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- From: leitm@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Leith M F)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
- Subject: Rebel Oracularities
- Message-ID: <6213@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:14:48 GMT
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- Reply-To: leitm@essex.ac.uk (Leith M F)
- Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
- Lines: 269
-
- G'day folks,
- Because of the oracularity shortage of late, I thought I'd post the
- following three responses, which I thought were pretty good.
-
- Mig.
-
-
- The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
- Your question was:
-
- > Worshipful and Divine Oracle <"BUY PEPSI">, I have discovered (using a
- > decoder) that there are subliminal messages <"CIGARETTES PROLONG LIFE">
- > all over the net! Can you see them flashing across my text <"EAT CHOCOLATE!
- > EAT CHOCOLATE!"> editor? I started to get suspicious <"VOTE BUSH!"> last
- > week when I felt myself <"CLINTON MOLESTS CHILDREN!"> compelled to buy
- > sanitary <"HARI KRISHNA, HARI! HARI!"> towels from a general store
- > (I am male). How are they getting away <"G REC.HUMOR.ORACLE"> with
- > it ?!
- >
-
- And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
-
- }
- } You are obviously <ASK THE ORACLE> just being paranoid.
- } No one but you <THE ORACLE IS THE WISEST CREATURE IN THE UNIVERSE>
- } can control<TRUST THE ORACLE> your thoughts and actions.<LOVE THE ORACLE>
- } Take a break from <DESTROY YOUR DECODER> your work. <TELL NO ONE> You
- } are under too <THERE ARE NO SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES> much stress. I am
- } sure you'll soon forget <FORGET ABOUT THEM> such <FORGET THEM> nonsense.
- } <FORGET THEM NOW>
- } You owe the Oracle some buttered popcorn and a large Coke.
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
-
- The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
- Your question was:
-
- > Majestic Oracle, O being with the toe nail clippings more precious than
- > the pearls of the Ocean, I do not understand that untrustworthy infidel
- > called Bush, dictator of the Great Satan called America. Why is he
- > selling the Arab Nation all of those tools of destruction one day and then
- > bashing the living daylights out of us the next ?
- >
- > May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman.
- >
- > Saddam.
- >
-
- And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
-
- } Announcer: Heya kids! Welcome to Mr. Bush's Neighborhood! It's the
- } live show, straight from the oval office where President
- } Bush gives soft answers to hard questions.
- }
- } [Applause]
- }
- } Announcer: Mr. Bush's neighborhood is brought to you by ... The
- } Companies ... reminding you that a good war now and then is
- } good for business!
- }
- } [Applause]
- }
- } Announcer: The secret word today is "economy". Kiddies, do you know
- } what this means?
- }
- } ["Yes! Yes! Yes!"]
- }
- } Announcer: You know what to do?
- }
- } ["Yes! Yes! Yes!"]
- }
- } Announcer: Economy!
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Announcer: You know what to do. And now here's our host, George Bush!
- }
- } [Applause!]
- }
- } Bush: Thanks, thanks.
- }
- } [Applause!]
- }
- } Bush: I'm flattered. Really.
- }
- } [Applause ... continues ...]
- }
- } Bush: Would you SIT DOWN and SHUT UP? There, that's much better.
- } Today we're going to talk about the Persian Gulf War. Kinda
- } desert theme. Good for the economy.
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Bush: This reminds me. Heh heh. This reminds me of a really ... far
- } out ... joke. Listen to this. This dates back to my Skull and
- } Bones days. Funny, really.
- }
- } [Chanting ... "Tell us the fucking joke, please!"]
- }
- } Bush: Alright, alright. You twisted my arm! See? Twist twist.
- }
- } [Laughter]
- }
- } Bush: How many A-Rabs would you kill to save our economy?
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } ["How many, George? How many?"]
- }
- } Bush: All of them!
- }
- } [Laughter]
- }
- } Bush: Ha ha. I liked it too. Funny. Sorta a racial joke. Pisses
- } off those God Damn PC'ers.
- }
- } ["Boo!"]
- }
- } Bush: You know them? Those politically correct ...
- }
- } ["Booo!"]
- }
- } Bush: Not prudent! Can't say those racial jokes. Offends the
- } minorities. Bad for the economy.
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Bush: But seriously now. Seriously. Serious. Many concerned voters
- } have been callin' the white house. Yeah. And you know what
- } they've been saying?
- }
- } ["Tell us, George!"]
- }
- } Bush: Well I'll tell you. Some of them pinko commie liberal democrat
- } atheist trash yellow press have been talkin'!
- }
- } ["Boo!"]
- }
- } Bush: And you know it. You know what they've been saying. They say I
- } sold arms to Iraq!
- }
- } ["Boo!!!"]
- }
- } Bush: Well, yes. I did do that.
- }
- } [The booing instantly and mysteriously stops.]
- }
- } Bush: And these same commie atheists say I helped Saddam build his
- } nuclear arsenal.
- }
- } ["Liars! Liars!!!"]
- }
- } Bush: Well, yes. I did do that.
- }
- } [The screams of 'liars' instantly and mysteriously stops.]
- }
- } Bush: But I wasn't "coddling" him!
- }
- } ["No! Yes!"]
- }
- } Bush: That would be bad for the economy.
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Bush: And arms sales are good for the economy.
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Bush: Good for the economy!
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Bush: But Saddam pulled a dirty trick. Yes he did.
- }
- } ["Boo! Hiss!"]
- }
- } Bush: Had to invade Kuwait. He was a bad boy.
- }
- } ["Boo!"]
- }
- } Bush: Price of oil went up!
- }
- } ["Bad! Bad!"]
- }
- } Bush: That's right. Not prudent. Not good for democracy. Baaaad for
- } the economy.
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Bush: Had to do the war thing.
- }
- } [Cheers!]
- }
- } Bush: So tonight kiddies, I'm going to teach you a new word! Are you
- } ready, kids?
- }
- } ["Yes! Yes!"]
- }
- } Bush: Alright. It's "Expediency"!
- }
- } ["Expediency!"]
- }
- } Bush: That's right. It's Expedient to kill A-Rabs!
- }
- } [Cheers]
- }
- } Bush: Good for the economy.
- }
- } [Screams!]
- }
- } Bush: Economy, economy, economy!
- }
- } [Screams! Screams! Screams!]
- }
- } Announcer: And that's it for this week's installment of Mr. Bush's
- } Neighborhood! We hope to see you again after the voting
- } Tuesday ... but don't count on it. Bye!
- }
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
- Your question was:
-
- > Oracle, imperious and true, powerful yet never corrupt!
- > I who bow to the floor in sycophantic manner and sing your praises thrice
- > daily, beg for a solution to the following problem. I need an idea for a
- > final year Comp. Sci Artificial Intelligence project which
- > (a) impresses the hell out of the examiners,
- > (b) is commercially viable and will make loads-a-money,
- > (c) is enjoyable to work on.
- >
-
- And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
-
- } I see that you are in some kind of trouble here.
- }
- } What about writing a HAL9000 emulation? - Your examiners will looove its voice
- } - MGM and IBM will kill for it
- } - Ok the usual "I am afraid I can't
- } let you do this, Dave" is a bit
- } nagging ...
- }
- } Or the perfect tea-making-machine-operation system? - You are in trouble if
- } the examiners prefer
- } coffee
- } - but you will take the
- } British market by storm
- } - no fun in beta testing
- }
- } Or rewrite UNIX in an oop manner and port the ultra-micro-tiny-subspace-kernel
- } to your digital watch? - Your examiners will praise YOUR name
- } - AT&T will be a problem, watch out for
- } certain ads in "soldiers of fortune"
- } But japans' clock industrie will dump you
- } in gold.
- } - enjoyable: sure it is. But be warned!
- } Did you hear of the programmer who
- } developed the 12 dimensional news
- } routing system for the connection
- } machine ? He went nuts ...
- }
- } Write a George Bush emulation - oh no sorry that would be too simple and there
- } is one out (planned as a students joke it
- } escaped out of the lab ...)
- }
- }
- }
- } You owe the Oracle more RAM
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-