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From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Psychology (was: Re: Lawyers not Chemists)
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:27:18 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <kuls4sINN58h@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>In article <301@bbx.basis.com> russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:
>>Sure - but in my case my experience shows otherwise.  Diagnosed
>>"hyperactive" at the age of 11 and megadosed on Librium and Dexadrine
>>for some 6 years.  
>
>You were diagnosed as hyperactive and they gave you *Dexedrine?*  Isn't
>that kinda like trying to put out a fire by throwing gasoline on it?

Naah - us hyperkenetic kids were liberally dosed with it as it acted
as a pretty good depressant.  Something to do with depressing the
andreneline production or something, I really don't know (or know if
they did).  Anyway, my peak drugging was something like 120mg Librium
and 60mg Dexadrine per day.  One teacher described my attitude after
the drugging started as: "Well, he still climbs the walls but no
longer reaches the ceiling".  I still maintain it was 'cause I was
bored out of my skull - this was in the days where it was *wrong* to
have any advanced or honors program at school, so I was stuck in with
the learning disabled and "normal" students.  I would usually dispose
of the textbook in the first month or so, and from then on it was
really, really boring.

Russ "naah - I'm not bitter" Kepler
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From: carolo@shawnee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Carol Osterbrock)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Engineers
Date: 15 Apr 92 03:27:58 GMT

In article <92105.185908JMM151@psuvm.psu.edu>, JMM151@psuvm.psu.edu (Jennifer Mina) writes:
|> Peeve: Engineers -- Need I say more?

Well, no, but seeing as you are from psu, I would have thought
you *would*.
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: These damned pickup trucks from Washington State
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:41:12 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
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Organization: Aktiengesellschaften SchellpreBenfabrik
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I've noticed that it's becoming more and more common `round these parts
to see guys driving full-size pickups with their girlfriends seated in 
the middle, close beside them.  That was a custom I'd always associated 
primarily with high school students until I drove through Texas about ten 
years ago.  Down there, it's common to see even middle-aged couples doing
this, which tends to give me a feeling of cognitive dissonance.  Sorta
like borrowing grandma's car and finding the radio set to a rock station
or something.

For some reason I very rarely see this practiced in regular passenger cars,
at least in California, maybe because younger people tend to drive cars
with bucket seats.

ObPeeve:  The woman with hard-soled shoes who's always clomp-clomping
in and out of the printer room across the hall from my office.  And when
she's not around, my officemate is yakking on the telephone while I'm
trying to concentrate.  Arrrgh!



Geoff


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From: JIMBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Short gals--->Tall guys
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:36:53 GMT
 <92100.234048JIMBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <19987@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <19987@castle.ed.ac.uk>, egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) says:
>I ALSO LIKE THEM TO BE BLONDE, FLUFFY, THICK AS 2 SHORT PLANKS, WEAR
>MOHAIR CARDIGANS AND BE ABLE TO COOK A MEAN APPLE PIE JUST LIKE MY MOM
>MADE.  THEY MUST KEEP THEIR TRAPS SHUT EXCEPT TO GIGGLE AT MY MANLY JOKES

BUT...

>ABOUT CARS AND FOOTBALL.  I LIKE THEM TO BE CONSTANTLY DIETING BECAUSE
>THAT STOPS THEM WORRYING THEIR LITTLE HEADS ABOUT MENS' STUFF.

BUT...

>So you think the only role a woman has to play in your life is to fit
>into the right place under your arm?  Jesus, you deserve the
>abovementioned airhead.

I WAS JUST KIDDING...

>"There are some truly sad people in this world"

(SNIFF)BY THE WAY(SNIFF)HOW TALL ARE (SNIFF)YOU?
----------------------------------------------------------
 James D. Craft <JIMBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
 REMEMBER, WHEN THEY SAY THEY'RE KIDDING...THEY'RE NOT
From: ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The Lemming)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lemon Gin, Rape
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:49:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: YaleVM.167C2FABB.ELLBRUA
Organization: Yale University

>ObPeeve: the annoying assumption that people (especially other students)
>make that every student is automatically a left-winger.
 
I know exactly what you mean.  Witness the following conversation:
 
Other Student:  "You voted for Brown in the primary, didn't you?"
 
Me:  "No."
 
OS:  (sneering)  "You mean you voted for that slimebag, Clinton?"
 
Me:  "No.  I'm a registered Republican.  I don't vote in the Democratic
      primary."
 
OS:  (goes into an apoplectic shock)
 
 
Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
ellbrua@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: Just One Gynaecologist
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:35:33 GMT

the voice of the scientist:

>ObVeryCompuNerdyPeeve: Why the hell doesn't free() work? [...]

because *they* want you to buy more main memory and faster swap disks.


-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
"we only question our worlds when they get out of hand" (seven sioux)
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Things my wife does (revisited)
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:26:58 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
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In article <3269@equinox.unr.edu> malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) 
writes:

>Or when they turn the inner dust jacket sideways, presumably for easy access,
>so that 1) plenty o' dust gets in there, and 2) the record falls out when
>the album is picked up.

Hey, that's what *I* do!  In fact, in the same article I mentioned being
peeved by people who replace the record with the sleeve turned 90 degrees
relative to the outer jacket, thus adding an additional step to the record
insertion/extraction process.  After years of careful observation, I've 
come to the conclusion that keeping the sleeve oriented the same way as 
the jacket doesn't actually admit any more dust, since the albums are stored
pressed together.  And I consider the album's falling out a benefit, since
I expect it and can therefore control it.  Of course, I'm careful to replace
other people's record's however they do it themselves, even if I think they're
anal retentive fruitcakes.



>Peeve:  SO's who do this sort of thing apparently simply to get their
>	partners' goat.  Marriage is different, but if an unmarried SO
>	of mine started pulling this sort of thing (and refused to talk
>	about what I might have done to have inspired such behavior),
>	I'd be out of there in a minute.

Peeve:  The abbreviation "SO."  What say we all drop it and go back to
boyfriend/girlfriend and husband/wife?  That expression is so awkward that
when I first heard it, I thought it was a joke, a parody of PC-speak.



Geoff


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Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 16:17:21 EDT
From: Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Accident prone (was Re: NICKNAMES)
Distribution: world,public

In article <5o8uiB2w164w@mantis.co.uk>, tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) says:
>JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) writes:
>> ObPeeve: Being accident prone.
>
>Hmm... Now I've met a number of people who claim to be accident prone
>and judging by their reports, they do indeed seem to have more accidents
>than other people.
[stuff deleted]
>They are clumsy, and use "accident prone" as both a euphemism and as an
>excuse for this.

ObPeeve: Being clumsy.

Happy?

>Peeve: It's no excuse really, unless you're disabled.

What exactly makes you say that?  Some people have better eye-hand/foot/
whatever co-ordination than others.  People don't say that the only
excuse for being a slow reader is being dyslexic.

Peeve: People who think that talent only applies to mental things.

                                                 --Jenni
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Short gals--->Tall guys
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:39:09 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <92100.234048JIMBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> JIMBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:

>I LIKE A GIRL THAT WILL FIT RIGHT WHEN I PUT MY ARM AROUND HER.
>THAT MEANS ONE FOOT SHORTER THAN MYSELF AT 6'3" ( 5'3" IF YOU
>FORGOT YOUR CALCULATOR).
>
>obPEEVE: WOMEN <5'3" OR >5'3". BE SEEING YOU.

I ALSO LIKE THEM TO BE BLONDE, FLUFFY, THICK AS 2 SHORT PLANKS, WEAR
MOHAIR CARDIGANS AND BE ABLE TO COOK A MEAN APPLE PIE JUST LIKE MY MOM
MADE.  THEY MUST KEEP THEIR TRAPS SHUT EXCEPT TO GIGGLE AT MY MANLY JOKES
ABOUT CARS AND FOOTBALL.  I LIKE THEM TO BE CONSTANTLY DIETING BECAUSE
THAT STOPS THEM WORRYING THEIR LITTLE HEADS ABOUT MENS' STUFF. 

I THINK DAN QUAYLE IS A GENIUS.  IF I LIVED IN BRITAIN I WOULD HAVE BEEN
ONE OF THE 43% OF THE ELECTORATE WHO VOTED FOR MAJOR.  HE'S ONE HELLUVA
GUY.

So you think the only role a woman has to play in your life is to fit
into the right place under your arm?  Jesus, you deserve the
abovementioned airhead.

Babs "There are some truly sad people in this world" Page.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: engineers, again
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:13:20 GMT

[i really should not do this ...]

Jennifer Mina <JMM151@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

> Why do you care what peeves me anyway?  

on the risk of sounding like a broken record: this is alt.peeves.
things written here have a chance of being *read* by people who *do* 
care what peeves you. 

i suspect the motivations of people for actually reading this group vary.
some will see it as a party where to meet distant friends, some might 
find consolation in the fact that the world is unjust to everyone 
(justly unjust?), some get kicks out of picking on people who don't give
the impression of knowing what is going on (*), some may even make friends
with other posters. but central to all this is the following concept:

    this is a large audience. most of us are willing to read your
    articles. it is *your* obligation to make it worth our while.

with this clarified, i'd like to turn your question around:

    why do you write what peeves you? 
    what is *your* motivation for posting here?
    why do you think *we* should read *your* postings?

i assume that you *want* us to read them, otherwise, 
what is the point in posting?

-alex

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"we only question our worlds when they get out of hand" (seven sioux)
From: malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Reno, NV moves one step closer to big-city uncaringness and cruelty
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:24:49 GMT
Organization: Xinaian Tourist Bureau

The other day, I pulled into the post office downtown to look up the
address of a county facility, and found that someone had, apparently
in Michael J. Fox BTTF style, torn the page in question out of the
phone book.

Oh, the humanity.


!Peeve:  The post office itself is this qool dark polished grey-green
         WPA-era building with dim, lofty 30-foot ceilings, and stainless
	 steel eagle-motif crenellations throughout the interior.

Peeve:   It's no longer the main branch.
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From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lust from afar
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:33:20 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

Burger and a side of fires, (sonJa Kueppers) writes:
>Most of my underwear is intended to allow me to wear the same pair of
>pants more than once between laundry days without smelling like a whorehouse.

Well, you're one up one me.  *I* don't even know what a whorehouse
smells like.  I could guess, but there's a limit to how vivid my
imagination can be this late in the day.

>Some of my underwear is intended specifically to appeal to the advertising-
>induced ideas men have of what is attractive in women.  

Attractive in women?   "I think a set of BenWa balls and an English
cucumber would look attractive in her, Jim."

This sounds like mighty interesting underwear you have there, J.

>(Of course, I have
>some of the same advertising-induced ideas, so I find wearing lingerie
>enjoyable.)

Jack Poller feels the same way.

>>black lights and flourescent body paint?
>
>No, but you're welcome to come visit and show me.

I took an oath against entering the state of Pennsylvania.  How 'bout
I send you a sample and a black-light bulb, you send me a photo, then
I'll send you a baggie of spunk.  Then we can trade places.

>Unfortunately, I wasn't sure *what* you were asking if I swallowed,

Nevermind.  You just swallowed it.

>being a relative newcomer to alt.peeves.

Man.  I pity anyone that comes to alt.peeves for *this* kind of
information.

>Therefore, I chose not to answer the question.

You are new, aren't you.  If you don't understand the question, it's
the *perfect* oppurtunity to make up the most wild, off-the-wall
retort imaginable.  JZ would've fallen out of his chair, tears rolling
from his eyes if you'd just used a non-committal line like "Only if
it's been boiled, first."

>One of my friends (upon meeting this woman) suggested she was just
>so closeted she didn't want to say.

Maybe she was so closeted she thought she was straight.

>ObPeeve: People who think AIDS was caused by a conspiracy.

ObHair: Mole

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Bush for (Ex)President in '92!
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 03:55:50 GMT

!Peeve:  Noriega's Daughters.  Saw them on CNN.

Mega!Peeve:  Noriega's daughters - together - in leather.

Guys, these women are primo babes.  They must take after the Missus.

Peeve:  Every time I try to correct my .sig, this machine crashes.
--
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:10:15 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Poc, Ca.
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In article <9361@wrgate.wr.tek.com> dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (Dave Munroe) 
writes:

>Other pocquers are people at restaurants who rap coins or keys on the table,
>and people who chew ice, noisily slamming down the water glass after each
>ingestion of cubes.


One thing that's always really gotten on my nerves, and I don't know why,
is when people stand around idly swinging their arms back and forth,
culminating in a clap or a snap of the fingers when their hands meet in
front of them.  Maybe it's because it's just enough noise and activity to 
be distracting, without generatring any useful information.



Geoff


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From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 14 Apr 1992 21:09:02 GMT
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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In article <1992Apr11.013737.4209@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>
>Peeve: Having to wear a heavy, expensive, "power suit" for certain business
>activities.
>
>!Peeve: Watching people get out of my way, proffer extra services, or gener-
>ally grovel because I'm an "Important Person" because of my "power suit".
>

Oh, god, not the "power suit" thread again...

I still have this irrestistible image of a short, dumpy businessman in a
"power suit," looking like Danny DeVito in one of the nuclear-powered
full-body-armor getups out of Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_, walking into a
plush executive office without opening the door; wood chips everywhere.

	"Yes?  Uh, excuse me, sir, but..."

	"Get me a coffee, boy."

	"And just who do you thi-aaa--EEEEEEEEEEEE!"  (Phil puts his
power-gloved fist through the heavy mahogany desk (more wood chips), gently
grasps the executive's genitals, and lifts him a foot off his chair.
Servomotors whine.)  "AH!  Oof.  Uh."  (Phil lets go.)  "Uh, yes, sir."

	"Black.  No sugar."

	"Yes, sir."

c
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lemon Gin, Rape
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:43:01 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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In article <10205@cernvax.cern.ch> steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) 
writes:

>Peeve:  What the hell is wrong with my country that they're passing bonehead
>laws like this?  It's time to move to Singapore or some place, I guess.
>Sigh...

Your point is well taken, but you picked the worst possible place as an
example.  Singapore has perhaps the most incredibly intrusive and outright
anal retentive laws in the world.  There are laws against spitting in public
and against failing to flush the toilets in public restrooms, for example.
In fact, there are plainclothes cops whose only job is to lurk in public
restrooms and enforce the latter law.  Violators are not only fined, their
names and photographs are published in the newspaper.  There are strong 
social santions against males with long hair (i.e., over the collar); some
places of business have signs saying that guys with such "long" hair will
be the last ones served.  I knew about this stuff before, but it wasn't 
until I read a fascinating article in the New Yorker that I realized just
how hardcore they are down there.  People won't even cross the street against
a red light if there's no traffic and no one around to protest.


>Canada has been going downhill ever since Lyin' Baloney and the Regressive
>Preservatives got in.  It's time we shot the bastard and found a real
>government somewhere.

Is it true that the Stones' song "Five Into One" is about the band's 
relationship with Margaret Trudeau?



Geoff


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From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:57:41 GMT

In article <19951@castle.ed.ac.uk> egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) writes:
>ObScene:  John Major, wearing a purple lycra posing pouch, going down
>on Thora Hird

ok, i give. what's a posing pouch?

-l "i gotta read alt.sex.funky.things.to.wear more" p


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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sunday, 12 Apr 1992 19:16:44 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Low-fat = Low-salt

Peeve: That anytime a manufacturer decides to make one of their "regular"
foods into a "low-fat" product, they also decide to remove everything
else "unhealthy" from it.

Example: I'm reasonably fond of Nabisco's "Vegetable Thins" crackers.
However, I've always thought they were too greasy.  Therefore, when I
saw on the shelf a low-fat version, I bought it.  What a disappointment!
Not only was it no longer greasy, it no longer had all the great flavor
enhancing ingredients like salt!

RelatedPeeve: That people assume that the only reason you would
want to eat "diet" food is because you're trying to lose weight.

-Sonja
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SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
Saying that giving kids condoms encourages them to have sex is like
saying that telling people to wear seat belts encourages them to drive
recklessly.
From: kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Michael Newton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Moronic left turn first signals
Date: 6 Apr 92 00:16:21 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK

steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
>French may not be easier to pronounce than English but it's INFINITELY more
>phonetic.  Aside from a few place names it's pretty much true that you can
>tell how to pronounce any French word from the way it's written.

"phonetic" is not a degree term. Leaving that aside, i think u might
run into cardinality problems. It may be better than English, but it
aint good. In particular, its not easy to go the other direction:
there generally seem to be several possible spellings for any sound,
as well as various possible "silent" letters which could be inserted.
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Psychology (was: Re: Lawyers not Chemists)
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:47:56 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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In article <301@bbx.basis.com> russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:

>Sure - but in my case my experience shows otherwise.  Diagnosed
>"hyperactive" at the age of 11 and megadosed on Librium and Dexadrine
>for some 6 years.  

You were diagnosed as hyperactive and they gave you *Dexedrine?*  Isn't
that kinda like trying to put out a fire by throwing gasoline on it?



Geoff "Give me Librium or give me meth" Miller


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