peevelessness
Laura Potler (GSFC)
peeve: when everyone goes off for holiday and the peeves volume drops off.
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Not Al Crawford
>
> peeve: when everyone goes off for holiday and the peeves volume drops off.
Well, we denizens of Edinburgh did manage to keep things going when you
'Merkins were off with that Thanksgiving thang but the current dearth of
peeves is beyond even my awesome capabilities on account of my seemingly
being the only Edinburgher left. Claudio's off to Italy and Tony, Mike,
Jeremy and Babs all appear to have disappeared at one time or another over
the past week or so. Paul (Goldberg - Paul Crowley has left our midst) may
still be around but quite frankly there just aren't enough of us left to
keep things going. I had contemplated starting a flamewar with myself but
that really seemed a bit of a waste of time since I too will be
disappearing in a little under 90 minutes, returning to alt.peeves only on
the 27th. Content yourself instead with thoughts of the flood of quality
peeves that the festive season is liable to bring.
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Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_...@ed.ac.uk
"My yuletide sheepdog wassails like a festive Christmas tree"
A. Jing Hippy
WAITAMINIT! You're not fooling us! This post was only 20 lines long, and
that includes 3 lines for Laura's post, and 4 lines for spacing and !Al's
.sig. Everyone in alt.peeves KNOWS that !Al is incapable of posting a
message that is only 13 lines long.
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH NOT AL CRAWFORD?
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+ Claudio's off to Italy and Tony, Mike,
+Jeremy and Babs all appear to have disappeared at one time or another over
+the past week or so.
Sorry to leave you all alone, but as I may have mentioned, I have
been involved in moving my office from a building in which one has
access to things needed for scientific pursuits - you know, computers,
libraries, bookshelves, that sort of stuff - to a building where I have
a nice comfy chair, and just enough space to stack my boxes of books.
This dazzlingly wonderful facility is supposed to be connected
ether-net-wise to the outside world, but, as you can tell from the
lack of Babs, its impossible to stay connected even long enough to
read the abusive messages from the SysAdmin, never mind long enough
to post a decent peeve. Never mind, a trek of several hundred yards
across the campus, through torrential rain and howling winds is
sufficient to take me to the public access terminals.....which are
completely occupied by greasy haired spotty faced dipshits wearing
"Megadeath" T-shirts and bellowing to each other about how clever they are
to have figured out how to make their terminals produce incredibly
irritating sounds every 23 seconds.And here I'm supposed to be pushing
back the frontiers of human knowledge. No bloody chance.
Festive Peeve: There are lots of Yuletide films on TV, which you've
decided to video for viewing during the TV-drought which lasts for the
rest of the year. You record film no. 1, and leave the tape in the machine
ready to record film no. 2. After recording film no.2, you discover that
your SO has watched film 1, and REWOUND THE FRIGGING TAPE TO THE BEGINNING,
so film 1 has been OBLITERATED by film 2.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brian 'Bri Bri' Ward
rambles on about:
|sufficient to take me to the public access terminals.....which are
|completely occupied by greasy haired spotty faced dipshits wearing
|"Megadeath" T-shirts and bellowing to each other about how clever they are
|to have figured out how to make their terminals produce incredibly
|irritating sounds every 23 seconds.And here I'm supposed to be pushing
They may as well be annoying to you, but you might want to know two of my
newest peeves:
Peeve1: "Megadeth," in referring to the band, is spelled "Megadeth," not
"Megadeath." It ticks me off when people don't get it right; it kind
of implies one of the following:
1. Having trouble reading the T-shirts, or is someone reading them to
you, since the words are too big?
2. Since the above isn't really common, it would appear that these
people have never heard the band, since they can't even spell the
name right.
Peeve2: People who don't put spaces after their periods.
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Ward) whines:
>They may as well be annoying to you, but you might want to know two of my
>newest peeves:
>
>Peeve1: "Megadeth," in referring to the band, is spelled "Megadeth," not
> "Megadeath." It ticks me off when people don't get it right; it kind
> of implies one of the following:
>
> 1. Having trouble reading the T-shirts, or is someone reading them to
> you, since the words are too big?
> 2. Since the above isn't really common, it would appear that these
> people have never heard the band, since they can't even spell the
> name right.
>
>Peeve2: People who don't put spaces after their periods.
Does Brie Brie feel a little spacey now that his period is over?
Ixanian Nichols
>They may as well be annoying to you, but you might want to know two of my
>newest peeves:
>
>Peeve1: "Megadeth," in referring to the band, is spelled "Megadeth," not
> "Megadeath." It ticks me off when people don't get it right; it kind
> of implies one of the following:
>
> 1. Having trouble reading the T-shirts, or is someone reading them to
> you, since the words are too big?
> 2. Since the above isn't really common, it would appear that these
> people have never heard the band, since they can't even spell the
> name right.
Personally, I find it a little hard to sit here and read this
prating about the inobservant masses of unbelievers. I'm sorry, dearest,
but Megadeth is not exactly a popular movement. Most people are two weak-
kneed, jelly-stomached and overcultured to have anything to do with an Angst
abomination like a thrash metal band. If the culprit you're complaining
about is a magazine like Circus or Heavy Metal Heroes, you should be
laughing yourself to tears at their laughable inability to publish anything
demonstrating journalistic competence. On the other hand, if you are catching
fellow fans of this "band" mispelling its name, all I can say is: what do
you expect? Intelligence? Valedictorian spelling skills?
Let's face it; if you actually have the kind of juvenile tastes
in guitar/drum/scream-therapy expression that leads to appreciation of
witless posers like Dave Mustaine, you have to put up with a lot of grief
from the rest of the world's maggot-brained music lovers.
Love,
- Ix
Brian 'Bri Bri' Ward
|[blah blah blah] not exactly a popular movement. Most people are two weak-
|kneed, jelly-stomached and overcultured to have anything to do with an Angst
|abomination like a thrash metal band.
Most people also know the correct way to use the words "two," "to," and "too."
You, sir, do not.
|all I can say is: what do you expect? Intelligence? Valedictorian
|spelling skills?
case closed.
notyermother
>Most people also know the correct way to use the words "two," "to," and "too."
>You, sir, do not.
>
>case closed.
>
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And speaking of *case*, Boo Boo:
Your must mean (capital C) Case closed. Yes?
Sorry, everyone else... I always find it so humorous reading the ones who must
resort to punctuation picking to score their self-worth ("I hate it when
they're right, but at least they spelled buttplug wrong."). They so often do it
poorly.
Brian Ward
|Once again Bri Bri gives us a less lesson in punc punctuation:
He's rapping!
|And speaking of *case*, Boo Boo:
He's using stars!
|Your must mean (capital C) Case closed. Yes?
He's crapping! (not to mention doing a poor job of proofreading)
|Sorry, everyone else... I always find it so humorous reading the ones who must
|resort to punctuation picking to score their self-worth ("I hate it when
|they're right, but at least they spelled buttplug wrong."). They so often do it
|poorly.
You're too stupid.
/noty.*mot.*/hj
Complete_and_...@ed.ac.uk
+In article <16...@castle.ed.ac.uk> Complete_and_...@ed.ac.uk
+rambles on about:
+|"Megadeath" T-shirts
+They may as well be annoying to you, but you might want to know two of my
+newest peeves:
+Peeve1: "Megadeth," in referring to the band, is spelled "Megadeth," not
+ "Megadeath."
My mistake. I had just assumed that the dum-fucks who print the T-shirts
are as stupid as those who wear them.