HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: infernal janitor
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
	<92Aug21.011138.27640@acs.ucalgary.ca>
	<whitlock.85.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu>
	<92Aug25.140931.16580@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:54:13 GMT

In article <92Aug25.140931.16580@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:

   The dog in question, in the context of young Lawrence's post, was
                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   the janitor himself. As in "that dirty dog".

Why, thanky, Sonny. I always said, "you're as young as ye feel!". And as
James Brown once said,

	"Owwwwww!!! Ah feeeeel GOOOoood!!"

Peeve: People who think I'm old. Just because I lost all my middle hair. 
       And I can't see so well. And my hearing has faded a little. And my
       muscular manly chest fell. And I don't like rap music. And I'm
       on my fourth mortgage. And my sex drive is tapering off. And I'm
       occasionally afflicted with CRS. And my driving is not as sexy as
       it used to be. And I stopped riding the Husky three years ago. And
       I was class of '65. And I sold the Porsche in '90. And I call the
       wife CO instead of SO. And I like my Munsingwear briefs. And I
       ain't bought a new stereo in ten years. And..

	(..)
	 ~~
L.
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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 20:42:14 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <l9pv52INNkfr@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1992Aug26.142644.13539@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com 
|> (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|> 
|> >Oh please.  This is hardly peeve fodder at all.  My grandparents up in the
|> >north Georgia mountains were named William Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Cochran.
|> 
|> Yeah, I saw them in Deliverance.  <duck>

Damn. And here I was secure in the belief that *nobody* had ever seen that
movie.

Peeve: Deliverance.  What a grotesque movie.  And it was lauded as one of
the best things ever made.  I don't get it.

|> When I was in junior high, I knew this family whose four daughters had
|> neames all ending in -een: Doreen, Colleen, Noreen, and one more that I
|> forget.  Fittingly, they were all a pain in the ass.  

I had a friend in school named Dexter.  His siblings were named Duriece,
Darren and Devane.  I think it was the drugs.

|> I don't understand why parents would go for a common theme with their
|> kids' names -- or follow any particular pattern or tradition, for that
|> matter.  Kids are individuals, and their names should reflect that.  

Yeah, like the editor of our high school annual when I was a freshman:
Tarp Head.  Really. That was his name.  Now *there* was an individual. 
I also knew a girl in school named Nita Rape.  Not kidding.  Even the most 
brain-dead of parents must have known how that sounded.  Nita got married 
about two days after she graduated and changed her last name to something 
a bit less, um, unusual.  Wonder why?

Peeve: Brain-dead parents who would inflict anything even remotely resembling
things like this on a defenseless infant.  I have a cousin named Tommi who
married a guy named Tommy, but that was their own choice.

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From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 13:35:40 GMT
Organization: Wild Weasel Lingerie

In article <la8pp0INNkee@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>
>It isn't so much that things go in the drawers, but that the
>*potential* exists.  Actually, the time has come to put together
>another little set of drawers, since my video tape collection has
>increase at nothing short of staggering rates.

Peeve: The *very week* that !Al and I post about the dangers of falling
into the "organized for your dubious convenience" trap, banta explains
how he's gonna make another set of drawers for his stuff.

Yeah, sure, right now it's just "another *little* set of drawers" [emphasis
is mine], but soon it's gonna be another set, and another set. I see a
disturbing pattern of drawer dependency forming. I think it's time to
seek professional counseling before it takes over your life.

Fact: Three out of four homeless people couldn't deal with the pressure
of organizing their videotapes in a meaningful manner.

-- 
"I used to be an extravert until I decided I hated people. I hate parties,
I hate classes and I hate going to the supermarket."  --Melissa Paterson
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From: nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly)
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:09:09 GMT

jc@apple.com (JC) writes:

>In article <1992Aug26.040929.21530@cs.umb.edu>, mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S. Zraly) writes:

>> Yes but the "normal" names are truly being mangled.  My godson's name is
>> "Kristofer" for chrissake, and that's no misprint!
>> 

>What's up with this?  I have a neice named Rebekke (traditional German spelling,
>I'm told) -- pronounced like Rebecca...  Sigh...  Poor kid, her name is going
>to be misspelled her whole life.

>-jc

My cousin has a two year old son named Graeme.  You pronounce it Graham.
It's supposed to be the Scottish way of spelling it.  Let's see some 
nearsighted bluehaired polyester stretch-pants (tm somebody) adorned old
biddy of a teacher spell that right all through the school year.

-- Mark
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings(was alt.alien.visitors)
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:18:28 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <l9nnqoINNifp@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.192259.26464@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
>(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>>peeve: coffee breath.
>BiggerPeeve: Morning Fecal Mouth.
>Geoff


Thanks, dear. Now I don't have to worry about when I am going home
to eat dinner.

Peeve: Stomachs. I really don't have time to cook or eat. I am not a
bigtime chowhound and the only reason I am not a stick is that I am
a Social Creature who often meets friends at restaurants.

I wish I could contrive to send nutrients directly into my system so
I don't have to wash dishes.

Peeve: Needing sleep. Argh.

!Peeve: If I am going to have a stomach, at least they've invented
coffee and chocolate to put in it.

ER

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From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: own private idaho
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:16:48 GMT

In article <la7lhlINNjv@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.130847.1919@umbc3.umbc.edu> potler@umbc4.umbc.edu 
>(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>>peeve: you get your hair cut over the weekend (3 inches off) and monday
>>	morning somebody greets you with "my, your hair's getting long".
>
>Another haircut-related peeve is that after I make a point of combing my 
>hair the way I prefer to wear it before I let the stylist proceed, they 
>all want to wet it down and comb it back over the top of my head, which
>results in a completely different look than the one I had when I walked in.

yetanotherhaircutpeeve: the time before last, i went into this ohsochic
	salon [mistake #1] to get my hair cut. the cutter put no less than
	5 hair products in my do. this did not include the shampoo and 
	conditioner.

relatedpeeve: big hair.

oblucy:
	"vinegar... to marinate the scalp...
	 oil... to lubricate the scalp..."


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From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:55:07 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <17558@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>In article <+6dng=r@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>
>[Dan bravely battles a Black Widow spider with paper towels]
>
>>Albuquerque: Where Death lurks behind the bathroom sink.
>>Whoops, hope Booter doesn't read this post...
>
>Black widows have nothing on Irish divorcees.

You don't find dozens of Irish divorcees around your lawn.  The Hilton
swimming pool, maybe, but not the average lawn.

ObBlackWidowStory: we used to collect 'em around the lawn.  We had
medium sized rocks all around the lawn and the BW webs were pretty
thick. 25% Diazinon knocked 'em back, but couldn't take 'em out.  The
only thing that did a good job of removing them was the lawn trimmer.

The lawn trimmer used a solid nylon line that was spun using a
smallish electric motor.  This line, when spun near a web almost
always produced a curious spider - they'd come out looking for the
buzzing fly, only to be splattered by a nylon line moving at a couple
hundred miles/hour.  It was a glorious mess, sort of a technicolor
effect.

Peeve: lunch with the lawyer and accountant trying to explain to a
partner that 100,000 isn't and never will be 1,000,000 no matter how
many times one counts it, and that it isn't a good idea in any case to
give it away without counting it first.  All on antihistimines and
other creative chemicals disassociating me from this reality.  I think
I had a Cajun chicken sandwich but I can't remember.

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From: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Contest!
Keywords: Losers
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:18:11 GMT
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Up the,

That's right, a contest!  With a winner, a prize, losers and everything.
Answer the question correctly, and, if your answer is the first I receive
via e-mail, you'll have your choice between two swell prizes.

I realize, that with the vagueries of the internet and speed of transmission
of e-mail, not to mention the tremendous time zone differences involved,
or the fact that our limey friends seem to be off the net, that this contest
could in no way be considered fair.  C'est la vie.  

Why a contest?  Well, because I'm bored and Peevetown has been really
dead lately.  I expect my home village to keep me better entertained.

The prizes: each contestant should include with his or her entry a preferance
between the two great prizes.

Prize1: A .sig file created for you personally.  Matched to your net persona,
        laboriously researched, and lovingly key punched.  

Prize2: Perhaps even more valuable than prize1, a cheesey postcard from 
        Oregon, a purgatory for tourists from around the world.  
        Contestants should be sure to include a realmail (tm) address.

The Question:    

(I'll let the suspense build.)


What was the name of Nick and Nora Charles' dog?


(Anti-climactic, wasn't it?)

Remember, speed is of the essence.  

If anyone replies, or wins, I will post the answer after my afternoon meeting.

ObBob:  DeNiro

Bonus question for the winner:
If the the winning entry includes a correct answer to the bonus question,
I will send off the $30 (That's right $30) prize before I leave next weekend.

Bonus question:  I have, in the past months, included every well known ObBob
                 except one.  Name the most famous omitted Bob for $30.

(You think I'd make a $30 question easy?)


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  tim@physics.orst.edu      |    -Julius Caesar on Cleopatra
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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (David Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 11:18:06 GMT
 <1992Aug31.234159.331@hhcs.gov.au> <1992Aug31.235224.27677@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
 <1992Sep1.141521.334@hhcs.gov.au>
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Sep1.141521.334@hhcs.gov.au>, Carl Makin writes:

> In article <1992Aug31.235224.27677@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> 
> >> A major result of power is the unthinking arrogance displayed by
> >> said country's leaders
>  
> > No, sirree.  Our arrogance is professionally designed and
> > mathematically calculated.  
> 
> I see, a carefully crafted cover of blatant bastardry to the rest
> of the world.
>  
> >>which is ingrained into it's citizens by a greedy and parochial
> >>media.
>  
> > Oh?  So what's Rupert Murdoch, then?  Perhaps a little less
> > parochialism would be in order.
> 
> Murdoch's a Yank.  An immigrant from Aus to the US true but now a
> Yank.  Like Greg Norman, Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen.

Peter Allen's dead, Carl.

Oh, I see, you were alluding to the state of the other
new-murricans. Carry on ...

[How's your pink spangled zorch suit holding out, eh? :-)]

Dac
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From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: The evils of particleboard (Re: Self-Assembly )
Date: 2 Sep 1992 07:06:43 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

In article <17561@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>One day, I decided to make a nightstand. It cost 11 dollars. I balked
>at making a drawer. I just could not figure it out, so there is a hole

You cheat.  You go to Orchard Supply and buy a set of drawer rails.
If you use the "shop quality" or some such nonsense, they probably
won't fall apart before the wood is old and mouldering.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
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If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
This, my son, is entropy."
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From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: own private idaho
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:10:14 GMT

larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:

>   >Peeve: My Radical Liberal Left tendencies are approximately porportional 
>   >       to the length of my hair. 
>
>Right after I get it cut, I start thinking that Rush Limbaugh is making
>some sense. After a couple of days, however, I'm back to reading George 
>Wills again.

	I guess I'm the only one with hair flowing down my back who does
think Rush Limbaugh makes sense (at least on his political analysis).  I
really do like listening to Rush -- he's the only radio show that isn't
to the left of center in the spectrum, and I just have to like a guy with
that much arrogance considering who he's up against.  Besides, I _love_
the Animal Rights Update theme song.

	Question: did Slick Willy get his nickname for his political
maneuvers or for the probable results of his bed-hopping?  I've *got*
to ask Rush to speculate on this.


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<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
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From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Albuquerque: City of Pain and Death
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 12:24:57 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <+6dng=r@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>MorningPeeve: I crawled out of bed this morning and stomped over to brush
>my teeth, and there was a black widow spider hanging out by the hot water
>faucet. I mashed it with two paper towels, but just before I did it, I
>had a wonderful picture flash through my mind of going through convultions
>in the hospital emergency room while two interns drank coffee and laughed
>about the moron who squished a black widow with a couple of paper towels.
>
>Albuquerque: Where Death lurks behind the bathroom sink.
	And right outside my front door and in the kitchen and in the
shower and...and...and... These damn spiders are everywhere. 

!Peeve: This summer our house has been completely insect free. I suspect
the booming spider population has something to do with it. They'd better
be careful, lest they over hunt the area and starve to death. I'm sure
there are a lot of bugs over at the neighbors house. I wish they'd go
look for the rest of the year.

	One of the most traumatic experiences of my life was when I was
3 and my brother had just learned to walk. We were out in the garage and
a huge black widow spider decided to hunt down the 2 little kids. The damned
thing cornered us and we barely escaped with our lives. A great screaming
racket from the 2 of us brought Dad with his Thundering Hammer of Spider
Slaying to save us.  This wasn't in Abq, but ties in with the Evil Spider
theme of this article.
	I don't think I have ever been so scared in all my life.  Not even 
the time our neighborhood was being destroyed by a tornado.

>Whoops, hope Booter doesn't read this post...
	If she actually stays at a hotel up on Central, she'll have a
lot more to worry about than a few spiders. This is the only place in
the world where I have been propositioned as a hooker, by a hooker, as
a pimp and as a drug dealer. All in the middle of the day, while walking
someplace seedy, like school or the bank. The only thing left is for
a drug dealer to try to get my to buy something. 

!Peeve: 7-11 has specials on my favorite drug. I have even won a few free 
doses during there current promotional game. The day caffeine becomes a 
controlled substance, is the day I become a Coke runner from the illegal
bottling plants in South America.

-- 
Chris Baldwin                | Robert Johnson invented the pickle! 
baldwin@carina.unm.edu       |                         - Adam Reid
          If I were a carpenter I'd hammer on my piglet. -- TMBG
From: eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Birds
Keywords: Birds
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:57:42 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

tchau@athena.mit.edu (Terry Chau) writes:

>Only for bird enthusiasts, but then again, you might learn from this...

>The familiar "Pigeons" of New York City and Boston and other metropolitan areas
>are not, I repeat NOT, called "pigeons"!!!  According to my trusty old Peterson
>Field Guide to Eastern/Central Birds and the ornithological union which decides
>the official scientific and common names of birds (I forget what the union is
>called) and all the other bird literature I've read says that the pigeon is
>actually called the:  ROCK DOVE!  Rock doves belong to the family Columba, which
>also includes Mourning Doves, White-Crown Doves, and other birds.  Not that you
>really care, but I'm not sure where the word "pigeon" comes from.  If you do,
>please do respond.


Well whatever they are they are a pain here.   They are large, grey-coloured,
and dumb.   The tanks of the UK bird world.   They are also oversexed, 
spend hours going 'woo' on window ledges early in the morning trying to
attract a mate, and produce huge nests full of small baby pigeons
endlessly screaming for food.    They are good for nothing
except skittering around underfoot and starting into frantic clumsy
flight in front of your face.   They scatter feathers, dust, mites,
pigeon droppings along every ledge and every pavement and spend all
their time in search of bits of food offered to them by dumb tourists
who should know better.    We have dog collectors to keep stray dogs off
the street - why the heck we don't have pigeon collectors to keep the
streets clear of this lot I've no idea.    Personally I'm trying to
persuade my friendly butcher to diversify.....

Only one stage up from them are Seagulls - once upon a time these were
delightful birds only ever seen at a distance of a mile or so up in the
sky silhouetted against dark storm clouds illuminated by a sudden gleam
of sunlight as they flew in at sunset to feed in some remote farmer's
field.    Now - it's a takeover.    Where have they all suddenly come 
from?    They fight the local birds for food. 
They nest on rooftops.   They perch on chimney pots and scream
obscenities at every hour of the day threatening anyone who approaches
them with a visciously hooked yellow beak.    -  Well, actually these
are herring gulls rather than seagulls but it doesn't matter.   Jonathan
Livingston it is not!

Maybe Nature will eventually get round to reorganising things one day
and there will be a huge increase in numbers of birds of prey.   Hawks
or Merlins - now those are interesting birds!  


jill
From: mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Family Values
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:18:22 GMT
Distribution: alt.peeves

In <LARRY.92Aug26162957@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:

>OldFogyPeeve: Curmudgeon me! Guns N Roses are setting up a quarter mile
>              from here and I *couldn't care less*. A sure sign of old-
>              fartedness.

MusicPeeve:  Or maybe this should be a _not_MusicPeeve:
	     Guns N Roses.  Yeesh.  You'd think they could at least
		find a _singer_, wouldn't ya?  

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