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Best of Internet Oracularities #1201-1225    (3.9 mean)
Compiled-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 2001 13:50:00 -0500

Oracularities are the distilled wisdom and sagacity of the Internet
Oracle, as incarnated in its many anonymous e-mail participants.  This
collection has been compiled from the regular Oracularities postings #1201
through #1225 and contains the Oracularities rated by its readers
as among the funniest.

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oracle@cs.indiana.edu with the word "help" in the subject line to receive
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1221-08    (14dko dist, 4.0 mean)
Selected-By: "Tim Chew" <twchew@mindspring.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Your turn.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Orrie:
}
}    X |   |
}   -----------
}      |   |
}   -----------
}      | O |
}
} Commentary: An unorthodox counter by The Oracle playing, as
}             always, "O".
}
} Supplicant:
}
}    X | X |
}   -----------
}      |   |
}   -----------
}      | O |
}
} Commentary: A rather straight forward, but counter-
}             intuitive counter move by the supplicant.
}
} Orrie: +1
}
}    X | X | Y
}   -----------
}      |   |
}   -----------
}      | O |
}
} Commentary: Orrie scores with a chromosome reference!
}
} Supplicant:
}
}    X | X | Y
}   -----------
}      |   |
}   -----------
}    S | O |
}
} Commentary: Clearly shaken by The Oracle's last move
}             the supplicant lashes out blindly.
}
} Orrie: +1
}
}    X | X | Y
}   -----------
}    E |   |
}   -----------
}    S | O |
}
} Commentary: Oracle scores with a reverse vertical, that
}             cleverly alludes to his first point.
}
} Supplicant: +1
}
}    X | X | Y
}   -----------
}    E |   |
}   -----------
}    S | O | S
}
} Commentary: Hello Freud, the supplicant telegraphs his
}             state of mind.
}
} Orrie: +2
}
}    X | X | Y
}   -----------
}    E | E |
}   -----------
}    S | O | S
}
} Commentary: A double for Orrie! And talk about one track, but
}             the crowd loves it and goes wild. Judges rule XEO
}             too obscure, Oracle shrugs it off.
}
} Supplicant: +1
}
}    X | X | Y
}   -----------
}    E | E | E
}   -----------
}    S | O | S
}
} Commentary: Judges ruled 'Triple E' as inadmissible, despite
}             the supplicant's spirited arguments that it is
}             'a shoe size joke that alludes to the size of
}              one's feet and the relation of same to one's
}              meat'.
}
}             Oracle wins: 4 to 2
}
} You owe the Oracle a signed copy of 'The Glass Bead Game'.


1218-01    (14bih dist, 3.9 mean)
Selected-By: Ian Davis

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> I humble myself before you, for I am but a lowly community college
> student on a perilious quest to seek and obtain the pinnacle of
> CC achievement, the sacred parchment known to the initiated as the
> Associate of Arts degree. I have not as yet, officially, declared a
> major, but I intend to make a meager living as a writer, perhaps as a
> junior copywriter at some two-bit ad agency or submitting short story
> after story to literary journals only to be continually rejected and
> wind up working at Illuminations, the art-of-living candle store in
> the mall. Because I will have no medical insurance, I will no longer
> be able to afford my Zoloft, and will spiral into a depression that
> leaves me unable to take care of myself or pay rent. I will wander
> the streets of downtown Portland with my shopping cart filled with
> my works dating back to 4th grade and give public readings to the
> pigeons and statues in the park blocks while the Portland State
> University transfer students point to me and say "Yeah, that crazy
> chick was in my creative writing class at PCC."  And all because I
> could not concieve of an idea that would justify the use of 4 pieces
> of computer paper.  Please, suggest to me a character to build upon,
> a situation, what-have-you, so that I may snap out of this fog.
> In receipt of this, O' Oracle, I will name my character after you.
> Bless you, Generous deity, Guide of lost souls and Creator of all
> fictional characters.
>
> KerouwackedOut in Portland, OR

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} I too know the heartache of having writer's block. At least you can
} write what you like! Imagine if you could only answer questions someone
} else asked...
}
} This how-to document should give you near-infinite characters and
} situations for your writing. Hopefully this will lift you out of your
} impending Zoloft-bereft depression. It might help if you lift you out
} of Portland as well.
}
} How to create a new fictional character in three easy steps:
}
} 1. Select a famous person from history (must be deceased).
} 2. Select a famous person currently living. This second person should
} not have ever had the faintest possibility of meeting the first person.
} 3. Combine the two into a single person and see what develops.
}
} For example, I will pick Genghis Khan and Martha Stewart. Now I put my
} new character into a situation and start writing!
}
} Martha Khan stepped lightly through the field of wildflowers, pausing
} occasionally to disembowel one of the attacking Mongols with a melon
} baller. "How badly these invading rabble dress!" she thought to herself
} after deftfully removing the spleen of a particularly hairy swordsman.
} She applied lemon rind to the organ and placed it in a hand-woven urn
} basket decorated with eucalyptus and white baby's breath as a warning
} to others and turned her attentions to cutting a fresh flower bouquet
} with a dagger pulled from the back of an unfortunate bowman. Her
} freshly painted nails glinted in the morning light and matched
} perfectly with her hand-woven sun dress dyed with natural onion-skins
} and printed with potato halves cut into patterns and dipped in human
} blood. "Ah, it's good to be alive," she said to no one in particular,
} reaching down to even the sideburns of the decapitated head lying at
} her feet. Her pace quickened as she passed the stakes of severed heads
} and headed for her yurt to prepare breakfast for the rest of her Mongol
} hoard. "I think we will attack in the salmon turtlenecks today Gonthar"
} she told her second in command as she entered the dwelling. "And
} freshen up the heads in the yard with mint leaves. It will help keep
} the flies down." He bowed, trying to hide the fact that he was missing
} several fingers on his right hand, and backed toward the exit. He was
} exceedingly careful not to wrinkle his newly pressed doeskin tunic, for
} he knew better than most the punishment for being inappropriately
} attired for a formal ambush.
}
} You owe the Oracle a K-mart commercial containing a melon baller and
} someone's spleen.


1220-09    (27ccq dist, 3.9 mean)
Selected-By: Christophe <xof@chanticleer.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

>  Is that a woodchuck in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} [The teacher draws the curtains and dims the lights after
} pulling down the screen over the blackboard.  She walks
} to the back of the room towards the filmstrip projector
} saying "Now this is very important, no talking or giggling.
} We have time for some questions afterwards."  All the
} girls are in the room next door presumably seeing their
} "special" filmstrip.
}
} The phonograph needle is dropped on a warped record and
} some tinkly theme music starts up unevenly...]
}
} <Titles: Oracle Education Services presents>
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} <Titles: Number 4 in the "Why is hair growing there?"
}          series>
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} <Titles: Growing up: The woodchuck in your pocket and you>
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Picture of boy walking down a suburban street]
}           This is Timmy.  Timmy is a normal American boy.
}           He likes to play baseball and collect stamps.  He
}           enjoys going to the park with his friends.  He is
}           also about to get a surprise visitor.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Timmy looking moderately horrified at the
}           woodchuck that has just popped out of his right
}           front pocket]
}           Gosh! Timmy has a woodchuck in his pocket!  That
}           means Timmy has entered puberty.  Puberty is the
}           time when a boy start to change into a man. Many
}           changes happen to a boy's body when he is in
}           puberty, the foremost of which is the arrival of
}           his pocket woodchuck.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Timmy shaking hands vigorously with the woodchuck]
}           The arrival of your woodchuck is nothing to be
}           frightened of.  He will become your special friend
}           and will bring you hours of happiness. In fact, you
}           will find that you will spend a great deal of time
}           petting, fondling, and rubbing your woodchuck in the
}           years ahead.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Timmy and woodchuck in leather jackets, smoking]
}           However, you need to be the one that does the
}           thinking.  If you let him, your woodchuck will want
}           you to do only the things he wants to do.  He will
}           want you to focus on him all day long.  This can
}           lead to getting in with a bad crowd or possibly
}           even spending all your time alone in your room.
}           You have to make sure your woodchuck knows who is
}           the boss.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Timmy and woodchuck on bed looking at a National
}            Geographic]
}           Yes, you and your woodchuck will have lots of
}           fun together.  It is OK to play with your woodchuck
}           in your room with the door closed, but there are
}           times you should not let your woodchuck out.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Woman in the hand lotions aisle, eyes bulging
}            looking at Timmy and woodchuck walking down aisle]
}
}           Like at the grocery store.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Timmy and woodchuck approaching a cluster of
}            girls in party dresses, turning away and
}            covering their eyes]
}
}           Or the school dance.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Woman fainting and crowd staring and Timmy and
}            woodchuck entering dressed in matching black
}            suits]
}
}           Or at a funeral.
}
} *BEEP* [schlick-tick]
}
} Narrator: [Timmy and woodchuck from behind in front of a
}            microphone.  Audience of parents wide-eyed and
}            mouths agape stare back.]
}
}          Or during the school spelling bee-bee-bee-bee-bee-
}          -bee-bee-bee-bee-ssssskkkkkkrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk
}
} ["Hold on class, let me fix the..." *POOF* <projector bulb blows>
} "Oh damn!  I mean darn!..."]
}
} You owe the Oracle a waxed dolphin.


1222-08    (14gtj dist, 3.9 mean)
Selected-By: "Alyce Wilson" <shantipoet@teenagewildlife.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Oh Oracle most wise, wonderful, bright, beautiful, great, but not
> small, please will you help me... I am in a quandary.
>
> I am currently between jobs, and on my resume' I indicated that I am
> one of the Elder Gods.  It was just a little joke, you know, something
> to break the ice in the interview.  Well, there's this one company I
> interviewed with, where the guy I talked to looked at this, and said,
> "an Elder God, splendid!" without even batting an eye.  In fact, I got
> the distinct impression this was the sort of thing he *expected* to see
> on a resume'. And now this company has asked me for my references.
> It's starting to look kind of spooky.  What should I do?  Would it be
> best to come clean and admit that I overstated the truth, or should I
> try and bluff my way through?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} You claimed you were an Elder God? Oh man, that's hysterical. That
} reminds of the time Hermes, Thor and I decided to try and sneak into
} Club Aphrodite (which Zeus and Ares were trying to keep to themselves,
} the bastards) and Thor figured he'd never be allowed in a Greek club if
} he looked Norse, so he hid his hammer in his pants and tried to
} disguise himself as Dionysios, but it turned out it was naked olive oil
} wrestling night and so we all ended up drunk and.... well, that wasn't
} really what you asked, was it?
}
} You could just claim it was a typo, and that you are actually an Alder
} God. (You have until the interview to learn a whole lot about trees.)
} In a similar vein, you could claim dyslexia and be an Elder Dog,
} although the wagging might be problematic.
}
} But I think you should go ahead and try to bluff your way through. In
} preparation for the interview, acquire a cattle prod, a wireless throat
} microphone, an air horn, some figs, wine, and a half-naked nymph (a
} dryad will do, in a pinch. So to speak. Ahem.)
}
} Attach the cattle prod to a long stick. You can glue a little glitter
} on it if you want to get fancy. This will be your "Staff of Zot".
} Arrive at the interview early enough to put on your microphone and
} connect it to the building's intercom system.  You should have already
} put the airhorn down your pants.
}
} Arrive in the reception area with the nymph clinging to your arm. When
} you are called into the interviewer's office, tell her "Await my
} return, and we shall proceed to Olympus forthwith." (This is the Elder
} God equivalent of pretending to get a really important call on your
} cell phone.)
}
} As you sit down, trigger the air horn. (Keep in mind that breaking wind
} in an interview is a faux pas only for mortals-- for us gods, it's just
} another way of announcing our arrival. Zeus can practically clear a
} room, and don't *ever* be standing behind Athena when she shows up.
} Whew.)
}
} Answer all the questions more or less normally, but speak into the
} microphone, of course. If asked about your Godhood chuckle modestly and
} say "Oh, I never discuss religion at work". If pressed, look
} inscrutable and say "I've never had a problem in that area".
}
} By now, you should have a sense of whether the interviewer is going for
} it or not. If all is well, congratulations! If not, stand up and shout
} "How dare you doubt me, you puny mortal!" and ZOT him a couple of
} times. This will give you time to get out the building (don't forget to
} collect your nymph) before he can call security.
}
} The figs and wine? Those are for me, thanks-- I skipped breakfast.
}
} You owe the Oracle notice of when you are going to try this, I want to
} watch.


1223-05    (04itl dist, 3.9 mean)
Selected-By: Dave Hemming <surfbaud@waverider.co.uk>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Wise Oracle most tidy,
>
> Should I hire a maid?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Here's a quick quiz to help you decide whether you need a maid. Choose
} the answers that describe your house the best:
}
} Kitchen Sink:
} A. It is empty, and sterilized with full strength bleach.
} B. My coffee cup (rinsed) is in the sink.
} C. Last night's dinner dishes are in the sink.
} D. Last year's dinner dishes are in the sink.
}
} Refrigerator:
} A. Empty, except for 2 bottles of spring water and a container of
}    yogurt
} B. Usual assortment of foods, mostly fresh. No empty jars.
} C. Some of the veggies are little suspicious looking.
} D. Some of the veggies have developed teeth, and my cat is missing.
}
} Floors:
} A. Vacuumed and swept daily.
} B. Vacuumed and swept weekly.
} C. Vacuumed and swept monthly.
} D. Several archeological digs in progress.
}
} Laundry:
} A. Is done daily
} B. Is done weekly
} C. Is done when the closets and clothes drawers are empty
} D. Eventually crawls away on its own, and then I go shopping.
}
} Furniture is dusted:
} A. Every day, using cleansers and polish and imported feather dusters
} B. Once a week, with whatever rag I can find.
} C. Whenever I can write my name on it, with my shirt sleeve.
} D. When plants start to grow on it, with a trowel.
}
} Scoring:  Give yourself 0 points for every A answer, 1 point for B, 2
} for C, and 3 for D.
} Add 150 points if anything scurried across your screen while you were
} reading this.
}
} 0 - 3:    You're Martha Stewart, and you make the rest of us look bad.
}              Go away.
} 4 - 7:    You don't really need a maid. Hire a masseuse instead.
} 8 - 11:   Yeah, you need a maid.
} 12 - 15:  You don't need a maid, you need a disaster recovery plan and
}              a backhoe.
} 15 - :    The National Guard and the EPA have been notified.
}
} You owe the Oracle a way to remove 5-month-old toxic hummus from a
} refrigerator without actually touching the container.


1201-06    (29col dist, 3.8 mean)
Selected-By: Christophe <xof@chanticleer.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

>  48 6F 77 20 6D 75 63 68 20 77 6F 6F 64 20 77 6F 75 6C 64 20 61 20 77
>  6F 6F 64 63 68 75 63 6B 20 63 68 75 63 6B 20 69 66 20 61 20 77 6F 6F
>  64 63 68 75 63 6B 20 63 6F 75 6C 64 20 63 68 75 63 6B 20 77 6F 6F 64
>  3F

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} How bizarre, how perplexing
} more mysterious than chicken sexing
} why you thought that simple hexing
} would keep this question from being vexing?
}
} 5A 4F 54 21
}
} No doubt now you'll think it merry
} to ask again the dreaded query
} Which incarnation will the burden carry
} Should you send it as binary?
}
} 1011010 1001111 1010100 100001
}
} Your feet upon a desperate road
} In danger of being made a toad
} Yet still the Oracle you goad
} Good gods, what's next-- morse code?
}
} --..----!
}
} Until ambition over keen
} Pushes you to the last extreme
} Hunched over the keyboard, mad and mean
} You ask the question in rot13
}
} MBG!
}
} The moral:
} No matter if you're feeling puckish
} And tempted to push your luckish
} And even risk an answer suckish
} Don't ask questions that are w**dchuckish.


1202-05    (36ikm dist, 3.8 mean)
Selected-By: "Joshua R. Poulson" <jrp@pun.org>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Oracle, I am about to make the supreme sacrifice in honor of
> being able to ask you a question. I am placing this razor-sharp
> kantana to my belly and pu..pu.pushing it IN! Ach,  I  i... I am
> moving it to the left noooo_ow... I want to show you that...that
> I am honor..honored to ask of.. you a, a , question... I am moving
> the sword...  I ergh phfftt, ack oh oh oh ..... glurble, flok!
> oooorpt. . .

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Oh my! Its has been years since I have read entrails! It
} fell out of vogue with the end of the Roman Empire. Let me see:
}
} - you will soon experience a long uninterrupted period of
}   peace and silence.
}
} - job demands will lessen considerably.
}
} - your family members will get a large cash gift.
}
} - you had corn on the cob last night for dinner.
}
} You owe the Oracle a mop and bucket.


1208-08    (35epi dist, 3.8 mean)
Selected-By: "Kirsten R. Chevalier" <krc@erythrea.wellesley.edu>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Are prison inmates allowed to use cell phones?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Only if they've been charged with battery.
}
} You owe the Oracle a salted peanut.


1217-10    (05eed dist, 3.8 mean)
Selected-By: MVSOPEN@aol.com

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Oh Oracle Most Wise,
>
> Why does my cat spend so much time studying detailed maps of Stonehenge

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Because your cat is an alien life form.  Don't be alarmed!  All felines
} are of alien origin.  They arrived on earth after their spaceship
} crashed while chasing intergalactic field mice from Stavromula Beta.
}
} As most cat owners are aware, the ancient Egyptians used to revere cats
} as deities, and in fact the cats used Egypt for their first major
} attempt at returning to the stars.  This explains the purpose of the
} Great Pyramids, although their exact function in returning cats to
} space is still known only to cats and the Oracle.  And since you didn't
} ask about *that*, I don't have to tell you.  So nyah.  At any rate,
} when it became clear that the Pyramid Scheme, as it came to be called,
} was not going to work out, the cat leadership decided to look for
} another tribe of primitive humans to serve as cheap labor.
}
} In the British Isles, they found a group of nature-worshipping druids
} and in true feline fashion set to work ingratiating themselves.  They
} rubbed up against the druid's legs, batted balls of yarn about, and
} climbed up on the druids laps and purred loudly and affectionately.  In
} no time at all, the druids were completely in thrall to the powerful
} aliens.  The cats then instructed the druids to build Stonehenge, again
} for the purpose of returning the cats to their home on Stavromula Beta.
}
} The project was nearing completion, and we might be a cat-less society
} today, had it not been for the actions of one unknown druid. She
} introduced cats to the wild mint known as "Nepeta Cataria," or more
} commonly, "catnip." The cats in charge of the project promptly went on
} a bender that lasted four months, and by then the whole idea of
} returning to Stavromula Beta, which *definitely* does not have catnip,
} seemed rather silly.  The cats split up, spreading across the globe and
} insinuating themselves into the private residences of humans
} everywhere.
}
} To answer your question specifically, your cat is poring over the
} detailed maps of Stonehenge in an attempt to see if the ancient device
} could be completed and used to send all of Earth's dogs somewhere
} else--perhaps to the center of the star Betelgeuse.  Hey, it may be
} your cuddly fuzzy-wuzzy kittykins on the outside, but hidden inside
} that furry exterior is the crafty, calculating mind of an alien.  Think
} about *that* next time the cat is staring at you in the shower.
}
} You owe the oracle a collar with a little bell on it.  Lisa loves those
} things.


1221-10    (38ajm dist, 3.8 mean)
Selected-By: Sid Dabster

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> [...a plain cursor blinks at you...]

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} You have some medium wounds.
}
} > west
}
} A large directory blocks your way.
} The plain cursor misses you.
}
} > hit cursor
}
} You move towards the cursor, but it is displaced by a keypress.
} The plain cursor hits you with a hard blink.
} You are critically wounded.
}
} > inv
}
} You have:
} addch()
} attrset()
} curs_set()
} echo()
} initscr()
} refresh()
}
} > refresh()
}
} SYNTAX ERROR
}
} > refresh();
}
} You feel better.
} The plain cursor hits you with the speed of a carriage return.
} You are slightly wounded.
}
} > addch('d');
}
} You summon a d.
} The d displaces the plain cursor.
} The plain cursor backspaces over the d.
} The d has been killed.
} There is now a d corpse on the ground.
}
} > eat d corpse
}
} What, are you stupid?
}
} > flee
}
} You try to escape north, but the plain cursor move()s in front of you.
} The plain cursor blinks at you.
} You have, like, 1 hit point left, man!
}
} > curs_set(0);
}
} Capability not supported by terminal.
} The plain cursor hits you with a bold blink.
} You are dead.
} Would you like to try again? [Y] _


1223-03    (24lri dist, 3.8 mean)
Selected-By: Ian Davis

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Early to bed and early to rise,
> Contributes much to an early demise!

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Ah, you appear to have stumbled upon something very rare; a portion
} of the original draft of "Poor Richard's Almanack." It was rejected
} because...well, I might as well quote the publisher's rejection
} letter.
}
} SENT VIA Eight-Week Priority Mail
}
} MESSRS. Smithfield and Fieldfmith
} Publifhers Appointed By His Majefty
} The King To Publifh Official
} Documents, Notices, Pamphlets,
} Works of Great Literature, &c.
} Located Near the New North Church
} Bofton, Maffachuffets
}
} October the Third,
} The Year of Our Lord 1756
}
} MR. Benjamin Franklin
} 7 Market Street
} Philadelphia, Pennfylvania
}
} Our Dear Mr. Franklin,
}
} Thank you for fubmitting your Manufcript "Poor Richard's Almanack" to
} us. We regret to inform you that it does not meet our Needs at the
} Prefent Time.
}
} While we do believe that fuch an Almanack, giving Information on the
} Atlantic Ocean Tides, Phafes of the Moon and other Heavenly Bodies,
} as well as Weather Forecafts for the several Colonies, would be met
} with much Intereft and General Acclaim among the Publick at Large, we
} do not believe that the Publick would be receptive to many of the
} Aphorifms, Sayings, and Wife Counfel of Poor Richard that you have
} included in your Almanack. They offer Bad Advice, and make the Blood
} and the other Humours nervous. Pleafe allow us to quote the worft
} Offenders:
}
} "Never leave that till to-morrow what you can do to-day, unleff you
} juft don't feel like it."
}
} "Dost Thou hate Life? Then feel free to squander Time, for that is
} what Life is made of."
}
} "The early Bird gets the Worm; the late Bird gets the fat and juicy
} Beetle that did not emerge from under a rock until the Sun heated the
} ground; both Birds will choke on their Meals and die."
}
} "For want of a Nail, the Shoe was loft; for want of a Shoe, the Horfe
} was loft; for want of a Horfe, the Rider was loft; for want of a
} Rider, the Battle was loft; for want of a Battle, the Earth was
} deftroyed by a Weapon that will be invented in the Future, whose
} Terrible Power and Deftruction we cannot comprehend."
}
} Once again, we offer our most fincere Thanks for fubmitting your
} manufcript to us. However, we have juft announced the Publication of
} our own Almanack for the coming year 1757, to be given the Title "Sir
} or Madam, Would You Kindly Open This Almanack to Difcover and Be
} Aftounded by All Sorts of Information, Please?" Therefore, a
} refubmittal of your manufcript, with certain Corrections to make the
} Tone more Light and lefs depreffing, fhall not be welcomed. May we
} fuggeft that you publifh fuch a Volume by yourfelf?
}
} We remain Moft Sincerely Yours,
} JOS. A. SMITHFIELD and
} GEO. J. FIELDSMITH, Publishers


1223-09    (22msi dist, 3.8 mean)
Selected-By: Christophe <xof@chanticleer.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

>  Oh Oracle most wise,
>
>  Why does an influx of work always come my way at 4.55pm each day?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Bob, you've been the parking lot attendant there in that building
} for 23 years now.
}
} <sigh>
}
} The other people are going home.
}
} You owe the Oracle a validated ticket.


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