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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: *Virtual* Reality
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:26:56 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <6y9n5dp@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>In article <17674@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>>
>>Peeve: Use of 10 dollar words like "phenomenological". If it were not
>>for the fact that Dan has these big, scary spiders in his house, people
>>would go there and lapse into Word Comas.
>
>Would that be Word Comas for Windows?


That would be Word Spasms, if you are talking Windows. Its almost
as bad as sitting around trying to figure out how to pronounce
Jenny G's last name.

>And whaddayamean, I use big words? I think the biggest word I used
>around you was "lame." <insert appropriate hand signal here>


That is incorrect. You used the word "Albuquerque" a number of times.
It was horrifying.

ER

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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: KQED and the Congress of Weasels
Organization: Where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 21:12:46 GMT

In article <-n6nz!f.rickg@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
>
>This time Geoff's right.  Of the excellent programs named above, KQED
>carries: Car Talk.  And they repeat it later in the week.  (I *like*
>Car Talk, though.)  They do carry NPR's excellent news programming,
>and they repeat it daily, stretching Morning Edition to five hours in
>the morning.  No music, not even The Opera Box (scientifically proven
>to be the best radio program in history).
>
Peeve: Until four or five years ago, when they changed format, KQED was
the very best classical music station in the Bay Area.  Now, I like
Morning Edition, and I like Terry Gross, but I'd like to listen to Real
Music instead of hearing the same stuff over and fucking over.

Peeve: When they changed format, they gave away all their records. They
can't fix it.

!Peeve: The PBS station in Flagstaff, AZ, run by NAU.  A class act from
the boondocks, which I listen to whenever I'm in range.

?Peeve: I can't listen to KQED in my car, because someone walked off
with my stereo.  Now, this was a mediocre stereo, but replacing it at
the dealer would cost $1500.  An equivalent or better stereo would cost
$500 or less, installed.  The insurance company came up with $893, which
will buy a new stereo _and_ a new set of tires.  But I still wish the
whole thing never happened.

!Peeve: KPFA.  My kind of station.  My name is on a tile in their entry.

Phil
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|play: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG; {ames|pyramid|vsi1}!zorch!phil                |
|work: (Under Construction)              | Phil Gustafson                   |
|              I'm the cultural elite.  And I vote.                         |
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: MacDonalds (was Re: Boss Peeve)
Keywords: Peace Is Our Profession
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:51:44 GMT

In article <lch0ejINN3as@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>
>
>The company seems to represent a composite of all the usual societal boogey-
>men to these folks: artificiality, massive beef consumption, environmental
>"insensitivity" <gack>, etc., etc., ad nauseum.  One of these guys (some
>Stanford type) even went so far as to label it a "deathkultur."  
>

My only problem with McD's is that they take away business from perfectly good
diners.  To me, there is nothing that affirms my pride in being an American
like a slice of meat loaf, some mashed potatoes and a helthy wallop of peas
served to me by woman with HariFromHell(TM) who calls me hon & keeps my
coffee cup eternally full.

I'd like McD's a lot better if they had individual jukeboxes on each table
that haven't been restocked since the Beatles broke up.

!Peeve:  I've got five gallons of wort simmering on the stove, and the
whole place is heady with the aroma of malt.

Jenny


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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Big mac's and students
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:41:30 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Royal Ulster Constabulary
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <9209301504.AA03236@client47.comlab.ox.ac.uk> 
Alan.Crowder@prg.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>For those of you who dont know the IRA, well they are a terrorist
>organisation in Northern Ireland fighting for freedom supposedly.
>In excess of 7m dollars last year.


			"Yellow moons!

			"Pink hearts!"

			"Green clovers!"

			"DEAD TOMMIES!"


Geoff


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From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Boss Peeve
Date: 26 Sep 1992 07:31:51 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>Can you please email me Buck's address?  It seems to me that this is a person
>who is well-aware how best to service the alt.peeves community.

Was this already handled here on 'peeves, or was I dreaming?

Anyway, Jenny, Buck knew how best to *serve* the alt.peeves
community.  It's entirely possible that you know how best to
*sevice* the alt.peeves community, but that isn't why anyone here
would be visiting your restaurant.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no
 heart. He who does so as an adult has no brain."  - John Moore
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Record Fairs
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:14:59 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:

>(*) Yes, Mike, in case you didn't get to it, I'm pretty sure they did have
>some Hawkwind stuff too.

I did fail to get to it, but the only two stalls there that just *might*
get the Hawkwind single that I don't have, already have my wants list.
The price I've offered for it oughta keep 'em paying attention too.

peeve: The Hawkdisc release of  the "Black Sword" has two *different*
extra tracks than the original Flicknife CD and since the tracks ain't
on any of the other 57 Hawkwind albums, I had to buy another copy of the
album. 

FoFP
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Commercials-on-the-brain
Keywords: plop plop fizz fizz
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:27:58 GMT
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

><adwright.718025055@vincent1.iastate.edu> adwright@iastate.edu reposts
>
>[Mike Zraly's ***>>>--->!!!ENTIRE FUCKING ARTICLE!!!<---<<<*** deleted]
>
>
>>I lived for two years in a country where commercials in TV were less frequent.
>[etc.]
>
>MegaRecurringPeeve:  People who include the complete text of the posting
>they're following up to, and then add a paragraph or less of their own at
>the bottom!

	It annoyed the hell out of me too, but I figured I'd let it slide
(just this once, mind you) out of loyalty to the school that provides
me with cheaply-rented computer time for reading this august forum.

>C'mon, people, you don't have to be a rocket scientist or a net.veteran to 
>figure out that that's neither necessary nor a Good Idea.  If you do it 
>again, we'll have no recourse but to kill you and eat your brain.

	Would you like him killed via bullet or combine?  There's a nifty
John Deer 6600 sidehill combine over at the agricultural engineering lab.
All access panels have been replaced with plexiglass so that students
may view the operation of stripping seeds from plants all the way through
the machine, and then gaze in wonderment at the many knives whirling in
the chopper (which ejects confetti, sort of an industrial-grade mulcher)
before the remains spray far and wide behind the bellering beast.

	Hmmmm....  Now to think of a way to lure the vict^H^H^H^H test
volunteer into the corn head, and the proper placement of video cameras.


--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"I see angels on Ariels in leather and>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | chrome, Swooping down from heaven to >
<viking@iastate.edu      | carry me home."   ---    R. Thompson >
<ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee.>
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Boss Peeve
Keywords: Losers
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:09:50 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <1992Sep25.220351.5253@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
:
:What the hell was my job again?  I've been.....on sick leave.
[etc]
:
:So, someone help me.  Scotland, San Francisco, New Mexico.
:What is it about these three places?  Different latitudes,
:different amusing costumes and funny accents.  Nuclear testing
:in NM, 1st bomb shipped out of SF, Nuke Sub base in Scotland?
:That's stretching it a bit.  Alien peeve rays?  Suggestions?


Your new job is Peevetown Conspiracy Theorist.

Now, go read this file tying in Fergie's bottom with the death of JFK.
[THUMP]


ER
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Xref: sparky alt.peeves:15111 rec.hunting:1664
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,rec.hunting
Subject: Story: choose the proper weapon for the job
Summary: Improvising an elephant gun
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:54:04 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.
Originator: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu


	I originally told this story in talk.politics.animals during
a discussion on the probability of wounding an animal over killing it.
I had nothing to do with it, but I did find the story amusing.

	A friend of mine was a Force Recon Marine during the Vietnam war.
During this time period, his company was ordered to serve as instructors
for other troops in Asia, notably in Thailand.  During an exercise, the
squad was approaching an objective using a two-element pinchers attack,
and suddenly there appeared a very angry elephant.  Said elephant started
charging towards one squad, which would have meant several flattened
Marines and squad members.  The 5.56 NATO round the M16 uses is just
not considered heavy enough for hunting elephants.

	Luckily, my friend wasn't carrying just an M16; no, he had an
M203 slung under the M16, with a nice 40mm HE round loaded.  Taking
quick aim at the action happening about thirty or so yards ahead,
he fired the grenade into the side of the elephant.

	"Have you ever seen the cartoons, where the elephant jumps a
foot off the ground, limbs splayed strait out to the sides, and then
just sort of falls strait down in a spread-eagle belly-flop?" he
asked.  "Well, it's true.  That's exactly what it looked like."

	Apparently elephant steaks can still be prepared, but there
is most likely considerable bruising and rending of the meat, and
the steaks must be washed thoroughly as the innards were somewhat
pulped by the explosion.  All this just goes to show that choosing
the proper weapon is just as important as shot placement when hunting.

--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"I see angels on Ariels in leather and>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | chrome, Swooping down from heaven to >
<viking@iastate.edu      | carry me home."   ---    R. Thompson >
<ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee.>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: jen187@mis.csiro.au (Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812)
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Organization: CSIRO ITS
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 21:40:20 GMT

In article <lcp0cuINNb0f@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>
>The name of the album is "Pearl," and it contrary to what somebody else
>wrote earlier, it came out in 1970, not 1971.
>

Yes, correct, you win the prize which is;  You get to eat
that other persons brain all by yourself.

Here's a bit of ancienttrivia for the aged players in here.
Pearl was produced in quadraphonic format. Very big for a month
or two during 1970.



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|  Graham Jenkins          |  graham.jenkins@its.csiro.au           | 
|  CSIRO                   |  (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial | 
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Human sheep
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 19:02:23 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes: 
| jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
| 
| >I'm no Holmesesque libertarian, 
| 
| Thank god for that. One's enough. But who was it who told Mike to get
| the Ann Rand books, Jeremy?

OK, I let the first one go.  First of all, it's "Holmesian", and second of
all, it's "Ayn Rand".

[peeve about "stupid people" and "stupid things" deleted.]

Peeve: Stupid peeves.

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From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: School is Back in Session ( Was Re: Rewriting History
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:38:45 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1992Sep30.141427.13643@cas.org> esp51@cas.org writes:
>Peeve: Reagan cut taxes for the super rich (top 1%) from 75% to 25%
>thus making us the greatest debter nation there is.  Are you rich
>Dan?  Do you have 20 million in the Bank?  If not, then you don't
>even have a fucking crumb of the pie, let alone a piece.

Methinks that you've got several problems with this.  The top rate was
reduced from something near 75% to something near 31%, not 25% (I'd
kill for 25% right now - I'm paying the in the 33% index).  The total
intake from taxes from the "rich" then was reduced, but the removal of
deductions (many of what you call the rich had *big* deductions and
exemptions) made up for much of the rate reduction.  Final number can
be disputed, but the total change was something like 7-10 billion
dollars a year in decreased taxes.  

The Demo controlled congress, in the meantime, increased government
spending by something like 50 billion dollars a year for much of the
time Reagan was in office.  To be fair, the administration wasn't
providing good models with balanced budget proposals, but I didn't
hear Congress bleating anything about forcing a balanced budget (yeah,
yeah, there was the Gramm-Rudman act but how far has that gotten
them?).

So go ahead and increase taxes on "the rich" (yeah, even I'm in
Clinton's "tax the rich" proposal) and drive some more of the economy
underground.  Shit - why not take all of the income above $200,000 and
really "soak the rich" - none of them work hard enough to deserve
anything that they earn anyway, right?  Taking all of the income above
$200,000 would result in a momentary tax increase of something like 25
billion dollars - wouldn't even start to pay for the bottom end of
Clinton's medical "insurance" proposals.  People that make >200K will
figure out a way of moving income out of taxable areas and lower total
tax payments in the USA just as they have in Sweden and the UK.

Peeve: Weenies that think that a linear model of the economy can hold
true for any length of time.  This is really typical of the
government.  Example: "luxury taxes" on yachts.  Congress looked at
$100M in sales, figured that a 15% tax would make $15M, imposed tax. 
Seeming was surprised when yacht sales went down the tubes, and total
taxes from yacht sales *decreased*.  Why should taxes on salary be
different?

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232

                 Do not throw rocks at this signature
From: hosch2263@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Rewriting History
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:00:46 GMT
Organization: University of Northern Iowa


        
> Well, that *was* essentially the main reason for colonizing most of North
> America.  You've heard of the Puritans, right?  (The other reason was,
> of course, greed.)
> 
> Adios,
>   Logan

        Yes, Logan, I have heard of the Puritans.  They came to America to
avoid religious persecution.  Several of the colonies were founded that way.
        Utopias don't do well in practice, however.  Anyway, my point was that
these people are raising their children ignorant of what the world is really
like.  Not all people are white Catholics, and if no one learns tolerance for
on another, we'll never get along.
      
        Kitten

                
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From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Birthday Party Reminder
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:33:07 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep29.172539.15601@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
> Anyway, that's how I have you pegged; correct me if I'm wrong, OK? :)

You're wrong.

And you're boring.  It's no crime to be wrong, but with any
luck at all the legislature will criminalize your degree of boring.

Good-bye, Don.  I don't read alt.peeves so I won't be troubled
with your nonsense again.

Dean Kaflowitz
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Story: choose the proper weapon for the job
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:00:04 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <1992Oct6.162741.24335@cas.org> esp51@cas.org writes:
[Magnificent description of blood and carnage. Geoff says," Try Berkeley..."]
>   With all the Testosterone crazed major lunatics departed, the bunny
>hugging, granola munchers seize control of Peevetown, immediately declaring
>a holiday in honor of Ralf Nader, and commence a tofu lubricated drug and
>sex orgy punctuated with M.L.King's speech screaching over loud speakers.


You nit, any real bunny hugger worth her salt knows that tofu is for
eating, arms are for hugging and that cocoanut oil, aloe lotion, probe,
organic cucumbers, whole wheat bagels, massage chairs, and homebrew
(from organically grown grains) are the sex toys.

Ralph Nader? Try Jerry Garcia or some New Age (newage) music. MLK never
screached[sic], btw. Tina Turner did. Let's have her on the loudspeaker.

Hm. Wonder if I can reserve a park for a Newage Peevetown Party.....


ER


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: Satanic Death Toddlers From Hell
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<1992Sep30.122216.9634@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:14:58 GMT

<In article <1992Sep30.122216.9634@email.tuwien.ac.at> alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky) writes:

<   of course, the correct course of action is to stare back at them, swallow
<   dry, lick your lips and begin to salivate visibly while muttering
<   something to the effect that you won't need meat tenderizer on that
<   young a piece of prey. extra points are awarded for a thick german accent.

	What if you and the prey..er..kinder are in Germany?

	Should one resort to, oh, a thick Austrian accent?
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Belts
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:09:47 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <80663@ut-emx.uucp> logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) writes:
>Where are all these armadillos?  I keep hearing about them, yet I've lived
>in Texas 21 years now, and I don't recall ever having seen one.
	This is amazing. In fact, it is amazing enough, that I think you
are a) lying or b) you have blocked the memory out of you mind because it
is too painful. 
	As you are in Austin, this will be easy for you. Go to Georgetown(
For those who don't know, G-town is about 20 miles north of Austin.) Find
Southwestern Uni. Find my brother; he's the guy in the wheelchair(Yes, there
is only 1. Well, there was only 1 last year, anyway.) Tell him that you are
chronically imperceptive and you would like to see an armadillo. He will take
you to our ranch just outside of Gtown and show you hundreds of them. I will
let him know that he should expect a call from you.

>Anyway, have you *been* to Texas?  Have you been to the U.S.A.?  You're
>confused about the origin of belt-buckles.  The majority of the cowboy
>types are in Oklahoma anyway.  They have more oil there, and they have the
>bad economy to go with it.
	While Oklahoma has all of the above, Texas has more of it. There are
just more "normal" people so they are not quite as obvious as OK. Try getting 
out of Austin sometime. It is skewing your perception of Texas. On the way to 
our ranch ask Steve to stop by one of the "good places to get beat up."

	It should be noted that most people in Texas don't have a family
homestead with real live cattle and armadillos on it. We are fairly unusual 
in that we have one. My grandfather bought it about 30 years or so ago because 
he wanted a place to go hunting. There is pretty decent white tailed deer 
hunting near Austin, so we have held on to it.

-- 
"Hey, Guido! It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper of the cheese and
you're the lemon merchant. Getit? And he knows it! That's why he's gonna kill
us. So we gotta beat it. Yeah, before he lets loose the marmosets on us! - Ren
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: phil@blackice.uucp (Phil Brownfield)
Subject: Re: more flashers
Organization: Lost in the Noise
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:35:12 GMT

In article <80659@ut-emx.uucp> logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) writes:
>Austin, Texas, with it's typically odd approach to traffic control,

The thing I like is the insane street naming.  Suppose you're driving
north on First St.  What do you suppose is the name of the first cross
street north of the river?  You'd be right if you said "First Street".
-- 
Phil Brownfield
home: phil@blackice.uucp  work: phil_brownfield@email.sps.mot.com
Don't mistake kindness for weakness. -- Albert Collins
From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Rewriting History
Date: 27 Sep 92 15:46:59 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Organization: The Exploding Hot Drink

In article <1992Sep27.023846.15405@news.iastate.edu> Dan Sorenson writes:

> 	Seen on a bumper sticker: "Columbus was following a Norwegian map!"

That explains a lot. The poor guy thought he was going to India.