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
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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.
}