keywords: I HATE DICKHEADS
Date: 17 Nov 92 07:55:37 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: abingdon

(Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>In article <BxqpBH.3EA@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Agro-Barbarian) writes:
>>	Sorry Jim, but much as I like Jenny's attempts, Banta and JZ are
>>the flame-masters of alt.peeves; Geoff Miller can be a very close third
>
>WHAT!  You don't think I'm *the* very best, not even second or third.

Nope.  You talk too much.  Shut your trap, bitch.

Dan is basically looking for a woman that knows when it's time to
talk and knows when it's time to suck.  If you *ever* think it's
time for the former, you're wrong.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
".....what I was encouraging women to do is to
get a life, not necessarily a career. I think
a career is a poor substitute for a life."
                                               -- Germaine Greer
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Halfwits.
Date: 17 Nov 92 05:33:45 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <Bxu2w2.Ct9@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
>In article <ATAYLOR.92Nov16093224@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
>>	No, you induce profound boredom.
>
>	I'm being trained to - I'm a law student.

Damnit - you let one in and there goes the neighborhood.  Any more of
these little protolawyers hanging around?

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home   bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
Will hack unix for food
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: It's a gas.....
Keywords: British Gas, Bloody Workmen, The Wrong Sort of Rubber
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:00:07 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <28423@castle.ed.ac.uk> fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
~
~Peeve: people dying. It's time they cured that.

Well that's typical of yu people isn't it? If people want to die that's
their choice. It isn't for the guvmint to go round deciding to stop
people dying. If people don't want to die then they can invest in some
Not Dying Insurance Policies. I have some here, as it happens. If they
don't work, I'll give half the money back. Fair enough?


[Gas and builders peeve deleted]

Mikey, me boy, you don't imagine that builders have the first clue about
what they're doing, do you. I may have peeved about this before, but
last winter some builders were working on the chimney, which had got 
blocked up (by some other builders dropping rubble into it). We told
them we wanted to install a gas fire, and they said they'd have to install
a liner in the chimney to stop fumes leaking out into the flats above.
Fair enough. Months later, after an incredible amount of mess has been
made, they install a liner. So I call the gas fire people, and within
2 minutes I discover that in order to have a gas fire, you need a 5" liner.
The builders have installed a 4" liner. With years of experience in their
trade they have done something that after 2 minutes of elementary research
with a telephone I have discovered to be a complete and utter waste of
time and money. Now either that makes me an unadulterated hypergenius, or
it makes the builders completely thick. You choose.




-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          

Seen on rec.arts.books "Characters and plot are the exemplar components
of mundane fiction. I do not care to see them at all"
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Broken hand peeve
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 05:12:13 GMT

You know things are bad when a peever starts following-up to his own
postings, but...

One definite Anti-peeve about the whole "injured hand" bit is that now
that my right hand is a bit gimpy I am finding out who my friends
REALLY are!

Auf wiederschoen,
  Wilhelm
--
No, you do not know me.
Yes, I KNOW I look like someone you know.  - Bill Berbenich, net.hedonist
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: alt.peeves protoFAQ
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:25:07 GMT

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

>The result of FoFP, Claudio.Terrorist, a pub, and a couple of gallons of
>Shipstones ale.....

[long, somewhat dated list deleted]

excuse me folks, but this doesn't cut it. first of all, it's been quite 
a while since someone actually asked about the meanings of `ob', 
`!peeve', `bdi' etc. so what's the point in maintaining a FAQ explaining 
those terms?

secondly, and more seriously, i have severe doubts about the benefits
of presenting this newsgroup as a place that thrives on a set of inside 
jokes. it does not. sure, inside jokes can be fun, but being knowledgable
about them is not a criterion for being accepted around here; nor is
ignorance of their existence sufficient for being rejected. 

thirdly, and still more seriously, i don't see the point in the list
of posters. everyone who reads this group for any length of time will
no doubt find out who writes here, what styles they employ, and how
they compare to each other. 

however, even if they don't, there's not much harm done. after all, the
idea is not to be able to spell the names of the 40 most prolific posters
in this forum backwards in record time, the idea is to post *peeves*.

note that i don't object to the idea of having a FAQ as such. but i 
happen to think that there are other things that should go in there. 
discussions on *what* should go there are welcome, although i fear that
doing this in alt.peeves will further lower the percentage of peeves here.
mailing list, anyone? 

in the meantime, i am getting mightily pissed at myself for being part 
of the problem. this is my second level-headed, reasoned, and utterly 
boring article in a fucking row [heh!]. however, there's hope. 
it's raining outside, i have to walk home, and i seem to have caught 
a mild fever. if all goes well <snort>, i should be in a rotten 
mood tomorrow morning. 

-alex

-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
Xref: sparky alt.peeves:17393 rec.motorcycles:39837
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Speed Racer)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: fucking BDI motorcycle drivers
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:34:02 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray) writes:

>If you really must annoy them before you use your superior
>hp/weight ratio to escape, adjust your back brake's brakelight
>switch so that it turns on the brake light with just a slight
>movement of the lever before the brake comes on.  Then use it
>to turn on the brake light and make them THINK you're slowing down
>without actually putting yourself in danger.

This works until the BDI behind you decides to start ignoring your
brake lights. Drivers behind you who ignore your brake lights tend
to either execute panic stops at the next intersection or plow into
you when you're waiting at a red light. Back in my Volvo-owning
days, there was this "fog light" switch that would brighten the
rear running lights, giving the impression I had just stepped on
the brake. Very handy once or twice.
-- 
"If I had killed her when I had first thought about getting divorced,
 I would have been out of jail by now."
	-- A newly-divorced guy I met at a block party
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bickham@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Scott Bickham,C17 Clark Hall,56079,2737038)
Subject: Re: BDIVOs in general
Originator: bickham@msc2.msc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:03:58 GMT

From article <lgj3smINN8v1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, by geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller):
> 
> Major !Peeve:  This ]<ool new newsreader I just got, xvnews.  My rn setup 
> crashed this afternoon, and this is what I ended up with in the way of a 
> fix.  Imagine: an Open Look-interface newsreader!  I feel like a kind on 
> Christmas morning.
> 

I hear you Geoff - we have the system here and it really makes things
simpler when you don't have to worry about keeping an up-to-date kill
file (Re: Steve Franklin).

Obpeeve:  Having to switch back to rn when I was in Vancouver last month

Scott
-- 
=========================================================================
LASSP and Materials Science Center	  |       bickham@msc.cornell.edu
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  14853     |       bickham@crnlmsc2.bitnet
=========================================================================
From: mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: I don't get that channel!
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:56:56 GMT
Distribution: na

The Bureaucratic boneheads here have decided (actually, back during
the great Usenet News Crisis of August 1991) that alt.tasteless
is not Official Government Business, and will therefore not be
carried here.  

Bemoaning the loss of alt.tasteless, my pain has nonetheless 
diminished over the intervening months.

Today, I read the a.t FAQ.  What do my eyes behold, but 
honorable mention of our very own Peevetown Mayor (no surprise here)
and our very own Peevetown Slut and Scarrer of Tourists, Jenny G, 
and Curtis Yarvin!

Looks like things are looking up in a.t!  
That really peeves me.

==================================
From the recent a.t FAQ:
Jenny Gutbezahl (jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu). The woman with a name one
immediately associates with a german whore is the provider of a refreshing look
on things in a maledominated newsgroup. Every a.t wankers dream of a spouse.

Geoff Miller (geoffm@purplehaze.sun.eng.com). It's a bad day in alt.tasteless
when Geoff doesn't come by after work with a tasteless piece of humour.
Mr. Alt.Tasteless (fact) 1991.

Curtis Yarvin (cgy@cs.brown.edu), John Dawson (jdawson@cs.utexas.edu) and
Matthew Somers (chak@cc.purdue.edu). The Big Shit Triplets of a.t.
=================================

--
|   Michael G. Hart                   mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|     You think _I_ speak for the government or the navy?  HAH!      |
| Aviation, computers, quality improvement, Northern Exposure, money |
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Prof. Hans Schimmelkopf)
Subject: Re: BDIVOs in general
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Deutschlehrern Gmbh
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:03:24 GMT


In article <lgj3smINN8v1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Geoff writes:

  fix.  Imagine: an Open Look-interface newsreader!  I feel like a kind on 
  Christmas morning.

In article <Bxx7Br.AEq@nic.umass.edu>, jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu , Our Yankee 
Jenny. retorts:

  I'm not generally given to spelling flames, but I feel obliged to ask: 
  Kind of WHAT?

He said "KIND", the German word for Child. No sweat. Miller's actually
literate in other than English, it seems. Too bad his literacy doesn't extend
to the world of X11, which leads to 

CompuNerdPeeve: Open Look, X11 gone sour.

--
Nolan "I'm less than impressed" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"Don't get jealous, Elaine. Get a dick!" Bill Berbenich, in alt.peeves
"Be careful,..., or I'll use a plunger on your face untul you burp shit."
   A. Banta, alt.peeves
"Never fight with your wife. Just dicker" Harry Maulsby
"Illiterati non Carborundum(tm)" Mise me fein
"Grab Dick and come on down"  Don Pette
"You can't combat illiteracy with soap" Jenny Gutbezahl, alt.peeves
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Now You Guys Be NICE!
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:44:27 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper


] In article <mhart.722177816@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
] 
] >and our very own Peevetown Slut Jenny G, 


I am JUST SHOCKED by this sort of LANGAUGE!!!!

Just because she is a promiscuous poster who
lacks a firm understanding of her correct and
proper role in society, DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS A SLUT!

She is merely a victim of the RadFemSurfNaziKonspirakii
to corrupt the Precious Bodily Fluids of Nice Girls!

She Can Be Corrected! We DO have the Technology!!!!


ciao
drieux


-- 
Modern Day Problems:
Little Miss Muffett, sat on a ToughtIt,
Eating her Kurds and Weighs, Along came a Spider,
and she drove off with the Neat Guy with a HOT CAR!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: NOT!
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:23:44 GMT

In article <LARRY.92Nov16111002@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu
(Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
>At the risk of being viewed as a Grouchy Old Bastard, I'll admit that I'm
>getting peeved by the overuse of the Wayne's World suffix NOT! attached to
>supposedly serious subject lines. 

I agree with you for the most part, although I did enjoy one occasion
when I saw it used.  It was on a bumper sticker, in the same lettering
style then in vogue for "PEROT" stickers.

You had ta be there, folkx...

   don
From: eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Take up a hobby, instead
Keywords: Losers
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:39:40 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University



>Peeve: I heard the adjective "Philistine" used towards a person who drank
>his beer cold today.  Actually, I was the one who said it.  While I know who
>the Philistines were, I can't figure out what they could have done that
>would have warrnted just a phrase in the English language.  This is highly
>annoying, as no references I've checked even mention such an act.


Matthew Arnold 19th century English (Victorian) writer, literary critic,
philosopher, of a sort, wrote a long treatise called "<something
?Barbarians?> and Philistines" where Philistines were people who pretended
to be cultured but in fact had no proper appreciation of either arts 
or culture (*his* opinion of course!).   For some reason his use of the word
seems to have come down through the English Language and still gets a
mention today.

Peeve>   We were forced to read a long tract of this for O'level English
at school and also large quantities of his poetry (best known for Dover
Beach). 

Further peeve>  I don't remember anything about it at all - now I'll
have to go and reread it!

jill
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: The long-awaited GIF of Bill (yeah, sure)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 01:04:09 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

In article <1992Nov20.174951.24480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
>
>>Hey, you look *just like* this guy I used to know!
>
>Bite me, Hillman.

Sorry, Bill. I choke on small bones.

-- 
Shirl giggled and handed me something. "A Beretta P92SB," she said. "Ain't
it cute? Holds fifteen rounds, shoots jacketed hollow-points. This week we
tell them they're not in touch with their feelings, next week we blow their
fucking heads off. More coffee cake?"  -- Cynthia Heimel
Xref: sparky alt.peeves:17520 soc.culture.british:16311 soc.culture.greek:10859
From: egeo17@castle.ed.ac.uk (M L Broadgate)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.greek
Subject: Re: The Scarlet Letter
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:21:27 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <By0IDr.31L@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave) writes:

>>>as a British citizen because she was born ``out of wedlock'' (their words,
>>>not mine). 
>
>Christ!! When you can finally prove that your child is yours she will be a
>British Citizen, but you'll have to pay a fair wack in medical fees in order
>to prove this. 

Just because a couple are married doesn't mean they are both the natural
parentsof the child anyway - marriage is (you'd have thought) a complete
irrelevance.  The point is that you are a willing parent - what more do
they need - crazy situation!

M
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: NOT!
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:10:02 GMT

At the risk of being viewed as a Grouchy Old Bastard, I'll admit that I'm
getting peeved by the overuse of the Wayne's World suffix NOT! attached to
supposedly serious subject lines. 

NOT! was pretty cute the first million times we heard it.

GeneralPeeve: Lack of originality. The complaint is tempered for this
              group, which offers more than an occasional taste of a
              New Idea (although often it is a Wrong New Idea).

NOT! is just a symptom of this disease of non-thinking.

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    |   <> 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are CORRECT, mine, and not PSLs or NMSUs..
And ya wanta know what *blisters* my ass? A FIRE!.. about three feet tall..


		
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: I see London, I see France (Re: the Devil's Day
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:22:14 GMT

In article <lg8fpcINN1qg@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) confuses me no end by writing:
>
>
>What?!  I have yet to see someone wearing his their underwear on the outside
>of their clothing, or even to hear of it (until now).  
>
>   [...]
>
>In fact, Curtis was dressed this way the first time I
>met him.
>

So, you've never seen anyone dressed this way, and yet Curtis was this way 
when you first met him.

So, either Curtis is not someone - he is perhaps a progam on the order of
the AutoGeoff, only not quite as surreal, and he was given the surname Yarvin
by someone with a really nasty sense of humor.

OR

You met Curtis without seeing him.  You are perhaps blind as a bat^H^H^Hsight-
challenged.  Or you were so fall dead in a stupor drunk^H^H^H^H^Halcohol-
impaired that vision was beyond you.

Or is there some other logical explanation that I've missed, Geoff?


-- 
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jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu is Jenny Gutbezahl @ Univ. of Mass, Amherst
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These opinions are all mine.  Flame all you want, I'll make more
Newsgroups: alt.peeves