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From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Parents who subject their kids to strange names
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:22:07 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:

>The name they saddled my 'great aunt' with was:
>Ione Yosemite Park(*)

I used to work with a woman named Judy Case. Her brother- and
sister-in-law bestowed upon their first-born offspring the monicker:

			     Justin Case.

Judy was, understandably, peeved.

And of course, if you want to talk about celebrities, there's Zowie
Bowie, and Dweezil and Moon-Unit Zappa, etc...

- Steve "with three P's and a silent Q" masticol@cs.rutgers.edu.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: baldwin@polaris.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Hurricane Peeve
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 15:42:19 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
Distribution: alt

In article <CINDY.92Aug30133147@solan10.solan.unit.no> cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>A short question, but one that is burning a hole in my mind in the
>wake of the recent hurricane in Southern Florida (which, to hear the
>locals interviewed for television tell it, is The Worst Disaster That
>Ever Happened In The Whole World):
>
>What are people _thinking_ when they chose to live in a TRAILER
>in the middle of hurricane country?
	Better be careful, Cindy. Right after the Big Earthquake, at
the end of an otherwise innocent post, I ask who in their right mind
would build a 2 level freeway in an earthquake prone area without
making pretty damn sure that it wouldn't collapse. 
	Well, as you might imagine, there were those in the Bay Area
who didn't think that my question was in very good taste and decided
that I needed to be flamed for it. Being the impressionable lad that 
I was, I didn't scorch them into oblivion, but let the matter drop.
One guy even offered me the job of governor of CA, if I thought I
could do a better job. I accepted the offer, as I was really broke
at the time and needed any kind of job, but he never got back to me.
From listening to the news, it seems they got someone else to do it.

>They live in an area where a storm with enough power to make your
>average nuclear bomb green with envy can come along any year and
>smash their entire city flat, and they chose to live in a flimsy
>container of plywood.  I don't get it.  
	The thing that I have always wondered about are the people
who live on the flood plains of the Brazos and Trinity rivers in
Texas. The rivers flood often. A whole lot. At least ever year and
usually more. Last year, they flooded 3 times while I was in the 
area, and I was only in Houston for about 2-3 weeks. Yet these
bozos refuse to leave. Nature comes along every year with it friendly
reminder to "Get Out!", but the don't listen. They rebuild, or
fix up the place and then BAM! the next flood comes. 
	They're reasonings for rebuilding are always something like "My 
pappy was flooded outta this same land and DAMNIT! my kids will be flooded
out after me! Its a family tradishun."

Mother Nature:"How many damn times do I have to tell you people to move?
	It is not safe here. Get the fuck out of here! Sheesh! Some people!

-- 
Chris Baldwin                | Robert Johnson invented the pickle! 
baldwin@carina.unm.edu       |                         - Adam Reid
          If I were a carpenter I'd hammer on my piglet. -- TMBG
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: own private idaho
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:08:47 GMT

peeve: you get your hair cut over the weekend (3 inches off) and monday
	morning somebody greets you with "my, your hair's getting long".

-l "sinead" p
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From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Children called "Mike Holmes"
Keywords: Jeremy Henderson, Jeremy Beadle, Jeremy Thorpe et.al.
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:46:25 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Aug28.100852.21886@spider.co.uk> jamesb@spider.co.uk (James Bradley) writes:
=>
=>In article <25243@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>
=> Strange argument, strange person.

You think that's strange, how about this!

WeeeeeeEEEEEDooDoodleDoooBippetyBOOH

=>>==================================================================
=>>-Jeremy Henderson            |  Une souris verte
=>  ^^^^^^
=>Peeve: People who live in glass houses who throw concrete blocks.

And that, mein freund, is where you're wrong! "Jeremy" may be a completely
stupid name, but it is not one which one automatically attaches to a
proletarian wastrel.

=>Which got me thinking 

...insert your favorite flame here...

=>of all the famous Jermey's of the world who have
=>effected history. This is the list I came up:
=>
=>Jeremy Beadle 
=>Jeremy Thorpe 
=>Jeremy Fisher 
=>Jeremy Hardy 
=>Jeremy Bentham 

I'm rather proud of Mr. Bentham, and quite fond of Mr. Fisher. The others
aren't too sound, I'll admit.

=>Truly an inspiring name...

Indeed. But one which our Transatlantic cousins have some difficulty with.
If I had a dollar for every time I've been called "Jeremiah" or "Jerome"
I'd be a lot richer than I am now. Even when I tell people quite clearly
what my name is they *still* get it wrong.

There was a jolly amusing incident at work when the bossman of a different
department decided that I was called "Jeffrey". I didn't correct him at
first, and it got to that embarrassing point when it was no longer
possible to correct him without it becoming clear that he'd been making
an ass of himself for the last six months, with consequent impact on my
job security.

=>james (whose name is just plain boring) bradley

Well, let's see:
There's "James and the Giant Peach"
--More--(8%)



-- 
==================================================================
-Jeremy Henderson            |  Une souris verte
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Qui courrait dans l'herbe
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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (David Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Contest!
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 13:09:02 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Sep01.181811.22697@CS.ORST.EDU>, Tim Mefford writes:

> That's right, a contest!  With a winner, a prize, losers and everything.

This newsgroup already has more than it's fair share of losers,
Tim!

> What was the name of Nick and Nora Charles' dog?


My partner suggests: "Whoarenickandnoracharles"

I can just imagine it at feeding time:

"Here whoarenickandnoracharles, here boy, here whoarenickandnoracharles"

> Bonus question for the winner:
> If the the winning entry includes a correct answer to the bonus question,
> I will send off the $30 (That's right $30) prize before I leave next weekend.
> 
> Bonus question:  I have, in the past months, included every well known ObBob
>                  except one.  Name the most famous omitted Bob for $30.

Bob Geldof.

Dac
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:54:53 EDT
From: Joy Haftel <JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
 <1992Aug26.142644.13539@dg-rtp.dg.com> <l9pv52INNkfr@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
 <6qdn7mn@lynx.unm.edu>

In article <6qdn7mn@lynx.unm.edu>, baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) says:
>
>        I know a family in Texas who named all of their male children
>with names beginning with a 'J'. They have Jordan and Joshua, I think(Never
>new his brother very well.)
[...]
>        Wow, I never realized it before, but what we have here is a real,
>live,
>honest to Gawd 'J' cult. I think that JenniJoySonJa should get down there and
>take her/their rightful place as the goddess(es) of Jasper.

Did I never tell you that my brothers are named Joshua and Jonathan,
and my sister is named Johanna?

We don't have a cult.  We have a religion.

(And no, I'm not Jenni, and I don't look like Jenni or SonJa!
I'm ME!  really....)

Hmm, this confusion is beginning to peeve me so much I'm peeved
that I couldn't make PeeveFest East.  Anyone want to have another
one in a few months?  Any out-of-towners want to visit?

Peeve:  I have no life since I started working.  My officemate
has noticed me talking to myself....

Joy Haftel               "Farewell dear, deluding Woman,
JKH107@PSUVM              The joy of joys!"--Burns
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: own private idaho
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
	<la7lhlINNjv@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:27:36 GMT

In article <la7lhlINNjv@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
   In article <1992Sep1.130847.1919@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
   (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:

   >peeve: you get your hair cut over the weekend (3 inches off) and monday
   >	morning somebody greets you with "my, your hair's getting long".

   Every time I get my hair cut, somebody *always* has to ask, "Did you
   get a haircut?"  It's one of those bits of mindless stupidity that's
   in the same category as "Want to wash my car next?," only they really
   mean it. This is especially peevesome when you consider the fact that 
   I tend to let my hair grow for 1-2 months between trims; when I get it
   cut, it makes a big difference in my appearance.  So awhile back, I
   started telling them I hadn't, with a straight face.

What I always say is "Yeh, I got a whole bunch of 'em cut!"

   Another haircut-related peeve is that after I make a point of combing my 
   hair the way I prefer to wear it before I let the stylist proceed, they 
   all want to wet it down and comb it back over the top of my head, which
   results in a completely different look than the one I had when I walked in.

Tch! Tch! Really, Geoff! You should listen to Bruce. 8-}

(That military haircut won't get you anywhere, Sailor. :->  )

MyPeeve: Having to pay full price for a haircut, when the permanent
         anti-Mohawk saves the barber a lot of clipping.. (Screw styling
         it!)

AntiPeeve: Going from longhair to redneck to longhair over a cycle of
           several months. I get a broad spectrum of viewpoints.

Peeve: My Radical Liberal Left tendencies are approximately porportional 
       to the length of my hair. 

    (..)
     ~~
L.
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When I break down just a little, I lose my head. No one can understand a
word that I say..

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: lies and unwanted urchins
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:43:55 GMT

peeve: being the sap that i am for a good ad campaign, i went to the local
	kfc and picked up the new popcorn chicken that hammer can't get 
	enough of. there was no chicken. lots o' batter. plenty	o' grease. 
	no chicken. none. zip. don't look here. i'm not exaggerating. i
	can hear the colonel now "surely there's something we can do with
	the dregs in the fry basket after we take the chicken out...eureka!"

peeve: every time a sit com goes on the skids, some tv exec decides to add
	a new child. _gimme_a_break_, _who's_the_boss_, _archie_bunker's_
	place (formerly _all_in_the_family_),... the list is endless. and
	it *never* works. so why *why* *WHY* do they keep on doing it? now 
	_married_with_children_ has become _married_with_more_children_. ew.

-l "give *me* a break" p



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From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: Re: *Canadian* Football
Summary: Grey Cup
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:25:33 GMT

bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce) writes:
> allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
> > The Calgary Stampeders [...] last won the Grey Cup in 1972 year (71?)
> 
> That's "Gray" Cup.

Since when? Have you been mind-altered by the U.S. media? Or is this a
symptom of neural degeneration? I have been gone from Canada less than
two years, and unless wholesale silliness has broken out, the word is
still spelt GREY in Canada.

Al
in Oz
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From: tchau@athena.mit.edu (Terry Chau)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Birds
Keywords: Birds
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:44:14 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Article: 23417 of alt.peeves
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: tchau@athena.mit.edu (Terry Chau)
Subject: What kind of bird?
Keywords: birds
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:28:25 GMT

OK, so I messed up.  I'm just a beginner.  These computers aren't exactly user-
friendly.  I accidently "cancelled" the article
below.  At least it was on file, so here it is again...

Only for bird enthusiasts, but then again, you might learn from this...

The familiar "Pigeons" of New York City and Boston and other metropolitan areas
are not, I repeat NOT, called "pigeons"!!!  According to my trusty old Peterson
Field Guide to Eastern/Central Birds and the ornithological union which decides
the official scientific and common names of birds (I forget what the union is
called) and all the other bird literature I've read says that the pigeon is
actually called the:  ROCK DOVE!  Rock doves belong to the family Columba, which
also includes Mourning Doves, White-Crown Doves, and other birds.  Not that you
really care, but I'm not sure where the word "pigeon" comes from.  If you do,
please do respond.

I live in New York Catskills (2.5 hours NW from New York City), and it's a nice
place to visit (only if you're a hunter, fisher, or a tennis player).  Anyway, I
have two friends that say that they've seen "wild canaries" around their house. 
I keep telling them, "There are no such things as wild canaries in New York!" 
It's not in my field guide.  It's not in the Birder's Handbook.  It's not even
listed in the accidentals part of my field guide.  Therefore, I feel confident to
say that there are no canaries living in New York.  It seems that they think that
 the bird's yellow, therefore, it must be a canary.  There are birds that are
yellow that are not canaries.  There are American Goldfinches, Yellow Warblers,
and few other warblers that are almost completely yellow.  So if you live in the
United States, there are no wild canaries.  If there really is one, you've
probably found an escapee from a cage.  But canaries don't fare well in the
climate of the United States to multiply fruitfully.

Other birding peeves:
	-- I can't get a good description or recording of Common Grackles
	-- The house finches always give themselves priority over American
goldfinches at my thistle feeder
	-- There are always something wrong with your field guide.  A good field
guide should identify a bird without any doubt.  But no field guides can for some
reason.

Oh I'm sure that all of you sympathize with me.  Don't think that my whole life
is destroyed because of misconceptions of birds.  It's a peeve and isn't it what
this subject is about?

By the way, this is my very first article I've written on NewsNet.  And I'm proud
of it.

>:-(

-- Chau
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Vacation peeves
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 21:44:59 GMT

For those who hadn't heard, Gillian and I left the SF Bay area a
week ago, spent 3 days in Iowa (Ames-Des Moines area) and 3 days
in Boulder, Colorado.

Peeve #1:  Arguing with the Missus until midnight the night before leaving.

Peeve #2:  Having to wake up at 4:30 the next morning.

AntiPeeve #1:  The friendly people of Iowa.  The first person we talked
to was the rental car person, who made a point of telling me that my
credit card provided insurance for the rental car and I didn't need to
pay extra for unnecessary protection.

MajorAntiPeeve #1:  Dan Sorenson's kindness in allowing us to crash at
his place for 3 days.  The friendliness shown us by him, his girlfriend
April and some other folks from the net made our visit most enjoyable.

AntiPeeve #2:  The Iowa State Fair.  Especially the National Guard
exhibit, including tanks, 8 inch howitzers and a pellet gun shooting
gallery.

Peeve #3:  I must've twitched or something at the shooting trailer,
because all but one of my five shots were comfortably in the black.
The final score was only 41/50, though.  Dan smoked me with a score
of 44/50 and another friend from the net, a fellow reptile nerd,
managed 48/50.

MajorAntiPeeve #2:  The gun laws in Iowa and Colorado.  Iowa requires
only a 3 day background check for a pistol purchasing permit good for
all the guns you can afford for one year; Colorado has no permits or
waiting periods for ANY purchases.  In Colorado, you can buy a pistol
over the counter at WalMart!

AntiPeeve #3:  Checking out the tanks and stuff at the fair reminded
me that I have always LIKED military paraphernalia.  It's Reagan/Bush's
readiness/eagerness to use such tools to spank little countries that
refuse to be subservient that bothers me...

Peeve #4:  That sinking feeling when you wake up on the first work day
after a vacation, knowing you can't goof off all day.

Cheers,

   don
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From: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Keywords: Losers
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:41:25 GMT
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu
Organization: Up the,

In article <1992Aug26.142644.13539@dg-rtp.dg.com>, cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|> |> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
|> |> >!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.

     Fred doesn't seem like such a bad name.
|> 
|>  The others all took nicknames.
|> 
     I've noticed among the rather large generation containing my many great
uncles a tendancy to be named after presidents, i.e. Woodrow Wilson Moran.
Thank God that has stopped.  Imagine being named George Bush Stouffer, or
Gerald Ford Lemon, or Lyndon Lees.  

      I've noticed among the Continental Europeans that I've been 
forced to interact with, a proclivity for nicknames even exceeding that
I've seen here.  I've always thought nicknames to be kind of weird.  I
can't imagine any circumstance, other than in the context of being made
fun of, where it would be natural to suddenly be referred to as "Bucky",
or any other common nickname.

     And, indeed, who the hell would name their child "Bubba?"

|> !PeeveOfMyLifetime: My dad had the good grace and common sense not to name 
|> either me or my brother Clemern Covell Junior. "Junior" has its own set of
|> problems, but coupled with Clemern Covell, it would have been unbearable
|> (note the nifty tie-in to the subject line).
|> 

I truly pity the generation branded with such names as Tiffany, Krystal,
Ashleigh, and Devon.

ObBob: Schieffer

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                        |  him prosperous, he will not bite you.     
  tim@physics.orst.edu  |  This is the principal difference between
                        |  a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
________________________________________________________________
From: curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly
Keywords: grommets, tibia
Date: 31 Aug 92 03:23:47 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.

Just tried it - got an elbow on backwards.  Damned
inconvenient I tell you.  Leave these things to the
professionals.

c
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S. Zraly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Gov. Pete Wilson (WAS: Moving Peeve)
Keywords: Losers
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:58:28 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston Dept. of Math & CS

curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
>>
>>As a welcoming gesture to you personally, the long deadlocked CA
>>assembly have passed big cuts in higher education.
>
>Hah.  The indicated response to good Gov. Wilson and his seamy
>toadies: "Suck me."  CS Berkeley gets all its juice from shaking
>down industry and applying power suction to Unca Sam's pendulous
>& scarred, but still-bountiful, tits.

OK, this isn't really a peeve, but does relate to the reaction of some
peeved public employees in California.  DISCLAIMER:  This story was
related to me by my wife, who read it in a letter from a friend, who
heard it from her brother, who may actually have been there...

Apparently at a photo-op dinner in the field with some state employees
fighting the summer brush fires in either Fresno or Madera county the
cook decided to protest his being paid in California IOU's by serving
the Governor pieces of paper saying "IOU one steak", "IOU vegetables",
etc., instead of the real thing.

He was not amused.

-- 
Mike Zraly		Let's drop the Big One and see what happens
mzraly@cs.umb.edu		-- Randy Newman
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Parents who subject their kids to strange names
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:21:12 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

This thread reminds me of a family I once knew who loved to give their kids 
weird names. There were three kids, and they all had peculiar names, but I can 
only remember the name of the oldest, a girl. They called her...get this...

Raven Alexis.

Since they weren't Native (Of Aboriginal stock), I have NO idea of where they
dug this name up. To me, it sounds like something right out of a trashy
romance novel. As I recall, little Raven had a tough time in school. The other
little rugrats called her...

Rantin' and Raven.

Poor kid.
Oh, well.
Mike 
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