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From: n029gg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Adam Roach)
Subject: Re: REALLY NEAT0 ASCIII PICS!
Organization: ~/lib/organization
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:48:19 GMT


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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: randy@rdr.com (Randy Tidd)
Subject: Smart Girls (Was: fat smelly boyfriend)
Reply-To: randy@rdr.com (Randy Tidd)
Organization: RDR, Inc.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:20:39 GMT

In article <17725@acorn.co.uk> ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:
> Incidentally, what is a smart(tm) girl?

Okay I'll take a stab at this.

I don't think it's intelligence really -- it's mannerisms and self  
confidence.  If a woman (or anyone really) carries themselves with  
self-confidence and isn't afraid to think what they want and say what they  
think, that to me is extremely attractive.  It just so happens that a lot  
of smart women (people) have these traits, though not always.  Not all  
smart people are confident, and not all confident people are smart.

In day to day activities, I see a fair number of people that I'm  
"attracted" to -- you know, "she has a cute smile" or "she has a nice  
body" or "she looks really good today".  But it's very rare that I see  
someone and think "she is attractive, and appears to be smart and  
confident, and is clever and doesn't fold when under pressure, and has the  
guts to smile and be friendly to strangers, and..."  These are the people  
that I tend to like.

Most people are weak, or scared, or self-conscious, or insecure, or  
selfish, or all of the above, which I think is very UNattractive.

Randy
"Summer means random shootings."
			- Rollins
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: horntho@eng.auburn.edu (Thomas J. Horn)
Subject: Re: New Job Angst
Reply-To: horntho@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:49:35 GMT

> Probably...the number of people here who play golf(and who tend to slip out for a round or two
> on a day like today) is pretty frightening.  I do okay but I wouldn't want to hang my next 
> promotion on a game with the boss...On the plus side, I'm back into programming. 

But how are you gonna get promoted anyway if the slimeball isn't there? Maybe YOU'RE supposed to be the boss now...

---Tom




Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score update)
In-reply-to: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 15:34:17 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
	<1992Aug18.005156.1791@utkux1.utk.edu>
	<1992Aug18.153417.16668@utkux1.utk.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 12:36:12 EDT

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

>	    Radioactive
>	    Wildlife
>Los Alamos   N/A
>Brookhaven   N/A
>Oak Ridge    x (frogs,
>	     anything 
>	     herbivourous)

Well, at Los Alamos you do get spiders and insects the size of a Geo
Metro crawling through the lab buildings late at night. And as of a
few weeks ago there was a coyote trying to eat the occasional
bicyclist. Never thought of holding a Geiger counter up to any of 'em,
though.

Oh, and lizards with bright blue tails. Do these occur naturally?

Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:05:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.035414.2613@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> steve@cse.fau.edu (Steve Smith) writes:
>This was a message I sent via e-mail but I think it belongs here.

[discussion of lovely McDonald's service-bot deleted]

>There should be coffee houses and bookstores and cool places to eat and meet!
>What is not clear around here is that college is *so* *much* *more* than
>classes, professors, and finals.  I don't know how I know this but I do.
>I need to go to boston or chicago or CA or somewhere where there is some
>culture--some people under 80!!!  Thank god I only have 3 more years...
>I am counting the days and I will be working my ass off to go somewhere
>where I can feel at home--where I can live.

Oh boy, have I got some bad news for you.  It's very likely that you'll
end up having to work somewhere else and you'll still be saying the same
thing: "I wish I was somewhere where I felt at home.  Somewhere I can
live".  It's the big dilemma of the Big Job.  Gotta go where the job is!
(Don't count on it being somewhere that you like.)  You're giving up
your own free will.  You will no longer be allowed to determine where
you want to live.  Your job will make that determination for you.


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Schroeder	                |  Warning: prolonged exposure to this
schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov         |  .sig may cause retinal damage and 
Brookhaven National Laboratory  |  blistering skin rashes. 
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala )
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:40:52 GMT

nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov) writes:

>machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala ) writes:


>>                                    Anyway, a person (any sex) who can whip
>>out a ten-dimensional superstring has no business changing the oil in a car.
>>that's what epsilons are for. I've met plenty of EE PhD's who can't change
>>a light bulb or program a VCR. Not that they can't do it, it JUST DOESN'T 
>>INTEREST THEM! OH! OH!

>>                                 ROMANES
>>                                 EUNT 
>>                                 DOMUS
>>Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments

>Pardon my ignorance in latin, Chuck. It's been a long time since I had
>my latin classes and it's not easy to keep up with a dead language if
>you read and write in 4 others. But is that supposed to mean:

>                                   ROMANS
>                                   DON'T EAT (EAT NOT)
>                                   DONUTS
>                                    ???
it means "People called Romanes they go the house" rather poor grammar
from Brian in "Life of Brian".
--
                                 ROMANES
                                 EUNT 
                                 DOMUS
Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments
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: Fri, 14 Aug 92 07:17:00 GMT

dave budd (zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk) wrote:

(my stuff that you just read deleted)
: 
: Oh dear.  I used to spend hours choosing synonyms so as to get full 
: justification for documentation (now I just avoid writing anything)
: So it looks like I'm an anal retentive.  I used to be able to get to the 
: loo, do the biz, and get back to the TV in the ad break.  Is that a symptom 
: as well? 
: The real reason is I REALLY HATE those extra spaces a formatter 
: puts in, and the 'higher-ups' wouldn't allow a ragged right-hand side, which 
: is what I'd normally do.
: 

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.
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.

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
SAAB - Because you get what you pay for.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: alt.angst angst
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:28:40 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

hmmm. it's weird to have angst about angst, but this group inspires
it. after six years of calling bulletin boards all over texas and
never hesitating to express opinions loudly on just about anything, i
find myself having a hard time jumping in on this newsgroup. 

some of it's a feeling that new angsters aren't wanted or encouraged.
private club, go 'way. of course, since i tend to think of everything
from the university to the local safeway as private clubs that really
don't want me...

it's not the netted aspect; i've been hanging out on wwivvnet for
quite a while. i spose it's just the whole here i am offering myself
up to the judgment of another bunch of vaguely cool strangers, with no
way to tell what's gonna happen as a result. will anyone notice? does
it really matter? 

maybe i should just continue my lurker life, reading the group and
then hanging out in my little apartment with my cats and my life <which
includes two people who love me deeply but won't date me, a weird
family, far too much bbsing, a lesbian friend with a crush i don't
return, the eternal job hunt, and the aforementioned cats).

but it seems like it would be more interesting to be involved. so here.

i don't like caps and i rarely fix my typos. it's a matter of
principle.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"consciousness is far more terrifying than any unconscious complexes."
					-- mikhail bakhtin
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:22:40 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992Aug18.005156.1791@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>Should a frog "hop" into or be found in your area you should:
>1)  Contact health physics and have the frog checked for radioactivity.
>2)  Return the frog to the 3524 retention pond if it is alive.
>3)  Manage the frog as radioactive waste if it is dead and found by
>    health physics to be emitting detectable levels of radiation.

In the english Lake District we don't have to check the frogs for 
radioactivity, we just count the legs: more than 4, don't eat it.
There used to be a band calling themselves "Windscale Frogs", but
TheAuthorities renamed the place "Sellafield" and it didn't rhyme.

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
|           It all depends on the size of your ham sandwich           |
|  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44)061-275-6033  |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: New Job Angst
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:20:19 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug13.014935.17268@news.duc.auburn.edu> horntho@eng.auburn.edu writes:
>> Probably...the number of people here who play golf(and who tend to slip out for a round or two
>> on a day like today) is pretty frightening.  I do okay but I wouldn't want to hang my next 
>> promotion on a game with the boss...On the plus side, I'm back into programming. 
>
>But how are you gonna get promoted anyway if the slimeball isn't there? Maybe YOU'RE supposed to be the boss now...

Oh I've ALWAYS been the boss, its just that some people have yet to reconcile their view
of reality with mine... :)

---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: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:44:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.063522.28774@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>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?  

It depends...I guess I'd have to see some more detailed info on it, like a 
White Paper or something. You might have to get the Bah portion of it licensed
from Rachel, since it sounds like you're working off her prior art. 
And you'd have to license the Turbo part from me since I think I first mentioned
it last week(EmbeddedAngst:I'd quote the posting but our NaziNewsTransportProto
col has its expire set real short, so I probably won't be able to prove it, thus
leaving me wide open to cheap knock-offs of my Angst Expression Technology)

Other than that sure...no problem :)

---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: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Dead City Angst
Keywords: Perth Australia Location
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:55:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.143553.20233@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
[...]

> You should hear what Oak Ridge physics wives say about the place.

"Fuck you, I'm leaving"?


-----

The worst place I've lived (so far) was a small town in Arizona, near
Flagstaff.   I had no car, so I was stuck.  There's no punks, goths, hippies
or people who can carry on a conversation more complicated than
"where's the beer?"  Anyone who had any brains left the town as
soon as possible.

There's three bars in town: the indian/mexican bar, which you DON'T go
into unless you're mexican or indian, or have a large mexican or indian
friend (well, they'd let me in at 7 am for a pre-work beer but only
because they were empty otherwise) the tourist bar, and the cowboy
bar.  The tourist bar was a waste, you'd get people from Oklahoma
or wherever who were stuck in town for the night and would get drunk
and ask you stupid questions.  So all the locals avoided it.  That
left the cowboy bar.  Since the only pool table was in the
mexican/indian bar, there was nothing to do at the cowboy bar except
get drunk and fight.  And try to screw each other's wives.  I lived
across the main street from the cowboy bar, and I could almost set my
watch by the fights that started at midnight every night.


Yeeha.


--
            Eric Murray                 ericm@microunity.com
In this game, the winner is also the loser, and the judge's decisions are final
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 07:56:47 GMT
Reply-To: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit)
 <1992Aug17.135341.20729@linus.mitre.org> 
 <1992Aug18.225029.8617@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> <1992Aug19.101901.498@acme.gen.nz> <1992Aug21.010732.18037@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:

> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>
> >hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
> 
> >> 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.
> >
> >So how come she's depressed. C'mon man, we need *answers*!
> 
> Well, she's failing half her courses, she can't afford to leave home, and her
> eight siblings all have personal vendettas against her.

Now that's depressing! In fact, sounds an awful lot like angst to me, but
real-world "hello, I'm The Void and I'm not here to help you" angst, not this
relationship stuff.

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Rebel without a grant (was fat, smelly)
In-reply-to: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:09:52 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
	<17861@acorn.co.uk> <RSHOLMES.92Aug19123132@rodan.syr.EDU>
	<1992Aug20.000952.7486@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 12:31:20 EDT

In article <1992Aug20.000952.7486@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>BZZZT.  Liters are bigger than AMERICAN quarts.  Liters are smaller than
>IMPERIAL (British, viz. Pommie) quarts.  

Ohhh, IMPERIAL quarts. I see. Well, sheesh, if you're not going to
talk in metric, why can't you talk in the system of units that's
preferred by 1 out of every 200 nations on Earth?

ObAngst: Half-metric days when I convince myself that 120 inches is 12
feet.
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:30:42 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992Aug13.050339.16177@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:

>Interesting....On my terminal anyway, this whole thing is both left and right
>justified.  We are obviously dealing with a seriously anal retentive type here,  
>if he composes his notes to line up such.  Obviously, there is an obsessive-
>compulsive aspect to our dear Kristoph that he needs to work through.

Oh dear.  I used to spend hours choosing synonyms so as to get full 
justification for documentation (now I just avoid writing anything)
So it looks like I'm an anal retentive.  I used to be able to get to the 
loo, do the biz, and get back to the TV in the ad break.  Is that a symptom 
as well? 
The real reason is I REALLY HATE those extra spaces a formatter 
puts in, and the 'higher-ups' wouldn't allow a ragged right-hand side, which 
is what I'd normally do.


+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  The trouble with having an open mind is that people come along and |
|  put things in it.   {attribution? I nicked it from Readers Digest} |
|  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44)061-275-6033  |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jeff McAffer)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Reply-To: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Organization: Dept. of Infomation Science, University of Tokyo.
	<1992Aug12.173356.24284@utkux1.utk.edu>
	<1992Aug13.161152.17612@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
	<1992Aug14.185247.22624@utkux1.utk.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:30:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.185247.22624@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

 >I think the most shocking thing I have noticed in TN is how out of touch
 >with reality people here are. They actually believe it's the Garden of 
 >Eden.  

"out of touch with reality"?  Who's reality?  Of course they are out
of touch with your reality! Aren't we all?  If they believe it is the
Garden of Eden then it IS (to them).  That is all that counts.  Gad,
in the "reality" of which you speak, people don't know what they are
or where they are, what they want.  They spend large parts of their
lives just waiting for someone to come along and tell them what they
should want, be, do.

I just visited the Philippines.  Great country!  Poor as shit.  Open
sewers, guns, corruption, every natural disaster (floods, earthquakes,
volcanos, typhoons, despotic dictators) happens in the Philippines.
Not to over generalize but the people still smile, they still have a
good time, they laugh and from time to time they seem to enjoy
themselves.  Sure there are difficulties, it may seem like a 'hard' or
'menial' life but that makes it no less of a life, no less valid.  I
think traffic jams are stupid and people who sit in them for hours a
day are stupider.  Does that mean I invalidate their lives?  No!

 >But to everyone I know from out of state, it is a Hellhole.  Some
 >are more discreet about complaining that I am, so that the locals don't
 >suspect.  But almost everyone I know from out of state has as his or
 >her primary goal, getting out.  And also, not so surprizingly, people from
 >out of state have only minimal interactions with the natives, and those

The same thing happens here.  Foreigners don't mix.  It is really sad
because in reality, the differences and barriers are really
superficial.  Like who wants to talk about superstrings at a party
anyway?  Sure I would rather talk about something other than gas caps
and beltching (thats for the TN crowd) but if we are so smart, why
can't we solve this simple social problem of finding a common
denominator?  You really have to fight the idea that people who sound
dumb are dumb (or uninteresting...).

 >A theory
 >floating around the physics department is that the state was settled by people
 >whose wagon wheels broke one the way west, and they were not smart enough
 >to fix them.  

Having said all I said above, it may just be a fact of life (or
evolution) that this does explain TN.  I once saw a comedian talking
about when baby boys are born in TN, the doctor will say, "Yup, that's
a fine lookin gas station attendent you got there maam".

--
atode, |m         -- Rockin' tunes empty my head and fill my soul!
                     Art!!  Is that you in there?!
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