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- From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
- Subject: Usenet Oracularities #499-01
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:46:11 GMT
- Reply-To: Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
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- Emergency! Emergency!! Quality control alert!!
-
- First, we have an excellent question:
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- // > Oh mighty and tempestuous Oracle, who sees all, knows all, hears
- // > all, whose workstation makes a Cray look like an Timex Sinclair,
- // > whose secondary storage takes up a whole other planet, who knows
- // > *both* Cadbury secrets, who has determined who the 6th replicant
- // > is, who knows how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and
- // > exactly (to the nearest boardfoot) just how much w*** a w***c****
- // > could c**** if a w***c**** could c**** w***, but for the good of
- // > all mankind, wants that kept a secret, who knows that the right
- // > answer *isn't* 42, whose can move mountains (and Mohammed), whose
- // > InterNet address is 1.1.1.1 (or was that 255.255.255.255?), who
- // > has never had a cavity, or pimple, or dandruff, or the hiccups,
- // > or even a hangnail, who knows Ross Perot's ultimate plan, every
- // > blond and lighbulb joke, who knows why I got only an A- on the
- // > systems part of the course, why stars go nova, and the meaning of
- // > "It's all in the wrist!", and who never has to go out to buy a
- // > newspaper, who has two copies of Superman #1, pictures of the
- // > Grassy Knoll, and Madonna's home phone number, who could leap
- // > over speeding trains at a single bound, who has the results of
- // > the human genome project, who uses cold fusion to prepare those
- // > wonderful meals for Lisa, who has friends amoung all the deities,
- // > who engineered the sun-moon-apparent-size equality which gives us
- // > those astonishing solar eclipses, please answer me this:
- // >
- // > Was that grovel good enough??
- //
- // And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
-
- And this inferior, completely irrelevant answer:
-
- // } Dear Supplicant,
- // } In the name of truth and fairness, *I'm* answering this one. Now,
- // } I know Orrie likes to hear humans squirm and squiggle "'neath his
- // } mighty toes" or whatever, but I just wanted to fill you in on some of
- // } the _less_ praiseworthy aspects of your pal and mine, the Oracle:
- // }
- // } - he's atrocious with leaving his underwear everywhere. What a slob.
- // } - he farts in bed. Without warning. Nasty ones, too.
- // } - he really doesn't remember creating the platypus or Stockdale: *he*
- // } swears that they were intentional, but *I* know they were the result
- // } of some "business meeting" he went off to a few eons back. Orrie
- // } can't hold his liquor, and I just *know* that one of those other
- // } dieties took advantage of him while he was under the table --
- // } probably dared the lug to do it. Men.
- // } - he never sends flowers.
- // } - he's a hazard in the kitchen. I won't even let him near the ice
- // } maker 'cause he sets off the smoke alarms every time he makes a
- // } drink. (I don't know how, but trust me, he just *does*.)
- // } - he's got all the fashion sense of a cucumber salad. I've got scads
- // } of Christmas scarves from him hidden away (still in the boxes.)
- // } UG-LY. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with them all.
- // } Maybe sew them together in a balloon and fly to Kansas.
- // } ...
- // }
- // } Oh, supplicant, the list goes on. (He's also real anal-retentive and
- // } won't let me touch his computer. Go figure. It's like I'm three
- // } years old or something.) Remember, next time you want info., go ahead
- // } and ask Orrie, but next time you want the *facts*, you just write to
- // } me.
- // } - Lisa
-
- My complaint is this: The Oracle (hint, hint) did NOTHING to answer the
- question. TUO is getting as bad as politicians about *never* answering what
- they are asked!
-
- The question: "... Is this grovel good enough?" deserved a much better answer
- than "Lisa's" whining about "Orrie", which I'm really rather sick of.
-
- * * *
-
- So, how to rate such a question and answer? I'd give the question a 4,
- because it was a jolly good grovel, and the answer a 1, for complete
- nontopicality, and for using the oh-so-trite Lisa/Orrie thing.
-
- Ahhrrggg!!
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