From: echeverr@scf.usc.edu (5150)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.humor.oracle.d,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: The Oracle Replies!
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:07:56 -0800
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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 like
> a 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: <FLAME ON> 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! <FLAME OFF> (actually, now that I think about it, <FLAME ON>)
} 
} 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.
}