HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Chunderation
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:32:58 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Oct14.163718.29837@email.tuwien.ac.at>, alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky) writes:
> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> 
>>I believe you are mistaking me for that paper boy that tried to collect from
>>your festering abode the other day. Tell me, have the toxic wate people sent
>>you a meaasge telling you to clean your place of residence up yet?
> 
> oh, mike, come on. even *you* with your tight schedule can spare
> the time to proofread *three* fucking lines. it might even give you 
> the opportunity to recognize your inane babbling for what it is. 

Thanks... I'll keep it in mind at the end of a shift when I have to get to class
in about 30 seconds when the prof locks the door after a certain point.

Peeve: Profs who lock the door at a certain point.


> mike, here's a clue: i am not, repeat, *not* reading this group to 
> read old, rehashed insults that you culled from the weaker articles in 
> alt.tasteless (using x-window based cut-and-paste, no doubt). 
> i *am* reading this group, because people who appear to be able to 
> hold a thought without using a pair of tweezers post articles here. 

Well, Alexander, here's another. Skip the article. I know the concept in an 
original one, but even *you* should be able to get that one. Also, I never
follow someone else's act. And I don't use x-windows.

> i'd really appreciate it if you mustered either the intelligence,
> imagination, and determination necessary to write something worth
> reading; or a sufficient knowledge of your limitations to know 
> when you don't. 
> 

Why not try the "Local Yokels and the People's Cadillac" post I created the
the other day. A few people have told me they quite liked it; you might too.


Later...
Mike
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:04:52 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <f-jpd7h@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.015234.12070@bbxrbk> russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:
>>Dan, I think that you've been stuck in the university just a little
>>bit too long.  Let's go out and kill something - maybe that'll work
>>out some of this aggression.  I did see some bunnys lined up recently
>>- I'll take the right, you take the left and we'll see just how long
>>it takes them to figure it out.
>
>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."

Kind of makes you proud to be an American.  Or something.  I guess.

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home
Will hack unix for food 		(.sig stolen from dt - sorry, dt)
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:13:44 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

In article <17736@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>>> The group has been somewhat boring lately anyway, someone should post
>>> some recipes that actually work.  

>>Cheese On Toast
>>---------------

>Pizza
>-----

Three Burn Catfish
------------------

Dust fresh catfish fillets in crushed red pepper, ground red pepper,
garlic powder and Old Bay seasoning.  Add a shake of habenero sauce.
Cook in a hot, dry cast iron pan until black (about 5 minutes), flip, and
repeat.  Ingest.  Call me and scream into the phone while taking a
dump the following morning.

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: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: More Peeves About Buildings And Food
Date: 12 Oct 92 12:26:07 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

~fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
~
~>Tony was right about flatmates.

Tony was also right about getting a throbbing great tumescence from
Monday's Brookside.

At lunchtime I had the dubious pleasure to be sitting near a table of
horrible little rodent-like undergraduates. They were discussing the
DHSS (that's the social security office for all you lot over there),
and how much money they'd got from them over the summer. One of the 
little runts was sporting a pair of Nike Air Tech Advantage tennis shoes.
These cost \pounds 75. I happen to know this because I was recently in
the market for footware and even though the shop had these in the right
size, and they were jolly comfy, I decided that I couldn't possible
afford them. As I now have the pleasure of paid employment, I also have
the pleasure of paying tax and stuff. My annual "contributions" amount to
about 2 times the annual student grant. That means that even though I
can't afford nice new tennis shoes, I'm supposed to pay for TWO people
who *can*. Now, as I might have mentioned, I'm no Holmesesque libertarian
but............
-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          Vommen
                                             Bladmagen
                                   Loepmagen
                        Naetmagen
From: henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: speed trap
Date: 8 Oct 1992 20:06:46 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Bill Berbenich wrote:
>do so.  Don't underestimate Quayle, in spite of how easy it might seem to
>do so.

But, Bill, the real problem with our estimable VP is that it seems damn near
impossible to underestimate him.  Keep setting your estimations lower, and it
contiually turns out that you have *over*estimated him.  Ah, well.

Peeve:  Rush Limbaugh has become much less funny/amusing lately because he is
beginning to realize that Bush has a real steep climb if he is going to pull
off the election; and he is trying to engage in some sort of genuine political
analysis.  I listen to him to hear him make comments which I know are *really*
pissing off a whole bunch of people who take themselves too seriously.  He
is an awful political analyst, though.

!Peeve:  We still can depend on totally wacko "dittoheads" to wonder why the
press hasn't made Clinton's conduct 23 years ago at Oxford the sole object
of their attention. Heh.  Its funny to hear Limbaugh squirm as he realizes
that the caller is totally nuts.  

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.

Matthew J. Henken :-{<I'm just wondering if I can escape this circus.>]
henken@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: clc=clone@dcs.ed.ac.uk (The Clone of Claudio Calvelli)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Spokesman for Earth II: Punishment of the Innocents
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:16:51 GMT
Reply-To: clc=clone@dcs.ed.ac.uk (The Clone of Claudio Calvelli)
Organization: The Clone Factory, Stollman Memorial Hospital

In article <1992Oct8.191419.14574@netcom.com> Rick Gordon writes:
> 
> I've heard rumors of
> some, ah, "irregularities" in the submission of the votes, but I'll
> have to leave the disposition of this issue to the Votemeister, who is
> probably heartily sick of the whole thing by now.

Well, The Votemeister has unfortunately been replaced with a clone, but
all the data is still in this machine, let's see what can I find out...

In article <Bv647M.Kvp@world.std.com> of alt.religion.kibology,
alt.politics.kibo and alt.exploding.kibo, kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo"
Parry) writes:

> Please remember to mail a message with text "Vote: Kibo" to
> Earth@ed.ac.uk [assuming England remains connected to the rest of the
> world, which is unlikely, knowing the net.]  Note that you should not
> send this until Monday!

> Also note that the official vote-taker has NOT said that each person may
> submit only one vote if they have multiple signon IDs.

The vote list contains some of those, erm, suspected duplicates. One of them
is certainly a duplicate, since the two senders have the same name, are in the
same university, and if you try to use finger on one of them it appears that
he has never used the machine since (surprise!) the date he sent the vote, and
(still "surprise!") he was connecting from the other address. Do I need to say
more?

I suggest that we count 1 real vote for each 4 "Kibo" votes received.

11 Geoff Miller, American
10 Kibo

--
The Clone of Claudio Calvelli
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Chunderation
Date: 14 Oct 92 08:13:36 -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!
> +> 
> +>>And perhaps with a little work you'll get to
> +>>the point where you can feel good about yourself without having to pick on
> +>>people like Scott & Mikey.    I'm rooting for you, honey :-)
> +> 
> +I believe you are mistaking me for that paper boy that tried to collect from
> +your festering abode the other day. Tell me, have the toxic wate people sent
> +you a meaasge telling you to clean your place of residence up yet?
> 
> 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.
> 

Peeve: Annoying users who distract me from the Really Important Stuff
(like respondig to Banta's drivel), thereby causing to wrong fucking message
to get posted. I MEANT to respond to your stupidity about yanking my chain
(And we'll ignore the Freudian references there, shall we?) and having me 
cruise for the sewer. Let's face it, if the sewer is the only place I can
go to escape your noisome stench, well I guess it's worth the price.
Well gotta run. I see some user has forced her disk into the drive the wrong 
way...again.


Mike
From: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: The wrong retains the blame.
Keywords: Losers
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:11:55 GMT
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu
Organization: Up the,

The technological advances of the last twenty years are truly mind 
boggling.  People take for granted technologies that were beyond the
imagined possibilities of 1970.  People don't put any thought into 
how things are accomplished.  Like a fifties sci-fi flick where suddenly
cars, electricity, and watches all stop at once,  people think in terms
of magic works or doesn't work fluid flowing around them.  So, once again,
I will state for all to hear: Anyone who drops any amount of money to 
use a fax machine for transmission of text is an idiot.  Period.

I'm really losing it.  Earlier this week I found myself saying to
my boss, "To paraphrase The Who: Here are the new results, same as the old 
results."  What next?  "Give me three steps and I won't derive anymore?"

When I was growing up everyone had an Archenemy:  Holmes and Moriarty,
Superman and Lex Luthor, Sonny and Cher.  Everything that went wrong 
for James Bond could be traced back to Blofeld.  I wish I had an Archenemy.
I'm having trouble pinning the blame for my problems on anyone but myself.
-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Tim Mefford           |   "Yer nuts, Tim!"
  tim@physics.orst.edu      |                   -Geoff Miller
________________________________________________________________
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Esoteric Skinhead O'Connor (Was stuff about Mac D's)
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:41:28 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <1992Oct08.075413.21375@sco.COM> charless@sco.COM (AutoPope) writes:
>Shit, my earliest teen-age crush was on Siouxie Sioux ...)
	After the whole Dan Fogleberg(sp?) thing not too far behind us I
hesitate to ask, but who in the heck is Siouxie Sioux?

>Do they think we live in a Klein bottle?
	That'd be kinda neat. It would make giving directions to you house
a lot easier. "Yeah, then just go down a little ways. It's the first Klein
bottle on the right."


-- 
"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
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Aw Shit...
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:00:29 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

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

] Peeve: Over the past week or so, every time I hear the phrase "USAir strike"
] on radio or TV, it sounds to me like "U.S. airstrike", and I immediately
] wonder what we've gotten into *this* time.


And there for a while I was hoping 
we'd have some fun this season....

ciao
drieux

ps: Just when I thought I was enjoying them homophones,
Some Tells me its all Just HetroPhones.....




-- 
Modern Day Problems:
In any case, don't give up, just type slower :-).
Chimo
Bob.
From: henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 19:22:44 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203

In article <ldkuonINNf1s@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>Thanks to Bill Berbenich and Matthew Hencken for forwarding this
                                      ^^^^^^^

Aghghghgh, not again!  H. L. Mencken has been my orthographic nemesis for
a very long time.

Sheesh.

Peeve:  The paranoid thought that people are misspelling my name when they
	speak, but that I can't catch them because the misspelled version
	is pronounced the same.  Grrr.


Matthew J. Henken
henken@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: credit card peeve
Date: 14 Oct 1992 00:40:45 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article d@lynx.unm.edu, hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
> 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>

(Brian takes the bait).

I don't begrudge Americans their use of quaint, nineteenth-century
style two-color printing in their currency, even though it makes the
money easier to counterfeit than almost any other money in the world,
however:

There was an attempt a few years ago to introduce a one-dollar coin
into general circulation in Merka, called the "Susan B. Anthony" coin.
It was tremendously reviled and almost immediately withdrawn from use.
Why?  "It looks too much like a quarter!"

This from the country where *all* the paper currency is exactly the
same format, color and size!  In a dark place (like a bar or a back
alley), it's really easy to confuse a one-dollar bill with a twenty (or
even a fifty), and cost yourself a fair bit of dough.  It's much easier
to distinguish a Susan B from a quarter than to tell any two bits of
USAn paper money apart, and the (unlikely) mistake is a lot cheaper to
boot.

BTW, Dan, Monopoly(tm) money has two colors per bill, just like Merkin
loot.  Remove the beam from your own eye, etc.

---
Brian Scearce                               bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
        The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
          It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Xref: sparky alt.peeves:15775 alt.folklore.urban:25886
From: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: McDonald's and the IRA (Re: Big mac's and students)
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:39:36 GMT
Organization: Lanchester Polytechnic

In article <1992Oct14.212657.21438@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey) writes:
>In article <1acmdbINNq63@bigboote.WPI.EDU> padutton@joseph.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton) writes:
>>In any case, this brings up a related peeve: Protesters at St. Patrick's
>>Day parades who hold up signs saying "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" and
>>such, not caring that the average participant doesn't care for much more
>>than finding the next mug of green beer. And that the IRA are a bunch
>>of twits.

Even though most people in the Rep. of Ireland in their hearts would like to
see one Ireland they know that it is unlikly to happen as it would them too
much. Roughly 1,500 pounds per person goes into Northern Ireland from
Britain. Yet Britain has 54 million people to pay for this as Ireland only
has  a population of 3 million. Further about 67% of the population of 
Northern Ireland wish to remain British and there are terroist groups who do
go round killing Nationalists. Would a united Ireland be able to keep order
in its country?

>>(Give Ireland Back To The British!)

Pardon? This is a stupid idea.

>Peeve:  Why are the British (or as they pronounce it "Brish") so
>determined to give back Hong Kong, but so detemined to keep
>Northern Ireland ?  If there was a Hong Kong version of the
>IRA who were trying to unite Hong Kong with China, would the
>Brish change their minds and decide to keep Hong Kong ?  Maybe
>the best compromise is rather than having Northern Ireland
>part of either the UK or the Republic of Ireland, make it
>part of the People's Republic of China -- make it a two
>for one deal.

Brish? Never heard of that word - I'm British.

(i)   Hong Kong is a Crown Colony where as Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
(ii)  Almost all of Hong Kong's food comes from the New Territories on the
      Chinese mainland. This land is only on leasehold from China the lease
      runs out in 1997.

That is mainly why Hong Kong is being returned to China. The reason why we
'hold onto' Northern Island is because most of them want to remain British.
-- 
Dave                                                       cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call this place what you like - Coventry University, Coventry Polytechnic or
Lanchester Polytechnic it is all the same and is called school.
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: The bleating of sheep (was Re: Out your ears)
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:02:17 GMT
Followup-To: alt.cascade
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <Bw203z.DqA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Alexander Feygin writes:
> [ original sentiments lost in transmission; a precis: ]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I didn't have anything to do with this.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But I saw an opportunity to annoy my betters and grabbed it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Then I came along, late as usual, and added something lame.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I didn't have anything to contribute either, but posted anyway.
>>>>>>>>>>>> If I make it rhyme, will people think I'm clever?
>>>>>>>>>>> I don't understand crossposting, but I know how the "F" key works.
>>>>>>>>>> If I follow along mindlessly I'll make lots of net.friends.
>>>>>>>>> Don't flame me, I'm just doing what everybody else does.
>>>>>>>> Isn't this fun?
>>>>>>> Isn't this clever?
>>>>>> Am I not creative?
>>>>> This is really crazy and K00L, isn't it?
>>>> Gee, can anybody join in?
>>> I can't find my ass with both hands, but I can be K00L, too!
>> This is really an art form, you know.
> Who could possibly object to this creative expression?

I could and I will.

I object to you sorry lot wasting my time.  I object to you scummying up
this and other newsgroups with your logorrhea.  I object to the depressing
thought that there are so many moronic taggers-along.  I object to having
to produce this rant, knowing that the perps won't Get It, anyway.

Take this garbage away and don't bring it back.

No fucking smiley.

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "Often in error, never in doubt." 
rickg@netcom.com |   --- Universal Marketing Department motto
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Freshers
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 22:25:03 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes: 
| jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:

| Obviously not, otherwise you'd have offered him the newspaper at retail
| sales price plus cost of effort of having gone to shop (large quque at
| lunchtimes) plus profit... (best to include all costs in the price).
| >(and I draw the attention
| >of Mr. A. J. Hippy to a distinction in meaning between words employing the
| >suffix -esque as opposed to -ian)
| I must have missed this....

Me too.

What's the distinction?

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dr. Pavlov's distinguished career came to an      |
|abrupt end one day when the doorbell rang and the |
|dog ate the Avon lady.                            |
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