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From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 14 Aug 1992 21:50:55 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala ) writes:


>                                    Anyway, a person (any sex) who can whip
>out a ten-dimensional superstring has no business changing the oil in a car.
>that's what epsilons are for. I've met plenty of EE PhD's who can't change
>a light bulb or program a VCR. Not that they can't do it, it JUST DOESN'T 
>INTEREST THEM! OH! OH!

>                                 ROMANES
>                                 EUNT 
>                                 DOMUS
>Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments

Pardon my ignorance in latin, Chuck. It's been a long time since I had
my latin classes and it's not easy to keep up with a dead language if
you read and write in 4 others. But is that supposed to mean:

                                   ROMANS
                                   DON'T EAT (EAT NOT)
                                   DONUTS
                                    ???

If my guess is correct, then I can understand that they also don't
repair their cars, their VCRs etc. just because they're not INTERESTED
in doing that. But I would say the interest comes with the need.
Not everybody gets paid like a Roman. There are some intelligent people
in this world who cannot afford not to be "interested" simply because
it will cost them too much. Some of those people solve lagrangeans of
several matrix dimensions without even touching a pencil and paper.

the NEXUS (who doesn't work for TI)
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From: ogorman@unix1.tcd.ie (Lucifuge)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:39:33 GMT

In <1992Aug13.172907.14011@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>On another note, sort of peripherally related to this.... and screening 
>mechanisms..... I have long hair, and I have noticed that here in TN  
>(where the fashion is to have it cut short) the only people who will 
>start conversations with me are biker types with similarly long hair.
>Now I am not a biker type myself, but I keep on getting the feeling
>that what attracts them is the hair.  I have been told by TN natives that
>if I want to attract respectable TN women (Barbies), I should get a marine 
>haircut like all the Kens.  I kinda feel like that would be selling out.
>And I refuse to do it.

Yah. Me also. You're semi-right about the biker types. The long hair is
sort of a social recognition mechanism...as with style of clothing etc.,
it marks you out as having a certain area of interests (most commonly
metal, bikes and sf/comics). Since conversations tend to be better if
common interests exist, the biker types attempt conversation with you.
Also since it is uncool for the kens and barbies to be seen with non
advertisments for aryan supremacy they don't talk to you. 

Simple isn't it? :)   

More seriously wrt changing your image to get a relationship off your
absolutely right. That is selling out of the worst kind because you are
selling out selling out what you are in favour of what society at large
tells you you should be. It boils down to what you really desire. If all
you want is to pick up a woman for a fuck then you are a shallow person
and deserve to be dropped off a suspension bridge for wasting carbon. If
this is what you want then you will have no problem being whatever
appeals to the lowest common denominator of female taste. If what you
want is a *relationship*, then you probably want a female who will
respect you for what you are and will be interested in you (not in how
many watts your sub-woofer can crank). The female Nice-Guy(tm)...the
Nice-Girl?...

Please note that despite previous posts from this account, I do in fact
have a coherent theory of how human relationships operate..someday I'll
even write it down...also all the "you's" in the above paragraph are
directed at the human race in general and not at the original author
(Meech).

Ollie...
'Watching storms start to form, over America, can't do anything,
 just watch them swing with the wind out to sea...'
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:12:02 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Center of Mad Babbling Lunatics

In article <77861@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>ogorman@unix1.tcd.ie (Lucifuge) writes:
>
>:                       It boils down to what you really desire. If all
>: you want is to pick up a woman for a fuck then you are a shallow person
>: and deserve to be dropped off a suspension bridge for wasting carbon. If
>: this is what you want then you will have no problem being whatever
>: appeals to the lowest common denominator of female taste. 
>
>although i agree completely with the original point being made (that
>meechshouldn't cut his hair; long hair on guys is awesome), i kinda
>disagree with the above minro detail.

Fear not!!!!  The only reason I would consider cutting my hair is
for job interviews.  Not to get laid.   I kinda like women who like
long hair more than those who don't anyway.  As I said before, I use
long hair as a screening mechaninism, inspite of the bikers it occasionally
attracts.

>
>there's nothing wrong with two people just having sex because both of
>them feel like it *as long as* both people are aware that that's all
>that's going on (and everyone plays safe). picking up someone for a
>fuck is fine, so long as it's perfectly clear to both people that it's
>just a fuck. i went through a promiscuous phase a couple years ago,
>and i've never really thought of myself as a waste of human flesh. it
>was just what i wanted to be doing at the time. i got bored with it,
>so i stopped. <shrug>

True.  But I think that it is also true that people are often such
bad communicators that these situations may lead to misunderstandings.
Misunderstandings that can lead to the destruction of good friendships.
But that is another point altogether.  I agree with your assertion though.

>and i don't think cutting his hair would mean he's a shallow person
>just looking to get laid, either. it just prolly wouldn't work 'cause
>he'd be pretneding to be something he's not. raising false
>expectations and all that sort of thing.

I've tried this too.  And other people have tried this with me.  
It is truly a painful disappointment when you clue in that this is
what is happening. Whether it's you doing it, or the other person.
Not really worth the trouble.  

>the obvious solution is for meech to move somewhere like austin, where
>about half the guys have long hair and no one notices that sort of
>thing anymore. besides, it's just a coolplace to be. <grin>

I have a copy of The Austin Chronicle from last year that does make
Austin seem pretty enticing.  Perhaps I should go there, and stand
on the shoulder of the interstate with a sign that says:  
"Physicist-- will consult for food and gas!"

				Meech
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
From: adem1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Adam Edward         Demeter        )
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:45:19 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

I can sympathise with this problem of yours. I, like you have seen the goddess
of McDonalds (I only wish it had been anywhere else!) She was French, I live
in New Zealand, she was about 16-18 with long blonde hair. If there was a goddess
then she would want to look like her. The bad part is, of course since she
is Frech, she is probably on the other side of the world by now and I will never
see her again. I'm not too sure if I am an appropriate candidate for the angst
column, but i feel really bad in not talking to her (I convinced myself that she
wouldn't have understood me anyway(being French and all)) but i do feel very bad
and am Manically depressed, I feel pain when people say 'France' 'Paris' &
'French'
To an impossible love....
Sad Soul.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If there were a goddess she would want to look like her...

'Michelle, my belle, these are words that go together well... My Michelle...'
'I love you I love you I loooooooooooove you.'
From: blosser_cy@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:15:14 GMT
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

Hello, I'm back. Hahahahahaha...bet you thought I'd dried up and shriveled
away like a rotting corpse, stranded in a desert, inches away from a water
fountain (how's THAT for an ironic twist of fate?) but hey, I've been work
ing and I simply don't have the time to post nastly little flames anymore.
At least, not at the present (about this time those who hate me are laugh-
ing hysterically and crying with relief...I know, I *know*!) But, hey, for
those devoted fans who love me dearly--don't weep...didst thou think I had
abandoned thee? I'll be back in two weeks--when school begins--& then I'll
have all the time in the world to whip this sorry little group into shape!

Have a MISERABLE day, you pathetic little bastards. Mommy doesn't care and
neither does your dog. In fact, he died of cholesterol poisoning yesterday
afternoon...dumb mutt didn't watch his diet. =)

								  Kristoph
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Accents
Date: 22 Aug 92 19:17:36 GMT
Organization: depressed

datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:

>Jesper Lauridsen (rorschak@daimi.aau.dk) wrote:

[My opinions and fears concerning the typical Danish accent]

>I have spoken to a few Danish people and their accent is lovely.  I like the
>sound of Scandinavian English, it is very sexy in women (I am male) 

It might be the case that Norwegians and Swedes have sexy accents. However
that is definetly not the case with Danish. It has a plain ugly sound to
it, it hurts the ears to hear it.

>and in men
>is also sexy and often has either a nice daftness or a pleasant ring of 
>authority about it.

You must be confusing it with a German accent. If only I had such a thing
I could do the Frankenstein stunt (and tell Monthy Pythons peanut joke).

>When I visited Denmark, I loved the place.  It was quiet, clean, tidy and very
>pleasant.  The countryside (in Jutland) was a bit like England but without the
>awful traffic. 

Which part of Jylland (!) was it? The east side where I unfortunately am stocked
is an ugly place with lots of annoying hills. The west however is best, nothing
obstructs the view and the habit of surrounding every field with small trees
(all pointing east as the general direction of the is west) makes the horizon
an eternal ring of threes. 

[Tourist commercial deleted]

>Sorry to rattle on like this but I did like Denmark and to hear someone 
>pretending to have angst about their accent when speaking a second language is
>just plain silly!

Not at all - are you a reader of rec.arts.{sf.}movies? The accent of Arnold
S[you know who I mean] is constantly being ridiculed.

>Would you like to send me some of these nice Danish videos?

See - we can win the European Championship, build up a huge surplus on the
trade balance, create a lowinflation society and yet we are still best known
as the land of pornography!
-- 
 _______________________ _________________________________
| Jesper Lauridsen      |      Life is a spectator sport  | 
| rorschak@daimi.aau.dk |     I think, therefore I angst  |
|_______________________|_________________________________|
From: ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Closed restrooms as a symptom of the decline of Western Civilization
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:12:21 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Aug19.232431.5267@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>In New York City, they are putting coin-operated portable toilets on
>some sidewalks.  For 25 cents you can go in and do your business, but 
>the doors open automatically after 15 minutes to discourage people with
>nowhere else to sleep from sleeping in them.  It's morning in Amerika.
>

Yeh. I was in NYC not so long ago when they were just installing these
things. They were getting really excited about it, having phone-ins
and chat shows and competitions to see who could think of the most
perverted thing that could be done in a toilet in 15 minutes.

The strange thing was that they installed these things in London
years ago. We actually had something first ? They made headline
news here too, pushing lesser stories like wars into second place.

ObAngst1: Campaign '92, nuff said ?

ObAngst2: Only rained twice this week, Saturday thru' Tuesday,
          Wednesday thru' Friday. Sorry Rach !

Alex.
From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: alt.angst angst
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:04:38 GMT
Organization: Hamburger Repair Coordinator for Big Mac #15,343,2342,343

sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
[stuff you've seen once before & stuff you've seen fifty times before deleted] 
>>"Shitty day, Beth."
>>"Shitty day, Bill."
>>"How's the Void today?"
>>"Dismal, Bill, dismal."
>>"Die a slow painful death, Beth."
>>"Die a slow painful death, Bill."
>
>This is cool...I like it. Its kind of the angster's version of the old
>cartoon where the coyote and sheepdog clock in in the morning and proceed to
>abuse and destroy each other all in a days work...

Ralph and Sam, I think.  Yes, I'm still puking up things everyone's
seen before.  What a wretched substitute for an imagination I have.
The alt.angst equivalent of Muzak; I bet someone could program a
computer to do it better.

>You have passed the test..now you can Join The Club...

It isn't that simple.  You can't just say I passed and walk away from it.

I was incapacitated by happy drugs.  Holly Hobbie came riding her
unicorn down the side of a rainbow, and I wanted to flee but I slipped
in a puddle of urine and then the Care Bears charged at me but I was
paralyzed and just lay there excreting things all over my nice new
clothes.  Then Glinda the Good Witch walked up to me and *sob* pulled
down the top of her *wheeze* dress, and I was horrified but she picked
me up and hypnotized me with them and she forced me to *sob* *pant*
*moan* and and and it made me drunk and she made me cancel my followup
to Rachel's terribly hurtful and unjust accusations and made me write
something else instead and then they disappeared and I was struck by
self-loathing and and then strangely excited and back and forth and my
mouth my whole mouth is numb I think it's cancer.

-- emb.  Half the quality of the real thing, at less than half the
price.  Pickup line: "Fuck you, lady.  I'm not a beggar, I'm a male
escort service."
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From: wcox@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: A ""What the hell?"" Angst theme....
Organization: Clark University
Date: 23 AUG 92 01:49:22 GMT

Now, maybe it's just me, but I don't get the following situation, which I'm 
in.  Friend A....  Fuck it.  Eric and Julia were friends, and supposedly they 
were pretty good friends.  Eric did his best to keep Julia from meeting me 
(two years ago or so), but failed.  Eric was also NO GOOD for Julia.  Anyway, 
I met Julia, we fell into what we then considered love, and I still do, 
although she seems to be having other ideas now.  Of course, according to the 
rules of Angst, she moved 1500 miles away one week later.  Now, we did the 
long distance thing for 8 months before it was clear she wasn't coming back, 
and I was falling apart.  I called it off.  However, since we both wanted to 
remain friends, I thought that'd be fine, and it was for a while.  That while 
lasted until I found out what Eric had been telling her of me, and what she'd 
obviously been believing from him.  He's very believable (see "Manipulative"). 
 Anyway, it seems (Angst rules in full effect now) that she can't handle 
seeing me because I'm too "stressful" for her.  Eric, of course, took it upon 
himself to NOT tell me she was coming to town, and only because he was STUPID 
enough to tell a friend of mine that she was coming did I find out.  Of 
course, as always, she is going to be staying with him because he has the 
space to let her do so.  I, who am in another city, MAY get to see her because 
of conflicting plans, and because of Eric's bullshit.
	Now, the questions:
	1: Does this get a place on the top ten angstful situations of the 
year?
	2: What should I do to Eric that doesn't involve physically harming 
him?

	OBAngst: Ever notice how it's always you and a GOOD friend that get 
mixed up in this kind of stuff??

Sigh....

						-Grace

/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
[	    It's only for a while.  I hope you understand.             ]
[ 	I never wanted this to happen, never wanted to be a man.       ]
[ 	So I hid inside my world, and took what I could find.          ]
[ 	I cried when I was lonely.  I fell down when I was blind.      ]
[								       ]
[						-Guns N' Roses         ]
\----------------------------------------------------------------------/
    Wcox@vax.clarku.edu OR Wcox@nyx.cs.du.edu OR Wcox@black.clarku.edu

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From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:07:10 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:

> ObAngst: just had my photo taken for the company files.  Expecting a stream 
> of dis-satisfied users screaming 'It was HIM!' any day now....
> It's one of these cameras that write to floppy disk, so I may post the .GIF 
> to give you all nightmares.  If I can work out how to trim my moustache 

Omigod. Alt.angst posters start exchanging GIF pictures of themselves. The
mind boggles.

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: First Time
Date: 23 Aug 92 04:15:21 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <RSHOLMES.92Aug20121617@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.214337.17592@ctr.columbia.edu> dh@fncrd7.fnal.gov (don husby) writes:
>

>>obangst.trivial.3:
>>  As far as national labs go, Fermilab is one of the best to work at:
>
>
>>no secret research, not much radiation, a fairly enlightened 
>>administration, close to a major metropolitan area (Chicago) with
>>a beach.
>

[A delightful rebuttal deleted]

In fact, the only people I have met who liked Fermilab went there
from the Oak Ridge National Lab.  All the other people I know who've
been there hated it, precisely for the long list of reasons I deleted.
However, I have never been there, so I cannot comment from personal 
experience.  
						M
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From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: The Horror.... The Horror.....
Organization: University of Tennessee Oil and Lube Center
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:34:41 GMT

I just finished watching Madame Bovary, a French Movie directed by
Claude Chabrol, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert.  It's a tale
about a physics wife who accompanies her husband to Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
where he hecomes obsessed with his research.  He's rather dull, and lacks
self-confidence, causes a meltdown or two because he really is 
kind of inept,  and eventually discredits himself. She attempts to relieve
her neverending ennui through material consumption, and having affairs
with transient young graduate students who eventually run off to Atlanta
to seek adventure. She  spends all of her husband's money, and
goes heavily in to debt.  The Mountain Mafia eventually catches up to her,
and demands repayment of her debts or they will burn down the 
Bovary Bunaglow in the Melton Lake subdivision.  To avoid embarrassment,
Ms. Bovary commits suicide by eating Arsenic.   The Mountain Men make 
Dr. Bovary squeal like a pig, torture him for several hours, blow up
the house, sell the Bovary children into prostitution, and steal his 
Monster Truck.

The End.
						Meech
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:41:12 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <17725@acorn.co.uk> ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:

>In article <1992Aug11.180759.10380@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>
>>i'm tall, smart, and i do have big boobs. it doesn't make a difference. the
>>smart part scares 'em every time....

Sure it's not the old "She's so foxy she MUST already have a guy" syndrome?

>>
>>rachel 'bah' perkins
>>
The more I find out about Rachel, the more angstful I get.....


>And yet, if I had a penny for every smart(tm) girl I've met who
>couldn't wire up a plug or set the timer on a VCR I'd have
>seventeen pence by now. Ten dimensional super-strings, no problem,
>check the oil, no chance.

>Am I the only one to observe this apparent contradiction ?

Nah.  My_perfect_woman(tm) [dumped me back in 73] wondered why the car kept 
overheating: no oil.

>ObAngst - Damn, no summer again this year.

Wrong.  It was 3 weeks ago Tuesday.  You want more than 1 day?  Leave 
England.

>Alex.
>"Volvos - boxy, but good"

Bullshit

>(There showing 'Crazy People' on Sunday, hope it's as good as the trailer)
> 
hope? hope!  this is alt.angst or had you forgot?

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From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly operating system
Date: 15 Aug 92 14:23:22 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Aug11.143308.18626@wam.umd.edu> sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell) writes:
>if people work with each other.  Sorry about the prose Im a new unix user.

Oh, don't apologize.  After you've used Unix long enough, you'll be
saying things like "grep ksh pipe" and you'll forget how to write prose
altogether.  Until you do, though, I think people will be perfectly
willing to tolerate your sounding like a prose-speaking Earthling for
a little while longer.

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