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From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: MONSTERS OF ROCK EAT THE STREETS
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:09:15 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: NMSU Computer Science


	Enema Zoo is hosting "Guns N Roses" (obpeeve: the letter
	"N" used as a word), Metallica and Faith No More.

	As a result, one of the streets used by half the campus
	will be closed for "security" reasons for some unknown
	period of time (tomorrow? 2 days? 3 days?) which will
	throw the already-strained traffic net into near-
	paralysis.

	I guess I won't plan on going to lunch tomorrow...

ObPeeve: the traffic net. Just because some administrator
	decided, in 1971, that an "all pedestrian campus"
	would be nice, the campus has slowly become more 
	and more impossible to get to via auto OR bicycle.

ObHUH?: that's the response you get when raising the issue
	of "how are women supposed to safely get to the
	library AT NIGHT from the parking lots?"
From: serget@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Serge Thill)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Passion Games
Date: 30 Aug 92 19:23:35 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University; Department of Phyiscs


Chiron writes:

> The third option is to declare open the `Quinzaine de la Passion' on 
> alt.peeves. Which is hereby done. 

Nah, just kidding. I'll probably never end up becoming a serious peever.
That's a peeve or an antipeeve, whichever way you want to take it. And the 
best part of it is that I come from a country made up of incorrigible and 
unfriendly grumblers.

--
Serge
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 29 Aug 92 12:40:36 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <25243@castle.ed.ac.uk>, egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
> Yesterday I had the dubious pleasure of spending some little time in a
> hospital waiting room. Among my fellow waiters were a large number of
> brats.

This is how all great English Literature starts out, I think....  Or should
I call this Scottish Literature?

> Now whenever you come 
> across a horrible child, you can safely bet your last bit of beer money 
> that it will be called one of a small number of names. Number one
> candidate is "Wayne". Number two is "Darren". Number three is "Scott".

Hmph.  My bete noire has always been "Jason."  Since my youth the kids
named Jason I knew have been brats, bullies, or both.  I have never
grown to respect anyone named Jason, because the name seems so juvenile.

This, of course, predates the Friday the 13th movies.  I'm surprised none
of the other peevers has stood up and recounted bad Jason experiences yet.

P.S. It is relatively common for people to be born in a town that bears
the name.  The former major-league baseball pitcher Charlie Gassaway
grew up in Gassaway, Tennessee, for example.

ObPeeve: a pocket in one my trousers has ripped, allowing keys, coins,
and thingies to jangle out and down through my pants leg.  Annoying as
hell.

Ob!Peeve: We never get hurricanes, tornados, or snowstorms down here.
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Subject: Re: Moving Peeve
Keywords: Losers
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu
Organization: Up the,
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:10:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.020939.23888@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
|> 
|> We landed uneventfully in Oakland.  Well, actually, it seemed

Welcome to the left coast, Curtis.  Now stop talking so damned fast.

As a welcoming gesture to you personally, the long deadlocked CA
assembly have passed big cuts in higher education.  No big land
endowments out here.  This is the Frontier, reaching through time
to make you suffer.    If I were you, I would immediately go on 
vacation while I could still afford it.

ObBob: Montgomery
-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"The ripples of sand at his feet suddenly looked like the motionless
 crests of waves.  Supposing they were sound waves, what kind of 
 music would they give? he wondered.  Maybe even a human being could
 sing such a song ... if tongs were driven into his nose and slimy
 blood stopped up his ears ... if his teeth were broken one by one 
 with hammer blows, and splinters jammed into his urethra ... if a
 vulva were cut away and sewn onto his eyelids.  It might resemble
 cruelty, and then again it might be a little different."
				  -Kobo Abe _The Woman_in_the_Dunes_	
------Tim Mefford  tim@physics.orst.edu-----------------------------
From: eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Concert peeve!
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:38:16 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Well I'm hoping that Mike Oldfield's open air concert on the Castle
esplanade will be the first one where no-one is going to stand up and
block my view considering that the seating is on some extremely
vertigo-making delicate looking steel scaffolding structure and the
seats, I understand, are just baggy wire mesh with no support, anyone
standing is more than likely to join Mr. Oldfield in the main arena!

There are two other major problems with these seating arrangements tho' 
1) frostbite    2) thunderstorms.      

Thankfully only the first is forecast tonight.

Obcontradiction in terms> British Summertime

jill
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Children called "Mike Holmes"
Keywords: Jeremy Henderson, Jeremy Beadle, Jeremy Thorpe et.al.
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:38:49 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

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

> Subject: Re: Children called "Mike Holmes"

Huh? There was one in my class at school. Weird kid.

Peeve: The Twilight Zone, and not knowing what prompted this...

>-- 
>-lp 

FoFP
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:52:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.234159.331@hhcs.gov.au> makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.013329.23593@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>
>>>I'm afraid the US and US citizens get a rather bad write up in the
>>>Australian press. :-|
> 
>> The essential component of power is not having to care what
>> other people think.  
>
>A major result of power is the unthinking arrogance displayed by
>said country's leaders

Unthinking arrogance?  Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
I've never seen a US leader display "unthinking arrogance."
No, sirree.  Our arrogance is professionally designed and
mathematically calculated.  

Why do we do it?  Because it never fails to give the heat-rash
to tinpot kingdoms in the cabbage belt, tinpot dictatorships in
godforsaken jungles whose major export is exotic zoo animals,
and (last but not least) tinpot continents in the South Seas.
In fact, everyone but the Japanese, who know the difference
between business and pleasure, and haven't dared to indulge
in any of the latter since 1937.

>which is ingrained into it's citizens by a greedy and parochial
>media.

Oh?  So what's Rupert Murdoch, then?  Perhaps a little less
parochialism would be in order.

In fact, if you knew anything about the US media, rather than
repeating whatever Tass Australia chooses to wash your brain
with, you'd know that it's one of the few in the world that
prides itself on remaining free of slant.  Most of the bias in
US media can be found in what it chooses to show and what it
doesn't.  US TV only shows what its viewers are interested in
seeing.  Incognoscenti Americans may be surprised to find that
foreigners, accustomed to a lifetime of Soviet-style tractor
manufacturing documentaries, consider this a sin.

Does Big Brother still control the TV in Oz?  I thought so.

>The US public is brainwashed from birth with a very narrow and
>self centered view of the world.  It's always amusing to watch a
>US tourist trying to cope with even the minor cultural
>differences between the US east coast and a place like Sydney.

Actually I've lived almost half my life abroad.  It's left me
with an even more narrow and self-centered view of the world.
You can't work up much furious conviction from just having been
told that the rest of the planet is an uncivilized backwater;
when you go and see it, and find out that (lo and behold)
it _really is_ an uncivilized backwater, a deeper impression
is made.

I must confess, though, that my opinion of the South Seas
was derived largely from the paintings of Gauguin.  Have
another coconut, Carl.

>(Even more amusing is watching tourists from the US midwest :-)

Now there's another uncivilized backwater for you.  From my
jingoistic rants about the planetary sticks it shouldn't
be concluded that everyone in the US is perfectly civilized.
We, however, have the balls to admit it.  Hell - we've got
the balls to brag about it.

c
From: benb@stortek.com (ben baron)
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:32:13 GMT
Organization: StorageTek
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I remember the 'I met the King of Kings at Burger King' story, too.
Maybe the Jed monster has changed his tune?  Or is he infallable?

--
__________________________________________________________________________

"You can make more friends with a kind word and a gun than you can with 
 just a kind word" - Al Capone, The Untouchables

Ben Baron, Ben_Baron@stortek.com                         (303) 673-4670
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:42:41 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep1.190434.8925@news2.cis.umn.edu>, jill@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu (Jill Hollifield) writes:

> No, Brother JED found god at a Burger King,
> Brother JIM found god at a VAN HALEN CON-CERT!

> :-)

This just proves that God *is* everywhere!

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
From: uk09365@nx03.mik.uky.edu (robert i kesten)
Subject: sighting report
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:46:22 GMT

In article <92245.140537BXP5@psuvm.psu.edu> Dan <BXP5@psuvm.psu.edu>  
writes:
> If you will notice in the original post it was brother jim, not brother  
jed
> who has the van halen story.

I should have read more carefully.

Robert K.
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:22:40 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep3.030006.28604@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:


> Waitaminnit.

> Jed found God at Burger King,
> Elvis was sighted at Burger King....

Good Lord!  Jed IS Elvis!!!!!

Terry "The Terrymeister" Wood
-- 
        INTERNET: tjw+@pitt.edu         BITNET: TJW@PITTVMS
"Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!"                        - Lord "John" Warfin
"There can be only one!"                                  - The Highlander
"There should have been only one. I want my money back!"  - Terry
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
From: uk09365@nx05.mik.uky.edu (robert i kesten)
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:45:56 GMT

In article <AKL.92Aug31182051@sage.cc.purdue.edu> akl@sage.cc.purdue.edu  
(Rob Tillotson) writes:
> It was a bright and sunny afternoon on the Purdue campus.  Having
> endured a particularly boring physics lab, my heart was uplifted by
> the sight of the huge crowd that can only mean one thing: the return
> of everybody's favorite sideshow, Brother Max!  But much to my
> surprise, today we got an extra treat... Jed, Max, and Jim, all in a
> row!  First Jed told us all about Sister Cindy, sex, and the
> "darkroom", rambling off in various directions in response to the
> crowd, then turned things over to Max.  Max, being our "regular",
> seemingly decided to leave most of the work to Jed and Jim, for all he
> did was rant about politics for about 10 minutes.  Then he turned it
> over to Jim, who began with a classic tirade about the Catholic
> church, veered into the "4 tactics and 3 lines boys use to seduce
> virgin college girls", and ended with his "salvation at the Van Halen
> concert" story.

I keep hearing this about a Van Halen concert.  However, I
am almost sure that Jed used to say it happened at a
Burger King or some such place and/or at the behest of
Holy Hubert Lindsay (a pre-Jed campus preacher).
Anyone know the real story (briefly)?

Robert K.
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From: klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed,talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Date: 3 Sep 92 03:00:06 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting

In article <5380@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.190434.8925@news2.cis.umn.edu>, jill@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu (Jill Hollifield) writes:
>
>> No, Brother JED found god at a Burger King,
>> Brother JIM found god at a VAN HALEN CON-CERT!
>
>> :-)
>
>This just proves that God *is* everywhere!
>
>Terry

Waitaminnit.

Jed found God at Burger King,
Elvis was sighted at Burger King....
-- 
Jeff Klein             | "Happily, Ral doffs his outer clothing for a
Browsing Boy of the LNH|  refreshing dip in one of the dangerous 
klein@kira.egr.msu.edu |  chemical vats." - Ty Templeton 
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
From: tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer)
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:24:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.190434.8925@news2.cis.umn.edu> jill@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu (Jill Hollifield) writes:
>
>No, Brother JED found god at a Burger King,
>Brother JIM found god at a VAN HALEN CON-CERT!
>

  NO, NO, NO, Jed was a chanting Zen mantras on the beach when he
  met some preacher carrying a heavy cross.  

  You guys have got to keep your Jed stories straight....




-- 
         Kermit Tensmeyer                         | Intergraph Corporation
Life is sometimes a bowl of Cherries; Watch out for the pits;
   klt@kt8127.b23a.ingr.com                       |
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:05:37 EDT
From: Dan <BXP5@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
 <1992Sep1.153213.11414@stortek.com>

If you will notice in the original post it was brother jim, not brother jed
who has the van halen story.
From: vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Date: 2 Sep 92 03:42:39 EDT

In article <1992Sep1.54556.25580@ms.uky.edu>, uk09365@nx05.mik.uky.edu (robert i kesten) writes:
> In article <AKL.92Aug31182051@sage.cc.purdue.edu> akl@sage.cc.purdue.edu  
> (Rob Tillotson) writes:
>> It was a bright and sunny afternoon on the Purdue campus.  Having
>> endured a particularly boring physics lab, my heart was uplifted by
>> the sight of the huge crowd that can only mean one thing: the return
>> of everybody's favorite sideshow, Brother Max!  But much to my
>> surprise, today we got an extra treat... Jed, Max, and Jim, all in a
>> row!  First Jed told us all about Sister Cindy, sex, and the
>> "darkroom", rambling off in various directions in response to the
>> crowd, then turned things over to Max.  Max, being our "regular",
>> seemingly decided to leave most of the work to Jed and Jim, for all he
>> did was rant about politics for about 10 minutes.  Then he turned it
>> over to Jim, who began with a classic tirade about the Catholic
>> church, veered into the "4 tactics and 3 lines boys use to seduce
>> virgin college girls", and ended with his "salvation at the Van Halen
>> concert" story.
> 
> I keep hearing this about a Van Halen concert.  However, I
> am almost sure that Jed used to say it happened at a
                      ^^^

Nonono. You got it wrong. JIM was the guy saved at the VH concert.
Brother Jim is a pencil necked geek who used to smoke dope and for-nu-CATE
with the sorority girls with large breasts waiting to help the fraternity
boys masterbate. This is a case of misidentity. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT :)

-Garrett



> Burger King or some such place and/or at the behest of
> Holy Hubert Lindsay (a pre-Jed campus preacher).
> Anyone know the real story (briefly)?
> 
> Robert K.
From: cwt@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Carl Turner)
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Re: Still with us
Keywords: silly thumpers...
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:02:57 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

<1992Aug18.154737.23621@wam.umd.edu> beowulf@wam.umd.edu (amealuh) writes:

>imagine: a group of amazon-like women (seriously butch here) standing
>in an airport over some poor businessman, holding field hockey sticks
>in one hand, and bibles in the other. 

>*cringe*

It sounds like a pretty interesting situation; the possibilities, while not
endless, seem amusing. *I* might be convinced to "come to christ" by a
group of "amazon-like women" with field hockey sticks after an all-night
"prayer session" in a hotel room somewhere. Temporarily, at least....

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Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
From: akl@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Tillotson)
Subject: Sighting Report
Organization: Who ya gonna call?  CloneBusters!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:20:51 GMT

It was a bright and sunny afternoon on the Purdue campus.  Having
endured a particularly boring physics lab, my heart was uplifted by
the sight of the huge crowd that can only mean one thing: the return
of everybody's favorite sideshow, Brother Max!  But much to my
surprise, today we got an extra treat... Jed, Max, and Jim, all in a
row!  First Jed told us all about Sister Cindy, sex, and the
"darkroom", rambling off in various directions in response to the
crowd, then turned things over to Max.  Max, being our "regular",
seemingly decided to leave most of the work to Jed and Jim, for all he
did was rant about politics for about 10 minutes.  Then he turned it
over to Jim, who began with a classic tirade about the Catholic
church, veered into the "4 tactics and 3 lines boys use to seduce
virgin college girls", and ended with his "salvation at the Van Halen
concert" story.  All in all, a rather good day... it's very rare to
actually have Jed here, and I can only remember one or two other times
he's shown up.

Highlight of the day #1:  Jim is sparring with a couple of girls in
the front row, who were putting up a spirited defense of Catholicism
in the face of his accusations of cannibalism and devil-worship.  This
kid rides up on a bike, right up between them, and says something like
"come on guys. Jesus preached love, not hate.  You shouldn't be
arguing like this.  You should be loving each other, not hating each
other."  Some Jedhead in the crowd yells out "You're a freshman,
aren't you?"  and the kid replies "actually yes" and rides off.  Heheheheh.

Highlight of the day #2:  As he occasionally does, Max handed out
copies of a letter he had written to an Indiana paper.  I was, of
course, sure to get a copy.  I don't want to clutter the net with it
right now, but if any of you want I could type it in and post it here
for your reading pleasure...

Happy jed-hunting,
--Rob

--
Rob Tillotson  N9MTB                  Internet:  akl@sage.cc.purdue.edu
                                        BITNET:  ROBT@PURCCVM
From: jill@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu (Jill Hollifield)
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Re: Sighting Report
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:04:34 GMT
Organization: Coordinating Centers For Biometric Research, University of Minnesota

In article <1992Sep1.153213.11414@stortek.com> benb@stortek.com (ben baron) writes:
>I remember the 'I met the King of Kings at Burger King' story, too.
>Maybe the Jed monster has changed his tune?  Or is he infallable?
>
>--
>__________________________________________________________________________
>
>"You can make more friends with a kind word and a gun than you can with 
> just a kind word" - Al Capone, The Untouchables
>
>Ben Baron, Ben_Baron@stortek.com                         (303) 673-4670
>

No, Brother JED found god at a Burger King,
Brother JIM found god at a VAN HALEN CON-CERT!

:-)
From: weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM (Michael Gordon Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: A Piece of Advice
Keywords: and a warning
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:33:31 GMT
Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <Btw0AK.D4u@wpi.WPI.EDU> gryphon@wpi.WPI.EDU (The Emotional Yo Yo) writes:
>I have discovered, through practical and painful experience, that, should you
>wish to destroy a relationship utterly, there is no better way to do it than
>with three little words:
>
>I love you.
>
>Think about it.
>
>(Yes, I discovered this by accident.)
>
>Be warned.  Be careful.
>

Sorry to hear about your misfortune. I hope you do not take what you have
said to heart though. Saying 'I love you' is powerful stuff, and when
said at the right time, can bring a relationship forward. Everyone is
at least a little insecure, and though they believe that you love them,
they will always have a little doubt, and saying it aloud can help 
dispell some of that doubt.

But if your partner is unready or unwilling to hear it, it can be
disasterous. I know I am always anxious to let someone I love know
just how I feel, but that is not always a good idea. You need to go
slowly and prepare them for what you will say. I think by the time
you say 'I love you', it should already be obvious to the other 
person. Still, there is a risk. But if you never take any risks,
you will never move forward.

Peace, 
Michael.
From: guest@qualman.esd.sgi.com (Guest Account)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Freinds First or Not.
Keywords: Regarding dating and getting to know someone.  I have to say,
  I had a two year relationship after knowing him just a week.  Also had a 
  one year relationship after being freinds for six months.   So either way
  you could come out alone.  The thing is no matter how long you know someone
  people change.
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:11:34 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.


			Recently Broken-Hearted,
				        
                                          Juwels
From: weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM (Michael Gordon Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Looking for help
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:13:39 GMT
Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Sep1.230823.9150@bsu-ucs.uucp> 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
(Replying to the suggestion that you should 'love yourself' if you want to
meet someone special):
>
>	I knew this one guy who was so in love with himself he couldn't keep a 
>steady girlfriend.  Sure, he had a great body, but even the dimmest of the girls
>he would get never lasted more than a week because they realized what a creep he
>was.  (In other words, so in love with himself that he really didn't give any 
>positive attention to them.)
>

I think when people say that you should love yourself, they mean that
you should treat yourself with love, not that you should fall in love
with yourself. At least that makes more sense to me. 

If you have (or do a good job of pretending to have) a high opinion of
yourself, others will tend to have a high opinion of you. People may
be attracted to for this, but may also keep away from someone they
think will treat them as an inferior.

On the other hand, if you show self-acceptance and self-respect, others
will tend to think that you treat those close to you with acceptance
and respect. This should make them feel that if they get close to you,
you will treat them well.


Michael.
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