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From: lozinski@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (David Lozinski)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: burp jokes
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:48:02 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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[ B U R P ]

There must be a barge coming through!
-Calvin and Hobbes

[B U R P]

What diaphram control!
-Calvin & Hobbes
From: berkovit@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: ascii picsPICT.TXT
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:39:15 GMT

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From: dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: base -2 arithmetic (was: Re: Trinary)
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:12:31 GMT
Organization: UB

bcc@lanai.Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper) writes:

>In article <3ug2TB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>While I'm not sure about his 'Base -2' I don't agree that you can't have
>anything less than base 2.  For instance, try Base 1, below:

>>> 0	
>>> 1	1
>>> 2	11
>>> 3	111
>>> 4	1111
>>> 5	11111
>>> 6	111111
>>> 7	1111111
>>> 8	11111111
>>> 9	111111111
>>> 10	1111111111

>Most kids have a base-1 digital computer that they use for arithmetic in
>the range 0-10 right close at hand.  :-)

I completely agree that numerical systems with base of any integer not
equal to zero could indeed exist, but what about base zero, or number
systems of real, irrational or imaginary bases?  Could anyone give examples
of these if they exit?

I make no claims to be a wizard, guru, prodigy or genius, but it seems
intuitive to me that trinary computer systems would be the way to go, at
least for many 'real world' applications.  Rather than looking at things in
terms of 'true' or 'false', why not take a fuzzy logic approach and think
of things in terms of 'too much', 'just right' (or 'close enough'), or 'too
little'?  I've been playing around with the idea of an electro-mechanical
implementation of this, but I have the feeling that it's been done.  Just
my $.02.

-- 
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 State University / dudek@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu   \   /  `-' )      ,,, 
   of New York   / "If music be the food of love, \  | | ()|||||||[:::}
    @ Buffalo   /   play on!" - Wm. Shakespeare    \ `__.-._)      '''
From: un032221@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Funny Names
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:28:42 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

In article <1992Oct18.221334.11499@cs.nott.ac.uk>, cep@cs.nott.ac.uk (Charlie Pearce) writes:
> In article <1brch1INNhgl@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> drothar@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Omniscient) writes:
>>
>>In article <1992Oct16.000502.13514@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> 9120800f@lux.latrobe.edu.au (EDSECOMBE Andrew) writes:
>>>I heard about a dentist whose name was DOCTOR BLOOD once. Contrary to
>>>his name he was a very good dentist ( apparently).
>>
>>
>>Ouch.  There is a local [Aptos, CA] chiropractor whose name is - I am not
>>making this up - Dr. Bonebreak.  [I assume he wasn't born with that name,
>>so he must have changed his name to present a more intimidating image to
>>his customers.  I would guess that, at the very least, it inspires patients
>>to pay their bills on time...]
> 
> A local chiropodist practices under the name Dr Pain...
> 
> Charlie

	My dentist's last name is Manson.   No connection (I hope) with the
serial killer of the same name.
From: carllr@sluggo.sdsc.edu (Rich Carll)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Car Acronyms
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:09:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: network.1dpffpINN5r4
Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: sluggo.sdsc.edu



Any one got an acrnym for ACURA ??
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: dsblack@iastate.edu (Vilkata TDK)
Subject: Re: pickup lines (PARENTAL ADVISORY:EXPLICIT LYRICS)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:16:48 GMT

Here are a few I heard:

"Nice shoes; wanna fuck?"

"Wanna come over for cheeseburgers and sex?"
("No!")
"What's the matter?  Ya don't like cheeseburgers?"

And here's one that some idiot actually thought was a good line:
"Pardon me, ladies, but would you like to see my room?  I've done some really
 neat things with it!" (refers to dorm rooms)

Sheesh...
-- 
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|    V I L K A T A     T . D . K .         ------dsblack@iastate.edu------    |
|         If you know what my name refers to, email me!  I forgot!            |
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Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.folklore.computers
From: rsuberg@lonestar.utsa.edu (Richard H. Suberg)
Subject: Re: Car Acronyms
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:38:12 GMT

I've seen ALMOST all makes--but still not NISSAN, TRIUMPH, or CHRYSTLER.
Does anyone have any for these?
From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Return of the Swedes
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:46:01 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

In article <1992Nov07.152508.3488W@viper.edb.tih.no> terjej@edb.tih.no writes:
>Swedes are funny guys...

Most independent observers would disagree with you. Swedes are *not*
funny.

-- 
Anders Thulin       ath@linkoping.trab.se 	013-23 55 32
Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: brat@access.digex.com (Brat Wizard)
Subject: New Car Announced from Ford
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:09:01 GMT



		FORD ANNOUNCES NEW CAR FOR 1993

GRAND RAPIDS MI,  Ford Motor Company annouced today the introduction of a
new line of luxury automobiles. It's design is said to have been drawn from
the company's long history of past innovations and contributions to the
automobile industry. In respect to Ford's outstanding achievments, commitment
to excellence and overall quality, the new car is being christened, with
Arnold Schwarzenaiger's endorsement, the 'Total Recall'.


--Brat

Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle
From: st911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Mercutio)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: lisa@iuvax?  How about it?
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:22:03 GMT
Reply-To: st911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

KHOCKENBURY@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU writes:

>Hey, Steve, how about a lisa@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu?  It wouldn't take that much 
>software change - a mail address, "You asked Lisa", and "Lisa has pondered..."
>
>I know that Lisa was not originally part of the Oracle mythos, but such a 
>net.mythology has grown about her, I think that it could be fun.
>
>And maybe it would even make rec.humor.oracle less male-dominated.  If I
>remember the Oracle survey statistics, a vast majority of the users were male. 
>
>Any chance of setting this up?
>	-Kurt

Perhaps an Oracle-style "advice to the love-lorn" type thing? Ann Landers eat
your heart out.


Mercutio, the Merry Master of Madness,  |"His smile seemed to extend
Mirth and Mayhem 			| beyond the confines of his
ST911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu		| face."        Douglas Adams, The
Laftre is mandatory  			| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Usenet Oracularities #499-01
Date: 13 Nov 1992 02:43:21 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) writes:

>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.

Okay Arlie.  You're having a bad acid trip.  Everything's okay and
you're going to be alright.  Just calm down and breath slowly ... in
and out ... in and out.  That's good.

>Ahhrrggg!!

Now don't get excited!  You just think you're seeing what you're
seeing.  There's nothing here to harm you.  Calm down ... that's good
... Okay ...

<ZOT!>

Stratocaster
-- 
	   Steve Davis (I'm a student, not a spokesperson!)
      strat@cis.ksu.edu - Kansas State University - Manhattan KS
				   
 In the U.S.A., there are more black males in prison than in college.
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: "Steve Kinzler" <kinzler@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Multiple answers
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:45:09 -0500

mtabbott@unix.amherst.edu (MTA) writes:
>HEY!  If one sends multiple answers to the same question, do they all wind 
>their way to the questioner and/or priesthood?

HO!  No, currently, any extra answers are discarded.  We're considering
changing this in future revisions.

from the brain of Steve Kinzler    /o)\    kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
an organ with a mind of its own    \(o/    {ames,rutgers}!iuvax!kinzler
From: dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: WoodChuck Season?
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:43:18 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Nov9.073807.3110@nic.csu.net> mcgee@nic.csu.net writes:


>	Has anyone gathered together all the Woodchuck questions
>into a single file? Seems like it might make an interesting
>posting to the Oracle.d list. Any of you Oracle Eunich
>sites feel up to the task? I'd do it myself, but hey, I'm
>a VMS incantation. I *know* my limitations!

Sigh.  One of the job hazards of having indexed all the Oracularities
is being on call 24 hours a day for things like this.

OK, you asked for it.  Two posts follow.  Together they make the
Canonical Oracle Woodchuck Anthology (COWA).  You won't find every
oracularity with the word "woodchuck" in it, but every variant
of the WC should be there.

Note to new Oracle participants: don't try the WC at home.  Most of
these Oracularities have been composed by trained professionals
who know how to make the oldest joke in the book funny.  You 
probably don't.

--
.sig?  What .sig?  I don't gotta show you no steenking .sig!
From: KHOCKENBURY@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: lisa@iuvax?  How about it?
Date: 12 Nov 1992 15:59:34 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hey, Steve, how about a lisa@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu?  It wouldn't take that much 
software change - a mail address, "You asked Lisa", and "Lisa has pondered..."

I know that Lisa was not originally part of the Oracle mythos, but such a 
net.mythology has grown about her, I think that it could be fun.

And maybe it would even make rec.humor.oracle less male-dominated.  If I
remember the Oracle survey statistics, a vast majority of the users were male. 

Any chance of setting this up?
	-Kurt
From: dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: #493-10
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:12:50 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <52695@licre.dn.mu.oz.au> DAVIS@licre.dn.mu.oz.au writes:

>In Dave Sewell's recent analysis TV show parodies rated highly, and 
>in fact rated more highly among the Priesthood than the general readership. 
>(When and where is this going to be published Dave?)  

I've sent one version of an article to a refereed on-line journal &
am waiting to see if they want to publish it.  If so it should be
available via Listserv within a month or two.   I'm willing to send
the current draft to anyone who will take the take to return comments on
it, since it's still subject to revision; otherwise, I'll post details
on availability of the published article(s) if & when.  The current
one takes more or less a lit-crit approach.
-- 
David Sewell, English Dept, U of Rochester   |  "Grammarians without any
  dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu                 |  character at all lecture
  dsewell@violet.ccit.arizona.edu            |  us upon that of Homer."
  (On leave in Tucson, Arizona, '92-'93)     |     --Diogenes the Cynic
From: dfm2@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: This sucks!
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:27:14 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

The Oracle is Dead!!!!
He answers unflattering questions without destroying the arrogant fools,
He reveals far to much of his personal life to bedit a god,
he is no longer funny, obnxious, arrogant or divine.
He apparently has had an identity crisis and thinks that he's David Letterman's
mail ansering service.
Why, he hasn't even struck me dead! He's not omnipotent, he's impote

?: User timed out. No response from host
From: cs161feu@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Anthony Minkoff)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: #493-10
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:36:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.40908
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <52695@licre.dn.mu.oz.au> DAVIS@licre.dn.mu.oz.au writes:
>Interesting that #493-10 rated an average of 4.2 with a distribution of 
>027ai - I was one of the two "2's".  Maybe it was the Star Trek bit that 
>got all the votes.  I certainly enjoyed the question which was clever but I 
>thought the answer left a little bit to be desired.

I agree.  I am the supplicant who wrote that question.  When I
received the answer, I thought the answer lacked effort and
creativity-- so I resubmitted it!  Imagine my surprise when it made
the Digest!  (Incidentally, if you're wondering, the second answer I
received was no better.  The content was virtually identical, but it
didn't read as well.)

Tony
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: Multiple answers
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:23:29 GMT

->HEY!  If one sends multiple answers to the same question, do they all wind 
->their way to the questioner and/or priesthood?

>HO!  No, currently, any extra answers are discarded.

This explains why so few of my answers get selected :-)

jim

-- 
So many women, so little charisma.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Jim Harkins                         [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
--------------------------------------------------------------

Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: mtabbott@unix.amherst.edu (MTA)
Subject: Multiple answers
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:23:18 GMT


HEY!  If one sends multiple answers to the same question, do they all wind 
their way to the questioner and/or priesthood?

	Beeseechingly,
	MT
From: dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: WoodChuck Season?
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:47:43 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

Read "WQ" for "WC" == Woodchuck Question.  Just that "WC"
seemed more fitting, I guess...
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: Re: lisa@iuvax? How about it?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:19:16 GMT
Reply-To: Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
Organization: University of Louisville

In <01GR2KP49GR694DV15@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU> KHOCKENBURY@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU writes:

> Hey, Steve, how about a lisa@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu?  It wouldn't take that much 
> software change - a mail address, "You asked Lisa", and "Lisa has pondered..."

> I know that Lisa was not originally part of the Oracle mythos, but such a 
> net.mythology has grown about her, I think that it could be fun.

NO.  I have never, *ever* seen a single Oracularity that was dominated by the
Lisa/Orrie motif that was even remotely interesting.  And in every batch of
Oracularities, there are always a few, begging to get a 1 or a 2.

-- 
lrwx------   1 aldavi01 emacsstu       9 Jun  6 12:43 .signature -> /dev/null
From: brom@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (David Bromage)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: The history of the Oracle?
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:29:18 GMT
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


As the 500th Oracularities Digest draws near, perhaph this might be a good
time for someone to compile some of the best from the first 500.
Perhaps also a compilation of the best woodchuck questions.
Also I would like to know the history of Orrie's drinking habits and the
emergence of Lisa.

Kind regards
David
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Karleenus Schwartz Davis)
Subject: Re: Multiple answers
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:55:06 GMT

>mtabbott@unix.amherst.edu (MTA) writes:
>>HEY!  If one sends multiple answers to the same question, do they all wind 
>>their way to the questioner and/or priesthood?

HI!  Good question.

"Steve Kinzler" <kinzler@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>HO!  No, currently, any extra answers are discarded.  We're considering
>changing this in future revisions.

HUM!  So you mean if I spend three days composing a particularly wise
and entertaining answer but someone with a quick <ZOT!> beats me to it,
my answer goes to the bit bucket and NO ONE ever sees it??  *sigh*

-sz  
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: kinzler@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler)
Subject: Re: lisa@iuvax? How about it?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 23:12:08 GMT

Written by KHOCKENBURY@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU in news:rec.humor.oracle.d
+---------- "lisa@iuvax?  How about it?" ----------
| Hey, Steve, how about a lisa@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu?  It wouldn't take
| that much software change - a mail address, "You asked Lisa", and "Lisa
| has pondered..."

Hmmm, intriguing idea.  But, I don't really care to support two separate
Oracle servers.  Also, the Oracle's been hinting about a vacation now
that digest #500 is rolling around.  How `bout this, we let Lisa take
over the Oracular duties for a while.  Same mail address and everything,
but Lisa will answer the questions.  I'm sure she'd love the chance.

What do y'all think?

| I know that Lisa was not originally part of the Oracle mythos, but such
| a net.mythology has grown about her, I think that it could be fun.

Hell, *nothing* was originally part of the Oracle mythos, except the
name "Usenet Oracle"!

--
from the brain of Steve Kinzler    /o)\    kinzler@cs.indiana.edu
an organ with a mind of its own    \(o/
From: mcgee@nic.csu.net
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: WoodChuck Season?
Date: 9 Nov 92 07:38:07 PST
Organization: Information Resources and Technology

 	Hi! I know I run the risk of getting flamed for this,
but I gotta ask. 

	Has anyone gathered together all the Woodchuck questions
into a single file? Seems like it might make an interesting
posting to the Oracle.d list. Any of you Oracle Eunich
sites feel up to the task? I'd do it myself, but hey, I'm
a VMS incantation. I *know* my limitations!

-Rich 
"It's not the thing that you fling, it's the fling itself"
         Chris-in-the-Morning, Northern Exposure

Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:16:01 EST
From: Sleight of Hans <HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Usenet Oracularity #494-02
 <1992Oct26.212847.25592@news.cs.indiana.edu>
 <1992Nov03.000236.25628@watson.ibm.com>

In article <1992Nov03.000236.25628@watson.ibm.com>,
larry@labrador.fishkill.ibm.com (Larry Pieniazek) says:
>
>I'm relatively new at this, can someone tell me how to get the
>Lisa FAQ ?? :-)
>
>-Lar

I always thought Lisa's most frequently asked question was "What's a nice girl
like you doing in a place like this?"

| O |                                                                   | O |
|   | Hans C. Masing          "By all means marry: If you get a good    |   |
| O | HCM100 @ PSUVM.psu.edu   wife, you'll become happy; if you get    | O |
|   | HCM100 @ CBA1.psu.edu    a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." |   |
| O | Penn State MIS Dept.                           - Socrates         | O |
|   |                                                                   |   |
From: st911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Mercutio)
Subject: Re: #493-10
Reply-To: st911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:13:20 GMT

DAVIS@licre.dn.mu.oz.au writes:

>Interesting that #493-10 rated an average of 4.2 with a distribution of
>027ai - I was one of the two "2's".

You mean those funny sets of numbers and letters above the ratings averages
actually mean something? I thought they were some sort of cryptic reference
number or something. What do they actually mean?


Mercutio, the Merry Master of Madness,  |"His smile seemed to extend
Mirth and Mayhem 			| beyond the confines of his
ST911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu		| face."        Douglas Adams, The
Laftre is mandatory  			| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
From: ken@halcyon.com (Ken Pizzini)
Subject: Re: lisa@iuvax?  How about it?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 00:58:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.230540.11275@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Steve Kinzler" <kinzler@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>Hmmm, intriguing idea.  But, I don't really care to support two separate
>Oracle servers.  Also, the Oracle's been hinting about a vacation now
>that digest #500 is rolling around.  How `bout this, we let Lisa take
>over the Oracular duties for a while.  Same mail address and everything,
>but Lisa will answer the questions.  I'm sure she'd love the chance.

What?  You mean Orrie and Lisa take separate vactions?  I thought
they were still more involved than that...

		--Ken Pizzini
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: "Steve Kinzler" <kinzler@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: #493-10
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 08:43:32 -0500

st911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Mercutio) writes:
>You mean those funny sets of numbers and letters above the ratings averages
>actually mean something? I thought they were some sort of cryptic reference
>number or something. What do they actually mean?

The 5 digits represent the number of "1" votes, the number of "2" votes,
etc with letters used for digits beyond 9 (0-9a-zA-Z).

--
from the brain of Steve Kinzler    /o)\    kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
an organ with a mind of its own    \(o/    {ames,rutgers}!iuvax!kinzler
From: ahasham@skat.usc.edu (Allen Hasham)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: COLORS
Date: 6 Nov 1992 14:29:48 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

       I saw a couple of weeks back a posting that had a thing
       about peoples favorite colors and the sexual being.
    
      does anybody have it saved or know where I can find it.

     thanks

      ahasham@skat.usc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: #493-10
From: DAVIS@licre.dn.mu.oz.au
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:34:15 AET
Organization: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

Interesting that #493-10 rated an average of 4.2 with a distribution of 
027ai - I was one of the two "2's".  Maybe it was the Star Trek bit that 
got all the votes.  I certainly enjoyed the question which was clever but I 
thought the answer left a little bit to be desired.  This was of course 
predicted in the Bible ("There will be false prophets") although many older 
manuscripts omit any mention of the UseNet Oracle for some reason.  Anyway, 
although the question was a good one I would probably not have selected it 
for publication had it been sent to me, although I would have sent feedback 
asking for it to be resubmitted.  Maybe I'm not as in touch with the 
opinions of the readership as I thought I was <*sob*>....naah, it's all of 
you who are out of touch!

In Dave Sewell's recent analysis TV show parodies rated highly, and 
in fact rated more highly among the Priesthood than the general readership. 
(When and where is this going to be published Dave?)  It does make me 
wonder however who is actually doing the voting?  Out of the tens of thousands
of Oracularity readers and contributors, only about 30-40 ever vote.  Surely 
the events of recent weeks highlight the importance of voting!!


Ian Davis                                DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.oz.au
Oracular Priest