HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Organization: Sensitive Guys Martial Arts and Gun Club
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 06:50:07 GMT

 banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>
>I'm 6'6", son.  Just because Geoff Miller is 6'2" and you look up to
>him, don't assume that's true of everyone you look up to.

	I think it is high time some GIF's were posted to this group,
specifically JZ, drew, Geoff, and the rest of those Californicators
who spend inordinate amounts of time making me laugh.

	No, really!  Geoff is 6'2"??!?!?!  I would have thought him to
be a 5'8" 155lbs compu-geek with a slightly balding pate and a full
"Unix-guru (tm)" beard, with hair slightly past the collar but not so
long as to be an inconvenience and blowing into his face.  As for you,
Drew, 242lbs isn't (you'll pardon the expression) that big a deal when
you are 6'6" -- I'm 5'9" and 175lbs (usually, though this may vary from
165 to 185lbs depending upon what I've done that day), and I am hardly
what people might consider "fat" or even "stocky."

	As for the various cabals around the world, I think Claudio
(though I'm sure Interpol has a pic of him already), Babs, Steve, and
the rest of the *major poasters* on here (that includes you, dak,
though you inherently agree to allow us to make fun of your rotund
presence in the middle of a barren wasteland) really deserve not
only the extra recognition a GIF would provide, but it would
undoubtedly allow all of us to recognize each other the next time
we gather at the Hiney Winery in beautiful downtown Des Moines, Iowa
for a PeeveFest.  Remember, Hiney -- the All-American wine in the
flip-top can.  "Go for all the Hiney you can grab!" I always say.

	Anyway, what is the concensus?


--
<Daniel R. Sorenson   Dod #1066  |If Iowa State University agreed with me >
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu <- work |I'd make $90K/yr.  They don't, I don't. >
<viking@iastate.edu      <- play |"I am *not* goofing off.  I am driving  >
< myself mercilessly in the pursuit of relaxation." -- T. Weeds           >
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Magazine (zasshi) peeve
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 03:33:06 GMT

Peeve:  A full bladder
!Peeve: Few things in life are quite so pleasuresome as emptying a full bladder.

Now on to the feature peeve:
Thanks to Booter, I went out and bought the latest copy of that decidedly
anti-male magazine Spy.  Check it out, guys.

Peeve:  From a man's perspective, meeting up with one of those "patented
        devices" described in the Willie Smith article sidebar.

That's all I'll say.  Go buy a copy for yourself.  The famous-people pictures
alone are worth the cover price.  The Bunny Burger article was good for a
chortle or ten.

(Note about .sig:  It is indeed the Rodriguez brothers.)
--
"Wow!  That was intense!"
"A repo man's always intense." - after car chase with (hispanic) brothers
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:47:05 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Apr8.040803.24061@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> 
bberbeni@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:

>Really fat women have darkened skin/ callouses on their buttocks 
>where the skin has chafed together over the decades.  

Really?  I always thought those were shit stains.


>Same is probably true with their luscious thighs.  Oh baby.
>Time to go punish Cap'n Blinky now at the mere thought of it.

Last night I dreamed I got it on with Golda Meir.  It added a
whole new wrinkle to my sex life!



Geoff


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From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:49:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.q=sj4xc.rickg
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <10237@cernvax.cern.ch> Steve Bougerolle writes:

>In <x7rj#1.rickg@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
>
>>"Primary relationship partner"?  God help us, it's another jackalmouthed
>>obfuscatory euphemism, and one I've never seen before.  PRP.  Pronounced
>>in moments of abandoned passion "pirp", presumably.
>
>Well, I don't know, Rick.  I like that one more than SO, myself.  SO sounds
>incredibly cumbersome and obnoxious to me.  PRP, on the other hound, could
>be pronounced "porp" which has a pleasant sound to it, and best of all
>rhymes with "pork."  So you can say things like "within 48 hours I'm going
>to pork my porp."

"Porp" rhymes with "pork"?  Not in any Earth language that I know.

I agree that SO is an abomination, but PRP is at least 50% worse,
no matter how you pronounce it.

And you pronounce it "pirp".  Dood.

>_|\ |V| /|_  Steve Bougerolle, U. of British Columbia Physics Dept.

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "A musicologist is a person who can read music 
rickg@netcom.com  |   but can't hear it." -- Sir T. Beecham
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Just One Jam-jar (was Re: Lust from afar)
Keywords: Sticky, end
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:45:35 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <kulchkINNpdt@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
Jenni Sheehey said;

>>I do have some white cotton panties, but my mother
>>bought them for me 5 years ago.  I only wear them when I haven't done my
>>laundry recently enough to have anything else that's suitable for daily
>>wear.  (Some of my underwear is, ah, meant to be removed quickly.)

>How unusual.  Most of my underwear is meant to prevent chafing.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you incontinent?

Boys' underwear is SAID to be meant to prevent chafing.  It's really
meant to prevent nasty accidents involving irate girlfriends and zips.  
Girls' underwear is SAID to be meant to prevent chafing.  It's really 
designed to catch all the drips.  As I am sure you are both aware,
you're just being coy.

>Have you ever considered
>black lights and flourescent body paint?

I can't think of anything more perfectly designed to produce a barf at
the climactic moment actually.  Tell me Andy, are you accustomed to
using vomit as a sexual lubricant?

>Take note, Al.  I didn't know what to tell you yesterday.  Just
>because Scottish accents got the "Jenni" facade's loins musky, I
>didn't want to make sweeping statements.

All Jenni needs to cure her of this strange obsession is a night in an
Edinburgh pub.  You see, all Edinburgh pubs come equipped with the Jimmy
unit.  It's as widespread a practice as using optics for spirits these
days.  The resident Jimmy (72-year old alcoholic homeless unshaven
dirty-raincoat-clad man/woman) is used to spot possible non-Scots and bore
them into leaving the pub by dribbling at them in an imbecilically
incomprehensible Glaswegion patois, punctuated with the occasional,
surprisingly lucid "fuckin' English* git" and frighteningly clear
demands for cash ("c'n yees speer a wee bi' o' cheenge fer a puir
haemless body?  Fuckin' English git" etc).

Particularly unfortunate victims of this kind of extortion are said to
have been "Jimmied".  Unfortunately, no-one ever comes to their aid; 
the victim becomes a social outcast for the evening and is steadfastly
ignored by his/her closest friends who have no wish to follow him/her in
the Jimmy's schedule.

*Please substitute appropriate nationality/Scottish football team supporter


>And I couldn't help but notice there was one point you glossed over
>entirely.  Would you like to share with us why you won't say whether
>you swallow or not?  You own stock in Kleenex corporation or
>something?

Of course, Andy, you are glossing over the fact that some of us don't
swallow.  We bite.  Hard.

Babs
From: tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Would Russ sell out?
Keywords: Losers
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:02:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: talon.1992Apr13.010207.9701
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services

I had a dream, and in that dream the tv was running.  A commercial
came on.  Someone was giving a heartfelt testimonial for a new
granola and carob cake.  I didn't pay much attention until the
announcer mentioned that we were listening to Russ Kepler!

The cake didn't look very good either.

I think I've either been reading the net too much or drinking an 
inappropriate amount.

ObBob: Crusoe

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Essene & Chinese birth controls must reduce birth or Easter Isle 
type overpopulation destroys God's Spaceship Earth!  God's law 
prevents all conception below pH3.  Therefore, Essene contracepted
for 400 yrs. with rosehips, pH2!  So, absolute clean, apply vaseline,
oil, butter, or cream, insert teaspoon juicy lemon pulp pH2. O.K.!
Next day douche with qt. soapy water pH8, restoring pH5 balance God
made!" 
				-- Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Soap
"Or you could use a condom." 
		              Tim Mefford (tim@physics.orst.edu) O.K.!
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: Amurrica (was Re: peeve dump)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 16:56:46 GMT

pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:

>Peeve: The fact that a nation full of people desperately trying
>to relive the nineteenth century (sometimes A.D. sometimes B.C.)
>still manages to remain an economic superpower and register 
>technological advances.

Gosh knows I want to join them.  I sure long for the days when polio
and the flu didn't just debilitate, they killed folks.  I abhor 
traveling quickly and efficiently and prefer traveling by horseback
or foot.  But the Paulster does have a bit of a point.

>Peeve: Reading this newsgroup gives the impression that the above
>nation is full of people obsessed with guns, whose attitude seems to
>be "don't leave home without one". Despite this, there remains some
>semblance of law and order over there, where a state of complete
>anarchy would appear to be well-deserved.

ObGunLaw:  If you shoot someone with the intention of killing them, you'll
           merely wound. 
           If you shoot someone with the intention of wounding them, you'll
           end up killing them.

Sarah Brady carries a handgun.  Do you?
--
"Wow!  That was intense!"
"A repo man's always intense." - after car chase with (hispanic) brothers
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.bizarre,soc.singles,talk.politics.guns
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Don't Blame Me, I tried....
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:15:52 GMT

ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
] ObWeapon: a drieuxified German compound word like "Fliegerabwehrkanone"
]           or "Sturtzkampffleugzeug."
] 
] ljd
] 
] ("anti-aircraft gun" and "dive bomber" for the German-impaired.)


1. why do you think they call it FLAK?

2. cogito, ergo Palamino: getting DesCarte Before DesHorse.

ciao
drieux


ps: had the KentralKommisariateForKorrectDuetch accepted
my original plan it would have been Called either FLiegerAbwehrKannone

or my personal favorite:

AusSkyFallenDownenPlaneSplatterenBoomenGrosseKannoneFurZurGreaterDefenseOfTheGrandAndGloriousFatherLandTheOneTrueDefenderOfAllCivilizationLikeOurBigHugeHumongousHeManManlyMaleMasculineThrobbingLordDominators.

Or ASFDPSBGKFZGDOTGAGFLTOTDOACLOBHHHMMMMTLD for short.

But you know how those BleedingHeartWimpLiberalTypes are.


next week "What I would have called the 'DiveBomber'. "


-- 
EOT 
No More Written InPut 
Why are you Looking Here?
From: banta@gilia.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:21:52 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: gilia

(Jenni "Shorts Season" Sheehey) writes:
>ObWierdness: Really fat people who wear shorts on the first day the
>temperature goes over 60F.  If I weighed, say, 250 lbs, I sure wouldn't
>be rushing the shorts season.  However, I've seen probably four of them
>today in shorts, and they were all female.  Go figure.

There are people on this list that can testify that I've been seen
wandering the beach area of Santa Cruz in January at midnight in
shorts.  Tie-dyed shorts.  I didn't feel wierd.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
Somehow, I have a problem taking a hurricane named "Bob" seriously ...
					-- Akkana Peck
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Quayle, bullies, 'n things (was Re: Lemon Gin, Rape)
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:27:01 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Apr9.190119@sees.bangor.ac.uk> mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk 
(Paul Mather) writes:

>I always thought listening was active and hearing was passive.


Yeah, I suppose that's a valid way of looking at it.  I was thinking more
along the lines that hearing is the mental process that results from
listening.


Geoff


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: GoodNews/BadNews
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 17:28:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.043428.7915@odin.corp.sgi.com> jillez@whizkid.corp.sgi.com
(Jill Zurschmeide) writes:
>or they ask if you'll take dope instead of cash,  and then of 
>course there are the ones who mistakenly believe that the girl
>delivering the pizza maybe also delivers the goods*, and so block
>your exit from the establishment...  
>
>Jill
>
>*  No, I didn't.  Ask JiZ if I do now.... 

Yeah, right.

Like my ambition in life has always been to live out my years in an iron
lung.  And that's assuming that you get to me before JiZ does! :v)

    don "discretion is the better part of valor" baldwin
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: Bush for (Ex)President in '92!
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 14:26:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia 
Followup-To: alt.peeves

In article <1992Apr8.225147.11431@odin.corp.sgi.com> Jeff Zurschmeide writes:

> [ ... ] Sorry if it intrudes on your leftist leanings.
>
> [ ... ] Sorry if it intrudes on your nice lifestyle.
>
> [ ... ] Sorry if it intrudes on your life expectancy.
>
> [ ... ] Sorry if that intrudes on your
> shirley-maclaine version of reality. 
>
> [ ... ] I see jiz running down your chin, though....sorry if Fat Frank
>broke your teeth. 

I don't doubt your sincerity for a moment, Jeff, but really: You don't
have to be so apologetic with Don.

Sometimes I fear sensitivity can be taken too far.

>JZ

-- 
Rick Gordon       |  "A musicologist is a person who can read music 
rickg@netcom.com  |   but can't hear it." -- Sir T. Beecham 
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: QuasiKrautFussing
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:42:11 GMT

sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>There really is a Donau Dampschiffahrtsgesellschaft, but I think they
>separate the name into 2 words as shown in this sentence.  Still
>pretty impressive once you tack "(-s)kapitaen" onto the end of it.

yes, there is; no, they don't; yes :-)
they usually wimp out, though, and abbreviate it to DDSG. 

i doff my cap to your correct elision of the third `f' in `schiffahrt'.
not too many people get this right.

>ObPeeve:  Languages (like English) without the guts to string
>6 nouns together into one word [...]

to coin a phrase: damn straight! :-)


-alex

-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
"we only question our worlds when they get out of hand" (seven sioux)
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: For the AviationallyChallenged
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:49:36 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Apr7.095124.24601@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>
>some Unfortunate sot, or nosy, was confused as to
>what a C-130 sounds like:


That was me.
>[The usual Doctor Bronner Soap rant deleted for brevity ]
>
>ObPeeve:PinHeads who have never hopped lifts in C-130's
>and their LowLifeScumBleedingHeartWimpLiberalKneeJerkBrainDead questions.


Excuse me, Mister Grammatically Impaired, but it can generally be
assumed that females are not often granted the opportunity to pilot
military planes.


Peeve: On-line manifestations of Tourette's Syndrome.

!Peeve: I can always log off and get a quiet beer somewhere.

ER

--
*"I mean it could make a big difference in your life if you thought that 
*you didn't need to depend on some musty old dogma thats riddled with
*translation problems, and started acting from the center of your own being."
*					-Owen Rowley
From: scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Jeffrey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:31:48 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <11031@autodesk.COM>, booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

> ones in his closet at home.) I had a flannel shirt with horses on it
> that I wore to death. It took about 4 years of wearing it once
> or twice a week to kill it. I suspect people were beginning to
> think I was a member of the Flannel Shirt With Horses on It Cult.
> 
> Peeve: The flannel shirt died.
> 

	Was it because you had to "put it down"?


ObPeeve:  Neckties that won't tie right on the first try.

scooter
"They shoot horses, don't they?"

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From: dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More Bitter Irony
Keywords: Losers
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:41:01 GMT
Organization: NASA GSFC CDP VLBI

In article <1992Apr13.004451.8436@talon.ucs.orst.edu> tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford) writes:
>
>     Although I'm sure the rest of you know, for Geoff's benefit;
>Sam Kinison was killed in a car accident this weekend.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 aka "The Screamin' Comedian"
>
>     The bitter irony comes in when hearing that Sam Kinison, who
>frequently vomited on stage from drunkeness, was involved in a drunk
>driving accident, and realizing that he wasn't the one who was drunk.
>Some high school kid in a pickup crossed the median.
>
>     I didn't particularly like him, but I am a devotee of irony.
>It seems that he had only been married for six days and was on the 
>verge of turning his life around, including his alcohol problem.
> 
And his last words were:

"AAAAAaaarrrgghghhghgh"

Well, Sam would have thought it was funny.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: Gif
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 23:15:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia 
Followup-To: alt.peeves

In article <1992Apr15.201155.13244@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Bill Berbenich writes:

>ahubbell@orlith.bates.edu (Arlyn Hubbell) writes:
>
>>Peeve:  Gifs.  Enough already!  Do you *really* think I care what you
>>        look like?  
>
>>- Arlyn
>
>Sorry.  I won't do it again.  (sure, bill)
>
>As far as anyone caring what I look like, I figure that the ones who do will
>take a look and the ones who don't will pass it by.

This response if far too conciliatory, Bill.

"FOAD", I say to you Arlyn Hubbell, and "FOAD!" a second time.  Bill here has
gone to some trouble, personal expense, and psychological risk to post a
reasonably accurate picture of himself (even if the pixels were the size of
walnuts and the file was five times bigger than it had to be, and, at the
end of the day, the pose *was* a trifle dorky), and you, Arlyn Hubbell,
have the bad manners to ask the readership a question none of us has the
time, interest, or metaphysical insight to answer!

FOAD!

>"Wow!  That was intense!" - Otto

-- 
Rick Gordon        |  "The more things change, the more different 
rickg@netcom.com   |     they get." -- S. Krishna of Copenhagen
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 23:52:41 EDT
From: Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: For Sale. Not!
 <s2vr7INNnh4@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU>

In article <s2vr7INNnh4@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU>, cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
says:
>
>In article <92100.193125MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> Norman St. John Polevaulter
><MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>Peeve: People who offer to sell or buy something over the Net. It's
>>something you want; you reply saying you want it. They reply, saying
>>"OK, it's yours. Send me your real address." You send it.
>>And at this point, the person you're selling to/buying from DROPS OFF
>>THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
>
>Like, duh.  I mean, what do you expect?  I do so hate to denigrate, but look,
>friend Polevaulter, don't you think there's a reason God created COD?

Tsk, tsk, friend Yarvin. I'm not THAT gullible. I was in fact referring to
stage of selling something over the Net in which you send someone your
real address. It is at THAT point that the addressee vanishes.

But rest assured, your request for clarification was DEEPLY appreciated.
(Snort!)

ObPeeve: SML and Prolog -- The Programming Languages from Hell.
Ob!Peeve: Star Blazers.

[Your blood pressure just went up.]       Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
 DISCLAIMER: Penn State cares about my money, not my opinions.
  "All my father wanted to do was make a toaster you could really set the
    darkness on -- and you perverted his work into those horrible machines!"
From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: peeve dump
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:51:59 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <mhart.702814459@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
>In <1992Apr8.170754.26248@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>>peeve: people who give away the right of way as if they're oh too
>>	polite to actually follow the laws.
>ObRelatedPeeve: people who have no clue as to what 'right of way' is,
>	how it works, what it's for, or frankly, that there are 
>	even other people on the friggin' road. 

ObEvenMoreIrritatingPeeve:  people who assume that, because it is their
right of way, they don't have to indicate.

"I don't have to indicate, I'm turning left.  Oh, why is that pedestrian
walking across the road I am about to turn into?  Why is she frowning at
me and lifting an extremely heavy-looking blunt object?  Why is she
aiming it straight at my windscreen?  You do get some funny people!"

Grr Grr Snarl Snarl.  

ObWeapon:  Neutron star.  Pretty dense blunt objects.  Hurled through
the windscreen at the speed of light.

Babs