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Internet Oracularities #100

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Usenet Oracularities #100    (32 votes, 2.6 mean)
Compiled-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 90 00:53:59 GMT

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100   32 votes 5ac23 9e720 6a952 96b51 2ca62 28b65 3cd40 6a673 38c72 e8433
100   2.6 mean  2.6   2.1   2.6   2.5   2.8   3.1   2.6   2.7   2.9   2.2


100-01    (5ac23 dist, 2.6 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> How do you win at Tetris? No, no, I mean: How can I win at Tetris?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} TETRIS!!!!!!!!!  You are asking me a question about a computer game!
} You think I have time for silly questions like this one.  There's a
} woman in Peoria who's having problems with the bunion on her left big
} toe, in Alli-alli-akbar-zpwing-shimmy-skboom, there's a new religion
} forming and there leader is asking me to be the Pope, besides that
} there's an endless series of yearning masses out there looking to ME for
} advice, and assistance in their puny lives.  And you ask me how to win
} at TETRIS.  Get real, I got better things to do.
}
} But, if you must know, try to drop the pieces into the holes they fit.
}
} You owe the Oracle a can of bunion cream, a Papal robe, a cattle prod,
} and a net access to Xtank.


100-02    (9e720 dist, 2.1 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> Oh great and wondrous oracle answer me this:
>
> Why is the English word for mispronunciation (cacoepy) impossible to
> pronounce?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} It's yet another one of those self-descriptive words, like "short" (a
} short word), "recherche", "awkwardnessfull", and "hydrogenated".


100-03    (6a952 dist, 2.6 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> >> How much wood could a wombat chuck, if a womabt could chuck wood?
> >
> >} Omega password accepted.
> >}
> >} What would you like to change, O Lord?
>
> PARAMETER CHANGE 445871-NEC/78 EQUIVALENCE "Panty"
> SUBSTITUTE GLOBAL/FILE=*.DAT "Why?" "Harold"
>
> IMPLEMENT CHANGES AND SAVE DELETE ALL BACKUPS.
> DE-LOCK ACCESS CODES ALL EXCEPT OMEGA CLASS

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} As you touch the keyboard, sparks leap up and sear your fingers.  You
} scream and turn to flee the room, but the Giant Latvian Death Squid is
} already filling the doorway with its tentacles...


100-04    (96b51 dist, 2.5 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> Now my apartment is full of lice and ice and flat flounders writing on
> the walls and bags of frozen blueberries crying for home and comfort and
> bed and dozens and dozens of little squirrrles all looking at me and
> saying "catacomb catacomb catacomb" at me in unison.  And there is a
> great big pear in one corner reading the New York Times.  And there is a
> great big orange in the other corner trying to figure out how to play
> the bassoon without a mouth.  And I haven't even mentioned the toasters,
> but I won't because it said it would turn all the toast into bacon if I
> said anything about it and I don't like bacon.  And Dan Rather is
> sitting on the blue elephant and eating taco chips and Phyllis Schlafly
> who isn't Just Saying No to anything at all today.  And the beef in
> oyster sauce is dancing a merry tango with the clay statue of Thomas
> Jefferson.  And there are two hundred and sixteen green glass marbles,
> too.
>
> But where are the skunks?  I invited the skunks specially!  This party
> is for them!

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} I know what happened to the skunks.  They felt neglected that you missed
} their birthday.  Your invitation was lost in the mail.  So they went to
} a bar and got trashed.  On the way home they were mugged, raped, and
} ticketed for illegal parking.  When they woke up, they were in someone's
} house and they couldn't find the way home.  Now they are lost and they
} need help.  If I told you where the are, everyone's karma would be
} changed, which is bad.
}
} You owe the oracle a donation to the lost animals fund.


100-05    (2ca62 dist, 2.8 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> Dear Oracle,
>
> Sometimes you give me answers that are serious and to the point.
> Sometimes you give me answers that are sensitive and caring.
> Sometimes you give me answers that are very funny and they make my
> mood so much better.  And then I get answers that are pathetic.
>
> Why is this?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} It depends a lot on cosmic rays
} And how I feel on different days
} And how much shit I've had to eat,
} And karma foul from too much meat,
} And whether I know that Lisa cares
} And if I've still got my despairs,
} And if life's nerdly or life's fun,
} And if I find a clever pun.


100-06    (28b65 dist, 3.1 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> How much acid should I drop tomorrow?  What kind?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} No more than 1 liter of Hydrochloric or 500 ml of Sulfuric.  Put
} something on the floor first, and clean up the glass shards when you're
} done.


100-07    (3cd40 dist, 2.6 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> Can one ever be said to be an essential extension of one's own
> ontological existence?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

}         This depends entirely on how much, and what, you have been
} drinking at the party before philisophical discussions finally arise.
}
}         If multiple cocktails have been imbibed, making such utterences
} would be profound foolishness!  However after a single beer (if such is
} adequate to arouse deep speculation in the petitioner or his peers) then
} saying one is an essential extension of one's own ontological existence
} becomes a more practical challenge.


100-08    (6a673 dist, 2.7 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> How do you know when you are really successful?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} You are really successful when:
}
} 1.  Your ears fall off
} 2.  The moon turns blue
} 3.  The horses cough
} 4.  The ducks all moo.
} 5.  You know troff
} 6.  You can't canoe
} 7.  You're made of cloth.
} 8.  You hat's a shoe.
} 9.  You wax your wroth.
} 10. You wane it, too.
} 11. You are a sloth.
} 12. You are a shrew.
} 13. You catch a moth.
} 14. You catch a gnu.
}
} Those are the best signs.


100-09    (38c72 dist, 2.9 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> Oh, great Oracle, I come to you with a question.  Whenever it is
> midnight and the owls hoot at the rising moon, a strange feverish
> sensation overcomes me and I rush forth into the wilderness.  There I go
> and find a wild terminal growing on some oak tree, and hack until
> morning.  I go home exhausted but happy.  My question is this:  where
> can I find other people to enjoy this blythe sport?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} For a compilation of real dreams, all writ down in the morning and
} stuff, write
}
}       NightMind
}       c/o rev etc
}       box 02024
}       columbus, oh 43202
}
} Send your dreams for a complete postal psycho analysis.  We commit
} mail Freud.
}
} You owe the oracle an all expenses paid vacation tour of the id.


100-10    (e8433 dist, 2.2 mean)
Selected-By: Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>

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

> Pourquoi quand je tappe ici, mes mots sont en francais, et en mauvais
> francais sur tout?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Parce que tu es infecte par un betisme ...  Sacre bleu!  Tu m'infecte
} avec le betisme!  Espece de cochon!  Il faut que tu n'utilise pas le net
} quand tu es infecte par un betisme!
}
} Tu me doit une _Petite Larousse_.


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