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From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:21:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.054036.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>  writes:

> Hmph.  My bete noire has always been "Jason."  Since my youth the kids
> named Jason I knew have been brats, bullies, or both.  I have never
> grown to respect anyone named Jason, because the name seems so juvenile.
> 
> This, of course, predates the Friday the 13th movies.  I'm surprised none
> of the other peevers has stood up and recounted bad Jason experiences yet.

Here here ... I grew up with a "Jason" just a few doors down and he was all of  
the above.  I think he has mellowed out a lot since then, but it left a nasty  
impression on me.

For some reason, I have yet to hit it off with any girl/woman named "Kim".  ALL  
(not most, but *ALL*) the Kims I've met have been very conceited and rather  
bitchy (please, no flames).  It would take me a lot to be convinced otherwise.

Incidentally, real old fashioned, elderly names are very common among women in  
this part of the USA.  I've met many young Eleanors, Esthers, Blanches and  
Gertrudes.  Go figure.

--
   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
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From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Usenet Hell
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:17:14 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

>Saving the worst for last I found myself reading alt.peeves. The first article
>was about being chased by police while attending a Super-Gig at Stonehenge
>organised by the Frustrated Hippies of Great Britain, and featuring a three-
>hour set by Hawkwind. I looked at the signature and realised to my horror
>that it was written by me!!!

Fortunately, I already have the live tape of this gig in my collection.
Let me know if you want to trade for a copy.

Peeve: when the folks downstairs have a loud party until 3am.

BonusPeeve: and they don't invite me.

ExtraBonusPeeve: and what's more they were playing Hawkwind.

>-Jeremy Henderson          

FoFP
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From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings(was alt.alien.visitors)
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: McOlsen's Lutefisk Burgers -- one served.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:54:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.135532.7151@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:

>The only way to face the fact that you must be up at that Ghodawful hour is
>with coffee.

	Caffeine, the 100% natural replacement for sleep.

>Drunk "Black as midnight on a moonless night." (tm David Lynch)

	The phrase "Lights out in a coal mine" would describe my morning
stimulant.  I also find that a tablespoon of sugar dissolved in my pint-
sized mug increases the wake-up value.  The second cup gets rid of the
sugar taste, and I am *wide* awake in half an hour's time.

	Peeve: I've an 8:00am lab, which involves operating heavy machinery
and various industrial tools like lathes, milling machines, steel cutters,
and other implements of destruction.  Now you know why I want to be wide
awake very quickly in the morning.


--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<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: curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Fergiegate
Keywords: Losers
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:13:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.203454.19438@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
>
>        I think the choice for Queen would be an obvious one, Madonna.

How about Divine?

c
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: lies and unwanted urchins
Date: 4 Sep 1992 15:17:17 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>peeve: every time a sit com goes on the skids, some tv exec decides to add
>	a new child. [ ... ]
>	_married_with_children_ has become _married_with_more_children_. ew.

Have they really changed the name of the show?  Yech.  I didn't see
the most recent episode, since I spent the day helping Jack Poller
drag his shabby belongings across town that day.

That show and racing coverage is the only reason to have broadcast TV
at all.  The show is perfect: A portrayal of a dysfunctional family
that always ends a show in a worse situation than they started the the
show in.  Fuck happy endings.  Fuck resolving the world's ills in 30
minutes.  It's non-stop, pointless nasty attacks.

"Topeka!  I have found it."  - Kelly Bundy

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"If you add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
If you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
This, my son, is entropy."
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Sue Me
Keywords: "I sue *.*"
Date: 30 Aug 92 15:46:26 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Aug29.063822.1331@nmt.edu> proterin@nmt.edu (Paul Rotering) writes:
>In article <41dn0ch@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>>The most peevesome of these [billboards] is an entire series for a shyster
>>named Ron Bell. Like Elvis, Ron Bell is everywhere. He's on at least
>>five billboards in Albuquerque, and even has a sign in the airport. Each
>>of these signs bears his "scowling" face with the slogan "I sue drunk
>>drivers." 
>
>And then there's his competition.  I can't remember his name but 
>for every Ron Bell billboard there's another 50 meters down the road
>that reads "I defend DWIs."  They're somewhat reminiscent of an Amnesty
>International poster, depicting some poor slob handcuffed behind
>his back.  I believe the poor unfortunate is wearing a rumpled t-shirt
>and jeans.  Probably generates sympathy among the monster truck crowd...

The evening paper ran a photo that ran these two billboards together
as though they were next to one another.  The first thought I had was
that we should lock the 2 lawyers in a room together and let 'em have
it out, the winner to determine the proper course of action for the
both of 'em.

Then I decided that they were fucking scumball lawyers, and we should
shoot 'em both twice instead.

-- 
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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: The evils of particleboard (Re: Self-Assembly )
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:10:05 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <la71v9INNe6o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>(Dan Hillman) writes:
>[ mulings sympathetic to Al's and sonJa's pre-fab furniture plight ]
>
>It never ceases to amaze me that a collection a seemingly intelligent
>and creative people figure that some Taiwanese sweat shop can form the
>pieces to build elegant furniture so much better than they can.
>
[Banta demonstrates the ease and logic of home-built shelving]
>
>Peeve: "Furniture" made of particle board, pressboard, and stamped 20
>guage steel.


I concur. Particle board is disgusting. They use it for countertops,
slap formica on them and kiss 'em goodbye. 5 years later, you have
a plastic-coated mass of lichen and fungus that goes squoosh when you
set something heavy on them.

Lifting particle board is no fun for the gals with pool cue arms.
Fortunately, I own a handtruck and don`t move my two pieces of
furniture that involve particleboard very often. (The rest are rattan or
real wood).

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
in the front of the thing for a drawer. It is so sturdy (simple box joint
and glue) that I can park a lot of big computer stuff on it without fear.
I had an 11 dollar bookshelf too. Every time I moved, I took it apart
and reassmbled it. 


ER
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From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:20:07 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <l9puokINNkff@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>One of my coworkers is a guy named Duane.  People are always calling Duane
>"Geoff," and me "Duane."  It's not restricted to one or two people, either;
>it happens a lot.  I don't understand this, because although our offices
>are adjacent, we handle different segments of our department's business and
>we certainly don't look anything alike.  For one thing, he's from Michigan.

One of my partner's names is Scott.  Scott and I've worked together since
1978 and are now partners with another fellow in this business.

Other than working together for so long Scott and I really don't have
anything in common.  IN all of these years I've seen the inside of
Scott's house maybe 2-3 times.  He's seen mine a couple of times.  We
work together, that's it.

Scott is about 5'10", I'm 6'1".  Scott is slender and underweight, I'm
"robust" and overweight.  I'm a morning person, Scott would die rather
than see the dawn from the office.  I wear glasses, Scott has none.
Scott has rather dark hair (and more than his share on top), and my
hair is getting sparse and is pretty light.  Really, all we have in
common are that we're male and white (well, pinkish, really).

Why then do people mix up our names?  For the past 14 years Scott and
I have been fighting this, and it's always made me curious.

Anyway, I guess it doesn't matter.  A couple of months ago Scott
referred to himself as Russ.  I guess that everyone finally wore him
down, and he gave up.

Just so he doesn't start letting his hair grow, start driving a truck
and wearing a cowboy hat...

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232

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From: dovebar@wam.umd.edu (M.)
Subject: Re: Self-Assembly (was Caffeine and mornings)
Keywords: _self_-_control_.  _self_-_control_.
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:09:54 GMT

>SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers) smiles innocently and writes:
>>Well, ok, 2 out of 4 people who have slept on this bed with me thought it
>>was too hard.
>
>I am not going to _touch_ this straight-line.
>I am not even going to _think_ about touching this straight-line.
>c
>"with my ten-foot pole..."

Me too, boy, I could say something *incredibly* witty right now.
So witty that... oh, you just can't imagine how witty I'd be.
You would want to seek me out, and be my friend... you'd pray 
that you could someday be as witty as me. 
Well, as a favor to you all, I'll just keep it to myself.

For the sarcasm/humor impared: This was a joke, I was teasing
	people who point out that a joke could exist, then 
	fail to produce an example.  Refer to alt.pointless. ;)

Take Care,
--nuke
	"Accidentally" posting from a different account.

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From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: alt.alien.visitors, the ultimate anti-peeve
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 02:22:41 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <78358@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
>: 
>: ObPeeve: This semester is going to force me to become a "morning person". I
>: have hated these people all my life. They run around at ghod awful times in 
>: the morning, waking up those of use who are civilized enough to sleep well
>: past dawn. Now, after once again coming to the realization that there are 
>: just not enough hours in the day, I must arise at, or before, dawn to get all
>: the things done I need to do.
Peeve: This is the second morning of the Great Time Shift and I had no
trouble getting up at 4:45am. In fact, I was so paranoid about sleeping
through my alarm that I woke up at 3am, 3:34 and 4:20. Just woke up for
no reason at all. Needless to say, I was pretty tired all day.

>you'll only become a morning person if you start liking it and
>chirping to all your friends about how much better your life is now
>that you're getting up early in the mornings.
	Well, the thought of "My, what a beautiful morning. I am lucky
to be up for it." Did cross my mind on the way to work. I brutally beat
that blasphemy out of my brain.

!Peeve: It was quite a nice morning. As good as it can get before dawn.

Well, look at that time. Nearly 8:30. Just about time to hit the hay. :-(

-- 
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: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:41:47 +1000
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <1992Sep2.160050.11769@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu writes:

>> I see, a carefully crafted cover of blatant bastardry to the rest
>> of the world.

> Cover?  It's no cover.  We're honest folk - we believe what we
> say.

Really?  That's quite terrifying if so. :-(
 
>> 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.
 
> Aha.  Now I see - it's a flexible concept of citizenship.
> Whenever someone does unAustralian things - such as becoming
> an international tabloid mogul - they're no longer Australian.

No, when they renounce their Australian citizenship they stop
being an Australian.

> This is like a German claiming that Kaiser Bill was Dutch.

Ja.

>>[US Media]
>>> with, you'd know that it's one of the few in the world that
>>> prides itself on remaining free of slant.  Most of the bias in

>> Really!  We get some US news programs (like NBC Today).  Even a
>> casual glance displays a severe lack of opposing viewpoints.
 
> Ah!  But you see that's the point.  They're trying not to display
> any viewpoints at all.  Which is why in this country you have

Yeah, it's all in the name of the great god "entertainment". 
Sensationalist crap like "True Stories" rate well so they replace
more balanced news programs. :-(  It's a sad commentary on the
populace.

> TV fix.  That's freedom of information for you.

There is no such thing as "Freedom of Information".
 
>> Fortunately we have a large multicultural broadcasting
>> service with an excellent Australian and world news team and
>> we also have Radio Australia. 
 
> Aha!  It's TASS South!

No, The local equivelant of TASS would be the Australian
Broadcasting Commision (ABC).

>>> Does Big Brother still control the TV in Oz?  I thought so.

>> It's controlled less than the US media.
 
> Uh, this was that "large multicultural broadcasting service"
> I was talking about.

No, the "LMBS" (it's called SBS, Special Broadcasting Service) is
actually not controlled by the electronic media watchdog, the
Australian Broadcasting Tribunal.  All sorts of strange stuff
get's aired on there. :-)
 
>>I think our definitions of "civillised" differ.  There are other
>>forms of civillisation than the "American Dream".
 
> Ah!  There we go.  You've got civillization; we've got
> civilization.  I leave it to the jury to decide which
> is the superior sort.

I think the jury is going to be out for a loooooooooong time. :-)

Carl.
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From: library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:09:04 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: library@merlin.comlab


I thought it was accepted that Peevetown was a small Italianate village in
North Wales remarkably similar in style and location to Port Meirion?
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: peevefest east 92 (v1.1/B, subsection F, mod 2)
Summary: cool bunch o' peevers
Keywords: bats, speaking in tongues, walt disney, the ag building by the library, disk drives the size of washing machines,...
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:24:10 GMT


attended peevefest east last night along with michael, jenni, david, marc, 
and alex. what a nice group! go figure. :) :)
i think i can safely say that a good time was had by all.

obpeeve: people that speak for other people. 

thanks to jenni for suggesting it and michael for getting us organized.

i say we do it again. (and since joy was only busy that one day of the
year, she should be able to make it! :) )

young hostess: how is it that 6 to 20 people are meeting here but none of you
	have ever seen each other?
me: um, we've corresponded over a computer network.
yh: that is soooOOO coOOOol!
me: um, yeah.
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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Hurricane Peeve
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Distribution: alt
Date: 30 Aug 92 13:31:47

A short question, but one that is burning a hole in my mind in the
wake of the recent hurricane in Southern Florida (which, to hear the
locals interviewed for television tell it, is The Worst Disaster That
Ever Happened In The Whole World):

What are people _thinking_ when they chose to live in a TRAILER
in the middle of hurricane country?

They live in an area where a storm with enough power to make your
average nuclear bomb green with envy can come along any year and
smash their entire city flat, and they chose to live in a flimsy
container of plywood.  I don't get it.  

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Kill all Laundry Matriarchs!
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:04:01 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

	I am going to brutally murder the Local Laundry Lady.
	I got home late from work last night, and decided to do laundry. I
finished washing the first load, then discovered the dryer was broken, so I 
went to the local laundromat.
	"You can only dry them for 15 minutes," the Loathsome Laundry Lady 
said. "then I'm closing up". Personally I've never heard of any establishment 
closing a quarter past the hour, but hey (I thought) at least it's something. 
So I popped them in the dryer.
	Five minutes later the Terror Queen of Polyester says "I'm
closing now. You have to leave. You can pick up the clothes in the morning." 
Somehow the idea of leaving my favorite duds in the dryer of the local 
laundromat didn't appeal to me. I decided to protest.
	"But you told me I had..."
	"I'm closing now, If you don't like it, take your  stuff somewhere 
else," said Satan's Hellcat.
	"If I leave it in here, can I pick it up tomorrow morning?" I asked
"Ane when do you open?"
	"We open at 7:30 am sharp" said the Wench of Westinghouse.
	I set my alarm for 7:15, and tried to sleep that night (had hayfever,
but that's another peeve...). Woke up the next morning, took a shower, drank
my morning 4 cups (not only am I not a morning person, I'm not even diurnal), 
and walked over to the Laundromat of the Damned. By this time it was 7:50 am.
Bloody place was closed. It opened at 8:30. Thank God my working clothes were 
dry. The Moron of Maytag wasn't there, so I couldn't slam her head in the 
dryer door right away, and I have to content myself with the mental image of me
grabbing her by the ears and wrencing her head abound until the tendons twang 
and the sinews snap, _Exorcist_ style. 

I'm planning revenge, but I'm not yet sure what I'm going to do. 

Mike (maybe if I put her through the spin cycle...)
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From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Family Values
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
Distribution: alt.peeves
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:29:57 GMT

Whew, boy, months before the election, and I'm already up to here with
this Family Values crap. I blame Dan Quayle for thinking up the concept
in the first place, apparently giving the Repubs their one issue. Give us a
break!

(If Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are both for it, then I reckon I'll
just have to be against it.)

Maybe if we had some *real* Family Values, the kiddies wouldn't grow up an
become big financial men, corporate raiders, S & L crooks, congressfolk,
CEOs, lawyers, leaders of middle east countries and other slimy executive 
type administrative leech critters.

RealWorldPeeve: 60 Hz people who remove and toss the ground clips off my
		scope probe. Bastards.

UnrelatedPeeve: those damned evil napkin-holders that cannot be operated
                one-handed.

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.

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From: baldwin@polaris.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Contest!
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 15:52:52 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
Keywords: Losers

In article <1992Sep02.001428.3215@CS.ORST.EDU> tim@physics.orst.edu writes:
>|> What was the name of Nick and Nora Charles' dog?
>|> 
>   The answer, vaguely remembered by many, was Asta.
>
>Thanks to all the contestants, (nice try Chris), now do something to entertain
>me tomorrow.
	I wasn't talking about Nick and Nora Charles' dog Asta. I meant
the other one. The one named Bob. Well, he wasn't really a dog, but more
like Nick's imaginary dog friend. Anyway, you have never mentioned him as an
ObBob, so I think it should count.

	BTW, are you going to tell us who in the SamScratch Nick and
Nora Charles are? And why they picked a stupid name like Asta, when Bob
is a great name for a dog. I have had a dog named Bob for over ten years,
so I should know.

ObBob: Either my dog, or Nick's friend. Take your pick.

ObPeeve: The guy sitting next to me just type "Dude, that babe on the
bus this morning wa stellar." Does this guy really talk this way, or is 
this some parody of the way a really goofy guy would talk. Well, he just
left, so I guess I will never know.

-- 
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