HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Alarm Surprize! (was Big mac's and student
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:08:39 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan H. Evans) writes:
>>
>>RelatedPeeve: Without fail, that waking-up song will go through your
>>        head until lunch, sometimes longer. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhgh!!!

>Of course this does not apply to: "Me an' you, an' a dog named Boo..."

Damn, and I thought it'd be......

"Three wheels on my wagon
 and I'm still rolling along
 them Cherokees are after me
 they look mad
 they look bad
 but I'm siiiiingiiiin........"
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh How the Pope has taken oveer Geoff's Mind
Date: 14 Oct 92 11:03:39 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

~\/ o\ Paul Crowley pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk \  /
~/\__/ "SET ME ON FIRE!" - Big Black  \/

Hi, Paul. Does your return mean that you've finally figured out how
to do the assignment that Crawford set last year?

I hope everyone saw Mike's posting where he claimed to dislike authority,
and saved a copy for future reference. Could this be the same guy who was
hopping up and down about the Computing Regulations a few months ago?
Naaah.

-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          
          "That's too Libertarian for me"
                         Mike Holmes (in conversation with A.Y. Atollah)
                             (don't deny it, Holmes!)
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The Usual Trivia
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:09:13 GMT
Organization: NMSU Computer Science

<In article <92Oct09.211321.31975@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:

<Well it could be worse, you could have left your heart there.
<Whoops, you *were* talking about New Mexico, so I guess that's
<a bit improbable.

	While there is a town named "Aztec" here in Nuevo
	Mexico, there was never any Aztec presence hereabouts...

	Now, it might be possible to leave your heart in 
	Tenochticlan (what some revisionists call "Mexico City")
	if you contacted the right people....or they contacted 
	you. However, it's doubtful that any posters to alt.peeves
	(outside of PSU, anyway) would qualify for such a donation.

ObPeeve: I cannot find a copy of "The Conquest of New Spain" 
	 anywhere. It would be so very appropriate (and anti-PC)
	 carry around campus on Columbus Day....
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: Blair.Haworth@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
Subject: VisionPeeve (was Re: speed trap)
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:06:39 GMT

In article <-vfplnm@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>
>Peeve: Whenever I see a sign for Frontage Road I always read it as
>       "Frottage Road."
>
Peeve: I don't get to do this sort of thing as an option.  I wear
reasonably powerful glasses, so I have almost no peripheral vision worthy
of the name, and what I have is subject to some pretty pronounced edge
effects.  As a result, my subconscious does some pretty creative text
processing.  Nothing like thinking you've just walked by a book entitled
_Waitress to the Holocaust_ to bring you up short in a moment of
preoccupation.  It was "Witness", actually; I suppose I could peeve about my
subconscious' being in bad taste if I was a Sensitive Guy <tee emm>,
except that a goodsized

!Peeve: is that mostly, these here visual malapropisms are pretty amusing. 
There's also nothing like rounding a bend in a bland (but scenic) stretch
of Caldwell County, NC, and thinking you've just passed a "Zen Baptist
Church". 
  
miniPeeve: Just "Zion", it turns out... 

Even though the Alumni Office thinks they have a claim on my future earnings:
--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 01:16:08 GMT
Organization: Weasels

In article <1992Oct9.210452.14285@bbxrbk> russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:
>>
>>Only if we get to use that Dragon's DeathBreath stuff. I am in awe. I
>>am proud, *damned* proud, to be an American. Of course you can count
>>me out if Chris would be standing to my left trying his best to whack
>>me in the head with ejected shells. Had enough of that, thanks. 
>
>Sure - got their catalog right here.  Dragon's Breath: $16.95/3
>rounds.  As long as I'm placing the order, how about some flares at
>$8.95/5 or some boomers at $9.95/10?  There're also some heavy rubber
>slugs at $8.95/5 or some non-lethal Zytel rounds at $14.95/5.  Ahhh,
>here's one to get the 'ol testosterone flowing: "The Shredder" 
>"Dozens of razor sharp tacks blast out at a very high velocity which
>virtually guarantees there to be no response from a perpetrator."

Coooooooool shiiiiiiiiiit!!!

That's pretty expensive, though. Can I get some sort of educational
discount on that stuff? Do they sell a "Fuck-'em-Up Sampler Pack" or
anything like that?

Peeve: Gun stuff is expensive.

!Peeve: Gun stuff is an investment. Think of the return you can get
with *one* handgun.

-- 
We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers crystals.
Let's see if they notice the difference.
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Recipe Swapping on alt.peeves (was Re: Pained Whale?)
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:36:25 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <1992Oct8.005815.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin) writes:
>In article <5lfp3q-@lynx.unm.edu>, baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
>> 	My personal favorite is Kraft(tm) Cheese and Macaroni. This
>> stuff is so simple that I have only known one person to ever screw
>> it up. I will point out where he went wrong in the recipe.
>
>Peeve #1: Blatant commercial plugs....as if Kraft Corp. was the only
>licensed Mac-and-Cheese maker in the universe.
	Sheesh! Had you bothered to read the whole article you would have
noted that I said that you could use whatever brand you damned well pleased,
but I could not recomend it. Note the implicit assumption that there are
other makers in the world you could turn to, I just don't like them as much.
	BTW, as far as I know Kraft is the only licensed producer of
Cheese and Macaroni. The rest merely produce mac and cheese:-)

>I have an even more goof-proof "recipe": Microwave popcorn and Pepsi.
>
>1) Insert popcorn bag in microwave.
>2) Cook on high for 5 minutes or till flash point.
>3) Insert coins in Pepsi machine.
>4) Press button labeled "Pepsi."
Geeze! Another blatant commercial plug! Like Pepsi is the only licensed 
cola producer in the universe. What about Jolt, RC and even Coke.

ObPeeve: One bag of microwave popcorn is just too damned much popcorn for 
me to eat at once. There is no way I'm going to share it with those leaches
known as my friends. They can buy there own popcorn. However, back when I
had a dog, it was just the right size for me to eat what I wanted and play
the "How High Can a Golden Retriever Jump for Some Popcorn" game. I no
longer have a dog, thus I am forced to eat it all myself.
	Perhaps it is time to start the "How High Can My Dirt Broke Roommate
Jump for Some Popcorn" game.

FurtherDogPeeve: That stupid mutt never learned to catch popcorn that was
thrown to it. It would let the popcorn hit it in the face and then chase
after it. It had the same philosophy toward catching frisbees.
-- 
"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: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: Japanese Tourists ate my building.
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:13:16 GMT

In article <mhart.718627756@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:

>
>!Peeve: Am I the only one here who's fallen in lust^H^H^H^H love
>with Jenny G.?
>

Well, aw shucks, Mikey, I jes' don' know what to say....

I guess you didn't notice the gigantic ring on my finger - I've been
told by certain scratchy tobacconists that it's way too small to be
seen by the naked eye.

But you're more than welcome to hang around, outside Chez Nips, with your
nose pressed up against the glass like a kid at the candy store ;-)

Jenny
-- 
***************************************************************************
jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu is Jenny Gutbezahl @ Univ. of Mass, Amherst
****************************************************************************
These opinions are all mine.  Flame all you want, I'll make more
From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:38:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Please Help
Organization: HP Western Response Center
Newsgroups: alt.peeves

Oops! My apologies for posting my previous "Please Help" survey to this
group. It was an honest mistake and won't happen again.

Kingsley
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Hare Triggers
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:33:26 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Ant Refuge


!Peeve: I feel so empowered. I have been sitting in my catfur infested
office reading splendid scenes of carnage in Peevetown Square written
by all the bunnyhuggerphobes out there. "Who me?" "No, not me, I am not
a bunnyhugger! I have *testicles*! I'm a bartender!" "Let's get them
BUNNYHUGGERS!" "We need BIG WEAPONS."

Uh, has anyone noticed that I am the only bunnyhugger in Peevetown? I
feel like the rabbit in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". "THAT
RABBIT'S DYNAMITE!" I feel so powerful. You don't know how gleeful I
feel, sitting in my Undertaker's Office watching all of you scurry
around like a bunch of schoolgirls in Bio lab after a white rat
escaped.

By the way, tomorrow is my birthday, so be nice to me.


 V      V      V      V      V      V      V      V
(*)    (*)    (*)    (*)    (*)    (*)    (*)    (*)  <- Bunnies(from the back)


ER
-- 
E. Richards  fernwood!autodesk!booter or booter@Autodesk.COM

"A mere corroborative detail to add artistic verisimilitude to
 an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
From: henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Date: 9 Oct 1992 07:02:05 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct9.061232.20307@mel.dit.csiro.au> jen187@mis.csiro.au (Graham Jenkins +61 6 276 6812) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.004943.29270@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU writes:
>
>>
>>1) do not eat for 24 hours
>>2) drink 15 VB interspersed with "Prairie Fires" (tequila + tabasco)
>>3) eat hot "Thai" 
>>4) pass out without chundering
>>5) wake up at 5am
>>6) you will now crave Maalox, and possibly Pepto-Bismol (sp?)
>>
>
>Yes, well, thank you. While I'm sure your recipe for enlightenment
>has some merit, I believe I shall forego the pleasures of experiencing
>it on this occasion. 

Like anyone gives a shit what you intend to do.  Fuck off and drop dead.

Peeve:  People who think anyone wants to see their chatty, stupid, pointless
	responses.  What is going on?  This is alt.PEEVES, god fucking
	dammit!

Peeve:  Too many damn posts about the structure and workings of Peevetown.
	Get a grip.  It's a cute joke, for about 17 seconds.

Peeve:  Banta has peeved twice over the last few months about Peevetown, but
	it hasn't made any difference.

Peeve:  He also just peeved recently about "chat" newsgroups; from the above
	it doesn't look like you can escape that bullshit even here.

Peeve:  Somehow, I've become some sort of net.cop.  Christ.


Matthew J. Henken 
henken@ocf.berkeley.edu
Xref: sparky alt.peeves:15787 alt.folklore.urban:25929
From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: McDonald's and the IRA (Re: Big mac's and students)
Date: 17 Oct 92 02:51:17 GMT
Reply-To: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Organization: Do they make a washing powder called Caliban Automatic?

Do you *really* *really* want to argue about Northern Ireland in
alt.peeves?

No?

Don't then.  Suffice it to say that there are other points of view about
the situation some of which aren't being put, in my case because this
seems like a bad place to argue about it.

While I'm at it, I'll stop arguing about religion here too.  Anyone wanting
to follow the fun should subscribe to talk.religion.misc.
  __                                ____
\/ o\ Paul Crowley pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk \  /
/\__/ "I'm the boy without a soul"   \/
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bike peeves
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:42:16 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <ldoj5dINNnrj@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>In article <3358@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU
>(Richard Alan Brown) writes:
>>	!Peeve4: cycling past a fresh half pigs head lying on the road... 
>
>Which half?  Details!  We must have details!

All together now:

GIF! GIF! GIF!

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home
Will hack unix for food 		(.sig stolen from dt - sorry, dt)
From: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hare Triggers
Keywords: Loser
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:45:38 GMT
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu
Organization: Up the,

In article <ldj5shINNijj@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
|> 
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Plagiarism is an ugly thing.  Really, what could you possibly have been thinking?

      "Caveat emptor"..... and caveat pre-emptor, as well.
-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Tim Mefford           |           "vidi, veni"      
  tim@physics.orst.edu      |    -Julius Caesar on Cleopatra
________________________________________________________________
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Chunderation (Deja Vu)
Date: 14 Oct 92 08:18:21 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <ldmcu9INNkq2@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
> The creature from the planet sybok writes:
> +In article <ldksaaINNep4@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
> +> (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
> +>>Oooh, "Bird Seed"  I'm hurtin' from that one.  Yow!
> +> 
> 
> Mikey,
> 
> Would you mind clarifying who you fired this drab little spitball at?
> 
> I see my address up in the attributions but I didn't write any of what
> you included.
> 
> Maybe when you get home from hawking flowers by the side of the road
> today, you can scrape together enough spare cash to stop by the clue
> station and fill up.  I'd recommend the full serve island.  I wouldn't
> want to see you mistakely use the pump on someone else, self serve.

Is there any particular reason you posted this spewage twice, Banta,
(for example you are so starved for attention you need ot see your name 
in alt.peeves more than once), or is your low IQ kicking in again?

Just wondering

Mike
Xref: sparky alt.peeves:15711 alt.cascade:2609
From: nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: Out your ears (Re: Kill Yr Peers (Re: Moving to Algiers (Re: I think my rent is in arears (Was Re: This'll be long, in a few
Keywords: cascade in subject line ignore
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:20:44 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan

cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:

>By god, it IS school time again and we're loaded with post-high-schoolers
>who can readily be identified because they:

>A) Think "cascades" are fun and/or creative.
>B) Think it's cute to add unrelated newsgroups to the "Newsgroups" line 
>   when they post something.
>C) Don't bother to check the "Newsgroups:" line when they followup.
>D) All of the above.
E) They also are of yet unfamiliar with the Peevetown dialect, and the best
   comeback they can manage when you flame them for posting this shit to 
   alt.peeves is some variation of "Go away, you big mean guy!"

-- Mark 

Every dogma has its day.
From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Freshers
Keywords: Lala la, lala lala, lala la, lala lalaaa
Date: 8 Oct 92 09:59:04 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <+sgp57p@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
=>In article <Bvr81G.HJD@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
=>>
=>>Hmm, not too sure Babs'll like you referring to her like that Jeremy. Does
=>>she even *have* a plaid shirt?
=>
=>Is she still *alive*? 

She is, but she wrote her password on her knuckles with crayon, and now
it's scraped off she can't figure out how to log on again.



-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          Vommen
                                             Bladmagen
                                   Loepmagen
                        Naetmagen
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hare Triggers
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:19:45 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Oct10.001134.3971@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) 
writes:

>Nameless dread: Wondering if "Asterix" was French at all.  Maybe
>German?  Nah, I'am almost sure it was French.


Actually, he was an unmitigated Gaul.



Geoff "Carthago delenda est" Miller


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: charless@sco.COM (Charlie Stross)
Subject: Re: speed trap
Organization: SCO Technical Waffle and Blurb Department
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 10:52:08 GMT


In article <1b24cmINNfun@agate.berkeley.edu> henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken) writes:
>
>I have a question for the non-US'ans:  What kind of coverage does American
>Presidental politics get?  I should hope very little, but I have a sneaking
>suspicion that it is fairly substantial.
>
It gets plently. Let's face it, American politics may be a circus, 
but them thar' clowns have nukes.

On the other hand, right now we've got our own political turkeys
to slaughter.  In the UK it's party convention time, and the
Tories are lining up with noose and gun to find out _exactly_ who
was responsible for the Maastricht debacle, while the Labour
party gloats from the hoardings (glad they didn't win the
election just in time to get blamed for the mess) and the
minister from the Department of Social Insecurity does a Gilbert
and Sullivan Lord High Executioner riff about fraudulent benefit
claimants to distract the pin-striped mob.  (Nothing about Income
Tax Evaders, you will note -- if he went after _them_ he'd get a
slightly chillier response from the yuppies.) In Amsterdam
they're still trying to dig bits of Boeing out of the suburbs, in
Brussels they're trying to figure out what went wrong with their
bid for European hegemony (moral: do it with guns, next time --
that's the traditional way), and in Italy they've actually
elected a government that isn't afraid to govern.  So it's
business as usual ...  meanwhile, small and somewhat battered
fleets of nuclear missile submarines remain on patrol, and the
sheep war continues.  Probability of an all-out trans-manche
nuclear midi-power confrontation remains low, as long as they
keep their grubby central bank's fingers off our devalued
currency ...

-- from the Peevetown foreign correspondent in Watford, England.


-- 
Charlie Stross aka charless@scol.sco.com ..... UNIX oriented text mangler
WARNING: The opinions voiced in the preceding electronic document are the
product of a warped mind. Take two before meals. 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@lurch.twg.com (!Karl Menninger)
Subject: Re: Japanese Tourists ate my building.
Keywords: Losers
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Institute for the Detention of the Reality-impaired
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:09:11 GMT


In article <1992Oct12.210751.26975@twg.com>, donp@twg.com, The Cross I Must
Bear babbled: 

| No my friend, you are not. My office mate Nolan (gabby) Hinshaw and
| myself are drowning in the sea of amour too.

In article <1992Oct12.231818.27726@CS.ORST.EDU>, tim@physics.orst.edu 
(Tim Mefford) observed:

| Now there's a vivid image I'll be working to expel from my thoughts.
| Nolan and Don, smothered a tablespoon at a time.

I'd like to smother Don a centiliter of air at a time. Changing his meds has
not helped a bit.

--
Nolan "Pits of ashes" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"Grab Dick and come on down"  Don Pette
"Texas is like an old woman's pussy.  Everyone knows its down there but
nobody gives a fuck."  - Overheard on CB radio, compliments of 
	bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
"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: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lou Reed
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:17:07 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: abingdon

AvdH and Pette try to engage in a pissing match and manage to trickle
on their feet thusly:
>> BTW, you're lucky that you tried your first flame on me, if you
>> had ruffled that '242lbs. before puking' guy's feathers, you'd most likely
>> be gone for good.
>
>I'm scared.  I'm shaking.

Jesus H. Keerist horking a hairball.  Neither one of you two appear to
be bright enough to be scared of much more than your shadow.  Likewise,
neither one of you wrote anything even approaching being interesting
enough to warrant notice, let alone a rebuke.

If I had any say in this, your dicks would be in opposite ends of a
Chinese finger trap and you could bore each other.

>> dickfor?
>
>4mm.  Grab the wrong hair and piss down your leg.

Oh, how entralling.

Here's my take on your piffle:

AvdH: Poopoo head.

DP: Caca breath.

AvdH: Dog poopy.

DP: etc.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
 Placard:  "Will work for food"
 Response: "Blow me!"
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 19:22:46 GMT
Organization: Weasels Everywhere

In article <1992Oct9.170226.29983@access.usask.ca> nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly) writes:
>
>>Peeve: Paying tax on airplane tickets. Why not just include the tax in the
>>listed fare?
>
>Come on up to Canada, and you can pay tax on your restaurant meals, doughnuts,
>haircuts, movie tickets, gasoline, cigarettes, clothing, *and* airline 
>tickets...Newspapers too.  So quit bitching.  You got it easy.

You missed my point, eh. I don't have any particular problem with paying
taxes, although I may disagree with what the money is wast^H^H^Hspent on.

My peeve is when places don't tell you what the bottom line cost is going
to be so things like tickets suddenly go up in price $15. I mean it's not
like I have the option of flying to this place *without* paying the
airport taxes, so why are they quoting the price without taxes included?

At least on gasoline (petrol) the tax is included in the price. If I see a
sign for 1.15 9/10, I know how much the gas is actually going to cost. I
don't want to see a sign that says ".45 plus tax" because that doesn't tell
me anything.

And besides, eh, here in 'Murrica we have to pay our tax in solid 'Murrican
dollars, not those multi-colored Monopoly-money things you poor dears 
play house with. <ObCanadianBait>

Dan
-- 
We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers crystals.
Let's see if they notice the difference.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves