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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: alt.angst angst
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:49:46 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug18.010438.7028@beaver.cs.washington.edu> boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>>boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>[stuff you've seen once before & stuff you've seen fifty times before deleted] 
>>>"Shitty day, Beth."
>>>"Shitty day, Bill."
>>>"How's the Void today?"
>>>"Dismal, Bill, dismal."
>>>"Die a slow painful death, Beth."
>>>"Die a slow painful death, Bill."
>>
>>This is cool...I like it. Its kind of the angster's version of the old
>>cartoon where the coyote and sheepdog clock in in the morning and proceed to
>>abuse and destroy each other all in a days work...
>
>Ralph and Sam, I think.  Yes, I'm still puking up things everyone's
>seen before.  What a wretched substitute for an imagination I have.
>The alt.angst equivalent of Muzak; I bet someone could program a
>computer to do it better.

Damn! he's finally figured out his purpose and who he really is.
**ALERT** **ALERT** All personnel within range of the Boesch unit
please apprehend and de-activate immediately. We have had a massive
neural failure and the unit's Reality curtain has apparently failed
as he is now aware of his existence and purpose.

And I had had such high hopes for you RE-13162...errr... mean Eric. 


>>You have passed the test..now you can Join The Club...
>
>It isn't that simple.  You can't just say I passed and walk away from it.

Yes I can...its for me to say and you to angst over. "Deal with it Pinkboy!"
as a friend of mine always says.

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome 
Keywords:  (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: University of Tennessee Oil and Lube Center
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 16:24:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.161803.24687@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>Perhaps we should have a contest to decided whose Govt. Lab is really the
>worst!!  Set up sort of an exchange program in which each of us could visit
>the workplace and community of the others (perhaps at govt. expense-- 
>do I hear any invitations to give talks?).  Tours could be arranged.
>Redneck bars visited.  Radioactive dumpsites explored.  And we could rate
>these places for these various characteristics, and produce a cumulative
>score.  Then we would know definitively who really lives and works
>in Hell.  And I still believe it would turn out to be me!!!!
>

Oh, I forgot to mention the flock of vultures that hangs out in the parking
lot of my building at the Oak Ridge National Lab.  I kid you not!  They
get sighted once in while.

						Meech
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Accents
Date: 22 Aug 92 12:47:25 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Aug21.130513.6053@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>If our schools stressed foreign languages, like civilized countries' school systems do,
>then I could at least read/speak German at a better level than that of a 3-yr old.

...which would be great, assuming that you only want to know a foreign 
language for your own edification.  If you think it'll help you in your
career, however, forget it.  I keep dropping hints to the powers that be
at my company about the fact that I speak German and there's this con-
vention coming up next month in Vienna and we have to send somebody and
I'm available.  Guess who gets sent:  the person with the right political
connections in the company (who can't even speak or write English decently,
much less German).

All together now:  It's (or, as the say on Usenet, "its") not WHAT
you know, it's WHOM you know.  

TurboVerdammtNochMal (ges.gesch.)
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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:58:28 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug14.011744.25705@beaver.cs.washington.edu> boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>jethro@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mary Ellen Paul) writes:
>[well, never mind the formalities.  Let's get to the meat of this.]
>>I'm tall, smart, and don't have big boobs.
>
>These are grave problems, but they all have the same solution.  As my
>mother always said, "A lemming that dreams of flying like an eagle
>just ends up plummeting to a horrible, grisly death."
"You can soar with the Eagles but a Weasel will never get sucked into a 
jet engine"
[And on and on for about 30 or so lines...]

Can you say "flame bait" ?

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score update)
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Date: 19 Aug 92 08:29:11 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992Aug18.153417.16668@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>And over the next few days, those same lads in their white suits
>went over our parking lot with a fine toothed comb, and on more than one
>occasion I saw them excitedly point at what appeared to be nothing more
>than a tiny oil stain on the pavement.  But the next day, the top 1/8 of
>an inch of pavement at that location was removed.  

One of my favorite bits in "white noise" [Don Delillo] is when it's 
dicovered that the protective suits may be carcinogenic.

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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler)
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:58:03 GMT


My latest Angst:  I've never posted.
Anyway, here goes:  You will probably have to go to Borland to
get permission to Turbo your bahs.

phooey     Bob Reinstatler     reinstat@u.washington.edu

Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: fat smelly operating system
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:31:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.225522.28555@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>have Tourettes or something. A fellow UnixGod(tm) was actually hauled off and
>shot behind a local restaurant because he offended the Waitroid when she caught
>him making a switch() code fragment based on the menu items. 

Is this the same waitress St.Meech claims to have dated?  Did he survive the
execution a la Anastasia?


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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: parker@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au (John 'Cheshire' Parker)
Subject: Dead City Angst
Summary: I am stuck in Australia! I hate it!
Keywords: Perth Australia Location
Organization: University Computer Club --- Perth, Western Australia
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:57:50 GMT

Angst! 
First, people will probably flame me for ressurecting Location angst.
Second, people will probably flame me for stuffing up my first global post.
Third (And most importantly) I am stuck in Perth, Western Australia!

You Probably dont realise how incredibly BORING Perth really is. It has
repeatedly been judged the worst city in the world in terms of boredom.
It is in the middle of nowhere. The nearest real city is three days away by
car. And that is across the biggest desert in the country. The most fun to be
had is to go and 'group gloom' at the local Alternative night club. (There is 
only one of this Genre, so the Punks, Goths, Indie boppers and Hippies battle
for control)

Oh, and before you ask, Yes I have got a Girlfriend, and we are happy.
We are merely saving to get out of this hell hole.

Cheshire.

Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 06:35:22 GMT

dave budd (zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug14.071700.23012@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
: 
: >Oh boy, I did it again.  While trying to antagonize our Guest Twit From Hell <tm>,
: >I unintentionally offended someone else.  Sorry Dave, you were'nt the target.
: 
: Don't it give you angst to know you're always going to offend people you 
: dodn't intend to?
: 

AAAARGH!!!!  Now you've done it.  I'm angstful that if I WRITE anything, I'll
offend.  I'm angstful that if I DON'T write a response, I'll offend.  I'm
angstful that if I don't get to work, my boss will be offended.  I'm angstful
that I'm going to miss a LOT after next friday, as I'm going off to Denver for
5 weeks (for GE, not vacation), and I'm going to miss all this fun alt.angst
discussion.  I'm angstful that I will miss something important, maybe the
key to happiness (yeah, right, like there is one.)

bah.
Double Bah.
TurboBah....hey, I like that one.  Can I claim it, Steve?  

--

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SAAB - Because you get what you pay for.
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From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: money angst
Keywords: money angst depression paranoia
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:48:32 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug12.130407.10193@spuddy.uucp> mak@spuddy.uucp (Mark Kellaway) writes:
>
>Five minutes ago I was told that my car (just went in for service) needs
>#850 sterling spent on neccesary repairs. I have got the money only it's
>what I had saved towards buying my own computer.
>
>I think I'm getting paranoid as well as depressed about money, normally I
>spend money as soon as I get it (often sooner), but whenever I try to save
>towards something (this is fourth time I've tried for a computer) something
>always crops up and I have to spend it elsewhere.
>


bah. i just paid my tuition and now i have only the $50 left in my account 
to keep it open. not a penny to my name. at least you have a car.

(uh oh, this sounds like "my angst is better than your angst" posting...)

ObAngst: I'm not going to be able to buy food for the next week and a half.
i just love enforced dieting...

double bah (c/o stephen okay)


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		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score Update)
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:14:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.043125.6037@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:


>Looks like Oak Ridge is doing pretty well!!!!
>
>Score:      Vultures   Ravens   Deer/Ticks    Barbie/Ken    Rednecks  
>
>Los Alamos   N/A        x        N/A           N/A           N/A    
>Brookhaven   N/A        N/A      x             x             x
>Oak Ridge    x          x        x             x             x
>Windscale    N/A        N/A      N/A           N/A           N/A
>Stanford     Really?    N/A      N/A           Really?       Tragic!!
>
>            Radioactive       Pigeons     Ants    Monster   Baptists
>            Wildlife                              Trucks
>Los Alamos   N/A               N/A         N/A     x         N/A
>Brookhaven   N/A               N/A         N/A     x         N/A
>Oak Ridge    x (frogs,          -          x       x         x
>             anything 
>             herbivorous)
>Windscale    x (frogs,         N/A         N/A     N/A       N/A
>             multi-limbed)
>Stanford     N/A               x           x       N/A       N/A


I've posted this in my office, Meech.  May I suffer the same
bureaucratic pressure from above that the other poor guy got for having
far side cartoons in his office.  You forget one critical category
though:

Locals have intolerable accent that makes them sound like escapees from
a bad cartoon

Brookhaven    X
Los Alamos	?
Oak Ridge	X
Stanford	?



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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 21:48:08 GMT
Organization: UNM Janitorial Staff
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)

In article <1992Aug17.191307.24056@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>
>Score:      Vultures       Ravens        Deer/Deer ticks    Barbie/Ken
>
>Los Alamos                     x
>Brookhaven                                     x                 x
>Oak Ridge        x             x               x                 x
>
>I'd like to add "rednecks on coke" who are growing dope out in the 
>mountains.  Makes going for hikes a bit risky if you get off the trail.
>
>Anything else?
>
You know, it stands to figure that they would put National Labs in 
godforsaken wilderness areas (nothing against wilderness areas, mind you)
with an uneducated local work force.  

Jenny
above examples don't hold a candle to others I could mention, but won't
-- 
"I have heard of people communicating with rocks. I personally prefer
dogs or trees." -J. Winston
"I hope you don't get as confused as I appear to be." -ibid.
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: WHY, HELLO AGAIN, DAVE! (right-justified te
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:04:27 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


horntho@eng.auburn.edu (Jake Martling) writes:
: In article 241@lrc.edu, blosser_cy@lrc.edu () writes:
: > My life is so filled with chaos, discord and entropy that I find it quite
: > comforting to have at least a little bit of order on my computer terminal
: > hence, my right-justified text.
:
: And you probably have your computer's mouse in a little crocheted "mouse cozy" 
: too, don't you? You anal retentive weenie...

i'm currently arguing with my best friend about whether or not it's
anal-retentive to have a box full of disks that are all completely
filled (0 bytes free) that were made that way on purpose.

doesn't everyone?

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"packaging is everything; get a pretty face to talk about the warm
glow from nuclear waste" -- gunbunnies
From: MHR@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:06:36 GMT
Followup-To: alt.angst
Organization: SLAC

In article <1992Aug15.183152.9348@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov
(gary l. schroeder) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Aug14.185247.22624@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
> >In article <1992Aug13.161152.17612@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
> >>In article <1992Aug12.173356.24284@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
> 
All the angst from the national labs suffering from locales in Barbie/Ken
lands, cultural wastelands, and radioactive lands-a-glow had me feeling
very comfy and smug here at this lil ole accelerator in the paradise that
is the backyard of Palo Alto.  Then you had to go make me feel like one of
the angst-ridden gang by bringing up the vermin thing.  Just so happens
that 2 key topics at this morning's staff meeting were (1) how to kill ants
while respecting everybody's "right to know" what kind of poisons are being
sprayed around and, (2) how to deal with the pigeons that fly into a
particular building and deposit their deposits to the chagrin of workers
who fear they are becoming diseased as a result.  As for the black widow
spiders, we're getting used to them.  
--------------------------------------------------------------
Disclaimer:
The opinions expressed in this posting are my own, and
not necessarily those of the Stanford Linear Accelerator 
Center, Stanford University, or the US Department of Energy.
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:05:36 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug14.071700.23012@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>I unintentionally offended someone else.  Sorry Dave, you were'nt the target.
>The specific reference was more oriented to the writing of something as 
>relatively transient and trivial as a newsnet posting, as opposed to a
>tech documentation.  Obviously, tech writing is a bit of a higher form 
>of communication than the missives of our dear Mr. Kristoph.
>
>ObAngst:  Every time I open my mouth trying to irritate somebody, I miss &
>hit someone else with it.  bah <tm rachel>, double bah <steve?>, etc.

Yeah, the Double Bah is mine, but its licensed back to Rachel since its
based on her prior art. I'm just improving on her Angst Expression 
Technology. 

ObAngst:Having to work late nights trying to come up with the latest
Bah revision and stay on the cutting edge before somebody else develops
a TurboBah and leapfrogs me. Its a jungle out there.....

---Steve
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"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score update)
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:30:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.203635.27474@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.153417.16668@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
>

[A tale of a man, his mistress, a radioactive source,the conjugal bed,
and hot pursuit by health physics deleted]

>They figured this out by deductive reasoning or did they have
>instruments with an inside track?  :)

I think they lost the trail with the instruments after he got in his car.
:-) :-)

>
>>and then the men in the 
>>radiation suits showed up at the lady's apartment to give it, and the
>>conjugal bed a thorough sweep with their geiger counters. 
>

>I rather doubt that they in fact were wearing the infamous "white
>suits", but it sure makes for a more entertaining tale.
>
>

Well, I wasn't actually in bed with them, but when I saw the Health Physics
chaps in the parking lot, they were most definitely wearing their outfits,
while a gang of unprotected onlookers gawked on.

>> I am not sure
>>what they found there, but I am sure the reaction of the loving couple
>>would have been most amusing to see.
>
>
>Sounds like your tale has been slightly embellished, but it's still a
>good one!
>

Me embellish?  Never!!!  Just the facts!

					Meech
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
From: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'the Bard' Hobbs)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:50:29 GMT
Reply-To: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ

In article <1992Aug17.135341.20729@linus.mitre.org>, sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>In article <1992Aug15.053037.6084@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>>ObAngst: My girlfriend claims to have *zero* angst. I wonder how this can be
>>true, or whether she's really a clone.
>
>Then she is a bowhead and must be shot...sorry....

She bloody isn't. She's the exact opposite of a bowhead. She's a sensitive,
shy, insecure drama student, who's depressed far too much of the time for my
liking. We seem to spend a hell of a lot of time comforting each other.
                                                                      
>But seriously, I don't see how anyone who spent any appreciable amount of
>time in their skull could not have SOME angst in their life given this
>world of ours...

She defines angst in a slighty different way to most. She says she has no
expectations, and thus has no angst that things will turn out all right... she
just takes things as they come. I wish I had that attitude.

DISCUSSION TOPIC: Can we separate the concepts of "angst", "depression" and
"weltschmerz"?

anthony (I love her anyway)
--

Anthony Hobbs             the Bard                hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz    
OverPope, First Holy and Unreformed Church of Frozen Yoghurt - romantic poet - 
synth player extraordinaire - kate bush is goddess - hail Eris - praise "Bob"!
DISCLAIMER: I am not Romanian and was not head of the Securitate for 15 years.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:07:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.074707.20627@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>gary l. schroeder (schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov) wrote:
>: 
>: Well, the problem at Brookhaven is the deer ticks.  You must live
>: in perpetual fear of contracting this most nasty disease from tiny, tiny
>: insects that grab on to your ankles whenever you walk through the grass.
>: you see, we have the largest wild deer population at the site that I've
>: ever seen.  They run the place like vermin.  The redeeming factor is
>: that they're still pretty to look at.  The damning factor is that
>: they're like giant, organic vacuum cleaners for ticks.

>Reminds me of an incident here at GE a few months ago.  A deer decided to take
>a tour of our research labs, so he leapt through the lunchroom window (big
>plate glass about 8' wide x 12' high).  Ran around the lunchroom, down the
>corridor, into the research lab, and into one of the test cells.  The results
>are fairly predictable.

Hah!  I've got you beat on that tale.  A couple of years ago a women was
gored by a buck's antlers when the deer ran straight through the
windshield of her car while she was driving on site at night.  She was
killed.  Does it get any worse than _this_?


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