HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Our dear alma mater
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:37:12 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Edinburgh University

I have just been hit with a bill for #100 for photocopying that
piece of crap which I elevate by calling it a thesis. Why *I*
should have to pay for the pleasure of satisfying the universities
stupid system is a peeve in itself. but my major peeve is of the
"why am I so dumb" variety.

Why did I stupidly get the thing photocopied, and incur costs, when I
could instead have just printed extra copies on the laser printer? Of
course the real cost would have been much greater, but it wouldn't
have been charged to *me*, so by being a nice responsible chap, I
have, in effect, screwed myself.

What a silly bunt.

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

(or am I?)
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: BDI On Board
Date: 27 Jul 1992 08:43:19 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Jonathan Powell) writes:
>Peeve:  People here in Austin feel the need to STOP at the end of entrance
>ramps when the available opening isn't quite to their high standards.  And
>THEN, they accelerate as slowly as possible once there is a small opening,

It ain't just Austin, sodkicker.

I have yet to encounter an on-ramp that isn't at least two and a
half car-widths wide.  Your option number three should have be
"Drive around them," preferably at speeds appropriate to make them
shit their pants.

I do this often.  The sound of horns and the sight of Allante
drivers with their foot leaving dimples in the floor as they attempt
to catch up and shake a fist at me warms my heart.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"I'll perfrom any perverse sexual act on any member of phylum
chordata.  I don't do invertebrates."  - JZ
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From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott)
Subject: Re: re worthless servants
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:00:18 GMT

In article <l6r7iiINN3oa@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> melindac@thedarktower.Corp.Sun.COM (Ugga de Boogidie) writes:
>
>!Peeve: Shopping. Shopping for new sunglasses for my vacation.
>
>Peeve: Bored, disinterested saleschick.

I am from the Northeast.  I not only expect a bored, disinterested salesclerk,
I desire a bored, disinterested salesclerk.  Nothing spoils shopping like some
frantic salesclerk hovering over me, commenting on everything.  

You see, here in the Northeast, everyone maintains a sort of sphere of privacy
around themselves by being rude to everyone else.  A friendly salesclerk
would be a violation of my sphere of privacy.  When I go into a
department store, I expect the salesclerk to ignore me and stay out of my way
until I actually appear at the counter with my purchases.  If I want help, I'll
ask for it.

Peeve:  Today I went into a store to buy a pair of jeans.  Unfortunately, it
is one of those small clothing stores where the owner wanders around and
makes sure that all of his salesdrones are friendly to the customers.  I had
the misfortune to be looking at the display next to where the owner himself
was standing.  He engaged me in the following conversation:

Him:  Those are Silver Tab jeans.

Me:   Uh-huh.  [Of course I know what kind of jeans they are!  They say 
      Silver Tab all over them.]

Him:  They're nice jeans.

Me:   Yes, I like the way they fit.

Him:  Are those Silver Tab you are wearing?

Me:   Yes.  [Just what I need, a perceptive salesman.]

Him:  They come in black, too.

Me:   [I can see they come in black.  They are right in front of me.]
      Actually, I was looking at these indigo ones, but you don't seem
      to have them in a twenty-eight waist.

Him:  Oh.  [He begins to look flustered.  He checks the sizes on all the
      jeans, which is what I just did moments before.]
      Come to think of it, I don't remember unpacking any twenty-eights.
      I think they only go down to twenty-nine.  You see they are a      
      different color on the inside [He rolls up the cuffs, which are
      black on the inside.] and are oversized so you can get a sort
      of fashion statement by rolling up the cuffs like this.

Me:   Uh-huh.  [I don't want to make a sort of fashion statement by
      rolling up the cuffs of a pair of jeans that fall off of me.]
 
Him:  Sometimes an inch doesn't make much difference with prewashed
      jeans.  You can try on as many as you want.

Me:   Hm.  I'll keep looking.  [As if I want to try on eight different
      pairs of jeans to try and find one that is a little smaller than
      it was supposed to be.]

At that point, I escaped him.  I don't know why I couldn't look at a 
simple jeans display by myself.  For some reason he seemed to think I
needed assistance.  Give me a department store with bored, disinterested
salesclerks any day.


Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu
From: sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: coffee test
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:16:54 -0500

Peeve: A mouthful of cold coffee when I would have BET MY LIFE
I just filled my mug.

Really, This is just a test. Sorry.

Bigeus Dongocles
U of Fl.-Ft. Lauderdale
Research Station.
From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Cryin' baby express ... what to do?
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:07:55 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications

>>>>> On 22 Jul 92 12:04:41 GMT, egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) said:
B>  !Peeve; at least I had a good reason for starting.

Peeve: people who make comments design to intrigue and provoke
questions.

!Peeve: having a Sun 4/690 all to myself for a while.  Think I'll just
recompile X11R5 again...

ian
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bike Helmets
Keywords: bikes, safety, law
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:25:52 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <40326@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:

What peeves me about cyclists is the way they sometimes pretend to be a
"vehicle" and sometimes an "augmented pedestrian". The most exciting thing
that ever happens on our local newsgroup eduni.vicars-tea-party is that
some cycle-clipped half-wit gets upset when drivers don't give cyclists
full respect as other vehicle-users, and knock them down when the cyclist
veers out into the middle of the road to turn, etc. However, I have yet to
see a cyclist put any money in a parking meter for the benefit of parking
his vehicle by the road side. Similarly, I have never seen a driver padlock
his car to garden railings.

!peeve - recently some asshole abandoned his bike by locking it to my
front garden railings. After it had been there a week or so I decided
to remove it, but being unable to remove the Kryptonite lock without
liquid nitrogem, or whatever, I just sawed through the bike frame and
dragged the bike away. The next day I happened to be leaving when the
owner came to retrieve his bike. Shoulda seen the look on his face!


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

(or am I?)
From: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Serge A Thill)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Spy in the sky
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:39:21 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

In article <1992Jul15.045224.5148@news.iastate.edu> Dan Sorenson writes:
> 
> 	It most certainly is when you don't speak French and your Websters
> New World Dictionary cannot provide you with a proper spelling for the
> word "rondevous," which is obvously misspelled but I'll be damned if I can
> find the proper spelling in my goddamned dictionary!

Maybe a French girlfriend would be a better solution than Websters. For that
particular problem.

> If they had wanted _my_ consideration, they wouldn't eat snails and spell
> words in such a strange manner.

Maybe the consideration comes when you consider (sic) that _they_ don't eat 
them at McDonalds.

Maybe something else comes.

--
Serge Thill.      E-mail: serget@cogs.susx.ac.uk
                  Other Networks: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk
From: pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (pauline muggli)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Olympic flame
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:19:20 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Originator: mdtll@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu


  Gordon.Riddell@prg.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>  In <40075@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not Al Crawford says :
 
>|Peeve: the guy didn't miss when he fired the flaming arrow at the Olympic
>|flame. It'd probably have lit anyway, but it'd have been nice if he'd
>|missed.
 
>'Fraid he did miss. The BBC news, I think, showed a side view and the arrow
>clearly went over the bowl and out of the stadium. The flaming arrow ignited
>the gas as it shot past!

i think your concept of "miss" and the spanish olympic
committee's concept of "miss" are different.   they were only
concerned that the flaming arrow passed over the tower and
ignite the gas.  it didn't matter if it landed on the tower or not.
the police had cleared a space outside the stadium for the arrow to
land.  they did a short piece on the whole thing here.  i think out
of 70+ practice shots (by more than one archer) only 2 missed and 
those happened on a windy day.

obolympicpeeve1:  yesterday night, a unified team gymnist fell
off the balance beam.  this ruined her chances of continuing on
to the next step - the individual all around title.  on her next
and final rotation, she did the floor exercises.  when she was
done, she came off the floor crying.  this 15 year old girl was
being comforted by her teammates and some camera person kept
moving around to get a close-up of her tear lined face.  i'm
surprised they didn't shove a microphone in her face and ask her
"what went wrong on that balance beam routine?"  they would have
if she was a usan.  as a matter of fact, they did...

obolympicpeeve2:  the news media talking to janet evans after
she came in second, hearing her say she had no regrets about how
the race came out and the media saying how dissapointed she was
that she didn't get the gold.  it seems to me they did this with
another swimmer too, but i can't remember his name.  the media
seems to take all this "we got more medals than you have" stuff
more seriously than some of the athletes.

pauline
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From: umlepine@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bryan Lepine)
Subject: Re: BDI On Board
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:35:16 GMT

In <gvfm0cd@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

>In article <39563@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
>>
>>Dog on board, sheesh. What next, special safety seats
>>you can strap Fido into?

>Um, !Al, I hate to break the news to you (heh heh heh) but here in 'Merika,
>the land of the free and the home of the brave where the streets are
>paved with gold (they're a bit slippery in the rain, but what the hell),
>these things *have* been for sale for years.

  Up here in the Great White North we have em too. The product is a
harness and 4 straps used too keep fido in the centre of a pickup
truck so when the redneck driving it decides to teach some city slicker
a lesson and run him off the road fido will not go overboard.

-- 
============================================================================
"For a successful technology, reality must take |Bryan C. Lepine           |
 precedence over public relations, for nature   |umlepine@ccu.umanitoba.ca |
 cannot be fooled."	 -Richard Feynman       ============================
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: YAHOOS
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:48:46 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

In article <1992Jul28.001415.12868@odin.corp.sgi.com> zursch@whizkid.corp.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide) writes:
>
>[J "Mountain Man" Z Got Some this weekend]
>
>At this point, we counted 
>more than 30 revelers over the rise. They were all in the 18-24 age range,
>and had set up a big boombox with AC/DC blasting (with great distortion) 
>"Back in Black" for all our benefit....

Arrrrrrgh!!! I *hate* those people! 

Peeve: "People" who bring electric noise-generating equipment into the 
Great Outdoors. The Boom Box Bastards (tm) are bad enough, but I think
the Television Twits (tm) are the worst. Imagine camping fairly close
to another site where they're all sitting 'round the ol' campfire making
s'mores and WATCHING TELEVISION. Naturally they've got it cranked up
so you can just barely hear the laugh track over by your tent. Arrrrrgh!!!

-- 
Dan Hillman                  "If all the poetry and nonsense that have been
hillman@carina.unm.edu       discharged upon the bland scenery of this region
University of New Mexico     region were collected in a book, it would make
Land of Enchantment          a most valuable volume to burn."--Samuel Clemens
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From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: Another Enema Zoo Blunder (Was: Self-serve gas stations)
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
	<ATAYLOR.92Jul29103407@gauss.nmsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:04:40 GMT

In article <ATAYLOR.92Jul29103407@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
	   Well, at least you went to Ed Services...SOME folks (not
	   me) went to the parking department, filled out all the
	   forms ("drivers license, vehicle registration, campus
	   id, blood type, DNA structure, retina prints PUHleese)
	   and then found out they had to stroll up to Ed Services
	   ANYWAY!!!!

Did you leave your bodily fluid sample?

	   I note that SOMEONE (not me...) took a spray can to
	   the building that Parking lives in....the slogan
	   "F*CK THE PARKING DEPT.", while not very original,
	   is quite pithy and au courant.

Actually, I believe what is says on the side of the building, Alan,
is:
                    PIGS
	fuck the 
               Parking

And on the door:

           FUCK YOU!
           =========

In dark BLUE (couldn't ya find red, Nosy?)

   <Wonder why our enlarged NMSU Parking Department couldn't handle this?

	    Because it's a training ground for future Department of
	    Motor Vehicle personnel?

Ah ha. (So that's where they get'em..)

   <(I guess they don't trust those folks to collect money..)

	    Damned straight they don't, and with good reason!!!

   <   Having a resource like parking at our state university doled out in this
   <   manner is a peeve in itself. But when we are forced to wait over an hour
   <   to receive a paid permit for such, well, that really frosts me. 

	    Stick around (like you have a choice, with that crummy
	    airconditioning in the New PSL-East Annex....); 

Having not experienced it yet, I wouldn't know.

	    the Legislature may well decide that since Enema Zoo 
	    is collecting all those bucks for parking, the general 
	    appropriation for this place can just be cut by 
	    exactly the same amount....

It'll be $50 or $100 soon.

L.
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From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: radio stuff
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:04:20 GMT

Yeah, what Don said...

In a nutshell, (and don't we all want to get our nut?) peeving implies some
form of thought is taking place.  Whining implies that NO thought is taking
place.

Whining is ridiculous.  Peeving is sublime.
--
"Take me down where the love honey flows,
 kiss you nice, nibble your toes."      -B-52s, Good Stuff
From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more. . .
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:59:17 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Organization: The Exploding Hot Drink

In article <39554@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not Al Crawford writes:
> 
> You sure about that? Isn't it the case that if you spelt your name Cloudio
> instead of Claudio, people would get considerably closer to your name than
> they do now?

I tried that. "Closer" - yes. Correct - not yet. Not to mention that many
people seems to be incapable to keep using the same pronounciation when
they see the real spelling.

--
The ObTerrorist
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Newbie Alert!
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 01:55:33 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

In article <1992Jul28.121519.1354@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
>									
>obpeeve: Or how about this one? The ever popular waking up after sleeping
>and your hair's all messed up. I hate when that happens.

Gee, I know what you mean. It's like when you don't hang your clothes up
right after they come out of the dryer so they get all wrinkly. D*rn, I
hate that. It makes me so cross that I could just spit.


-- 
Dan Hillman                  "If all the poetry and nonsense that have been
hillman@carina.unm.edu       discharged upon the bland scenery of this region
University of New Mexico     were collected in a book, it would make a most
Land of Fucking Enchantment  valuable volume to burn."  -- Samuel Clemens
From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: A Terrorist is Threatening your next journey
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:36:12 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Organization: The Exploding Hot Drink


Until about two months ago I was totally addicted to Usenet. At some
point I was subscribed to just over 1400 newsgroups, including such
interesting ones as alt.test and misc.test.

Then I said "no".

Now I am recovering. I am only subscribed to one group, alt.peeves.
And I decided that today I am going to unsubscribe to it and go back
to real life. Renew your travel insurance, I am taking my old job.

Have an ice day

--
The ObTerrorist
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From: dtasman@mccoy.NMSU.Edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: "Bad Boy Club Stickers"
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:01:57 GMT

kpollack@zeus.calpoly.edu (Kirk Pollack) writes:
> These little gems feature a caricature of some scowling dickhead that 
> some people seem obliged to plaster on the back of their cars.  What does
> all this mean?  What am I supposed to think when I see a car, usually
> some VW GTI thing or a large 4 X 4 truck displaying one of these.  Does
> it mean "Look out for me because I look and act like the guy on the 
> decal?" 
> 
> I give up.
> 
> Perhaps it is some California only thing.

It's quite popular in New Mexico, particularly among the "dudemeister" crowd  
that enjoy surf-related clothes and accessories.  Generally, they're usually  
seen on VW Golfs,  Honda CRXs, Suzuki Samurais and any small Japanese pickup  
truck.  Often, the Bad Boy is accompanied by an Oakley sticker in the front  
window, Fido Dido, Rude Dog, or a bunch of skateboard stickers (Santa Cruz,  
Independent, etc...).


--
   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
                                                     molson@rever.nmsu.edu
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    Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
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From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott)
Subject: Re: stationery that bites back
Keywords: ouch
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:55:19 GMT

In article <39320@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
>Ouch! I just cut my thumb on a draft copy of my thesis. Even by the
>depraved standards of theses, physical injury seems to me to be over
>and above the call of duty. 

I wrote a paper for a class this spring (we're talking 25 pages on
the inhomogeneous representations of the Lorentz group; a real page-turner)
that gave me a really nasty paper cut.  Said cut then dripped several 
drops of blood onto my page of figures.  I really wanted to include this
in my report to prove to the professor that this paper was so important
to me that I bled for it.

Unfortunately, it was only the rough copy of the figures; they were 
kind of haphazardly arranged on the page and had yet to be pasted into
the main text.


At another point while writing this paper, I managed to consume two
liters of diet Coke in three hours.  To any of you who are considering
trying this, I would not recommend it.  Unless of course you enjoy 
running to the bathroom every ten minutes and being too hyper to sit
still.

(Grammar peeve repeller:  Yes, I know that last sentence was actually
 a sentence fragment.  I did it on purpose for dramatic effect.  
 So there!)


Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu

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From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: Another Enema Zoo Blunder (Was: Self-serve gas stations)
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
	<ATAYLOR.92Jul29103407@gauss.nmsu.edu>
	<LARRY.92Jul29130440@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>
	<ATAYLOR.92Jul30093311@gauss.nmsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:17:06 GMT

In article <ATAYLOR.92Jul30093311@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
    [...]

    <   Actually, I believe what is says on the side of the building, Alan,
    <   is:
    <		       PIGS
    <	   fuck the 
    <		  Parking

    <   And on the door:

    <	      FUCK YOU!
		  =========

    <   In dark BLUE (couldn't ya find red, Nosy?)

	    Hmmm? Considering that you seem much better informed
	    than I on the issue of the exact wording of said 
	    vandalistic graffitti....who is the proper suspect,
	    here?

 Not me. I know the exact wording, because, my dear Blubber, I work in
 Academic Research Center building C, which is a few short steps away from
 the graffittied administrative office in question..

    <	       Stick around (like you have a choice, with that crummy
    <	       airconditioning in the New PSL-East Annex....); 

    <   Having not experienced it yet, I wouldn't know.

	    Huh? Din't you brag about having an orifice that
	    overlooks the park? Ain't you in "the last room on
	    the left"?

 Yeh, I have an office as described, and it is even completed, but is
 currently occupied by a displaced administrator, whose front office is
 being revamped. Meanwhile, we don't live there yet.

    ObScaryThought: Larry may have finally gotten a serial
		    drop in one of the bathroom stalls...enabling
		    him to read/post Peeves from "home away from
		    home".

 Hell, we've had that for years. However, you got it wrong. All the
 bathroom stall references to this Taylor guy get posted in alt.tasteless,
 not alt.peeves.

    <	       the Legislature may well decide that since Enema Zoo 
    <	       is collecting all those bucks for parking, the general 
    ,	       appropriation for this place can just be cut by 
    <	       exactly the same amount....
    <
    <   It'll be $50 or $100 soon.

	    Not for staff, it won't....

 We shall see. In for $5, in for $50.

 Peeve: Endless meaningless meetings, conducted by endlessly boring
	administrative types.

 L.
"Yeh, Buddy..            | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)|  _~~_
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