HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: The DDT advantage..
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
	<1992Aug20.203825.15037@igor.tamri.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:32:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.203825.15037@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:

   In article <adwright.714321019@vincent1.iastate.edu> adwright@iastate.edu ()
   writes:
   >Another somewhat unrelated but fun trick is to take a fly and drown it
   >in water for a couple of hours. The fly can be blotted dry and covered
   >with salt and intime will be "brought back to life" although he loses 
   >his ability to fly. It works most of the time.

   Hmm, I wonder if this works for cats also...

       don

Many years ago I spent a summer in Mauritius (near Madagascar), where we
were able to purchase a wonderful pink sugar-like substance, which
supposedly was laced with DDT. Killing flies with the stuff was great
entertainment - you just pour out a spoonful on table in the patio and
wait for the flies to come and eat it.

Their reaction to it was to start buzzing and wheeling around the table,
as the chemical kicked in and destroyed their motor systems. We soon found
out there was a time constant of a few seconds between the time the fly
ate the poison and was affected. So the trick became shooing the fly just
after he had eaten, at exactly the right instant. 

Properly shooed, the fly would zoom off, only to get a couple of feet of
altitude before his flight system servos reversed and he went buzzing and
zooming about helplessly, to crash and burn. As a bonus to the spectacle, 
the table did not accumulate fly corpses.

Peeve: Not being able to get the pink sugar DDT in the U.S.

L.
"Yeh, Buddy..            | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)|  _~~_
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are CORRECT, mine, and not PSLs or NMSUs..
Oh sure, we could do it with pink DDT. But it just wouldn't be the COWBOY WAY.
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Keywords: Losers
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:13:58 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <17518@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>My take is that any parent who gives a kid a stupid name like Satchel
>should be fed to the wolves in the schoolyard.

Hear, hear!  What kind of parent would name a kid after a type of briefcase,
anyway?  The only other Satchel I've ever heard of is former AutoWeek
writer Satch Carlson, who has a colorful enough personality that he could
probably get away with being named just about anything.  Must've been hell 
for him as a kid, though.  When you're a kid, it's bad enough even having a 
normal name with an unusual spelling, much less something blatantly weird.

Peeve:  Ignorant elementary school teachers who'd call me "Godfrey" during
roll call on the first day of class.  This became less and less of a problem
as I got older, presumably because teachers of the higher grades tend to be 
more educated and better read.

And "Moses?"  ("Let me get this straight: You want us to cut the ends of
our *dicks* off???")  Ghod, what a set-up for playground harassment!
Even "Dylan" is pushing it.  That's a *last* name, for crying out loud!
No one's had "Dylan" as a given name since Dylan Thomas's time, and for
good reason.

!Peeve:  Ridiculous names from our grandparents' era are becoming extinct.
Thankfully, nobody seems to be naming the kids Clarence, Walter, Cora,
Harold, Martha, Viola, Fred or Andrew anymore.


>I remember when I was a kid hearing that Farrow threatened to drown herself
>off the coast of Rhode Island in order to coerce Frank Sinatra to divorce
>his wife and marry her (he did).

"Pray for Rosemary's baby!"  I never had much use for Mia Farrow, and I
think Sinatra is an asshole.  Shitty spaghetti sauce, too.



Geoff


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From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Vegetarian arrogance
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:21:44 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <92Aug17.234920.14105@acs.ucalgary.ca> Charles Parr writes:

>In article <+79mkk.rickg@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
>>In article <92Aug17.205516.25601@acs.ucalgary.ca> Charles Parr writes:
>>
>>>In article <#96m_+m.rickg@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
>>>Using many very large words, all of which appear to be spelled correctly:

This is an odd editorial comment, Charles.  Does it convey irritation on
your part, or is it only petulant?

>>But Charles, old chum (and I use that term in its piscatorial sense only),
>>the cause of my confusion was that you *didn't* crosspost it.
>
>Nope, it just died when I tried to, so I reposted to peeves from
>the file...Dunno why it went fine to rec.food.veg, and thundered
>into the surf on the way to peeves, but then I don't care much either.

That explains it, then.  Thanks for clearing this up.

>And considering I spent an hour stuck in a beaver dam while
>fishing this morning, your "chum" reference strikes to close
>to the bone. I was wondering whether the trout, seeing me 
>trapped, were going to seek their revenge. It took me an hour
>to dig my way out of my little sinkhole with a stick...

If this is a parable, it's a pretty good one.  Reminds me of Jimmuh Carter
and the killer rabbit.

>Self congratulatory? Of course it's self congratulatory! My
>posting it here was (I freely admit) quite equivalent to a child
>bringing home his crayon drawings to show to mommy.

It was inevitable, in this election year, for the Family Values issue
to come to alt.peeves.  You're on the side of the angels on this one.

>Mind you, in peevetown, mommy seems to be a bit bitchy today, eh
>Rick?

The implication here beggars the imagination.

>>>Did it really sound like Miller? I suppose that the man I like
>>>to think of as "Geoffry "Dahmer" Miller" has been an influence
>>>on my style...But I rather fancied it was original.

Better this time, but if you go to the trouble to correct insignificant
spelling errors, why not go all the way and fix the rest of the
inconsistencies?

>>I rather thought you might, but hoped in that charitable fashion one adopts
>>when viewing a derelict trying to find his hand at the end of his arm and
>>failing, that you wouldn't fancy that particular conceit quite so much.
>
>I have missed the point. I am sure there is one somewhere in that
>paragraph, but I don't quite get it...Are you implying that I
>should probably not be proud of my originality, because there
>was none involved?

I left the troubling paragraph in so you could give it another try.
The string "quite so much" is important.

>Regards, Charles.

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "Loud is good." 
rickg@netcom.com  |    -- Frank Loesser
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: RADIO SHACK FASCISM
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 20:50:34 GMT

Watch out for incoming Yarvin!

In <whitlock.63.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> whitlock@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu (Reid E. Whitlock) writes:

>Now this seemed to me a particularly insidious form of big-brother fascism, 
>and I of course, made a scene in the store stating that as long as I paid 
>cash I had a right in a retail outlet for a purchase of under twenty five 
>lousy dollars, to remain ANONYMOUS! He said, according to Radio Shack, I did 
>not.

You have a right to remain anonymous and buy under certain conditions.  They
have a right to not accept your conditions and to refuse the sale.  Case
closed.  Neither one of you is compelled to accept the sales conditions of
the other, yet each has the right to attempt the transaction and then decide
whether the conditions are acceptable to you.

<Bang!>

"Mac, what's the next case on the docket?"

   -Bill, LA Law, Class of '90
--
"Among free peoples, the open exchange of ideas
ultimately is our greatest security." - President Ronald Reagan
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Footloose and Fancy Free)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: !Peeve of the century
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:49:48 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

Got a phone call from my lawyer yesterday!!!!!!!
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank God Almighty I'm free at last!"
 -- M. L. King
From: mmf@evolving.com (Mark Frazier)
Subject: Re: wrong health care, and WON'T pay for it
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:46:03 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Evolving Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

vaccaro@novavax.UUCP (N. Trafford Vaccaro) writes:

: I would urge the snow skiiers(sp?) out there to avoid Winter Park
: Colorado for a vacation. For a synopsis of why:

	Yes, I agree. All tourists should avoid Winter Park, especially the
	Mary Jane side, on any day where there's more than 6 inches of fresh
	powder. Lots of danger. Leave it to us locals to bear the danger of
	packing it all down for you. Eh Eh Eh :-)
: 
: 	9) The guy at the desk was nice enough to give me a ride to the
: 	   nearest hospital, WHICH WAS 14 MILES AWAY!!!!!
								^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	What did you expect in the mountains! You're lucky it wasn't ALOT
	further.

MMF - "The Bump Basher"
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Political Peeves
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:09:11 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 20126@news.iastate.edu, z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
> Reagan said, "And they call *me* an actor!"

That's hilarious!  I wonder who wrote it for him?

---
Brian Scearce                               bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
        The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
          It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
Subject: Usenet peeve
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:07:38 GMT


  The pestiferous use of TeX in articles that purport to be written in
English. For example, this G\"odel character.  There is not now and
has never been anybody named "G\"odel". A particularly annoying form
of idiocy.
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: peeve o' the day
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 12:50:58 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <l8vj62INN2jc@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1b854259.ARN2372@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <l92ef1INNe7k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <l92ef1INNe7k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, 242 lbs before cooking writes:

> munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac writes:

> There are battery operated vibrators on the market that can be used as
> a substitute for those which operate off the mains.

Thankyou for sharing your experiences with us, Banta. I just
don't know how the readership of the newsgroup could carry on
without having at least a smidgeon of insight into your very very
weird life ...

> As for the
> telecom service, if you learned to fantasize rather than always
> calling the dial-a-bimbo, you'd save a lot of money.

Peeve: They've just started to advertise 'dial-a-snatch' or
whatever they're called, on television. A local comedy
production did a great rip-off of a guy entranced by this voice
on the phone - where the voice on the phone was revealed to be
the archetypal fat broad [no malice aforethought intended,
Elaine], doing the ironing whilst holding a baby at bay with her
feet.

> Or were you talking about something else?

Computerdweebitry. Prolly in the same category as masturbation
aids, at least for you, eh?

[My partner is blissfully unaware of this conversation, even
though she is at the computer next to me, {reading mail}, no
doubt she would have words to say, should she espy what is
transpiring.]

> >> Peeve:  Scattering chunks of cast iron at Sears Point.  Again.
> 
> >Obscurity is your special skill, right?
> 
> No.  You just bitched about my racing peeves in the past, so I decided
> I wouldn't bore you with the details.

Bore me with details! I geddit. Just another cam-on from the
turbocharged posting dynamo. I don't know how you steer clear of
divin retribution for your CARBolic st^Hneering. If you were'nt
such a hood, I'd worry about you being a dipstick. No doubt your
muffled sniggers and guffaws will be offset by more tachy
attempts at one-upmanship.

> I went racing over the weekend, at a track somewhat north of San
> Francisco named Sears Point.  If you take a map of the states you

I've flown over it in F18 Interceptor innumerable times. :-)

> During qualifying, a connecting rod found the crankcase a bit too
> confining and exited through the side of the block, hence scattering
> bits of cast iron.

I see. [Yawn]

> The entire experience was quite peeveworthy.

I believe you. Thousands would rather put you in their massive
killfiles. :-)

Dac
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munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac      David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
  prolix!dac%eyrie@labtam.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
        dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au      I post .
prolix!dac@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au            . . I am.             +61 6 290 2215
From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Goosed at the Deli
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:45:11 GMT
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department

In article <4319@equinox.unr.edu> malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes:
>The other day at a local deli, I saw a sign advertising "smoked goose breast".
>This sounded pretty yummy, so I ordered 1/4 lb of it, sight unseen.
>
>I guess I expected something like turkey breast.  What this meat turned out
>to be like, however, in both appearance and taste, was more like the greasiest
>pastrami (I mean literally dripping grease) you've ever seen.
>
>Being something of a grease fan, I thought it was more or less OK, but the
>person eating lunch with me couldn't handle it.
>
>Anyone else out there had goose cold cuts (or for that matter, goose as a
>dinner dish a la turkey or chicken) ?  Is goose meat really this fat-laden?

Goose has quite a lot of fat, some of it in the form of a layer below
the skin, some in the meat itself.  I've roasted a goose, and it put out
a large quantity of fat.  More or less comparable to the amount from a
duck, I would say.  I wouldn't have thought that the roasted meat would
necessarily be all that greasy, however.  (Though it sure won't ever be
lean.)

--
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:53:57 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <24934@castle.ed.ac.uk> scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach) writes:
=>banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
=>
=>>I remember that test.  You forgot to mention the "starting the car on
=>>the upgrade" part.
=>
=>Is that anything like the "booting the Sun after the upgrade" test?

Not to mention "booting the Sequent after the upgrade", right your holiness??


-- 
==================================================================
-Jeremy Henderson            |  Une souris verte
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Qui courrait dans l'herbe
==================================================================
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: peeve o' the day
Date: 18 Aug 1992 17:56:49 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac writes:
>> If nothing else, it would keep you out of trouble.

>Nothing keeps me out of trouble excepting power and telecom
>fuckups. 

There are battery operated vibrators on the market that can be used as
a substitute for those which operate off the mains.  As for the
telecom service, if you learned to fantasize rather than always
calling the dial-a-bimbo, you'd save a lot of money.

Or were you talking about something else?

>> Peeve:  Scattering chunks of cast iron at Sears Point.  Again.

>Obscurity is your special skill, right?

No.  You just bitched about my racing peeves in the past, so I decided
I wouldn't bore you with the details.

Since you're so insistant at prodding groggy bears, I'll fill you in.
I went racing over the weekend, at a track somewhat north of San
Francisco named Sears Point.  If you take a map of the states you
might have and turn it upside-down, you'll find is at the top of the
bay.

During qualifying, a connecting rod found the crankcase a bit too
confining and exited through the side of the block, hence scattering
bits of cast iron.

This was the second time this has happened this season, therefore, it
was "Again."

The entire experience was quite peeveworthy.

andy
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"If you add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
This, my son, is entropy."
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: RADIO SHACK FASCISM
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 14 Aug 1992 16:30:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <whitlock.63.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> 
whitlock@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu (Reid E. Whitlock) writes:

>And told the gentleman that I would not give him any of the information 
>he had requested. At this point he said "THEN I CANNOT SELL YOU THE 
>DIGITAL ALARM CLOCK YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO BUY". He claimed that without
>**at least** my name being coded in, he could not complete the transaction 
>--- the computer wouldn't let him!!!

Next time, suggest that he simply enter a random number or name. 

I've gotten around this by telling the guy that I'm already on their
mailing list.  Since that's supposedly the reason they want this
personal information, they're left with no retort.


Geoff


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From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: 3rd shift and the real world
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:50:29 GMT
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I'm also a third shifter.  I have minimized the third-shift peeves as much as
possible:

1> I live alone
2> No doorbell (ripped it out the day I bought my house)
3> No ringer on the phone, machine answers (not a problem due to 1> above)
4> I live in the "middle of nowhere <tm>", and have one neighbor within 1/2 mile.

So, you ask, what's the Peeve?  Well, it's the dreaded Friend From Hell <tm>.

This bozo can't figure it out.  I've been on third shift for over two years now,
always working 11pm to 7:30 am.  Not too difficult, right?  wrong.  I don't
have to hear the phone ring, but I do hear the 'click' of the machine if I'm
dozing, and I just get irritated, then sleeping is right out.  Worse yet,
although I'm in the Middle Of Nowhere <tm>, I live about a mile away from
a main route between Milwaukee and Madison.  He spends time in both cities,
so he stops by with no warning on occasion.                 

!Peeve:  On these occasions, I enjoy being unspeakably rude.

Also, this genius (or, should I say, occasional genius), can't figure out that
when I say I'm going to bed, it's not really a good idea to try to start a new
conversation topic, especially one that is going to piss me off or get me
intrigued with an idea.  I'm sure he does this intentionally.

ME

BonusPeeve:  The neighbor's kid came over to mow my lawn yesterday.  She had
been told that I wanted it early morning (8 or 9) or after 6 or 7.  Of course,
she showed up at 2 PM.  Worse yet, she parked the damn tractor RIGHT outside
my window, because she had to move the garden hose.  At that point, I was willing
to let her mow it over, and get a new one.  Now I'm tired, it's 04:50, and
I've got 3 hours to go.  Bah.

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com
From: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:48:19 GMT

banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:

>I remember that test.  You forgot to mention the "starting the car on
>the upgrade" part.

Is that anything like the "booting the Sun after the upgrade" test?

S
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Usenet peeve
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:52:23 GMT

In <1992Aug13.110738.2836@sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:

[a compu-nerdy peeve]

Well, he is our first Swede (isn't he?) and he did keep it pertinent.

FAQ time, again?
--
"Among free peoples, the open exchange of ideas
ultimately is our greatest security." - President Ronald Reagan
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: RADIO SHACK FASCISM
Date: 16 Aug 92 12:51:15 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <whitlock.63.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu>, whitlock@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu (Reid E. Whitlock) writes:

> Now this seemed to me a particularly insidious form of big-brother fascism, 
> and I of course, made a scene in the store stating that as long as I paid 
> cash I had a right in a retail outlet for a purchase of under twenty five 
> lousy dollars, to remain ANONYMOUS! He said, according to Radio Shack, I did 
> not.
> 

Just do what I do and pick the name and number of someone you know and don't 
like.

Uh oh. Good think nobody here knows my last name or phone number. I can just
inagine the amount of R.S. junk mail I'd be getting :-}

Mike