HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:59:18 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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In article <92099.150257SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers)
writes:


>Example2: Earlier this week, I was in a computer lab, and I helped
>a woman at great length with setting up a table in MacWord.  In the course
>of the conversation, she said, "you're really great.  I think it's really
>important that we women stick together, don't you?"

Come <hyuck> to think of it, I've rented a few movies that had women 
sticking together.  This one wasn't a CCDCCTDD*, was she?

* Ask Jeffie.


>Now, I don't have a problem with people thinking I'm wonderful, but
>it makes me peevish when they think I'm being nice just because I'm a
>woman.

It makes me peevish when people think I'm dangerous just because I'm a 
guy, and a fairly large one.  I enjoy walking around in the evening, since
it's decent exercise and a good way to organize my thoughts.  And besides,
I might chance upon a stray animal to dismember.

But I've noticed more and more that when I encounter people walking t`other 
way, they act not just ill at ease, but *frightened.*  And not just women,
either.  They seem to think that the default situation is for me to attack 
them.  And I don't think I look partcularly intimidating.  For example, I 
was out walking one night not far from my apartment, and I noticed an elderly 
man and woman standing on the sidewalk a couple of hundred yards ahead with a
few pieces of luggage next to them; they appeared to be waiting for a cab or 
something.

A few seconds went by, and as I gradually drew closer, they suddenly noticed 
me.  They grabbed all their stuff and *ran* back inside the condo complex
behind them.  I'd never in my life seen old people move that quickly.  And
for what?  Just because some guy was walking toward them on the same side
of the street!  I'll grant that there are a lot of weirdos around these
days, and hearing about people like Dahmer doesn't exactly help, either.
But for crying out loud, that's not sufficient reason for people to go
slinking around with their figurative tails between their legs like fright-
ened dogs.  It annoys me so much that sometimes I feel like lunging at 
someone just for the hell of it, just to step back and watch them pee in
their pants.  Boo!  "Eeek!"



Geoff


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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: engineers, again
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:33:23 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 7068@email.tuwien.ac.at, alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky) writes:
> i suspect the motivations of people for actually reading this group vary.

My motivation is pure schadenfreude.

ObPeeve: I wanted to check the spelling of "schadenfreude", and this American
         Heritage Dictionary let me down again.  Three times in three days.

PleaseSirMayIHaveAnother: I don't want to post a GIF of me, because Jay Zed's
         description of me sounded so nice, I hate to displace it.

---
Brian Scearce                               bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
        The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
  "Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice appears under your feet."
From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: New Subject Line
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:27:05 GMT
Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front

And lo, ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The Lemming) spake unto the masses saying:
>In article <31425@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
> 
> There's an English guy in my dorm who was doing this yesterday.  He
> seems to feel that by the time he finishes his PhD here and is ready
> to return to the UK, the country won't exist because it will have
> fallen into a horrible depression, become a barren wasteland, and
> be owned by Ugandan rebels or somesuch.

Ah, someone who is overseas - they seem to be the worst sort. Certain
newsgroups in which the UK election has come up for discussion have had
messages posted from ex-pat people saying "Right, that's it, there's NO WAY
I'm going back to the UK to live under the Tories." What's rather strange
about this is that these people are mailing from the *US*. Odd, when you
consider that most of the things these people are screaming about the
Tories introducing (more privatisation) or that they think the Tories will
introduce (private health care) are already very firmly in place in the US.
Add to that the fact that most of these people are in the US *for the
money* (anathema to the caring, sharing society that these people profess
to be all in favour of) and all their affronted shock and horror seems
rather false.

ObPoliticalBalancePeeve: those ex-pats who, prior to the election, posted
to the same aforementioned newsgroups with messages like "Vote Conservative
on April 9th." For one thing, I need a bloody sight more convincing than
that, for another I find it very difficult to take anyone seriously who
posts suggesting that I vote for a particular party over here whilst living
in another country.  If they want a particular party in power they should
come over here and live under them.

ObPolitiBonusPeeve: all this talk about forcing a Scottish referendum
seems, to me, a fairly good idea. I don't think it should take *too* much
effort to get the Tories around the table too, since I think many of the
less narrow-minded individuals in that party realise that just because they
got 2 more seats in Scotland in the election *doesn't* mean they're back in
favour. What peeves me, though, is that given the wealth of political
talent amongst Scottish MPs, someone like "Gorgeous George" Galloway ends
up as chief spokesman for the pro-referendum group.

ObBusPeeve: Today it's a local holiday in Edinburgh. Since next week has
the various Easter holidays in it, a lot of places aren't taking the day
off. I'd guess that somewhere between 60 and 70% of the workforce are still
at work. So *why* did the bus companies decide that a Sunday service (i.e.
one bus an hour if you're lucky) would be sufficient at rush hour? I've
never seen queues like the queues I saw this morning in my *life*.

--
		Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
     "The water shines/A sheepdog skips across the face/A dozen times"
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: banta@gilia.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Midwestern pilgrimmages
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:19:34 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: gilia

Tickling the peeve switch, (Stimpson J. Cat) writes:
>  I live about three blocks away from a local Kansas City attraction, the
>Country Club Plaza.  

Peeve:  Kansas City.  A bunch of rednecks who think they're *so*
cosmopolitan because they've stumbled into someplace where there's
more than two traffic lights and you can actually stand someplace
where cornfields aren't visible.  Country Club Plaza looks like a
corner genreal store compared to Watertower Place or any other mall
worth its patronage.  A collapsed roof is about the best thing that
could happen to Kemper Arena.   And the thing that really makes me
snort a hamster is these bumpkins got so caugth up in "urban
development" the *paved the fucking creek beds.*  (I'm not kidding.)

"Gee, Jethro, whydja think the streets flood here so often?"
"Golly, Amos <scratch> djagot me."

And for those can't get enough of the taste of pig shit in the air,
the berg right across the river is chock full of stockyards.  Boy
howdy.  Sign me up.  I'd throw the old lady, kid, and dog in the
pickup in a second to move there!

>the place is full of rich snob peeves.  

Is that "rich snobs," or just people living high on the hog?

>What peeves me the most is that these things
>have become a tradition over the years, yet they are utterly ridiculous.  It's
>as if Christ died for asynchronous rabbits or something.

Why try to drag the silly Christians into a pagan holiday like
Easter?  It's the start of spring!  A time you're supposed to fuck
like _bunnies_.  A time to get out there and fertilize those _eggs_.

"Hey Judas!  The days are gittin longer.  Aren't we supposed to
decorate a cross or something like that?"

"I'se believes your right.  I'll git the nails.  You go betray some
sap."

"Sho' fing.  By the way, don't forget to wash your hands before
dinner."

Yeah, right.

ObHair: Nasal

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
Somehow, I have a problem taking a hurricane named "Bob" seriously ...
					-- Akkana Peck
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 16 Apr 1992 18:55:53 EDT
From: Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: engineers, again
 <92107.183921JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>

In article <92107.183921JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>, Jenni Sheehey
<JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>Peeve: Another person with not only the same *first* name as mine, but also
>the
>same *middle* name.  There seem to be a million of them.
>Sometimes I wish it wasn't such a pain to change
>one's name.

What wonderful alignment, and I didn't sign my name, either.

Peeve: sending an article by accident before it's done.

                                                 --Jenni
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Geographic areas (was Re: pocquers (was Re: Smoking Surrogat
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:38:56 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <167C2F918.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
(The Lemming) writes:

>Actually, Walt Disney heard about lemmings' suicidal tendencies and
>decided to do one of his nature films about it.  He went to Scandinavia
>and found out that lemmings don't jump off cliffs.  He wanted to film
>it though, so he made his film crew chase them over the cliffs and filmed
>that.  Truly horrible.
 
 
Cool!  I liked the part at the end, where hundreds of limp, dead little 
lemming bodies wash up on shore, gently rolling back and forth in the 
surf.

But how did they round up so many of the little skcumbeagcs on such short 
notice?   That's what *I* wanna know!



Geoff


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From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Midwestern pilgrimmages
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:11:15 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

Running amuck at umkc, (Stimpson J. Cat) writes:
>In article <ku6lamINN793@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, banta@gilia.Eng.Sun.COM 
>(242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>> Peeve:  Kansas City.
>
>  The nearest centers of population are Cent Loooois and (heh) Omaha.  
>K.C.'s as cosmopolitan as you're gonna get, 'til you hit (ahem) Denver.

And this is a feature?  St. Louis at least has a few redeeming
features.  For one, not all of its residents stand there with their
toe firmly placed in the dirt saying "Look at our *city*."

[paved creek beds]
>  It tends to allow more water flow through the creek, thereby providing
>flood control.  What's your point?

My point is some dung-shoveller cum mayor tried to emulate political
bosses in real cities and let some cement company crawl around in his
boxers for a while.  The mayor got his strokes (and office), the
concrete folks got their bucks, and the residents are left with
entirely run-off.  There's plenty of flooding when it rains, no ground
water when it doesn't and apparently the residents are blissfully
proud of this fact.  I'm sure the umkc library has some books on local
history.  You should still be able to read the text through the
crayon.

>> And for those can't get enough of the taste of pig shit in the air,
>
>  Pardon me, but this is a _cowtown_.  

Anyone that can tell the difference by the smell deserves a free
passage out.

>Peeve1:  Living in a town that's so uptight about its image.  It's starting
>to rub off on me.

As long as you aren't rubbing off on it.  A prime example of those
with very little desperately clinging to any vestiage of civilization
they can find.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"The good thing about meeting two Microsoft executives while naked is
you can shake hands with both of them at once." -- Scott Griffith
From: sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Top heavy
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:25:09 -0500

I recently began a regime of lifting weights to bulk up and 
gain some weight (convert mass actually, but in the process I gained 
ten pounds). Now on my 6'2" frame there are 195 lbs. of mostly muscle
as opposed to 185 lbs of a good amount of muscle with a GoodYear 
Radial-ply P205/60H/15  Eagle hanging from my midsection.

This was achieved by foregoing my regime of 12 ounce bicept curls
and beating my sufficiently small brain to bits "pumping iron"
on a Universal-like machine I received on permanent loan from
my brother-in-law. One needs a sufficiently small brain to actually
put oneself through a 6 month regime of pain and torture to look better
for no one else but his wife. Hell, it's just plain stupid for ANY
reason now that I think about it!

Anyway this is alt.peeves so here goes.

Now that I have switched my purely lifting regime to an alternate 
lift run regime (every other day, I'm not THAT foolish) I have learned
that the genotype I was dealt upon conception was adequet to form a
phenotype who's knees were sufficiently strong to carry at full jog,
an individual massing 185 lbs at 1g but NOT the same individual at
195 lbs at 1g.

Now I feel like a quarterback who was popped once too many times from the
side (a la Joe Namath) whenever my right leg hits the ground. It feels
like my leg is bowing outward like a COWBOY. This was not due  to over
exertion during my lifting regime because my legs have never needed toning
so I only worked upper body. Until recently my legs were the only part of
my body that WAS firm. 

ALL the time anyway. Heh Heh. :-)

Life's a bitch, then you pay taxes.

Scott "the ORIGINAL hulkster" Chasse
"Muscle beach? Why it's,,,that way" [I'm flexing and pointing in no
                                     particular direction right now]
	    		











Wait,wait stop the post. This is no good.

Hold on just a minute.





There.





I'm sorry folks. I was lying. I really didn't bulk up
by lifting weights. The truth is I gained 10 lbs by
eating a pound of spagetti every day topped with RealButter (tm)
and grated parmesean cheese.No sauce. Sometimes I would just add
string cheddar cheese to the bowl and let it all melt together
and jealously suck it down before my wife came home and claimed 
some as hers. That way I could partake in her evening meal, usually
a steak with  baked potato and ooooooooh SOUR CREAM! No worchestshire
rancid anchovies anymore please. Then afterwards we would go to Carvel
and each get a pint of our favorite ice cream and watch star-trek
reruns on the VCR. Then in the middle of the night I would get up,
finish my pint then polish off my wife's. I'm so ashamed :-(

My apologies to the alt.peevers for the net lie. My credibility
is in shambles. I don't deserve to peeve. If you'll all excuse me
I'm going to stick my head into a bucket of lard until dead.

Humbly,

Porkey
From: sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lawyers not Chemists
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:29:53 GMT

In article <!8qj2+@lynx.unm.edu>, hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
> In article <1992Apr7.164630.987@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
> 
>>Now I went
>>to college also. I studied, no doubt, as hard as he; if not harder. I
>>painstakingly shoveled others people shit lab work for years to get my
>>coveted degrees. The only problem is that I am the only one who covets
>>them. Out of college my first position paid $20K per year. What the Fuck
>>is that? Most of my fraternity brothers who watched TV through collge
>>made more than that out of college!
> 
> Gosh, my widdle heart bleeds.
> 
> Sounds like *you* studied something that people are willing to pay you to
> know. Try graduating from college with a B.A. in psycholology (with a thesis
> on Jungian archetypes) and see how many companies are beating down *your*
> door to pay you minimum wage.
> 
> Shit, man, I graduated four years ago and I have yet to make as much money
> in a year as college cost my senior year.

It seems that we are on the same side of two different coins; mines a nickel
and your's is a penny. Same shit different pay. I don't think there are federal
guidelines regarding the *degrees* of poverty (pun intended). Shit pay is shit
pay and you can't live on it.

For the life of me though I can't see why anyone would connsider studying, in
detail, the inane, alchemeic (Ijust invented that word. Pretty good, huh?),
unsubstantiated psychobabbles that are euphemistically called "soft" sciences.
Hence the degree Bachelor's of the Arts as opposed to Bachelor's of Science.
You brought you own misfortune on yourself.

But in my case I have acquired the ability to advance the scope of human
knowledge in useful and meaningful ways; ways that canbe and are applied
to the common good of large numbers of people. But do I get justly compensated 
for it? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I get a pat on the back from my supervisor, a credit
towards a publication and shoved back into the lab to make a new and improved
whatzit for what amounts to diminishing  returns on my education dollars.
Meanwhile the Senior executives (who are planning to sell of the industry to
foreigners anyway), accountants, lawyers, advertising executives, and a few
politicians will reap HUGE profits from the whatzit *I* just invented. It is
for this reason they require each scientist to sign away the rights to any
patents he or she might otherwise have exclusive rights to.

> !Peeve: Getting paid to go to grad school. And hey, maybe I'll be able
> to get a *real* job when I'm all done. 

I'm sorry to say that very few *real* jobs exist for one with an advanced
degree in psychology. One notable exception is a professor of psychology.
Kind of a self serving circle don't you think? One learns psychology to teach
others to learn psychology to teach others to...etc.



Scott a. Chasse

This time I'm NOT lying...or am I?
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lust from afar
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:05:50 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <92103.205659SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers) writes:
>My TA just got bitched out for "hitting on the girls in the class".
>
>(How do I know this?  Because I was one of the girls he was supposedly
>hitting on.  He told me about it.  I'm pretty sure he isn't romantically
>interested in me; we just enjoy making fun of each other.  :-)

Uh oh.  Now you've done it.  You made the net "mistake", and they'll
make you pay.

You said "girls" and not "womyn".

Every PC whacko on the net will scent the blood of the sacrificial
post and come in here yammering and screaming for proportional
representation (or something sounding suspiciously like that) and
demand that we whack off your peepee.

Oh - you're a "girl"?  (Emily Latella voice:) "Never mind."

>Peeve: People who assume that any two members of the opposite gender
>who have a good time together want to have sex together.

Ahhh, but that can be the start and continuation of a good time.
Nothing wrong with (or without) it.  Well, actually, it's better with.

ObFodder: "Some of my best friends are girls."  

ObGun: SIG 226, K-kote and Siglite.

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: New Subject Line
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:48:41 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

In article <20139@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>
>ObScene - Tony Cunningham and a girl called Tracy in matching shell-suits
>driving an XR3i round High Wycombe.

Ugh! I *hate* shell suits.
T

p.s See you in the pub Friday night?
p.p.s You never answered my mail



-- 
Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. tjc@ed.ac.uk

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and colour, hold
away despair. More than this I will not ask faced with mysteries dark and vast.
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Where'd he get his name?
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:47:11 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <9468@wrgate.wr.tek.com> dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (David Munroe) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.030533.4351@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bill.Berbenich@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
>
>>What I wanna know is - Where did Nosy get his name?
>>How about Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way?
>>And where did Booter get her name?
>
>I think it came from her machine name, since Elaine always signs her posts
>as ER.  I'd bet "booter" is the name of a cat, though.


When my product has shipped and I have a large cuppa cawfee in my hand, I
will post the Great Booter Story. It has nothing to do with computers.


>I want to see if a particular female Poaster matches my impression of her
>as a young Lauren Bacall.


This Poaster is 35 and looks like Glenda Jackson with better cheekbones.
I understand she is running for office there. How is she doing?

ER
--
*"I mean it could make a big difference in your life if you thought that 
*you didn't need to depend on some musty old dogma thats riddled with
*translation problems, and started acting from the center of your own being."
*					-Owen Rowley
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sunday, 12 Apr 1992 19:43:38 EDT
From: Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lawyers not Chemists
 <92101.202801JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> <10249@cernvax.cern.ch>

In article <10249@cernvax.cern.ch>, steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle)
says:
>
>In <92101.202801JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey)
>writes:
>
>>Peeve: People who don't realize what the world would be like if all of
>>the mentally ill people were running about.
>
>You mean they aren't???
>
>(Um, J., you do recall my weird neighbour stories, don't you?)

Well, just because *some* of them are out and about, doesn't mean that
*all* of them are.  There are tons of them locked away that would love
to live next door to you, or, better yet, break into your apartment and
live there.

ObPeeve: Accents that I can't understand, when I *really* want to know
what the person is saying.  Sometimes I hate the telephone.

                                                 --Jenni