HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Completely off the topic (Re: Kind offer of clothing
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:11:20 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

>In article <1992Nov6.174705.18659@twg.com> nolan@twg.com writes:
>>PS: Does your roadmobile wear the UNIX WIZ plate? I spotted it on a car at PAO
>>t'other day, with a sizeable young lad wearing a full black beard and overalls
>>climbing in. The driver could have weighed in at around 200# and corresponded
>>with my mental image of you.


Hm. That plate used to belong to Phil Ngai, who is about 5'8", slender
and beardless. Perhaps he sold his car.

Peeve: Losing touch with people.

--
.. Clinton seems to be capable of staying awake for Cabinet
meetings, and his offspring squeezes pimples instead of little old
ladies' savings accounts... - Carol Osterbrook
From: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: the Devil's Day (and the Devil's Night)
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:44:48 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: abingdon

In article <Bx9Jto.7AC@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>We don't want more. We just want _good_ ones. "Quality not quantity" dear...

Exactly *who* is "we," buttnugget?  Who could you possibly be speaking
for?

Are you and Mikey doing tag-team now?  Some sort of new recreation
when you two aren't locked in a 69?

Be careful, Stevey, or I'll use a plunger on your face until you burp
shit.

andy
banta@abingdon.sun.com
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".....what I was encouraging women to do is to
get a life, not necessarily a career. I think
a career is a poor substitute for a life."
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
Subject: Re: Two bacon
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:16:25 GMT

In article <1dq87lINN49@agate.berkeley.edu> henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken) writes:
>New International (hah) House of Pancakes ad:  "Two eggs, two bacon, ..."
>
>Two *bacon*??? 
>
>...

How about, "Would you two like coffees?"  Not *coffee* but *coffees*. 

Or the problem with the second person plural:  In the south,
it's y'all, in the northeast (sometimes) it is youse.


-- 
     Jim Lacey  --  my own opinions    
     email:  att!cbnewsl!jlacey  or  jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
     D'ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?
From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Peevetown General Hospital: Take 1
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:44:09 GMT
Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front

And lo, rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) spake unto the masses saying:
>
> [ long and grisly tale of Rick's brush with not-breathing deleted ]
> [ for the protection of the faint of stomach.                     ]
>
> Next: A short examination becomes complicated by events.

Peeve : People who stop writing just when we're getting to the good bit.
What happened, Rick, what happened? You do realise I won't be able to
*sleep* for weeks now unless I find out what happened! Or was this in fact
being typed "in real-time", as it happened? If so, it must've been an act
of extreme dedication to start peeving at the same time as you were
asphyxiating and you're let off the hook for not telling us what happened.

--
		Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
      "Brothers, sisters, we don't need this fascist sheepdog thang"
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Voting Peeves
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 02:55:35 GMT

Voting !Peeve:

I live in a mobile home park - which apparently
is its own precinct.  Since there are less than
100 registered voters in this precinct, it is
more cost-effective for the VotingPeople to
send out absentee ballots to everyone instead of
trying to set up polling places.

So, I got to vote in the comfort of my own home,
on Thursday, October 29!  No lines, no punch cards,
didn't even have to get dressed...

Diana
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: the Devil's Day (and the Devil's Night)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:47:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.131348.8735@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>In article <BxF58x.4FB@nic.umass.edu>, jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>> 
>> AAAAAAEEEEEAAAAEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
>> 
>> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
>
>Boy, I'm even better than I thought, driving Jenny into an orgasm like that
>with a mere post!
>

I think this explains the preponderance of date-rape in fraternities.

Jenny "Staying away from the Beta Zeta Tau crowd" Gutbezahl

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From: library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: the Devil's Day
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:33:53 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: library@merlin.comlab

In article <1992Nov4.172705.2523@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:

>Does this mean that, pretty soon, we'll have troops stationed in the
>Western side of the former USSR, to protect it from an invasion by the
>former NATO countries?


Once we've got our single european market, and our single european currency,
and a single foreign policy we'll be looking around for a weak and isolated
country to attack to cement our New Nationhood : better if this country is a
far-away place about which we know nothing.

Yes the Maastricht process is our very own attempt as europeans to reassert
our world hegemony before you Yankees pass it on to the Japanese!

Disagreements over Rape Seed subsidies are the early shots. One day people 
will look back and ponder what it was all about, but clearly it's Rape Seed
today and it'll be global nuclear catastrophe tomorrow (and it'll solve
the over-population problem).
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
Subject: Re: Scoring Points?
Organization: The Cultural Elite
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:11:39 GMT

fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:

>Clearly what is needed is a points sheet. Two points for holding doors,
>three points for not swearing for the entire evening, sixty-three points
>for getting whatever it was she wanted without having to ask [...]

Now just tell her her hair looks nice for 1 point and you'll get to 69.

--- Julie
-- 
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From: dlester@cs.man.ac.uk (David Lester)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Where's drieux when you need him (Re: Driving with Parking Lights!)
Keywords: Gordon shows a total lack of resolution ...
Date: 4 Nov 92 22:37:21 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

In article <1992Nov4.104421.25149@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>, library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell) writes:
|> Hey, Geoff dude, haven't you heard of our very own independent deterrent?
|> You know those aged Polaris thingies and these brand spanking new Trident
|> zoomers. [...]
   ^^^^^^^
Where's drieux when you need him?

It makes you go "hmm, I wonder if PRG monograph 73 is where it should be?"

---
David Lester, Manchester University, UK.
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More wisdom from Steve Franklin
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:54:39 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <BxJDL9.9vI@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:

>What did it prove? Oh yes, it provd that you're a subtle yet annoying 
>jackass perhaps (who has gripes against frat boys which probably means 
>you're too ugly to be accepted by any of them, or invited to any of 
their parties) [...]


Yup, that's the only possible explanation, uh-huh.  Steve, your grasp of
the art of critical reasoning is no doubt exceeded only by your grasp of
what passes for your meager manhood.  



Geoff


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From: deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Hobbit)
Subject: Paradigm's (a gift)
Summary: paradigm
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:54:00 GMT

paradigm

After all, its only worth 20 cents...

Pete

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From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: CompuSnobs (was: Hair)
Date: 8 Nov 92 13:17:16 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher

jen187@mis.csiro.au (Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812) writes:

] tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:
] >ObPeeve: Coffee adverts that attempt to convince me that a brand of
] >instant tastes as good as filter. How stupid do these people think I am?
] >T
] 
] I don't know if you have these things over your way or not, but here in
] Oz they have things called coffee bags. (Yes, just like a tea bag).
] I've never tried one but I read somewhere that they did a "taste test"
] with a group of people and claimed that over half of them couldn't
] tell the difference between the bag and real filtered coffee. It was also
] stated that a few people preferred the bag. Apparently these bags
] contain a mixture of instant coffee and ground beans. Make of this
] what you will.

We DO have these - but they are, according to the label,
actually very finely ground ground coffee.  You have to let
it steep, just as you do a tea bag.  And they DO taste
better than instant.

I keep some on hand for the times when the idiots who think
they're too good to make coffee use up all but the last 
quarter-inch.

MEGAPeeve:  One of our newsfeeds has apparently become
constipated this past week, with the result that one group
has gone completely silent, and the others are doing things
like this - this article is dated Monday, November 2, and it
just showed up TODAY - Sunday, November 8.  Worse yet, there
were at least two followups to it during the week that showed
up before this original...ARRRGH!

Diana
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.politics.guns
From: Gordon.Riddell@prg.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: the Great War
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:20:54 GMT
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3


Peeve : Rememberance Sunday

On the 11th day of the 11 month at 11am the yookay goes quiet as we all
remember our gallant war dead from this century. (11th November 1918 at 11am
being the time the Great War descended into a ceasefire.)

It's not so much the act of rememberance itself that peeves me, it's the
things that surround it. For instance,

Poppies: the Earl Haig Fund sells poppies to raise money to aid ex-armed
forces personnel. Again not in itself peeveworthy, except at the point that
one wonders why ex-service personnel have to rely on charity? But how
the hell did Haig get involved?
His contribution to the first world war was to encourage the troops to WALK
in straight lines towards the machine guns of the "Hun".


The BBC ran a series of films and documentaries relating to War in the run up.
Many of them were fine productions (although it seems a classic case of running
the same old programmes again!). But all those First World War programmes
are really depressing. Even the Blackadder (which I was never a regular
watcher of first time round) managed to end on a note of pathos with them
all charging to the enemy.

However for examples of the sheer waste it is hard to match "Testament of
Youth" (Vera Britain) and "Oh What a Lovely War".  The petty rules, the
class riden military, the incomprehension of the home front, are all
highlighted.

I couldn't think of one film relating to the Great War featuring the likes
of John Wayne or Kirk Douglas. Now this may be because there is little
interest in the USA in the Great War (even though they won it for us)
but I would bet it's more to do with weight of depressing material to
work with.


!Peeve: listening to the exquisite accent of the commentator at the 
        Rememberance Parade on BBC Radio 4 as he desparately tried to
        name as many regiments, associations, anniversaries etc as the
        ex-service personnel marched past the Cenotaph!
From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (All of our represanatives are still busy; please continue to hold)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Liberal Toadies
Date: 6 Nov 92 04:55:16 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell) writes:

>In article <lfdf82INNcbr@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>>
>>
>>In article <27629@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) 
>>writes:
>>
>>>Not to mention blowing the crap out of allied armored personnel carriers.
>>
>>What the hell, they were only limeys.  The fuckers were probably running
>>away, like they did at Dunkirk.

>Unlike the Lionhearts at Bay of Pigs!

So a bunch of Cuban traitors bought the farm.  Big deal.
-- 
"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
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: JENNY'S LESSON IN FLAMING (was Re: the Devil's Day (and the Devil's Night))
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 04:58:52 GMT

In <17892@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>Peeve: People who use the ratio of male to female posters on the net as
>a way to bludgeon the few female posters on the net in a sheer hissy
>fit of sexual jealousy. No wonder there are so few women posting on the
>net - we get greeted by frustrated men angry at all the attention we
>get. Do you think we *like* living in Testosterone Land? Its like another
>planet in here!

Well, _I_ could leave.  Then the testosterone level would be so small as to
be immeasurable.

Well, Iowa Dan'd still be here.  I guess the level would drop to 50% of the
current in that case, 40% if I weren't so generous.

Sign me,
  One big, strapping, testosterone-laden six-foot-nine hunk of male fury

Well, no, that'd be a lie.  I'm rarely furious.

And don't get jealous, Elaine.  Get a dick!
--
I'd rather be in an office than a pillory,
George can screw Barbara, I'm voting for Hillary
-seen on a women's bathroom wall in a Santa Cruz saloon
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: un-funny DJs
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:01:52 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems Employee Development Center, Milpitas, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com




>In article <9NOV199218085177@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, smstang@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (DAVID STANG) writes:

>|> I do not understand why every morning the radio dial
>|> is filled with obnoxious chatter. 

Every so often, as I wait at a red light on my way to work, I find myself
stopped next to a car the windows of which are almost visibly bowed
outward from the volume of the racket emanating from within the vehicle.
It's not loud music I'm referring to, but chatter; it can be either a radio
commercial or a talkative DJ.  I don't know how anyone can stand this 
under *any* circumstances, but particularly not in a closed vehicle, early 
in the morning.  I understand that people tend to have differing pain 
thresholds with respect to noise, but this is ridiculous.



In article <1992Nov10.135115.29407@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com
(A. Jing Hippy) writes:

>Oh MAN does this hit it right on the head.  There are 3 stations in this
>area that play decent music (I mean pre-1977 music), and *all* of them have
>a pair of DJ's that just love to hear themselves talk and think that they
>are great wits. 

The two-witty-DJ thing seems to be the "in" morning radio formula for
rock stations, much like the way it became popular back in the late
Seventies for rock stations to occupy 98.5 on the dial; there are at 
least two such teams here in the Beigh Arya that I know of.


Geoff

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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Subject: Re: I LIKE BIG BUTT'S AND I CAN NOT LIE
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 16:20:44 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <1992Nov4.101508.4193@email.tuwien.ac.at> alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky) writes:

In reply to some dimwitted proto-simian.

>son, this is not a peeve. this is not even close. this is the electronic
>equivalent of the inscriptions you find on toilet walls, especially
>on those toilets that are frequented by pre-pubescent boy scouts.

Actually, I saw a fairly good bathroom graffito the other day:

      "For intelligent conversation, call Sheila, 234-0900"

Made me smile on a very peeveful morning.

Regards, Charles
-- 
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Scoring Points?
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:52:08 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <27814@castle.ed.ac.uk> fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
~
~I can see the flaw in this system though. The little darlings are not,
~and never have been, consistent. One day you can be dragged back home
~and have your clothes torn of for a marathon session of bouncy-bouncy
~and the very next day the same person will be in a bad mood because "all
~you want is sex..."

Never mind, you can always watch Gladiators!

~obpeeve: I have to scan these posts in case Jeremy includes some line
~out of context in his .sig

Scan away, me ol' sausage:-

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out of context in his .sig" - FriendOfFernandoKhomeini.
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: JENNY'S LESSON IN FLAMING (was Re: the Devil's Day (and the Devil's Night))
Date: 10 Nov 1992 03:59:59 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: mamba.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <BxHAyt.A3J@cs.dal.ca> williams@ug.cs.dal.ca (Nevin E. Williams) writes:
>
>| *---------*	I'm the same Ol' Nevin.  The only difference is that now  |
>|  \       /	I'm  enjoying  my  life.  Is  this  such  a  bad  thing?  |
>|   \     /	I didn't choose.    Who actually chooses to be opressed?  |
>|    \   /	I  certainly  didn't  wish   to  make  my  life  harder.  |
>|     \ /	But  I've  certainly  made  my  life  more   worthwhile.  |
>|      *Nevin Williams      williams@ug.cs.dal.ca    Bitnet:nwilli@dalac  |

Oh, god, another one.

At least he's got a bit of character.  Or should, anyway.

Nevin?  Uh, Nevin?  I think I know what Stevie needs.  I think
it would really do him a lot of good.  So what if he says he's
not interested?  He's just trying to fit in.  He's just not
ready to accept his true self yet.

Just get him drunk one day, and let nature do the rest.

c
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.religion.misc
From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: Songs of Solomon Peeve
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:39:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.190252.23390@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>
>
>Sex, Sex, Sex!
>
>that's all they think about.
>

Well, at least you got her mind off of MTV.

Jen
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: pmmuggli@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu  (pauline muggli)
Subject: Re: Driving with Parking Lights!
Originator: mdtll@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:46:18 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

  smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:

>	What I hate are those idiot drivers that drive with those #%^&%#&%$^
>fog lights on.  On clear nights.  With perfect visibility.  If they're so
>blind that they need 2 sets of lights to see, *THEY SHOULDN'T BE ON THE 
>ROAD*!!!!!!!!  So, as a result, I leave my high beams on when they go
>past.  Most of them are too dense to get the message.
 
they are probably in their peeving about the BDI who hasn't
turned down his high beams, so they in return are going to leave
on the fog lights to show him.

i don't mind high beams approaching me as much as drivers who
leave them on when they come up behind me.  i guess some people
don't understand the concept of mirrors.  even if i flip the
rear view mirror to the less light setting, i am still blinded
for miles by the reflection in the side mirror.

pauline

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