Subject: The Oracle Replies! Message-ID: <1itqocINN3j1@corvus.usc.edu> Date: 12 Jan 93 07:07:56 GMT Sender: rone@corvus.usc.edu Summary: question posited by rone X-Face: "9e\S&XFxP?L)~?^jbHC!$jk5#O}v\n#nwz8'd$#(H,+B4n<^{GSCr,![PCrQOV1 nW{vh|Ev<)b!y?'?aysJ)3YJ_/sOl@a'lKaG,uk|Xh3mR+xa]XJ!$vqAjQe?.nst;0/"u?M2K~rC6k~ |)'uWrn%alJW'QwwJJ441kc,m.C!?:EP49(+ X-Planation: X-Face can be viewed with "faces". From the iuvax archive today. The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh Most Bodacious Oracle, whose WorkStation makes the SparcServer 10 look > alike Timex Sinclair 1000, who benchpresses blue whales for fun, and knows > the Roman God of Faeces, do answer this supplicant's question. > > If you put Kibo and Carasso in a partitioned room, and put > B1FF!!1111 and Rictus Hep in the other half of the partitioned > room, and then the lights went out, and then the partition removed, > and the lights turned on again, what would happen (before and > after the rooms are joined)? > > > - A Humble Supplicant > And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Obviously they do what all cultured people do. They write the Oracle. } } CARASSO decides to post the entire Frederick's of Hollywood Lingerie } Catalog. But rather than type it all in, he's scanning in the pages } and posting the uuencoded bitmaps. } } CARASSO: "Subject: Frederick's (Summer 1992) (156 of 5110)" Hmm... } } Rictus Hep: Did you know that there's an artificial intelligence program } named Parry? Just like James "Kibo" Parry. I wonder how } well it fucks. } } BIFF!!1111: K00l! } } Kibo: I am NOT named after an AI program! I am *not* paranoid! } Hey, quit looking at me like that! I am *not* getting touchy - } I just don't like people looking at me. Why do people keep } calling me Parry? Is this some kind of plot to GET ME? } } (hey - what a deep thought... I'd better post it to the net!) } } BIFF!!1111: PLEZ HEP ME. I"M USING AN IBM PC 2 TAKE OVER THE WORLD } BUT MICRO SOFT SAYS ITS NOT SPORTED. SUM K00L DOOD TELL ME } WAT 2 DO? AWE SUM!! } } Rictus Hep: Micro-- soft? Heh heh. We all get it, right? Soft? } } Kibo: You know, Carasso, I can't help but point out that there's a } Fall 1992 Frederick's Catalog. I saw one as I was passing by } the Stop & Shop on Memorial Drive. Naturally personally I } couldn't stoop so low as to read such a thing, but as I was } driving by I happened to peek in through the window of the } supermarket and saw "Fall 1992" clearly labelled. } } CARASSO: I'M WORKING ON IT! I'M WORKING ON IT! OH, MY POOR } TIRED FINGERS, SLAVING OVER A GREASY SCANNER AND ALL FOR THE } LOVE OF MY FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. DO I ASK FOR SOME KIND OF REWARD? } NO! (actually, now that I think about it, ) } } BIFF!!1111: I THINK U GOT PAGE 32 UP-SIDE DOWN. MOST NOT K00L! } } Rictus Hep: Upside down? Get it? Upside down? Poor old Rictus doesn't } get a lot you know, but what he does get -- he gets upside down! } } CARASSO: SHIT! I am NOT definitely NOT going to re-post PAGE 32 again. } Use xv or something to flip it. I DON'T FUCKING CARE! } } BIFF!!1111: HOW DO I DO THAT? } } Rictus Hep: That's what *she* said! } } Kibo: Rarely in my (dare I admit, rather comfortable) life have I been } in the presence of such idiocy, even in the realm of } Knowledge-In-Bullshit-Out. Oh wait -- here on comp.binaries.ibm.pc } I see a reference to me! } } "I'm calling this Skiing videogame I'm posting "skibozo" just to annoy } Kibo who will find it every time he greps through usenet for his name" } } CARASSO: I don't care how you flip it. Flip this, asshole. (flips the bird) } Why don't you ask the Oracle? } } BIFF!!1111: DERE ORKLE, HOW DO I FLIP IT/? } } Kibo: Dear naturally not quite as cool as I am Oracle, } What's up? I can't help but notice that most people ask you questions, } and don't take the time to notice that you too may have deep } inner emotions that need healing and answering. Feel free to } let ol' Kibo help you out from time to time if the burdens get } too much. } } Rictus Hep: Yo Oracle, } How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if poor old Rictus } were to slip it to him? } } CARASSO: HEY ORACLE, } I'm trying to publish a description of what it would be like to } fuck every woman I've ever met on Usenet, complete with } an audio track I'm making up. Any ideas for victims? Heh heh. } } You owe the Oracle a way out of this racket. }