HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Peeves about Teenagers
Date: 4 Jan 93 07:45:53 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <1i45i0INNc6j@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>In article <86064@ut-emx.uucp> logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) writes:
>>
>>Peeve:  That I just don't feel like this post of mine is very original and
>>maybe I'm just using it to vent frustration.  Please, nobody respond that
>>this is also your peeve, then I'll think it's true.
>
>Why, Logan!  Really!  Peeving about the weather unoriginal?  Surely you
>jest!  Why, I don't believe anyone's EVER peeved about the weather in the
>history of mankind - and certainly not on a.p.
>
>And as for peeving about people peeving about problems that aren't really
>problems in your book - well, again, no one's ever done it before -and
>it certainly is a legitimate peeve, especially since your own personal
>problems (like having to drive on icy roads) are so earth shattering and
>unique!!

Hey, first of all I specifically said not to respond, and of course the
whole world is supposed to jump at my every whim, or hadn't you been
informed?

I was peeving not about the weather, but about the fact that the original
poster was complaining when he really had it quite good.  It would be much
like (though not as extreme as) the annoyance which would be experience by
a Somalian if a soldier involved in the relief effort were to complain that
their rations were bad.

And, the funny thing about all of this is that you're doing just what I
read alt.peeves for:  you're complaining about things, and being sarcastic
and snotty and all that, and I get to complain about that (even though it's
the norm and the goal in this newsgroup), and when I do, I'm fulfilling the
purpose of the newsgroup.  What a wondrous contradiction.

Original(IThink)Peeve:  Because I sit at my desk where my computer is located
all the time and my feet are always in one particular place, a large amount
of carpet fuzz accumulates near the wall, where all the cord and stuff
are.  Since it's hard to get back there and clean, the accumlation is
rarely ever taken care of, and it grows and grows.  Combine this with
the fact that I consider carpet fuzz about as gross as ... uh... open
heart surgery and have often had to strongly suppress my urge to throw
up when encountering carpet fuzz, and you'll see why it's a peeve.  (Don't
ask me *why* carpet fuzz gives me the willies like it does - I've no
idea.)

!Peeve:  Slang phrase gems like these, which I am attempting to include in
my everyday usage:

        "tumped over", meaning 'fell over'.
        "all tuckered out", meaning 'very tired'.
        "mighty big", meaning 'very big'.

!Peeve:  the Seventy Sevens and their new album _Pray_Naked_.

Adios,
  Logan
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From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Ed
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:23:54 GMT
Reply-To: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1993Jan11.204329.8296@twg.com>, Donald Mac Piobreacht writes:
Banta>Cool!  Do you get to keep the half lung?  Can you take a picture of
Banta>it and scan it in.  I've always had this urge to know what a
Banta>chancerous chunk of flesh looks like.

>I wonder how well it'd work with blowpipe, chanter and drones.


Dohmnhaill me lad, don't be talking shit. 

You can't use that for bagpipes......it's haggis material!

JZ

obpeeve: No real haggis in OVER 3 YEARS!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: antipope@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (charless@scol.sco.com)
Subject: Re: The Multi-cultural scourge
Organization: The IBM PC User Group On-line services
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:36:07 GMT

In article <lkh0ibINNgeq@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>
>So can anyone tell me exactly when capitalism fell out of favor with
>the PC? (or should that be the multi-cultural?)  This babe didn't even
>have any electricity or running water at her house because she didn't
>want to feed capitalism.  She gripes about the logging companies and
>heats her house with wood.  She gripes about off-shore drilling and
>drives a 60's vintage Maverick.  

Capitalism fell out of favour with the PC when they got the bill.
Let's face it, those of us wage-slaves who work for a living don't
have _time_ to be pissed off at capitalism. I mean, hey, we've 
got those mortgages to service, haven't we?

Peeve: Christmas. All my bills come in the same week; phone bill,
TV license, last poll tax payment, inland revenue, car insurance,
house insurance, computer insurance, and credit cards. Not to 
mention the book club. On top of which, I got three hang-overs
and not a single all-nighter. I reckon that qualifies for a peeve.

!Peeve: coming soon -- a home newsfeed. And lots more autopapal bull ...

-- 
Antipope -- HE gives you Bull, I give you the Straight ... er ....
From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Malevolent plumbing
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:57:40 GMT
Reply-To: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1ikur7INNgei@parsifal.umkc.edu>, Gerald Combs writes:
>  Peeve3:  Although the apartment manager said she'd get someone working on
>it right away, it also means that the old troll will probably snoop around
>our apartment while they're working, as I suspect she has done in the past.

Okay Binker, time for lesson #1. I won't charge for this one, because I just *know*
you'll be back for more. 

Any apartment manager who's likely to snoop around your joint will fall into a 
very narrow class of people I like to call "busybodies." I have an affinity for busybodies,
and so I hate to disappoint them. Here are 10 ideas for little, shall we say, "vignettes"
you might want to construct for her snooping pleasure. 

1) Hang a crucifix (a big Latino Roman-Catholic one with lots of detail) upside-down
    over your bed and draw a big pentagram in stage blood on your (previously white)
    bedspread. Then get a whole lot of polaroid pictures (taken surreptitiously) of
    children playing in schoolyards and put them *everywhere* in your bedroom.
  
2) Go to the pet store and buy a bunch of rats. Then poison them and place them in
    a heap under the dripping plumbing. It's best if you poison a couple and then let
    the others chew on them for a while. 

3) The old roadkill in the fridge trick. 

4) Since the holidays are only recently past, replace your christmas tree ornaments 
    with tampoons soaked in the stage blood left over from scene #1. 

5) Leave some amusing messages on your answering machine. Get your friends to
    help. 

6) Cut about 5 pounds of baking soda onto a 3 foot by 5 foot mirror on the dining
    table. Leave a $100 bill out for effect. To complete the picture, buy a realistic
    looking MAC10 toy gun and leave it there, too.  

7) Do nothing to your apartment, but when she's done, ask her if she heard any
    noises coming from the hall closet. 

8) One word: flatulence

9) Get a big pickle jar and use it for your toilet duty for 3 days. Then cap it and
    give it a prominent place in your refrigerator. 

10) Goldfish (preferably Koi) in the toilet bowl.

You might notice that most of these tricks revolve around the bedroom and the 
fridge. Well, those are the first places that busybodies tend to look, so I say "don't
leave anything to chance!" 

JZ

ObPeeve: rust on my black powder rifle barrel. :^( 
 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: The Los Altos Rod & Gun Club
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:49:27 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <1993Jan11.224403.25138@odin.corp.sgi.com>, zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide) writes:
|> In article <1isokn$nb3@agate.berkeley.edu>, Curtis Yarvin writes:
|> >It's not a hard mistake to make, though, considering the remarkable
|> >physical resemblance between you and JZ.  Jill and Linda may be
|> >capable by now, but it takes a lot of practice to be able to tell one
|> >booze-ridden Sasquatch from another.
|> 
|> I guess you didn't take those folks seriously when they told you you'd go blind, 
|> huh? Here's a quick reference card for a slow reference boy: 
|> 
|> 
|> Don (Pette) - About 5'10" with a moustache. I'd put him at about 200 pounds, too. 
|>                     dark hair, in your classic "hi, I'm a compu-valley employee" cut. At
|>                     a glance, I'd say he works out a little, but not a lot. 

I gotta ask: How tall is he *without* the moustache?

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From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Slumming Nerds
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:44:19 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
] In <4Jqds*sP0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
] 
] >Peeve: People with excellent network connectivity from home.
] 
] Damn, dac, we ALL have 38.4 kbps PPP (or SLIP) connections 
] here in the YewWess!

Bill,

just because you have a poorboy's networking solution 
is no reason to whine about it here in alt.peeves.

Why don't you take dac over to alt.wanna.be.interesting
and discuss your backwards networking solutions there.

ciao
drieux


-- 
Modern Day Problems:

"lets get linear, I want to get linear, linear"
				Olivia Newton Algegra
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: A Few New Year Peeves
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:32:13 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University


1993 is going to be a peevesome year - I feel it in my water.
It started badly.  I decided to take some time off to spend New year
with my BedWarmer in London, enjoying the fruits of being a Kept Woman
for a while and generally lounging around spending Kevin's money. 
Imagine my surprise when he rang me on 30th December from work to tell
me that his Bastard Oil Company had decided to send him offshore.
-When?
-Tonight
-great - there goes my plan for greeting New Year with a Bang.

However, there is some kind of rough injustice in the world which makes
me feel better - you may have heard about the latest oiltanker disaster
in force 12 gales just off Shetland.  The pictures on TV last night of
writhing 50 foot waves in the North Sea somehow gave a feeling of
comfort.  A warm glow imparted by the fact that the Bedwarmer in
question had a colder, wetter, soberer and yet more  vomit-filled New
Year than I did.

Babs
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: "A Heretic! May We Burn Him?" (Was: Holiday peeves)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:31:52 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:

>	Ugly? UGLY? One of the prettiest aircraft ever made

Since I am a believer that form should follow function, I respect the
aircraft and its designers for the Zero's capabilities.  However, I am not
immune to a certain gut-level reaction to its appearance.  My initial
impression of the Zero was that of something a 3 year old would draw -
crude and out of proportion.

I will grant that the spare ribs sticking out of the cowling have a certain
menacing appeal.

Now, if you like the Nambu pistol I'm going to keel over.

-Dave
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.sex.bondage,sci.physics
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Isotope dating methods
Followup-To: alt.sex,soc.singles 
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:04:22 GMT

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
] 
] 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).


I guess this leads to the question of whether or
not the decay is a 'half life' based process,
or at some other non_linear form.

Can we get an NIS grant to study this problem?

Has anyone done a computer model of this?

ciao
drieux


-- 
Modern Day Problems:

"lets get linear, I want to get linear, linear"
				Olivia Newton Algegra
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 18:14:36 GMT

Claudio.Terrorist writes:
>I was thinking of the times
>when we had a resident hunter who would go and catch a quick lunch in
>alt.whine, or a more substantial meal in alt.postmodern, while now we
>lazily wait for the BDIs to make their first move, reducing the overall
>sanity of the newsgroup.

Hmm, maybe it IS time for a little poaching expedition.

Right now, Dan is trying to reason with some of the buffoons over in
talk.politics.animals; I just started thumbing my nose at them a little.
Could be a good time, if we got a bit of creative cross-posting going.

Who's with me?

     don "smug omnivore" baldwin
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Swearing
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 09:39:13 GMT
 <1992Dec31.223702.3203@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan3.231237.20977@igor.tamri.com>
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

In article <1993Jan3.231237.20977@igor.tamri.com>, Don Baldwin writes:

> In article <1992Dec31.223702.3203@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu
> (Bill Berbenich) writes:

> >Now here's a frightening thought - I wake up one morning to some strange woman
> >who keeps shaking me and saying "dac!  wake up or you'll be late!"
> >
> >YIKES!  Just the thought of it gives me the willies!
> 
> Well, there's the little bit of absurdity that will clue you in to the fact
> that you're having a nightmare.
> 
> After all, we all know Dac doesn't HAVE a willy!

I see that one half of the Baldwin Posters has decided to take my
little jibe about being a reprobate, and run with it. 

I'm certain that your vapid comment was jolly amusing, for the
phytoplankton-level readers out there reading the net.
Otherwise, as predictable as buttered toast landing on the carpet
with the messy side to the floor. And just as welcome.

Bill was stating that such a thought gives _him_ the willies.  My
own sexual equipment wasn't mentioned.

Didn't pindick flames go out with 2400bps network access?

Peeve: 9600 bps MAX to my newsfeed. It doesn't even support MNP 4. 

Peeve: Mondays. I hate them. Especially when they are 'back to
       work' Mondays.

Peeve/!Peeve: We're getting a new cat from the RSPCA. 

Dac
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From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Atlanta-area Landmark Succumbs to Fierce Winds
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 16:16:11 GMT

Dave "A. Jing" Hippy wrote some e-mail to me this morning about a great
tragedy he had heard of, with regard to an Atlanta-area landmark.  I
knew of this tragedy, but was too choked-up to think about it before and
was in no mood to post about it.

I am, of course, referring to Le Grand Poulet.

The Big Chicken.

A Marietta landmark for over 25 years (that *I* know of), The Big
Chicken - actually a very, very large (4-story) depiction of a
white chicken - succumbed to high winds in the area and 5'x5' section
of the thing blew off into the cosmos.  This is quite peevesome.

Years ago, The Big Chicken sat atop a chicken eatery of a now-forgotten
name.  The place has changed hands at least a few times, but it is now
owned by none other than KFC (un-voguely known as Kentucky Fried
Chicken).  Back in the olden days (and thanks to Dave for reminding me
of this lost bit of trivia), the beak of the chicken moved up and down
and the eyes moved around in circles.  Now the display is merely a
static one.  The exact date of the conversion from moving to static is
unknown to this reporter, but was likely made in the interests of public
safety.  Such a thing nowadays would SURELY cause many BDIDs to collide
as they gaped and gawked skyward.

Any directions to someplace in Marietta, Georgia are sure to include
a reference to The Big Chicken.  That'd qualify it as a landmark in
MY book.

But the good news is that the chicken is to be promptly repaired and
"renovated" to restore it to its proper glory.  No word as to whether
there will be moving parts once again, but I wouldn't bet that there
will be.  BDIDs and all that, you know...

Directions to The Big Chicken - just make your way to the intersection
of US 41 and Roswell St.  Can't miss it!  Lots of war history in that
area, too.  You know, the War for Southern Independence.

Historically,
  -Bill

(Damn!  I'm hungry now!)
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Lurkers
Date: 7 Jan 93 05:03:30 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park


	My peeve is about those goddamned lurkers.

	You know who I'm talking about.  They're the people who 
	see you say something in a thread, and then, without
	bothering to read the thread send you a stack of private
	EMAIL that wants to start the debate over from the beginning.

	If these people would just post to the goddamned net you
	could tell them to go read the previous messages and that would
	be that, and add any insights (ha!) they had to the discussion
	at hand.

	Instead, everythings gotta be in email. 

	Goddamnit, I like my mailbox EMPTY.  I answer everything and
	save the rest to a file.  Nothing pisses me off more than
	to find a mailbox with 22 messages of crap from idiots too
	stupid to go back and read up on the thread.

	I especially like it when they're flames.

	The only thing worse than those types in general are the 
	kind that start their testaments to idiocy off with a
	"I haven't read the previous thread, but I wanted to 
	address what you say in" 

	THEY ADVERTISE THEY'RE STUPIDITY!!

	Boy.  I never use all caps.  Chock it up to a crummy mailer
	and a whole lot o' idiots.

	Feeling peeved.


-- 
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		Shepherds are for sheep.   -----      Pain teaches.
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Man mauled by lion
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:58:16 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <29913@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.173235.19278@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>~of fat and then simply fucking for an entire month.

>Sounds like one of Babs's field-trips to me.

What?  Where's the strong lager?  Vomiting?  2000 quids worth of damage?
Total ban on geologists in hotels, youth-hostels, bothies and field
centres throughout the entire known universe?  

Where's the ObSock?

Where, pray, is the chicken vindaloo (which should be smeared liberally
over the ObSock.  Recycled)

Where's the brain-dead rugby-playing twat who thinks he can drink more
beer than everyone else put together and then has to have his stomach
pumped after 3 pints of scrumpy?

Peeve;  Clueless geophysicists who suffer from perverted
field-fantasies.  

Babs
From: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: The Multi-cultural scourge
Date: 4 Jan 1993 18:30:35 GMT
Organization: FizzBall Racing
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: abingdon

So one of the things handed to me on the 24th was the "Politically
Correct Dictionary and Handbook."  For the life of me, I can't figure
out if the book is intended to be a farce or not.  It never comes
right out and says the only things that can be insulted are white male
people.  Other than the examples, it appeared to be a very
matter-of-fact book.  The examples were pretty odd: they were
suggesting using free-roaming as a PC alternative to wild, and the
example they provided was "Sarah was mauled by a free-roaming boar."

Another thing that amazed me is the PC, at some point, had enough
firing neurons to figure out that the term "politically correct" was
being used derogatorily by their detractors.  This book recommends
using "multi-cultural" as a replacement adjective, to avoid the
negative connotations.  *If* I thought anyone would be taking the book
seriously, it might make me ill.

Linda and I took off to a friend's place on the northern California
coast last week.  Our friend wasn't there, but allowed us use of the
house while she was away.  Who did show up was the gardner, who
qualifies as a screaming, effervescing bunny-hugger.

While the gardner ran around the house, watering the plants, Linda and
I chuckled lightly that she (the gardner) would run across some
interesting accoutrements in the guest room.  Anyway, she returns and
tries to strike up smalltalk with us, asking us how our "holidays"
were.  We tell her quiet and nice; she assures us that *she* doesn't
celebrate Christmas.  And as she turns to leave, she made the comment
"Merry Capitalism."

I shot back "Damn straight."  She stutter-stepped a little, but never
stopped or turned back.

So can anyone tell me exactly when capitalism fell out of favor with
the PC? (or should that be the multi-cultural?)  This babe didn't even
have any electricity or running water at her house because she didn't
want to feed capitalism.  She gripes about the logging companies and
heats her house with wood.  She gripes about off-shore drilling and
drives a 60's vintage Maverick.  

Shit, she probably wouldn't have gotten to me if I hadn't just
finished book that grants these kooks implicit worth by discussing
them in calm tones.  I just wanted to go outside, catch a squirrel,
then peel and eat it like a banana while she watched.  She just left
too quickly.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
 by those who have not got it."
                                -- George Bernard Shaw
From: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:19:00 GMT
Organization: FizzBall Racing
NNTP-Posting-Host: abingdon

(John Fereira) writes:
>In article <sehari.726196822@lisa.ecss.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
>|What type of new innovation, software or products do you want to be
>|introduced to the market place.  

>I would like to see a piece of software that would prevent people from
>posting to all unix wide bbs's.

Very good, shit-for-brains.  Now send it to HIM!  Send it to Babek.
DON'T FUCKING SEND IT TO US!

Your response was not so original or so witty that it needed to be
shared with the world.  The chances that Babek actually reads peeves
or even has an account any more are highly dubious, so knock it off.

Grrr.

andy
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
 by those who have not got it."
                                -- George Bernard Shaw
Newsgroups: alt.peeves