From oracle-admin@cs.indiana.edu Wed Jan 12 17:28:05 2005 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moose.cs.indiana.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11/IUCS_2.63) with ESMTP id j0CMS5sS018268; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:28:05 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by moose.cs.indiana.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j0CMS4Jm018266; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:28:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:28:04 -0500 (EST) From: Internet Oracle Message-Id: <200501122228.j0CMS4Jm018266@moose.cs.indiana.edu> To: oracle-list@cs.indiana.edu Subject: Internet Oracularities #1376 Reply-To: oracle-vote@cs.indiana.edu X-Face: )/f9dPAX/dU$1Z!U(/?A PiIJvIOtcN@L.>6,2OKd."T#S7b*{feRf.Kns23^P9.Ak{GdWWv]0*1E}RJ)_idU:(5VkN*_+bB kyrnLfC12B>V/q=z32:05`EcAd.!z#3k]h)O!ZU^E"f`@),(2WT X-Planation: X-Face can be used with www.cs.indiana.edu/ftp/faces === 1376 ================================================================= Title: Internet Oracularities #1376 Compiled-By: Steve Kinzler Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:27:53 -0500 (EST) To find out all about the Internet Oracle (TM), including how to participate, send mail to oracle@cs.indiana.edu with the word "help" in the subject line. ("Internet Oracle" is a trademark of Stephen B Kinzler.) Let us know what you like! Send your ratings of these 10 Oracularities on an integer scale of 1 ("very bad") to 5 ("very good") with the volume number to oracle-vote@cs.indiana.edu (probably just reply to this message). For example: 1376 2 1 3 4 3 5 3 3 4 1 1371 49 votes 05bna 1br91 25gl5 2ija0 088ej chd52 1alf2 698dd 2jfc1 25haf 1371 3.2 mean 3.8 3.0 3.4 2.8 3.9 2.3 3.1 3.4 2.8 3.6 --- 1376-01 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Dave Hemming The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. 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Your question was: > Oh Oracle, who is almost always on the "Nice" list, I wish that you > would please answer me this question: > > I have three possible New Year's Eve Dates. > One of them is a sort of girlfriend who says she loves me and is acting > really desperate to keep me around. One is a really short, skinny, cute > Asian girl that I think might develop into a long term relationship. The > other one is a girl with a huge rack that I will probably never see > again after that night. Sex is out of the question with all three. > > Which one should I hang out with on New Year's Eve? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } It come down to who drinks the least, because she is going to } drive you home. The Huge Rack girl is probably the best bet, } because even if she drinks a lot, the Total Body Mass that she } carries around will soak up some of the ethanol that might } otherwise poison her driving judgment. } } There are other alternatives: If you walk to wherever or back, } or take a cab or the subway, you'll be ok. Or you could quick, } fast-like learn how to drive a horse and carriage. Horses are } known for driving drunks safely back home to the barn. } } Next year you might think in advance, and figure out whom you } want to marry, and I bet it's none of the above. --- 1376-03 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: "Julianna Avedon" The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Since omniscience means you know everything that will ever be knowable, > which most likely contains the knowledge of how to gain omnipotence, > does this mean that you are omnipotent as well as omniscient? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Omnipotent? } } Who are you calling omnipotent? } } Lisa is perfectly satisfied, thank you very much. } } You owe The Oracle another shipment of viagra. --- 1376-04 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Dr. Noe The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Why is the girl with the black hair pretending to be dead? It's like, > it's over with, and making everyone think she's dead will next make > them think she's a screwball idiot. And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Never ends, does it? Though what can you expect from some kid who runs } away from home to live with seven short hairy guys constantly smelling } of sweat and coal dust? } } First it was that "wicked stepmother" spiel. As if the queen would be } stupid enough to have her husband's only daughter killed. Wouldn't } somebody, y'know, notice? } } Then there was the incident with the comb. Why would the queen venture } out alone into dangerous woods, just to "poison" some pretty little } girl? A likely story. And the dwarves were dumb enough to fall for it a } second time, too. } } And the apple thing! Jeez, if the queen wanted her dead so badly, why } not just slit her damn throat already? So now she fakes her death } *again*, and then runs off with a guy who likes to make out with dead } chicks. Eurgh. } } You owe the Oracle a book of believable fairy tales. --- 1376-05 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Christophe The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > That answer terrified me. It left me wide-eyed and staring. I will > never sleep for the merest fraction of a second now I know the answer > to that question. I will be locked in a padded room screaming to > myself about the horrors of that answer for the rest of my days. > Not even the vilest spawn of hell should hear that answer. Why did > you do it, Oracle, why? NO MORTAL BEING CAN POSSIBLY KEEP THEIR SANITY > AND SOUL AFTER HEARING THAT ANSWER!!! And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Dear Mr. H. P. Lovecraft, } You are dead. Nothing can harm you now that you are dead. Indeed, } you can go and harm others with impunity. I am, most fortunately, } out of your reach as I am not mortal. } } Also, I suggest you stop reading your own books. They can cause } the most dreadful nightmares. } } Sincerely yours, } The Internet Oracle --- 1376-06 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Christophe The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh oracle so wonderful and brilliant beyond compare! > I beseech you (so far above me as to be incomprehensible) to answer my > question, oh splendiferous one... > > What's the complete list of things that don't exist? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } You'll find it in a book, in the library past the sea at the end } of the world. It sits between the volumes marked "The Full } unexpurgated description of the last days of Jimmy Hoffa and his } Current Whereabouts" and "Excuses that will always get you out of } trouble with your parents". } } Oh - and I have a couple of items to add to it ... } } You owe the Oracle a good reason for why he forgot his and Lisa's } anniversary. It ought to be in that book, but for the life of him } he can't find it... --- 1376-07 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Tim Chew The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Hi! Can I borrow this sweater? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } No, sorry. You see, all this dry winter air has created quite a bit of } static, and my cats have become a bit attached to it. --- 1376-08 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: tony@thehappythrix.com The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > O ideologically sound oracle, how does one become ideologically sound? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } With a virtue-ning fork. --- 1376-09 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Tim Chew The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > So here I was, about to enjoy a sumpuous meal of boiled squid > at Lulu's Barbecue and Tire Changing. Suddenly my mind lurches > to the left, and I'm thinking of YOU, the only Internet Oracle! > Needles to say, I feel a pricking in my thumbs, and I discover > that I've not taken the pins out of my new shirt. > > Why do these things always happen to ME, and what are you going > to do to help me? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Because you never grovel. If only you were to grovel when asking me a } question, your mind would be freed: You could remember to take the } pins out of your shirt, you could stop showing up for lunch in oddly } wrinkled and bloodstained shirts, and you could finally get some time } alone with Lulu when she's clad only in her overalls and smeared } lightly with axle grease. } } Mmm, grease. } } You owe the Oracle a Women of Auto Repair pinup calendar. --- 1376-10 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Mike Nolan The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Did Mickey Mouse really blow up the house? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } No, no, supplicant. You're confused again. It was } Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up Parliament (he didn't, } by the way) on November 5. Mickey Mouse was the one } who starred in "Steamboat Willie", which premiered on } November 18. Those anniversaries are almost 2 weeks } apart! Honestly, does'nt anyone watch the History } Channel anymore? } } You owe the Oracle some fireworks and an effigy of } Scrooge McDuck.