HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: parmesan and vomit
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:24:38 GMT

so i'm sitting there at christmas dinner with the SO's entire family and
they serve the pasta (yum!) and then the dish of hot pepper comes around 
and then the dish of parmesan cheese. as soon as i get a whiff of that cheese
i immediately think of vomit thanks to my dear peeving compadres.

peeve: unwanted associations.

!peeve: last year at christmas dinner, one of the babies threw up into the
	mouth of one of the adults as the adult was cooing and wiggling the
	baby above his head.

peeve: i had no video camera.

-l "there were 2 video cameras just *waiting* for a repeat *this* year" p
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From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Fuck Christmas
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:41:05 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

In article <liigfbINNmum@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, Geoff Miller writes:

> nolan@lurch.twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw) writes:
 
> >Thar's mean folk here who'll be glad ta rip ya a new rectum fer 
> >no good reason. 
 
> Rectum?  We never even *drove* `um!

Cue old joke.

Little Johhny goes back to school after the holidays, and teacher
wants people to stand up and give a short speech on what they did
during the holidays that they thought was interesting.

Eventually, Johnnies turn came about, and he starts:

"Well, me and they guys were playihng around in Dad's shed, and
found a heap of old firecrackers. We had a great time putting
them in letter boxes and down antnest holes, but the best fun was
when we shoved one of the crackers up a frog's ass ... 

Teacher interjects violently with "JOHNNIE!  You don't say 'ass',
you say 'rectum'!"

Johnnie replies, "Rectum? Fucking blew it to bits!"

//////

peeve: old jokes.

Dac
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From: pky@fmg.bt.co.uk (Pete Young)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Palestine.
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:06:22 GMT
Organization: British Telecom
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Paul Dourish (dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM) wrote:

: Abergavenny and Pontefract appear to have moved to England in some
: curious freak geological accident! I bet they're both *really* pissed
: off, too.

The last time I looked, Pontefract (as Dave rightly said, pronounced
`Pomfret') was in Yorkshire, where it has always been. Most people 
regard Yorkshire as being in England.

: Peeve: People who can't tell the difference between the nations of the
: United Kingdom. These people are largely American or English,

Peeve: People who can't be bothered to get their facts straight. 


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: I am the superuser!!
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:57:00 GMT

In article <29859@castle.ed.ac.uk> Jeremy Henderson writes:

> [ ... ]
>ParisAntiPeeve: The prospect of shortly being a resident of the most brilliant
>city in the Universe.

Sacre merde!  Are you sure you're ready for this?  If the culture shock
doesn't kill you outright, some outraged Parisian just might, if he gets
wind of your backhanded evaluation of his city.  Only the universe?

>===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          

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From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.flame,talk.bizarre
Subject: Why me!
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:42:52 GMT
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

So I get an article accepted by the moderator of rec.humor.funny,
and it gets published in that newsgroup on the SAME DAY as one
from Steve fucking Franklin.

Sheesh.

Dac
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Sink This Boat (Was: A Definite Not-Peeve)
Followup-To: alt.flame.spelling
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<BzMGA5.LHt@nic.umass.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:07:34 GMT

In article <BzMGA5.LHt@nic.umass.edu> BPHEINTZ@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (BRADLEY P HEINTZ) writes:

[boring nonpeeve stuff deleted]

<   Excuse me now, while I go to flog myself in pennance.

	Try it while standing up in a pinnace, why doncha?

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: A Definite Not-Peeve, involves money
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 02:20:33 GMT

In <BzFp1A.Kyz@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:

>Don Baldwin writes:

>>You know, these cheery messages from Bill B are really starting to worry
>>me.

>There is something suspicious here.  First he was worried about the Fatal
>Attraction type lady and then he was telling us about a potential bedmate.
>There's also this class he was "too embarrassed" to tell us about.  I think
>he's bumped someone off.

Pish posh!  It is still just in the planning stages at this point.  We'll
all know when it has happened...

"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,"
  -Bill
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: Morning Thunder Tea
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:31:49 GMT

bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:

>Based upon its good reviews here, I have been drinking this stuff for
>two weeks now.  No coffee, just Morning Thunder.  

you know, the name of that stuff really provokes some interesting 
olfactory images (if you allow me to stretch the words somewhat).

>IT'S GREAT!!!  I
>gave some to my boss, who only drinks this black Irish tea.  I am
>still awaiting his opinion of MT.
>Definite not-peeve, that Morning Thunder!  "An Exhilarating, Robust
>Blend of Fine Imported Tea and Brazilian Mate'"  

bill, what the hell is wrong with you? the stuff you've been posting lately 
is starting to worry me. are you going for that image of the 
born-again, in frantic love with every little detail in the world, what 
used to be a `trust me' smile changed into the grimace of a permanent 
grin which is broad enough to be tied together at the back of your head?

if so, you've succeeded; now cut it out. if not, get your act together! 
this is, after all, alt.peeves, and who am i to tell you what is
expected here?

>Best thing is, my
>supermarket carries the stuff, so that was my first and last stop!
>(A Kroger store, if you must know)

what on earth gave you *that* idea? 

-alex

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From: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Palestine.
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:37:09 GMT
Reply-To: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
Organization: Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK

In article <BzMt2G.LLu@vcd.hp.com>, dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
> eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com writes:
> This reminded me of a section in Willard R. Espy's "Words at Play"; I don't
> know how accurate it is.

> English place names:
[...]
> 	Abergavenny		aber-genny
[...]
> 	Pontrefact		pom-fret

God, there's that plate tectonics effect again. Watch out everyone!
Abergavenny and Pontefract appear to have moved to England in some
curious freak geological accident! I bet they're both *really* pissed
off, too.

Peeve: People who can't tell the difference between the nations of the
United Kingdom. These people are largely American or English,
curiously.

                                            -- Paul (a Scot in England)

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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
Subject: peeve nexus
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:23:02 GMT

I was at the mall the day after Christmas, and saw a woman wearing a
sweatshirt with the slogan: "JESUS CAN CURE YOUR ACHEY BREAKEY HEART".

That may encompass more lower-bracket peevogens than could be fit into any
other U.S.-English sentence of comparable length.

Peeve: I'm not sure if that's how you spell "achey breakey".

Peeve: That I'd spend any time worrying about that.

!peeve: That my exposure is sufficiently limited that I don't know right off.

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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Word peeve
Date: 29 Dec 1992 02:47:43 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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In article <9212272149.AA27366@saffron.eedsp.gatech.edu.gatech.edu> eedsp!bill@gatech.UUCP writes:
>
>Why is it so vogue to say "persons" when using "people" would work?
>
>"Persons traveling on secondary roads should watch out for ice and slick
> spots on bridges and overpasses."

This has been the focus of a long-running debate between far-sundered
camps in the usage armies, and will not be so quickly resolved.

The only feasible solution is to compromise, and use instead the
simple and expressive phrase "If you be."

c
From: glipton@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Gary Lipton)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: the road less travelled
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:41:51 GMT
Organization: Dept. of EE, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Originator: glipton@lafcol

Justin Kaplan, the editor of the latest version of Bartlett's,
claimed that one of his favorite quotations is from Yogi Berra:

       "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."


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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
Subject: A Suggestion: Subject Headings
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:48:00 GMT

No matter what Churchill said, I am a big fan of quotations and
I love this group.

Since each of us is posting stuff classified under a subject
or an author, I propose we do just that - just state the
subject or the author in the heading and nothing else. THis
will make it easier for all of us to scan and search.

e.g.,  	Subject: Machiavelli
       
       	Subject: Marriage

	....

Regards, Satya Prabhakar
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: roddi@cs.monash.edu.au (Roddi Walker)
Subject: Re: Twain on Jane Austen
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:34:41 GMT

ron@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ron Williams) writes:

>dave mankins (dm@think.com) wrote:
>> 
>> ``No library is complete that contains the works of Jane Austen.''
>> 		- Mark Twain

>Onya Mark...

>I want to add the Mills&Boon of the 19th Century to the list of authors best
>remaindered - The Bronte" Sisters, Emily and Charlotte. They will, of course, 
>have to take my criticism lying down... 

In my experience, I have found Miss Austen's prose, at its best - which it
frequently is - to sparkle with life, wit and humour.  It is not often one
has the pleasure of reading prose of such subtlety and lightness of touch - 
she has the rare talent of making very accurate, very nasty observations
in the most courteous manner.  It is unfortunate that this subtlety often 
prevents more people from appreciating her work.

Unfortunately, I do not trust myself to comment on Mr Williams' words with 
equal courtesy.  I will only add that I have always found Mr Twain's
writings tedious, if not repellent, to the intellect.

There is a reason why these authors' works are invariably placed in the 
Classics section at bookstores - it is because they _are_.

Roddi
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: Catherine.Collingwood@launchpad.unc.edu (Catherine Collingwood)
Subject: paradise
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:58:51 GMT

What good is living in paradise, if you don't let yourself go once or twice?
--Tiffany, "Spanish Eyes"

Catherine
aka Lady Firebird

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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Subject: Re: Progress
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:25:39 GMT

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
                -- George Bernard Shaw

according to the Unix fortune program...
  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: kridnix@faraday.rice.edu (Alan Cheville)
Subject: Unknown Quote
Organization: Rice University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:42:39 GMT


I came across this over a decade ago in a short story.
I would love to be able to find that book again...

"For we that are taxpayers as well as immortal
souls must live our lives by politic evasions and
catchwords that fret away our lives as moths waste
a garment;  we fall insensibly to common sense as
to a drug- and it dulls and kills all that within
us is fine and rebellious and unreasonable."

				- ???

-- 
Alan Cheville   	 # For this is the school of Babylon
Electrical Engineering	 # And at its hands we learn
Rice. U.		 # To walk into the furnaces
Houston		 	 # And whistle as we burn.
		 	 # 		-T. Blackburn
From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.com (Sandeep Mehta)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Machievelli
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:05:51 GMT
Reply-To: smehta@nynexst.com
Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY


> snelling@bnr.ca (Peter Snelling) writes:

> Machievelli on change:
> 
> "A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those
>  that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it recieves no support
>  from those that would benefit."

The one I have is a bit more elaborate but the contents are
essentially the same. I don't know the reference.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more
doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a
new system.  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by
the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in
those who would gain by the new ones.
	-Machiavelli

/sandeep
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: smac@iconix.oz.au (Stuart McCormack)
Subject: Is this for real?
Organization: Iconix Pty Ltd (World Headquarters)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:35:49 GMT

In the movie PATTON, George C Scott reels off a quotation that he later
claims as his own.  For some reason this verse always gets to me and
I'd really like to find out if it's for real and, if so, where I can
find it.  Thanks in advance.

	Through the travail of ages
	Midst the pomp and toil of war
	Have I fought and strove and perished
	Countless times under the star.
	As though through a glass and darkly
	The age old strife I see
	Where I fought in many guises, many names
	But always me.

( Or something like that. )


NIHILISM LIVES!!
	
	smac
From: fyoung@gssec.bt.co.uk (Fraser Young)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Discretion
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:15:25 GMT
	<21DEC199209383451@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>
	<1992Dec21.235919.11231@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Organization: BT Glasgow Systems and Software Engineering Centre, Scotland.

In article <1992Dec21.123937.4840@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika (Asst. Lab Supervisor)) writes...
   >"Discretion is the better part of valor."
                                      ^^^^^     
Just a small point: Is spelling ever important in quotations?
I'm sure Shakespeare/Falstaff didn't use any Americanisms when he wrote it :)

I'm ready - flame suit is on

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Fraser Young
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: offordj@wl.com (Jim Offord)
Subject: Re: British Parliament quote
Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:39:32 GMT


Or the even better Lady Astor and Winston Churchill exchange(I
paraphrase because I don't know the exact wording)

Lady Astor to W.C.:You sir are drunk.

W.C. to Lady Astor: And you are ugly. Tomorrow I will be sober, but
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From: batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: The Quotation to End All Quoting
Summary: Paradoxical quote pairs
Keywords: paradox quote
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:42:00 GMT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <C030o8.CJB@ecf.toronto.edu>, deviass@ecf.toronto.edu (Deviasse Robert) writes...
>How about this quotation, with a decidedly Newtonian flavour:
>   "For every quote there is an equal and opposite anti-quote". - UNKNOWN
> 
>It certainly seems true. For example, compare:
>   "He who hesitates is lost."
>and
>Good things come to those who wait."
> 
>I suppose that's why quotes are complete (in the Godel sense), since they're
>inconsistent!:-)
> 
> 
>Take care
>    Robert
> 
>-- 
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>| EMAIL: g2devi@cdf.utoronto.ca |    are the things we cherish the most."     |
>+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------/
 "Never look a gift horse in the mouth."
                - proverb
 "Never buy a pig in a poke."
                _ proverb
 (In case "poke" is unfamiliar to you, it is a southern US term for a sack or
bag.)

These have demonstrated the original poster's observation to me, some years
ago.  I have also heard this principle expressed as:
 For each profound true statement, there is a corresponding opposite profound
statement, which is also true.
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Tolkien revised
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:04:55 GMT


Seen on a button:

	"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for
	 you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: scumheads
Reply-To: s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:07:17 GMT

I call that a scumhead.    --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake.



michael mcdonald
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: isaacman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! (301) 513-7769)
Subject: Re: Quotation source sought. Shakespearean I believe.....
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:27:00 GMT

In article <AMATHUR.92Dec21174035@storm.EEAP.CWRU.Edu>, amathur@storm.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes...
>Hi !
> 
>Does anyone know/remember the source for this quotation.
> 
>	"Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned"
> 
>I think it is Shakespearean but could be mistaken.
> 
The full couplet is

	"Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned
	Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned"

..which is interesting, but I don't remember the author either.  I'm 
pretty sure it is not Shakespeare, though.

Rich Isaacman
From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Slick Willie
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:58:08 GMT
Reply-To: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Organization: Quantime Ltd, London (software for market research)

In article <1992Dec21.204854.3444@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
> does anyone remember the exact quote and source for
> the line about patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel?

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),
   Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, vol. 2, p. 344 (6 Apr 1775)
-- 
Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
"*Johnsonese* Johnsonian style, idiom, diction, or an imitation of it -
ponderous English, full of antitheses, balanced triads, and words of
classical origin" -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: Dale@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Dale Gee)
Subject: Coolidge
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:50:34 GMT

This quote is a attributed to the famous Algonquin Round Table.
No one is really sure who said it. Odds on favorites are Dorthy Parker

and Alexzander Woolcott.

"Coolidge is dead"                    
"How can you tell"
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Explain this group
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:04:07 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

In article <aldavi01.725072989@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> writes:
>
>And how did those tracks get there?  Correct -- someone looking for tracks.  :)
>
What was that Hemingway quote about the leopard?  Something like "No one knows
what the leopard was seeking at that altitude."

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Explain this group
From: rminor@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:15:32 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Dec21.194238.18767@husc3.harvard.edu>, kubo@boucher.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo) writes:
> In article <COLUMBUS.92Dec21093209@strident.think.com>
> columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes: 
> 
>>Verily, there is indeed nothing new under the sun.  I could swear I've
>>read the above sentiment, except more pithily expressed.....
> 
> There is a beautiful formulation in a story by Erich Kastner:
> "there is no freshly fallen snow".  It goes on to explain that even 
> if you go to the top of the most faraway peak, you will find old tracks
> in the snow that mark the passage of others.
> 

The initial quotation is from Ecclesiastes 1:9: "What has been is what
will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is
nothing new under the sun."

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