HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:02:18 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <la71v9INNe6o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
|> (Dan Hillman) writes:
|> [ mulings sympathetic to Al's and sonJa's pre-fab furniture plight ]
|> 
|> It never ceases to amaze me that a collection a seemingly intelligent
|> and creative people figure that some Taiwanese sweat shop can form the
|> pieces to build elegant furniture so much better than they can.
|> 
|> [drew's smug bookshelf story deleted.]

Peeve: People who are good at this sort of thing and don't understand why
others can't be.

I hammer like lightning.  I never strike the same place twice.  I couldn't
saw in a straight line if my life depended on it.  A screwdriver is drink
made of orange juice and vodka.  A plane is something you fly in.

I don't understand it, really. I'm quite artistic and good with my hands in
other ways (I'm told), but when it comes to woodworking, I make a magical
transition from artistic to autistic.  The sum total of my handyman skills
around the house consists of hanging curtain rods.  I was extremely proud of
myself when I installed an icemaker in our freezer, had to drill a hole in
the floor down to the crawlspace, and the roof didn't collapse on my head.

I have a good eye for dimension and size when I draw, but when I measure a 
board at 10 feet and cut it, it somehow becomes 8 feet, 7 3/16 inches.  It's
*never* too long, so that I could just cut some more off of it, it's always
too short.  I think it's like cutting a ribbon or cutting hair.  When you 
snip the end off of it, it bounces back to shorter than you intended.

!Peeve: Circumcision doesn't work that way.

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|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
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From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Keywords: Losers
Date: 12 Sep 92 03:52:41 GMT
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.

jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:

>On the bright side, she says she has better orgasms alone with her clitoris
>than she ever had sharing her cock with someone else.  So I guess its worth
>it to her 

	Hey, if that's what makes getting the ol twanger chopped off and the
family jewels removed worth it for her, more power to her.

>also she used to look like John Denver, and she doesn't any more.

	This should make such procedures worth it to nearly anybody!

Peeve: I sort of liked the Muppet Show, particularly the episode where Animal
went chasing Raquel Welch around yelling "Woman!  Woman!  Woman!"  I was also
fond of the Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and the Swedish Chef sketches.  Alas, I can
get reruns of Doby Gillis, but not the Muppet Show.

MajorPeeve:  Jim Henson.  R.I.P.

AnotherPeeve: for some reason John Denver is connected to the Muppet Show in
my brain.  I blame this on him being a guest far too often and singing insipid
songs.  Before the Muppet Show, I'd hardly heard of him.


--
<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: ben@spitws79.sbil.co.uk (Ben Evans)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Parents who subject their kids to strange
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:23:51 GMT
Reply-To: ben@spitws79.sbil.co.uk
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Salomon Brothers, Ltd.

Well, while we are on the subject of amazing names, I would like
let you know about my cousin, who rejoices under the exotic moniker
of:

  Sherazade Carmen Nandula Santa

OK, this might not sound very exotic, but in Hertfordshire in the 1960s
this was a way exotic name for an ordinary Anglo_saxon style female.

Sherry also went on to spawn a child of her own, and maintaining the 
tradition named her

   Nixie Alice Rigel

I am not sure if this is my imagination, but did Bob Geldorf and Paula Yates
call their daughter Pixie Frou-Frou? Maybe someone can confirm this?

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From: nolan@twg.com (Clark Savage, Jr.)
Subject: Re: people-proof lids
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Fortress of Solitude
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:10:06 GMT


In article <LARRY.92Sep9090054@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>, larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:

[moderately interesting complaint deleted
|>But the type that really blisters my butt the most are on gallon cans of
|>paint thinner. These have two caps, on inside the other. The outer cap is
|>plastic and the inner one is metal. To get this to work you need to
|>squeeze the plastic cap super hard, so that it "grips" (term used loosely)
|>the inner cap and allows you to turn it. This is made an extremely evil
|>proposition by the design of the metal cap threads - although they are
|>very coarse, the cap always seems to grab the neck of the can and bind in
|>exactly the right way to try to cross thread. Then it sticks hard, and, of
|>course, thanks to the wonderful plastic cap, you can't get it to turn loose.
|>
|>Whoever conceived this last type needs to be neutered with a butter knife!

Sheesh! For an engineer you sure don't gots much imagination. All ya gotta do
is hack that plastic cap off the metal one. 'S no sweat. Any reasonable pocket
knife or utility knife'll do the job. There's no need for any other tools.

Now get back to work before yer ma finds out whatcha been doin' and whups ya.

--
Nolan "Knows lids" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"Grab Dick and come on down"  Don Pette
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Massachusetts (was Re: Boss Peeve)
Date: 15 Sep 1992 17:50:31 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: adder.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <-!zn=1q@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>
>Correction: It's Fall *River*, MA. For the geographically-challenged, hold
>your arm in the Chain-Pulling-Motion-o'-Approbation (tm). Imagine your arm
>is Cape Cod. Your armpit is Fall River. This is both geographically- and
>methaphorically-correct.

Bollocks it is.  Fall River is just the first hair.  

Your armpit is Providence.

c
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Boss Peeve
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:23:18 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <BuGr49.C7@nic.umass.edu>, jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
> In article <1992Sep12.034347.9993@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>>jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) gives it the ol' college try:
>>> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>>

[Jenny's cool blue flame deleted]

>>I do note
>>that you don't offer the testimony of others to substantiate your claim,
> 
> If you don't believe my testimony, why should you believe any of my friends
> who might post to the net.  The only way to *really* be sure is to come
> to Massachusetts and check 'em out yourself, or send a representative whose
> opinion you respect.


I can see the scene now:

<noknoknok>
"yes?"
"Miss Jenny Gubezahl?"
"yes."
"Nipple Inspector. I'm here to confirm your recent claim on alt.peeves that
you do, in fact, have very pert nipples."
"Oh. All right."
"If you'll just remove your top..."
<rustle>
<poke prod push squeeze pinch> "Ummmmm hmmmm. um.... hummmmm. Yes, I believe
you are indeed justified in making that claim. I'll report back to my 
superiors, though, they may require a second opinion."
"All right."
"Thank you for your time. Have a pleasant day."


Thanks, Jenny and Dan. That made my day.

Mike
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bls101@watson.anu.edu.au (The New, Improved Brian Scearce)
Subject: Re: on men
Organization: Australian National University
	<18n4vmINNano@agate.berkeley.edu>
	<1992Sep10.144411.23654@umbc3.umbc.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:21:17

> Laura Potler (potler@umbc4.umbc.edu) writes:

>> Curtis Yarvin (curtis@cs.berkeley.edu) writes:
>> Lastly but not leastly, it obscures the tush, man's only
>> presentable sexual organ.

> hardly.

> -l "*i* know others ones but i'm not telling. nyeah" p

Laura, you unnatural female!  The tush of the male of the species is his
only *presentable* sexual organ.  He may or may not have others which are
more useful, but none which are as attractive to look at.  On the other
hand cute tush in a pair of snug fitting Levi's is one the world's most
agreeable sights.

Peeve: Now that the workmen have finished my building's extension there are
no cute tushes or generally gorgeous bodies to feast my eyes on when I
glance out my window anymore.  Deprivation is a cruel thing.

--
bls101@syseng.anu.edu.au
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've 
 never tried before." - Mae West
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From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Massachusetts (was Re: Boss Peeve)
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:52:44 GMT

yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin) writes:
>z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>>	And just what else, besides the USS Constitution, is there to
>>see in MA?
>
>The USS Massachusetts.

	Never heard of it.  Does it have sails, or at least guns?
It's interesting to note that even Baltimore has a tall ship of its own.
The Bill of Rights I'm not sure on who owns her, but the Pride of Baltimore
doesn't leave much to doubt.


--
<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: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lazaruslike.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:35:38 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Sep10.054215.19486@mel.dit.csiro.au>, Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812 writes:

> Finally our mail and news servers are working again which means

Dwarfbix returns. The fans were d i s a p p o i n t e d!

> !Peeve: Being able to lurk in alt.peeves again.

Define lurk, Seymour!

> (Yes, I'm from Australia. NO, I'm in no way similar to DAC.)

That's what the net needs: More spineless namecalling.

<damn, I was just bitten by my own keyboard, which beeped at the
incongruity of using 'dwarfbix' and 'Seymour' juxtaposed with
'spineless namecalling'.

I can take it. 

I think.>

PerpetualPeeve: Teenagers.

Dac
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From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Massachusetts (was Re: Boss Peeve)
Originator: yarvin@cathy.CS.Yale.Edu
Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:06:07 GMT

z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>	Say, isn't the Mass. still mothballed?

It's a floating museum now.  The Navy sold it for scrap; fortunately the
people who bought it had no intention of scrapping it.  It is currently
parked in Fall Harbor, MA, along with a submarine of WW2 vintage and a 1960s
destroyer.

Peeve: not all of the ship is open to the public.  You can only get to about
half of the good parts.

--
Norman Yarvin						yarvin@cs.yale.edu
From: sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Steve J Lacey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: British rail (again...probably)
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:31:39 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London.
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk


My train from Liverpool into london was just delayed by two hours...
due to a power failure in the Wembley area/points failure/vandalism -
all the excuses were trotted out...then it transpired that ALL trains
into Euston were delayed...All of them came in after the last tube had
gone and therefore BR had to lay on cabs for somewhere over 5 thousand
people... I was lucky and only had to wait 1.5 hours for my cab...
some poor souls in the queue had just reached the point where I
started in the queue...apparently it wrapped around the station...

I hate BR - will they ever get it right????

!peeve: it'll have cost br thousands to get everyone home...they were
laying on cabs to places all over the country :)

Steve
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From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (I would like to return this TOBACCONIST; it is scratched)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Indian/Native American (was mechanics)
Date: 13 Sep 92 19:34:04 GMT
Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers

larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
>RelatedPeeve: The term "People Of Color". (So, given the universal set of
>              humanity less People Of Color, do we have People of
>              Non-Color or what?) Brought to you by the same people who
>              think American Indians are the only native Americans. 

"Colored people", please.
-- 
"If I had killed her when I had first thought about getting divorced,
 I would have been out of jail by now."
	-- A newly-divorced guy I met at a block party
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Kids' Names
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:46:51 -0300
Distribution: world
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <lb28p7INNd8k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce) writes:
> The two most popular names for children in the US last year were
> "Michael" and "Stephanie".  Weren't those *exactly* the names of the

Actually, I think "Michael" has been the most popular (Anglo) name for quite
a while now. I don't know about Stephanie

Michael (if my tongue were any further in my cheek, I'd poke a hole in the 
side of my head.) 
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From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Bards
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 15:24:45 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <ATAYLOR.92Sep4145307@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
>	Huh? The only "simon" I can think of right now is that
>	dumb electronic game that was real popular for about
>	3 months a while back; the one with 4 colored buttons
>	that flashed & players tried to replicate a random
>	sequence. A real laugh.
ObPeeve: Recycled toys. I had one of these things when I was about 10 or so.
You'd think they could come up with new stupid ideas, instead of using the
same old stupid ideas again.

>ObPeeve: people with crummy palates who insist that Aunt Granny's
>	 Easy Street "Isn't really all that bad".
Peeve: Wine. The wine snobs are as bad the the beer snobs. Fortunately, they
are not as common amongst my peer group. Both beer and wine are disgusting
and I don't wanna hear about how this particular batch of spoiled grape juice
is better than some other one. Same goes for bottled horse piss.

-- 
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,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: gleeson@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Red Mountain)
Subject: Re: US/UK Macworld (Re: Byte me)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:08:58 GMT

In <NICK.92Sep10125551@vaila.ed.ac.uk> nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>Macworld UK subscription is price ($70 overseas shipping, I ask you) so
>I'm going to subscribe to MacUser US, which is cheaper and seems about
>the same qualitywise as Macworld.

Yes, the US Macworld overseas subscription rate is a bit much, which is why
I continue to buy it from the local newsagent for $A6.50 per copy, rather
than $US5.85 (=$A8.15) per copy!! I really don't know how US Macworld
work out their subscription rates. Australian Macworld has a subscription
rate at about 2/3 of the cover price, but the Oz version is like Jeremy
described the UK version, 1/3 the size, with half the articles, and treats
readers as total beginners...

Oh well...

Marty.
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gleeson@cs.mu.oz.au |  E Pluribus Unix  |  BIKE  IT   !!  |  ...   -\<,       my
" We gladly feast on those who would subdue us." - Addams |  ....(_)/(_)..  way!
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From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: Parents who subject their kids to strange names (and watches)
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 21:53:31 EDT
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

In article <25521@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>In article <ZKm-mz_@engin.umich.edu> I wrote:
>=>
>=>ObAntiPeeve: My new watch.  It's a Soviet tank officer's watch ...
>
>Hah! Another sucker!! If the Soviets had had a tank for every "tank
>officer's watch" I've seen for sale, they'd have had their lunch in
>the Oval Office!
>
>Me, I've got a real Rolex - a bargain - got it for $10 on a street corner
>in the Bowery.

Hey, buddy, my mom didn't raise no suckers.  The watch has "Official 
Soviet Tank Officer's Watch" stamped on the back in Russian and English,
okay?  

Save your sarcasm for somebody else.  This watch is genuine - I can
feel it.

ljd
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From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: Where were they when wit was handed out?
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:37:26 GMT

In article <n7vnrmm.rickg@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:

   Large AntiPeeve: Lord Buckley is coming back.

From the dead?

Or just his record, "Lord Buckley - Blowin' His Mind and Yours"?

  (..)
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From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Parents who subject their kids to strange
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:20:28 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

ben@spitws79.sbil.co.uk (Ben Evans) writes:

>Well, while we are on the subject of amazing names, I would like
>[...]

There is a guy running for some local congress seat here whose
name is "Dick Sweat".  I'm not making this up.

He must hate his parents.


-- 
Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Project Leader, OCR products
Internet: dbushong@wang.com
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (David Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Birds
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 02:11:31 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Sep3.172348.14228@avernus.com>, Marc G. Frank writes:

> SlightlyCompuNerdyPeeve: People who want to post articles to every
> single newsgroup.  Seriously.  They exist.  Such a Newsgroups: line,
> incidentally, would take up over 2 80x25 screens.

What about the raving loonies who have 256 character 'From:'
lines. They really get up my nose.

[My program hates them too]

> Marc G. Frank                                mgfrank@avernus.com

Dac
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From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: SF Channel
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:07:55 GMT

<In article <dbrinson.716165475@silver> dbrinson@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (doris brinson) writes:

<   Peeve: The Sci-Fi Channel is FINALLY getting off the ground, but I 
<	  won't be getting it.  
<	  Is anyone actually getting this channel?

 
	Everyone in geosynchronous orbit is......
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Anatomy
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:29:06 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Sep11.182107.5133@ttinews.tti.com> reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland) writes:
>I keep seeing this on the net, and it's a great sentiment, but you
>have to admit it's rather ironic:
>
>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
> in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
>
>Just how many balls does Mary Shafer have, anyway?

I don't know the answer to that, but I *won't* argue with a lady that
runs this quote in her .sig:

"There's no kill like a guns kill" - some flight instructor

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home
Will hack unix for food 		(.sig stolen from dt - sorry, dt)
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: own private idaho
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:35:12 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <la9n4mINN2mt@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>[A]ll their stylists are of
>the distaff persuasion.  (Thanx and a tip of the fedora to Phil Gustafson
>for the new word.)

Thanx, Geoff, but I didn't think at the time that "distaff" was that 
unusual a word.  I'm much more pleased to have found use for "mountebank"
and "rodomontade".

Phil "Just slumming, things are slow on a.f.u" Gustafson

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