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From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
Subject: Re: Accents
Organization: Bull Milking Dept., Special Sauce Bureau, McDonald's
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 01:45:23 GMT

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

This is the objective truth.  Every accent but mine is plain ugly.
Some people claim English accents are sexy.  Other people call it the
pole-stuck-up-the-ass accent.  We know who's right, don't we?  Some
people say southern accents are sexy.  Other people think it sounds
like you fell off the truck too many times.  Some southerners pay to
get rid of their accents so they don't sound so stupid.  We know who's
right, don't we?

I've been trained to detest an American accent in someone speaking
Spanish.  After all, in Spanish classes, an American accent is the
accent of incompetence, of someone who hasn't been able to pick up the
proper rhythm and pronunciation.  You could blame your dislike of a
Danish accent on such training, or you could say a Danish accent is
just a fart for the ears; we know which is right, don't we?

Don't lower your standards to match others'.  And the next time you
consider leaving the country, also remember the difficulty of
understanding jokes or playing language games in a foreign language,
and the possibility of finding yourself depressed and somewhat shut
out by nonetheless friendly people because of it.

>>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!

Why should we care about your society?  In case you missed the
Republican convention, the US is still the best in all important
measures, and everyone looks to us, not to some insignificant European
country.  You've got pornography; we've got family values.  We can buy
your filth, or at least some of it, for now, anyway.  But you'd have a
hell of a time selling us your trade surplus.

-- emb
From: fsdhp@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: After Death Mints
Date: 15 Aug 92 15:51:15 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Shortly after you die ...
	- You'll be forgotten.
	- Will be the time historians agree the world/population/animals turned
	  a corner into a new era of happiness, harmony and prosperity.
	- Safe legal drugs will flood the world.
	- An unpopular idea of yours will be shown to be absolutely correct or
	  become conventional wisdom.
	- Practical immortality will be demonstrated, coming into the range of
	  the masses only a decade or so later.
	- You'll wake up in a vindictive afterlife, having backed the wrong
	  horse.
	- People who look and act like you will become immensely popular.
	- Someone will find your wallet and ID and use them to commit crimes.
	  You'll be disgraced and no one will even know you've died.
	- The cause you've worked hardest for will be discredited.  The leaders
	  involved will admit they were in it for sinister ulterior motives and
	  the public will laugh and shake their heads over credulous people
	  like you.
	- Animals will break into your house and get you before anyone else
	  can. (Though this might be cheery, in a way.)
	- Nothing will happen, as usual. But at least you won't be there.
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: 23 Aug 92 03:39:15 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <1992Aug19.101136.305@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>
[Why Oark Ridge is where it is, etc.]

>Okay, so for the benefit of us non-residents of the Yoo Ess would you care to
>tell as exactly what Oak Ridge does (apart from produce mutated frogs)?


The Oak Ridge National Lab is one of severl nuclear physics labs that were
built during the Second World War as part of the Manhatten project to build
the first atomic bomb.  The lab now employs around 15,000 people, give or take
a few thousand (it's a one industry town).  Currently, some of the things
being done here is manufacturing of nuclear weapons components, some assembly,
enrichment of weapons grade uranium, fuel recycling,research into reactor 
technology, all sorts of related research, metallugry, etc., as
well as pure research in various areas of science.  I do numerical simulations
in condensed matter physics, nothing defence related.  I only have a white 
badge.  They trust me so little that I have to share an office with a Russian 
they trust even less. 
						Meech
From: machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala )
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:27:44 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments

jeanette@hpmcaa (Jeanette Skelton) writes:

>Alex Bienek (ABienek@acorn.co.uk) wrote:
>> 
>> Incidentally, what is a smart(tm) girl. How is that a girl can have
>> a Phd in astrophysics or molecular-biology yet be unable to grasp
>> the workings of the internal combustion engine, a system less complex
>> than your average water molecule. It has always seemed to me that
>> to understand any area of science you need to be able to understand
>> systems and it therefore follows that you should be able to
>> understand any subject which is controlled by a logical system.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>OK, I'll bite....even with an advanced engineering degree, I don't 
>understand internal combustion engines. This isn't because I'm unable
>to understand them, but because I'm too lazy to expend the effort to
>learn about them. Furthermore, this isn't a sex-linked characteristic.
>I work with mainly male engineers, and have noticed this same tendency
>in men -- I've seen how long it takes an electrical engineer to hook
>up a simple car stereo. Also, every time I go to my brother's house,
>I have to set the timer on the VCR for him (that little flashing "12:00
>12:00 12:00" really annoys me). So here we have two examples countering
>your wild claims, which obviously proves that your assertions are false.

>Jeanette

Oh, _god_ do I hate that flashing "12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00... ad infinitum"
but this is alt.angst, not .peeves. 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!

ObAngst: Sam Kenison(sp?) is really dead.
 
--
                                 ROMANES
                                 EUNT 
                                 DOMUS
Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score update)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 13:45:21 GMT
Organization: UNM Janitorial Staff
Distribution: usa
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)

In article <1992Aug18.203635.27474@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.153417.16668@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>
>>Score:      Vultures   Ravens   Deer/Ticks    Barbie/Ken    Rednecks  
>>								      
>>Los Alamos   N/A        x        N/A           N/A           N/A    
                                                 ^^^
Rather optimistic on your part, no?  B/K are _everywhere_.  Though
the delta/alpha ratio is higher here than most places.

>>Brookhaven   N/A        N/A      x             x             x
>>Oak Ridge    x          x        x             x             x
>>
>>            Radioactive
>>            Wildlife
>>Los Alamos   N/A
               ^^^does plutonium-scavenging jimson weed count?
>>Brookhaven   N/A
>>Oak Ridge    x (frogs,
>>             anything 
>>             herbivourous)
>
>
>>Any additions?  Perhaps someone from Hanford or Savannah River might like
>>to add their 2 cents?
>
>How 'bout this:
>
>		Monster Trucks   Low riders
>		All The Rage
>Los Alamos     1/2 X            XXX	
>Brookhaven 	X!
>Oak Ridge 	X
>
Off to the lovely lava beds of Idaho...

Jenny

-- 
"I have heard of people communicating with rocks. I personally prefer
dogs or trees." -J. Winston
"I hope you don't get as confused as I appear to be." -ibid.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: New Job Angst
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:54:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug10.233204.22913@news.duc.auburn.edu> horntho@eng.auburn.edu writes:
>In article 14398@linus.mitre.org, sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>> Okay, so I'm supposed to start a new position I asked to be transferred to today
>> right?
>> 
>> Well I actually show up on time for once, hoping to catch the new boss before things
>> get rolling too much and he's not there. It turns out he's on vacation. As are 3
>> of the other 5 people I'm supposed to be working for. What, did somebody warn them
>> that I was coming? 
>> I can see it all now...they're all cackling in a meeting room somewhere: 
>> "Geez...the silly *!@#$% took us seriously.."
>
>So that's when you should have urinated in your boss's coffee cup, left him a note blaming it on one of the other SOB's who wasn't there, and gone to play some elitist yuppie game, like golf, for instance. You probably would have run into your boss there,
> anyway, come to think of it....

Probably...the number of people here who play golf(and who tend to slip out for a round or two
on a day like today) is pretty frightening.  I do okay but I wouldn't want to hang my next 
promotion on a game with the boss...On the plus side, I'm back into programming. 

ObAngst:I'm all out of Pop-Tarts(some scummy git snagged my last package)
and the Coke machines only have Fresca left. I shall most definitely starve now.

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
From: jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: A new source of Angst.....
Date: 23 Aug 92 05:11:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>After watching the Republican convention on TV, I have a new
>source of Angst--as a result of not being allowed to vote.

Sorry, Meech, but being able to vote doesn't necessarily help...
Like Boss Tweed said, "I don't care who does the electing, as long as I
get to do the nominating!"


Angst, angst, angstaly yours, JJH

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James Hightower		jamesh@netcom.COM 	...Don't try this at home!
From: mak@spuddy.uucp (Mark Kellaway)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: money angst
Keywords: money angst depression paranoia
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:04:07 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain


Five minutes ago I was told that my car (just went in for service) needs
#850 sterling spent on neccesary repairs. I have got the money only it's
what I had saved towards buying my own computer.

I think I'm getting paranoid as well as depressed about money, normally I
spend money as soon as I get it (often sooner), but whenever I try to save
towards something (this is fourth time I've tried for a computer) something
always crops up and I have to spend it elsewhere.

ObAngst (if above wasn't enough) there are no major problems in my life
only an exceedingly large number of small ones, and every time I turn my 
back on some of them, to concentrate on dealing with others, they multiply!

mak
-- 
mak@spuddy.uucp ...!uknet!axion!spuddy!mak 
"I was born a cynical bastard
                          and I'm gonna die a cynical bastard" - Rab C.Nesbitt
Meeeeow ! Call Spud the Cat > +44 203 638780 < for free Usenet access in UK
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson)
Subject: Smart women who complain about their fat smelly boyfriend
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:47:32 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: smart smelly fat fnord

This is an unpopular subject.  If I had any friends I would hesitate to bring
it up, but there was a post mentioning women's apparent ineptitude regarding
electronics and mechanics.

In my opinion, there are incredible differences between male and female minds.
Women are less "spacially oriented" (a ridiculous term used in loving memory
of a good friend who was disturbingly prone to these sorts of things) and
the tasks mentioned are spatial.  I am uncertain how much of this is genetic
and how much is indoctrination.

A stupid attempt to avoid unnecessarily fierce comments follows.  Feel free
to press "f" for flame now.

I think men and women are different.  I also think races are different.  Pay
attention to the words chosen.

Also, I don't understand why most men have trouble analyzing states of mind,
not just their own.  I have numerous memories of men acting in an amusingly
inappropriate manner with others; women seem more skilled at gauging one's 
mood.

My apologies for the concern with being disliked for this.  I generally do not
care if my opinions are disliked, but there was an incident at a cocktail
lounge that was an amazing demonstration of unwillingness to tolerate or
listen to different ideas, and eagerness to punish me for having them.

Regards.
-- 
Scott Hanson		This has been a recording.
despair@netcom.com
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Keywords: fat fat fat smelly smelly
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:51:19 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug15.040354.891@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>First Rachel says this:
>
>> hmmm. the fat part probably wouldn't bother me.
>
>and then she says this:
>
>> i'm tall, smart, and i do have big boobs.
>
>It must be density, clearly she is my DreamGoddess! Rachel, I want to have
>your children and run away with you to a small unpopulated sub-artic
>isle.
>


coming to the mini angstcon, craig?

bah.
--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
From: mak@spuddy.uucp (Mark Kellaway)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Boy, Kilroy--am I ever depressed now!!! =)_
Date: 3 Aug 92 14:56:12 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

In article <1992Aug2.200045.209@lrc.edu> blosser_cy@lrc.edu writes:
>> Scene 1: "You guys are all losers." 
>
>I retract that previous remark. Apparently some of you out there possess *true*
>angst...and actually have stuff worth talking about.
>
>> Scene 2: "Gee guys, I was only kidding, can we all be pals now, lets talk 
>> about me some more." 
>
>Actually, I'd rather *you* begin to post angst-ridden letters of pathos and 
>despair--the kind that would make Neitzsche cringe with revulsion. Nuclear-
>Holacaust type stuff. 3rd-World-Suffering. "Why don't we just shoot ourself
>and put an end to this misery"--good stuff worth reading!!!!! =)
>
I thought angst was a product of the modern world, worrying about all its 
inconsequential day to day problems (eg will my SO like it if I grow a 
beard and other pointless sh*t like that). All that third world suffering,
wars, torture, injustice etc. thats always been around its just called life.

Mark
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:08:12 GMT

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:

[discussion of intelligent women deleted]

>Incidentally, what is a smart(tm) girl. How is that a girl can have
>a Phd in astrophysics or molecular-biology yet be unable to grasp
>the workings of the internal combustion engine, a system less complex
>than your average water molecule. It has always seemed to me that
>to understand any area of science you need to be able to understand
>systems and it therefore follows that you should be able to
>understand any subject which is controlled by a logical system.
>
>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 ?



You're alone, aren't you?




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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: alt.angst angst
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:17:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.233910.6627@beaver.cs.washington.edu> boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>In article <77719@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>>never hesitating to express opinions loudly on just about anything, i
>>find myself having a hard time jumping in on this newsgroup. 
>>
>>some of it's a feeling that new angsters aren't wanted or encouraged.
>
>That must be Steve and Rachel's fault.  They're very close, so they
>seem insular.  They have seven close relatives in common, you see --
>and Lassie is all seven.

Go ahead...blame me for everything....It really is my fault. I deserve it.
I just want to lie here now and die, I feel so depressed. Everything I've
ever done amounts to absolutely nothing and even if that weren't the case....

>That's probably the real reason this seems insular: it's not angst any
>more, it's a ritual.  I'm a deeply happy person who once wasn't, but I
>haven't left yet because of inertia.  So it's all form now:
>
>"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...

You have passed the test..now you can Join The Club...
"All your illusions will be satisfied and made complete."

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
From: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'the Bard' Hobbs)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:03:50 GMT
Reply-To: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ

In article <1992Aug17.234051.22594@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <1992Aug15.053037.6084@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>>Why does everyone ignore *my* posts? Isn't my angst good enough for you or
>>something?
>
>Not only am I not ignoring them, I'm even reading the useless lines
>in the header.  Like "Organization: Wellington City Council."  No angster
>could actually be ON the city council, could he?  Unless it's an unelected
>and powerless body appointed by the Queen (tm) at the behest of the 
>bald, loud, and obnoxious ghost of Muldoon (tm) -- is it?

Actually, the City Council just gave me this code because I asked them nicely.
Craig Harding's already made me feel ashamed of myself for not paying for
access like a RealAngster (tm).

BTW, when did Muldoon get trademarked? In 10 years New Zealand parents are
probably going to be telling their kids, "Eat up all your vegetables this
instant or Piggy Muldoon will come and get you."

ObAngst: More people like Muldoon dead than alive. The papers were full of
eulogies for the old bugger. Even my friends were going round saying what a 
great person he was. How can someone become so much more popular just by dying?
Would it work for me?

anthony
--

Anthony Hobbs             the Bard                hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz    
OverPope, First Holy and Unreformed Church of Frozen Yoghurt - romantic poet - 
synth player extraordinaire - kate bush is goddess - hail Eris - praise "Bob"!
DISCLAIMER: I am not Romanian and was not head of the Securitate for 15 years.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jethro@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mary Ellen Paul)
Subject: bird poop angst
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:19:08 GMT

I washed my venetian blinds.  This was really hard work--don't
scoff if you haven't done it yourself.

Then I left the window open and the blinds down.  A bird did
you-know-what, leaving a dime-sized yechchch on the window screen,
which diffracted (if that's the word I want) the substance so that
it covered almost half the surface of the blinds.

Could have been worse.  If the blinds were up, it would have been
all over my bed. . . . . .

If you think that this is not serious angst, you are right.  My
real problem at the moment is insomnia angst.  So sue me.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: fat smelly operating system
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:24:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.233159.22250@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <1992Aug16.225522.28555@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>>have Tourettes or something. A fellow UnixGod(tm) was actually hauled off and
>>shot behind a local restaurant because he offended the Waitroid when she caught
>>him making a switch() code fragment based on the menu items. 
>
>Is this the same waitress St.Meech claims to have dated?  Did he survive the
>execution a la Anastasia?
>
>

I'm fairly certain it's someone different.  I had a beer with her 
this evening, and she didn't indicate that she knew anyone else who
read this newsgroup.  Maybe she is just good at keeping secrets.

					Meech
Newsgroups: alt.angst