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From: proterin@nmt.edu (Paul Rotering)
Subject: Re: Sue Me 
Keywords: "I sue *.*"
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:38:22 GMT

In article <41dn0ch@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>...just drive north on I-25 and there's a whole string 
>of "I sue drunk drivers," ...

>The most peevesome of these puppies 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...

-Paul
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 04:37:58 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <1b87e640.ARN239f@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1992Aug20.172140.22802@umbc3.umbc.edu>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <1992Aug20.172140.22802@umbc3.umbc.edu>, Laura Potler (GSFC writes:

> In article <1b87e640.ARN239f@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac writes:
> >it and then get a fucking license. The taxi fares to and from
> >work [$11.20 both ways - $22.40 a day] are killing me.
> 
> wouldn't that be $11.20 each way? $11.20 both ways, although true, implies
> that that's what you paid for the whole trip.

Placing the total '$22.40 a day' in the same context, should have
made it possible for even the most pedantic if geekoids to be
able to comprehend the sentence.

                         Peeve: Pedants.

> peeve: people who are unclear about "this week" vs. "next week". it's really 
> 	not that complex. 

Next week starts after this upcoming Saturday. This week is the
range from the immediately prior Sunday, until the upcoming
Saturday. Tres difficult, eh?

> peeve: people who get uptight about getting people to say what they mean.

You mean, of course, that people think that *you* are a quibbling
pedant?

Tough buns.

Dac
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From: eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Blues
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:42:23 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Edinburgh University

One more year of Guv'ment and what do we get
Another year older and deeper in debt
So people will you tell me what can we do
'Cos there ain't no cure for the Conservative blues.


jill
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Date: 27 Aug 1992 15:56:04 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <5942@transfer.stratus.com> scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com 
(Scott Jeffrey) writes:

>Peeve:  I get called "Jeff" a lot.  So much so that I'll answer to it.  


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 officemate's French friends is standing in the doorway, and they're
yapping away in French while I'm trying to write this.  Shoo, dammit!  Git!
Or I'll bring in the Viet Minh!  Where is Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap when I need him?


Duane


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:46:23 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.155704.321@hhcs.gov.au> makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.153201.25194@umbc3.umbc.edu>, potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:
>> who he is? i'm sorry, a., we don't allow those in peevetown. this is *america*,
>
>What?
>
>I see.  Racial discrimination.  Well I never.

racial?  

-l "trying to capture the rca victor dog expression" p
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Parents who subject their kids to strange names (and watches)
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:51:34 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <ZKm-mz_@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
=>
=>ObAntiPeeve: My new watch.  It's a Soviet tank officer's watch, bought at
=>the street market near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.  It's about half a
=>pound of stainless steel, with a winding stem the size of a pencil eraser.
=>It's got a rotating bezel and a red star above a picture of a tank on the
=>face.  This watch could whip the tar out of a bushel basket full of ordinary
=>men's watches and emerge without a scratch.  Every time I strap it on, I
=>feel like I'm at the head of a column of T-80's about to storm through the
=>Fulda Gap and smash the revanchist forces of Western imperialism, winning
=>victory after victory for the truly peace-loving peoples of the world.

Hah! Another sucker!! If the Soviets had had a tank for every "tank
officer's watch" I've seen for sale, they'd have had their lunch in
the Oval Office!

Me, I've got a real Rolex - a bargain - got it for $10 on a street corner
in the Bowery.


-- 

-Jeremy Henderson            |  Une souris verte
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Qui courrait dans l'herbe
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From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:10:48 +1000
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <1992Aug26.134623.6516@umbc3.umbc.edu>, potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC)) writes:

>>> we don't allow those in peevetown. this is *america*,

>>I see.  Racial discrimination.  Well I never.
 
> racial?  

peevetown is for the american race only huh?


Carl.
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From: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings(was alt.alien.visitors)
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:50:39 GMT
Reply-To: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
Organization: Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK

In article <1992Aug26.195445.7176@news.iastate.edu>, z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
> 	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.

I woke up yesterday morning and put some coffee on while I was in the
shower (I can shower asleep, but after that I need to wake up). I came
back later to find that about 1mm of coffee was ready.

Peeve: The water in Cambridge is the hardest in the UK. Everything
gets gunked up with it. Having previously lived in Scotland, blessed
with soft water, this has never been a problem to which I've devoted
many brain cells. Finding that the crappy water has gunked up the
machine and is going to stop you getting any coffee first thing in the
morning is a good way to suddenly make you realise this this is
actually importance.

!Peeve: Fortunately, I still had half the bag of dark-chocolate-covered
espresso beans. A handful of those gets you going long enough to get
into work and start drinking *their* coffee.
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Iowa
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:37:14 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Dan Sorenson) writes:
>	Besides, I live in Iowa, USA.  You know, redkneck capitol of the USA?
>Everybody has guns.  Everybody uses them, in one way or another.  We aren't
>like Canada, where guns are outlawed and nobody ever gets shot as a result.

Give me a break, Dan.  Iowa is in contention for the hick capitol.  It
never even received a nomination for the redneck capitol.  It's a subtle 
but real difference.  It's the sort of the difference between a bunch
of snaggle-toothed, thumbless bumpkins with calf slobber on their
willies and a bunch of snaggle-toothed, thumbless, agressive bigots
who eat pickup trucks as a recreation.

Iowa is a hick state.  Arkansas is a redneck state.  Kansas is a hick
state.  Georgia is a redneck state.  Wisconsin is a hick state.  
Alabama is a redneck state.  In Iowa, you'll get shot for stealing corn
or gigging the farmer's favorite heifer.  In Arkansas, you'll get shot
for driving a Volkswagen or having an earring.  In Kansas, the bumper
stickers say "My child was milker of the month in the Prarie Junction
FFA." (Future Farmers of America)  In Georgia, the bumper stickers say
"I like 1) My truck 2) My gun 3) Dead Faggots." (yes, I've really seen
this bumper sticker)  The Wisconsin state motto is "Smell our dairy
air."   The Alabama state motto is "Drag the swamp for the bodies."

Don't worry, Dan.  Just pull your toe out of the dirt and get the
cornsilk out of your underwear and we won't ask about what it's like
in the back seat of a John Deere.

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: scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Hospital waiting room part 1 - Children called Scott.
Keywords: Jeremy Henderson, Jeremy Beadle, Jeremy Thorpe et.al.
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:50:24 GMT

jamesb@spider.co.uk (James Bradley) writes:

>Which got me thinking of all the famous Jermey's of the world who have
>effected history. This is the list I came up:

You forgot Jeremy Mouse (known as "Jerry" to his friends and 300 million
other people). Squash him with a steamroller and two seconds later
<pop!> he's back again, large as life and twice as irritating...

>james (whose name is just plain boring) bradley

Named after Bradley Headstone in _Our Mutual Friend_ perhaps?
Got to hand it to Dickens: anyone who can invent a character called
Bradley Headstone and make his character fit the name can't be all bad...

s
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Caffeine and mornings(was alt.alien.visitors)
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:55:32 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <h#bnx+j@lynx.unm.edu>, baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
> 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.

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

*very* *strong* coffee.

Lots of it.

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

Good luck. You're going to need it.

Mike "I have to be there *WHEN?*"
From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mechanics and their ilk
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:30:36 +1000
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <1992Sep1.015734.19983@news.iastate.edu>, z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:

>>>(Even more amusing is watching tourists from the US midwest :-)

>>Now there's another uncivilized backwater for you.

> 	"GO BIG RED!"  Oh, sorry...  No, really, I'm feeling much better
> now.  Tomorrow I think I'll make some wallets.

Hell Boy! Ya gotta wrassle them allogators whit ya bare hands
first.


Carl.
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 14:15:36 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <l9pv52INNkfr@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>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 know a family in Texas who named all of their male children
with names beginning with a 'J'. They have Jordan and Joshua, I think(Never
new his brother very well.) Anyway, this would not be all that big of a deal,
them only having 2 kids and all, but the family has been doing this for
generations. Jordan can tell you all the 'J's they have used back about 3
generations, but he says that it goes back further than this. Thus far, there
have been no repeats. If this wasn't bad enough, most of them still live in
'J'asper, Oklahoma. 
	Wow, I never realized it before, but what we have here is a real, live,
honest to Gawd 'J' cult. I think that JenniJoySonJa should get down there and
take her/their rightful place as the goddess(es) of Jasper.

-- 
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: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Where were they when wit was handed out?
Date: 4 Sep 1992 15:28:18 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg
Keywords: Damn SNL to Hell!

lozanoj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Jones) writes:
>Case in point: The stereotypical blonde sorority Betty sitting next to
>me as I write this. 

I realize this word is spoken far more often than it's seen in print,
but a sor-whore is a "Beddy," not a "Betty."  The etymology should be
evident.

I didn't realize fall was sneaking up on us so quickly.  It's about
time for JZ to advertise this year's little sister rush.

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.
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:26:16 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Payroll peeve

Friday, I discovered that I wasn't getting paid the full amount that I
was expecting because there was an error (human) in the payroll approval
process and they were giving us special checks with more deductions than
usual.  (They were unable to determine our *actual* deductions, because
that's handled in another office.)

Ok, that was pretty peevesome.

Then, today, I received a note saying that I wasn't going to be paid next
time for an entire *class* of work that I do, namely interviewing and
training prospective/new employees.  This is because they're converting
to a new system of paying me for that.  (This involves giving me a raise,
but I would have liked to be paid at the old rate this time and gotten
back pay next time -- especially since they're going to give me back pay
at the new rate for the last year anyway!)

I don't really think it's too much to expect to get paid accurately and in
a timely manner.  I really don't.

!Peeve: I had a really great date last night.

Peeve: This payroll situation is succeeding in overshadowing what a great
       time I had last night.

-Sonja
------
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 22:37:05 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

In article <17552@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>
>As for Irish names, the een stuff drives me nuts... Doreen, Colleen,
>Noreen, Flourine, Chlorine......

The fat ones are named Baleen...

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.

Whoops, hope Booter doesn't read this post...
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Automobiles
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 23:01:03 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow
Keywords: Scrap metal

SO, my car, that I just spent bucks on so that some skunky repairman
could fix the radiator is haunting me again.

I drove it all the way to Maryland and back in the heat at high speeds
(well, higher than most everybody else on the road) without a whimper.
Today, on the 13-mile drive home from work, it ran hot.  I pulled over,
it died.  Check the coolant, it's fine.  Give it time to cool down, it
still won't start.

Finally got a lift to a local convenience store, where calls were made to
get me a ride home.  Called the garage, and told them that things hadn't
been exactly kosher with the car since they fixed it.

Peeve: Their "24-hour service" that's advertised in the yellow pages 
apparently doesn't include towing.  Had to call another company to get them
to tow the car to the garage.

!Peeve: Two nice guys gave us a ride to the convenience store in their
pickup truck.  It's been years since I've ridden in the back of a truck,
and I'd forgotten how good it feels to ride through shady spots in the
road with your hair streaming out behind you.  I bought them each a beer
for their trouble.

Peeve: My hair, after riding in the back of a pickup truck.  It looks like
a lion's mane with sparrows wintering in it.  I couldn't get a comb through
it with a lever.

!Peeve: Nylon brushes. Excellent for pulling one's hair into shape and
leaving the vast majority of it attached to one's scalp.

I'm sure that more peevishness will arise as this saga continues, but I
am presently awaiting a return call from the towing folks.  I hate it 
when this happens.

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|What to do I find it hard to know. The road I walk|
|is not the one I chose.   -Yes                    |
+--------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: The unbearable shitsubo of being
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
	<29890@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:12:06

"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.

My brother and sister-in-law named their oldest boy Jonathan.  For a
while they were spelling his nickname "Jonni".  Yeesh.  Fortunately
they came to their senses, and anyway right now he prefers "Jonathan".
(He's 8; i don't know if this is a phase or if he's going to stick
with Jonathan for the rest of his life.)

I have always spelled my nickname "Cindy".  This is the "traditional"
spelling of the name, as far as i know; it is certainly the most
common.  But some people insist on misspelling it.  So i have had
Cyndi, Sindy, Syndi, Cindee (YECH!), Cindi, and probably a few others
i forget right now.  

!Peeve: Since the whole Cindy-Crawford-underwear-advertisements
thingie, no one in Norway has misspelled my first name.  (And people
here are better able than people in the States to make a reasonable
stab at spelling my last name.  Some folks even think it's Norskie,
which it isn't.)

My best friend in high school was named Donnamarie.  Written just
like that.  Need i mention the problems she had with that?

-Cindy Kandolf.  C-i-n-d-y K-a-n-d-o-l-f
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

To Live Du - As Norskie As They Wanna Be
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Caffeine and mornings
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:39:06 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1992Aug26.160752.6267@iscsvax.uni.edu> hosch2263@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>        Ah, coffee, that liquid wonder.  I have to work as a receptionist as
>eight in the morning, but I tend to stay up until about 2 AM.  Without black
>coffee I would be a bitch in the mornings.  This way, I'm less of one.

Less?  Let it all out, honey.

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

                 Do not throw rocks at this signature
From: rogers@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mark Rogers)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Concert peeve!
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:35:42 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

In <1992Sep3.192831.988@intelhf.hf.intel.com> dcovell@pcocd2.intel.com (David Covell) writes:

>The scenario:  aging ex-hippy attends his first real rock concert in 12 years
>(ELP at the Concord Pavilion), expecting to enjoy a once-beloved band and
>remember earlier, carefree days as the aroma of quality dope wafts on the
>breeze.....[much more good stuff]


Yeah....

I, also aging ex-hippy attended *my* first concert in several years *and*
had my first experience with "sitting on the lawn".  you think you had it
bad?  At my concert (Bowie two years ago), EVERYONE IN FRONT OF ME STOOD
UP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CONCERT.

THERE WAS NO "RAKE" TO THE SURFACE ON WHICH WE WERE STANDING, IT WAS FLAT.

[I am 5'4", so I saw nothing.]

THE STAGE WAS AT LEAST A HALF MILE AWAY EVEN IF I COULD HAVE SEEN IT OVER
THE MORONS IN FRONT OF ME.

THE TWO MALLBRATS IN FRONT OF ME HAD NO IDEA WHATSOEVER HOW TO BEHAVE IN
PUBLIC WHEN ON DRUGS.  THEIR BABBLING AND SHOUTING DROWNED OUT THE MUSIC,
SO I COULDN'T HEAR, EITHER. FOR A FINALE, THEY SPENT THE LAST TWO NUMBERS
AND THE ENCORE ON THE GROUND VOMITTING ON MY SHOES.

fun.
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