HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Gov'mnt Munny (Was: Drug testing and welfare)
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:09:27 GMT

 ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
><In article <1992Jul27.164852.16282@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
><   Jenny Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
><   >I don't really care whether they want to or not, if they're using my
><   >money to do so.
>
><   It's not your money once the Govmint gives it to them.  Think about
><   that.  It's not your money, it's Govmint money, and they can spend it any
><   way they damn well please.  Your lost your ability to control it when you
><   wrote that check to the IRS.
>
>	Huh? Oh, well, the next time some punk sticks up
>	a 7-11, once he gets away I guess the money is 
>	"his money", right?
>
>	Or do you REALLY believe that you have a choice
>	about whether to write that check to the IRA....er....
>	IRS or not, Big Dan?

	I have to admit, Nosy, that I haven't yet written a check to the
Iowa guvnor yet.  I wrote one to the Fed, but my State taxes are several
times my federal taxes.  Something about being a landowner and the Iowa
budget crunch.  In other words, my choice is to pay a fine or go to jail,
both of which assume I wish to be bent over before being fucked.

><	   Stealing cattle is still a capitol offense here in Iowa.  
>
>	I reckon this means that those convicted of stealing
>	cattle have to go to the Statehouse?

	Your state helped elect Reagan to President, what do you care if
Iowa elects cattle rustlers to the Iowa Congress?  It's really quite effective
to know *up front* that they are all thieves and liars...

	Say, does the IRS or FBI get alt.peeves in their News feed?


--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: BDI On Board
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:37:48 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin) writes:

>The reason for the principle is that weight increases with an animal's
>volume, but bone strength increases with the cross-sectional area of the
>bone.  An animal scaled up 2x in all directions would have 4x bone
>cross-sectional area, and 8x weight.  Thus the bones in large animals have
>to be a higher proportion of the animal.  And even with more bone, large
>animals are more delicate with regard to getting thrown around.

>The whole point of having physics is that we don't have to do experiments
>every time we want to know how something will turn out.

You forgot to mention that bigger animals will fall faster because
they'll attract more gravity. That's why we get the law of physics: "The
bigger they are, the harder they fall".

Next lesson: Morphogenetic Resonance, or why having "just one pint"
always leads to having a few more....

FoFP

"My mind's on a circuit with the news on the screen.
 Life's a no-go area it's so obscene.
 Because you can't do this and you can't do that
 You can't go forward and you can't go back"      -- Hawkwind (Right To Decide)
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Cain't DO that in Austin! (Was: BDI On Board)
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:59:07 GMT
	<l77dp7INNj4n@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: NMSU Computer Science

<In article <l77dp7INNj4n@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM
<(242 lbs before roasting in a burning Chevette) writes:
<   (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.

	Damned straight it ain't; stopping on onramps is also
	an El Paso hobby.

<I have yet to encounter an on-ramp that isn't at least two and a
<half car-widths wide.  

	Then you ain't been on the older part of the Austin 
	north-south freeway, the Valley Expressway in Denver,
	the Boulder-Denver Turnpike or parts of the Houston
	"system". Some of the Denver onramps are barely
	wide enough for a semi IF it is going straight.

	Some of the Austin onramps are about 50 feet long and
	BING! you is in traffic, NOW.

<Your option number three should have be
<   "Drive around them," preferably at speeds appropriate to make them
<   shit their pants.

	An excellent plan, unfortunately there isn't always
	enough concrete to do that job in AustinTacious.

ObAustinTacious peeve: the unique habit some denizens have
	of pulling up to a red light, staring into space for
	a few seconds and then driving on without *ever*
	looking for traffic. Must be after-reverberations
	of the Harmonic Convergance at work or something.
	Fortunately, I haven't seen much of this one 
	anywhere else.

<I do this often.  

	Good thing there's no insurance agents on the net....
	
ObPeeve: the State Farm agent of years gone by that saw a friend
	 of mine driving a bug-eye Sprite on Sunday at a rally....
	 and canceled said friends' car insurance on Monday,
	 because "Our Company Doesn't Insure Road Racers".

	(I leave to Banta and the rest of that racing team
	 the obvious rant.)

<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.

	Don't try this on the Patriot Expressway or I-10
	in El Peso....you won't be able to accelerate more
	than 100 meters before encountering yet another
	BDI putting along at 40 mph in the right AND left
	lane. One thing's for sure; they get their taxes
	worth out of the road, by using as many lanes as
	possible.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: DAGADAGADAGADAGADAGA...
Keywords: excuse me?
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:36:56 GMT


peeve:          digging    the        sidewalk      frigging
        they're         up     damned          with          jackhammers.


extra-peeve: i have some work to go with it.


-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: BDI On Board
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:10:44 GMT

In article <mhart.712461045@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
>In <1992Jul29.171059.23606@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>>>Hey, Michael, Laura, Joy...  you wanna do lunch?  =)
>Sounds good to me.  Let's see, a proper peever lunch...
>
>>a peevefest east! :) anybody else up for it?
>Hey, I've been offering to have a peevecon east for any interested
>parties, but it's never come off.  Maybe a 'peevefest' will do 
>better?

as i've been getting mail indicating that others would possibly show
their faces were they invited, let me officially invite the entire
peeving community. 

peeve: people that invite the world to something they didn't even
initiate. :)

>will soon come to pass: I'll be finishing my degree RSN (real soon

this calls for a drink! 

-l "but then most things do" p
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From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.usage.english
Subject: The End of a Thread
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:14:23 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
] What is the name of that principle - the one that states that once Hitler
] or Nazism is mentioned, the discussion is effectively dead?


TheHitleriteNazioThreadIcusUnRavlicusEffectum

I believe is the word you were looking for.

Once Upon a Time before the Great Mental Ice Age
of the PureBredPolitikalKorrektNessKonversers
persons were able to make meaningful assertions
about the nature of the Hitlerite/Fascist movement
and its impact on MassKultur and The Regulation
of a WellORDERED society.

But as that era of meaning and significance crumbled
before the onslaught of the MassMediaMongers,
ModernSeXularHumanistBootLikkingLakkiesOfTheEuroDisneyKonspiraky,
and their RedMenaceStooges, the ability to speak significantly
about the Horrors of The Once Dangerous and Feared, Dreaded
KentralIzedGovernmentAndMassKulturKontrolledByKorrektnessKeepers
has wained in its utility.

This has lead to the clarification of this Moral Kollapse as:

TheHitleriteNazioThreadIcusUnRavlicusEffectum


ciao
drieux


ps: Brought to you as another public service on 
behalf of those for correct word usage.


-- 
I Do Not Believe in .sig files
as they are such a Known Waste Of BandWidth,
And Therefore Not a Morally UpRight Choice.
But I Can See the HideousHienousHandOfHeteroSexualityBehindItAll.
From: Gordon.Riddell@prg.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Olympic flame
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:01:52 GMT
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3


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!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser)
Subject: Re: My pet peeve....
Keywords: peeve
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:04:05 GMT


   My pet peeve is people like Alexander who whine that other people's
pet peeves aren't appropriate to alt.peeves...give it a rest, Mr. Net Cop.

-- 
Richard J. Rauser       "You have no idea what you're doing."
rauser@sfu.ca           "Oh, don't worry about that. We're professional 
WNI                        outlaws - we do this for a living."
--------
BANNED from alt.good.news! Censorship is alive and well on Usenet!
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:48:26 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Group Projects, particularly on Richard Nixon.

Since Jenni was getting sick and tired of me bitching about this at home,
I thought I'd share it with all of you instead.  (After she said, "Why
don't you peeve about it" two or three days in a row, I got the hint.  :-)

I was randomly assigned to a group in my public speaking class.  There were
six of us in the group, and we were supposed to decide on a "controversial
figure" to do a group speech on.  (Meaning we each were to address different
aspects of the controversial figure.)

Our group got together, and decided on a controversial figure.  Richard
Nixon was our controversial figure.  I would rather have talked about
the head football coach here than have talked about Nixon.  At least with
Joe Paterno, you know there's only a limited amount of information you
could possibly read.  Heck, I would almost rather have talked about Nancy
Reagan than Richard Nixon.

Then, we split the topic up into different little bits so everyone would
have one.  I got "Pre-watergate Nixon, Con" meaning that I got to talk about
what an evil slimeball he was before the watergate scandal.  Therefore,
I had the exciting joy of burying myself in back issues of Time magazine
(ok, perhaps the metaphor was too colorful.  I was reading microfilm, so
I didn't exactly bury myself).

Of course, then I had to figure out a way to justify my use of Time magazine
as a source.  Our instructor is under the impression that Time magazine is
not a particularly good source.  (In fact, he's under the impression that
the "Village Voice" is a better source than Time magazine.  This is the
same guy who thinks "Psychology Today" is a "journal".)  My alternative
would have been to use "The New York Times" instead, a prospect which
didn't exactly thrill me.  "Time" comes on 2 reels per year.  I don't
even want to think about how many reels "The New York Times" comes on.

Then there was the peevesome experience of actually preparing the speech.
I was supposed to talk about what a complete loser Nixon was during his
entire political career before 1972 in 5 minutes.   It took me 3 hours to
figure out how to say that little.

Peeve: I didn't succeed.  I added enough extemporaneous explanation
during my speech that it ran 8 minutes.

!Peeve: One of the other people in the group only took about 3 minutes,
and we gained time elsewhere, so we were only 30 seconds over our time
limit...within the "no deductions" margin.

Peeve: After I went very far out of my way to provide a bibliography to
the person who wanted to type up the whole thing, it ended up getting
lost so I had to hand-write it on their printout.

BonusPeeve: I gave the speech of my life in this class last week, and
the instructor was out of town, so he had it videotaped.  The videotape
recorder's microphone turned out to be broken, so he got to listen to
an audio tape he had made for backup while watching the video segment.
I think my speech probably lost something in the translation.

-Sonja
From: h8eg083@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Darren Gower)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Barking dogs
Keywords: nighttime, daytime, all the time
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:30:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Centre, Swinburne University of Tech., Melbourne, Australia.

Solution: Half a fillet steak soaked copiously in a mixture
of liquified rat poison (Per 5kg of body weight?).
(The animal may as well get the best for its last meal....)

:)

regards,
Darren.

-- 
Darren Gower                         | "Lifes Fantasy - to be locked away
Internet: h8eg083@stan.xx.swin.oz.au |  and still to think you're free"
          tse@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au   | -Ronnie James Dio
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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Newbie Alert!
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:46:14 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Jul28.121519.1354@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
>In article <92209.132614CEG112@psuvm.psu.edu>, CEG112@psuvm.psu.edu commits
>a potentially immolating act:


>By the way, does anyone else have the sense that jenni is the "Dan Quayle"
>of alt,peeves... or is it just me.

She's the Ghandi of peeves. SHe passed through the flamewall without 
stooping to its levels. It was amazing. She received piles of sexual
innuendos (I recall one of he boys using a lot of "panties" images)
and outright flames and blithely continued to post peeves that were
so sweetly worded that they could make the Care Bears and My Little Pony
barf.

>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.
>	
>Am I a peevetown member yet?


(PING!)

No you are most certainly not!

I was one of the first peevers, so I can sit on my ass and take a Civil
Service attitute, JZ & Banta blustered their way in, Geoff became Mayor
due to his exemplary peeves and flames, dre/bandy took the "I am not 
schizophrenic"/"Yes, I am" route, and Jenni took the yogi walking on
fire route in. None of them *asked*. Never *ask*.

Back to Square One, lad.

ER - Mortician & HR Weenie
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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Picnics
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:41:02 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <adwright.711885742@vincent1.iastate.edu> adwright@iastate.edu writes:
>Peeve: That one person at a picnic who who says something about the
>"extra protein" when a bug flies into the food.

Make him eat it.

Peeve: Little brown flying bugs, about the size of the letter "l" in
14 point type. They were all over my house and now they are all over
my apartment. They like to die in my crystal glasses. I invite friends
over, want to serve them some nice beverage in crystal, forget to shake
the glass out and am mortified to see One Dead Bug in each glass.

!Peeve: One person just drank it. Did not notice.

ER
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I don't know when it was that I scratched Fate's car door, but I should have
left a note. --Tim Mefford
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: "Bad Boy Club Stickers"
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:07:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <92209.131243CEG112@psuvm.psu.edu> CEG112@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>It's not just a California thing.  I live in Pennsylvania and they're all over
>the place.  I guess people thing it makes their car look awesome.  Personally
>I think it makes the car look like junk.  Who would want to put some ugly
>sticker on a car and junk it up.  I've even seen people put them on the side
>windows of a four door Tempo which is more like a family car to me.


These are the same people who like the word REEBOKS in big letters
on their sweatshirts. By saying that they purchase a particular
brand name item, they are telling us something about themselves.


Ever see the movie "Crazy People"? Its about a man who gets tossed in
a loony bin because he decides its time to tell the truth in his
ad campaigns. One such slogan is for Jaguar. "Buy a Jaguar so strange
women will give you hand jobs." (Something like that)

Since I am only human, I have stuff on my car to warn people off.
I have a Christian fish with feet and the word "DARWIN" inside.
I also have a feminist sticker on the front and a bunnyhugger sticker
on the back. This all tells the world that I am a confused feminist.
These are magic talismans that keep the Oakley Thermonuclear Protection
Bad Boys Local Motion Club to piss the hell off.

ER

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I don't know when it was that I scratched Fate's car door, but I should have
left a note. --Tim Mefford
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more. . .
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 21 Jul 1992 18:30:05 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <k5am9hm@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

>>Sure, Prometheus with fire, Vulcan with his forge, Venus in the passenger
>>seat. Plenty of folklore in a Porsche. Apollo in his chariot carrying the
>>Sun through the sky. Let's look at car names, eh? Mercury? Pontiac was
>>an Indian chief. Taurus is a sign in the Zodiac.


It's amazing how few people know how to pronounce such a common name.
Contrary to popular belief, it's "TAW-russ," not "TORR-us."  A "torus"
is the geometric shape described by a donut, not the name of an astro-
logical sign or a Ford.



Geoff


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Micro Beards (was something else entirely) 
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 18:41:27 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <1992Jul30.060804.4584@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>If Iron Maiden or Motorhead
>ever played Ames you'd find me camping out two weeks in advance to get good
>tickets, 
	Dan, don't bother waiting in line at all for Iron Maiden. If they
offer to come to your house and play for free, get them to come over, but
tell them to leave their instruments at home. I am quite an IM fan, but I will 
never waste another penny on going to see them in concert. They, quite simply, 
suck live. Maybe they were better years ago, but now, they should just go home 
and stay there.
!Peeve: The last time I saw IM, Anthrax was the opening band and they were
great.

-- 
Chris Baldwin                | Robert Johnson invented the pickle! 
baldwin@carina.unm.edu       |                         - Adam Reid
          If I were a carpenter I'd on hammer my piglet. -- TMBG
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (I would like to return this TOBACCONIST; it is scratched)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:08:55 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:

>Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>> I don't really care whether they want to or not, if they're using my
>> money to do so.

>Ah, so you want to *remove* the welfare system.  Fine, why didn't you say so?

Well, I'll say it for her:
	execute people who are on welfare for more than say, 6 weeks

-- 
"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
From: bill@wabwrld.UUCP (Mahmoud ibn-Purplehazi)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Coming soon...
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:17:51 GMT
Organization: Bunnies, birdies, and Other Happy Things

Coming soon to a GIF viewer near you...

I have, through certain means which shall remain a secret, managed to 
procure a picture of a certain Love Rhino.  That picture will be posted 
to this group as soon as I can get it scanned in.

--
"I'm not only the Hair Club president, but I'm also a client."
  -Sy Sperling
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more ...
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:19:00 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <39821@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
=>
=>The reason why the new buildings in this place do not have basements
=>is due to the perennial, pandemic problem of short-termism. Because
=>it's cheaper to just build them above ground, in the long run everyone
=>suffers more. You'd have thought that a bit of long-term planning and
=>foresight would be prevalent in a university, but apparently not.

Why on earth would you have thought that? Is there any precedent for such
planning? Having just netted a contract worth over 40,000 smackers in
overheads to the university, I have discovered that there is no room in
the brand-new building for me to site my brand new sooper-dooper
workstation. Maybe I should get a job as a secretary - then I could do
what I do best - bugger up everybody else's work, and get paid for it,
and get my own office!

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

(or am I?)