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Internet Oracularities #1607
Compiled-By: Steve Kinzler <steve@kinzler.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:34:49 -0500 (EST)

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1607-01
Selected-By: David Hemming <lightinchains@gmail.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> I need your forlorn help instantly! I kept a tub of marbles sitting
> here on my computer desk so that I could get around having to solve
> difficult problems in programming. The feel of the marbles between my
> fingers gave me hope.
>
> Suddenly the marble tub sprang a leek and they all went down the
> Automatic Rubbish Tube. From tub to tube! So I have lost my marbles.
>
> Do your damndest for me, please.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Blast! Doing things damnedest always leaves me in a double mind, as the
} Evil Oracle tends to show up and shout in!
}
} It is indeed a sad thing            Ha! Foolish inncarnation!
} to lose your marbles                Mortals always lose! It is ordained!
} and the feel of your lost marbles.  Feely marbles, bah!
} But fear not!                       Or fear, if you choose.
} There is a wondrous method          Yes, it DOES involve bribery
} for replacing such lost items.      Although marbles are available quite
}                                       cheaply on Amazon!
} Find a near-by toy store.           Or just check the building's waste
}                                       bin.
}
} You owe the Oracle a blessing       You owe the evil Oracle the soul of
}                                       an innocent

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1607-02
Selected-By: David Hemming <lightinchains@gmail.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Please explain (or unexplain) why I tend to write parenthetical remarks
> (like I just did (and am doing now)) in all the supplicatitive
> questions that I send to your Vast (And Overflowing) Oracular
> In-Basket. It's almost as if I have the opposite of a one-track mind,
> where I am unable to keep onto (Look! A Squirrel!!!) one idea, but must
> divert (or divide) my own attention (or lack of attention) (or
> whatever) elsewhere.
>
> Your (not you're) thoughts, please.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} I'm tempted to say you have a Lisp.

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1607-03
Selected-By: Klone (aka Daniel Klein)<daniel.v.klein@gmail.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Why do people say "simp" instead of the correct term "sycophant"?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} It's a recent term.
}
} Atomic power plants got a name change to "nuclear" distinguish them
} from atomic bombs, which are now called nukes. Nuclear magnetic
} resonance in medicine is called MRI, to avoid the dreaded "nuke"
} problem. So names change frequently. VERY frequently, from my eternal
} perspective.
}
} You owe the Oracle a performance of "Istanbul not Constantinople."
} (Three syllables instead of five.)

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1607-04
Selected-By: Ian Davis

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Time for History Class again. Please send me an authoritative
> dissertation about Dagobert II, who was King of the Mesorotarians or
> something back before people knew how to count in real numbers.
>
> I am not gong to insult you by calling him Dagobert the IIth, not this
> time. You know better than I possibly could how he might have named
> himself Dagobert the Truth of Mesorotaria but he didn't, probably. He
> put Mesorotaria back on the Gold Standard, making the coin of the realm
> less inflatable.
>
> Also I get extra points if I can connect his policies with Modern Times
> or at least New Times Roman, seeing how he was way back then when
> everyone was old.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Dagobert was reasonably honest as a king (or at least frank-ish), and
} lived in the 7th century. He succeeded the throne in 656, but only
} ascended to it nearly 20 years later, as the steps were quite steep.
} According to Wilfrid, Dagobert was a tyrant (it's not a tie, it's a
} sodding cravat!) who attacked bishops by stabbing them straight on
} (bishops can only attack diagonally), and imposed new and inventive
} taxes (like charging bishops who wouldn't wear ties).
}
} He engaged in a war that cost a vast amount of money, putting him deep
} into the red (or at least Burgundy), and caused Sadalbergato to move
} her convent (or fake air outlet) due to four bodings (who form
} tight-knit family hunting groups; you never hear about people being
} scared off by three-bodings).
}
} In 676 Dagobert signed a "firm pact of peace" (or possibly a piece of
} a permed fact) due to the appearance of a Comet who had lost his way
} and become separated from Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. Shortly
} afterwards, Dagobert restarted minting gold, which made After Eights
} more expensive and more likely to damage your teeth.
}
} Unfortunately, Dagobert was assassinated by his godson with the
} consent (fake perfume - very overpowering) of the bishops (who were
} tired of spending hours every morning tying their cravats).
} Later, he was considered a martyr by the 'Ard Dennis tribe (a group of
} very aggressive men called Dennis).
}
} Dagobert's policies have parallels in the modern day, where rulers
} often put up taxes, or at least taxis exercise their right to rule.
}
} You owe the Oracle a petition against fonts that discriminate against
} fish, like Sans Gills.

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1607-05
Selected-By: David Hemming <lightinchains@gmail.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> I was about to send you five questions in a Burma-Shave jingle format,
> but I decided against it. I hope this pleases you.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} If an answer
} Good you seek
} Don't write anything
} In Greek
}
} Xyrisma tis Birmanias

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1607-06
Selected-By: David Hemming <lightinchains@gmail.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> I want to point out to you a bug in the Oracle system. Larry Ellison's
> Oracle, not yours. My boss uses Oracle to handle payroll and other HR
> functions, and I know there's got to be some way for me to hack into it
> so I can double my pay. All my efforts to date have failed. I think
> there's a secret password, and it's probably known only to my boss, to
> Larry Ellison, and to YOU. Likewise you will probably know the
> weaknesses or trap doors that are built in for the benefit of Oracle
> staff or for the CIA or NSA or NSS or FDR or something.
>
> Please help me immediately. My bank account is about to be overdrawn if
> I don't get a lot more money very soon. I know I can count on you
> because  you know a whole lot about computers, and because you have the
> same name as Larry Ellison, or at least can fake it.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} This British incarnation is suspicious of anyone trying to hide bugs
} in database systems ever since Mr Bates had a little disagreement with
} the Post Office.
}
} So, in the interests of transparency, here is the password:
}
} Just in case that doesn't display on your screen, that's the emojis
} for: Polar bear hiding in a snow blizzard.
} Pope Francis in a puffer jacket hiding in the Antarctic.
} Ghost in a white sheet factory.
} Albino rabbit hiding on Hyams Beach.
}
} You owe the Oracle the phone number of Larry The Cat.

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1607-07
Selected-By: Mark Lawrence <mtlrph@gmail.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Let us know what you like!

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} 3.1415926535 and lots of it.

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1607-08
Selected-By: Ian Davis

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> My grandmother, who was born in Soviet Russia, says "Devil wears
> Pravda." She insists she does not mean Prada.
>
> So I told her, "In Soviet Russia newspaper read YOU." She said, "That
> not funny. True maybe but not funny."
>
> Tell me something about Soviet Russia that's actually funny.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} "Dark humor is like food; not everyone gets it."
}
} You owe the Oracle a PB&J.

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1607-09
Selected-By: Ian Davis

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Double double words words?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Gorilla Gorilla: Correct scientific name for the western gorilla
} Gorilla guerilla: A lean, mean, fighting group made up of great apes.
} Can-can: Dance performed while standing on food-tins.
} Boa boa: Feathered scarf that turns out to be a snake.
} Haha: The sound of someone falling into a deep ornamental ditch.
} Double-bass: Overweight tenor.
} Pawpaw: Type of tree
} Poor-paw: Refugee bear called Paddington
} Aye-aye: Long-fingered lemur
} i-Aye: Always saying yes to Apple products.
} i-Eye: Apple ocular implant
} Pan pan: To criticize J M Barrie's most famous play.
} Go go: Where Johnny B Goode went.
} Lulu: Singer-actress
} Loo-loo: Effect of food-poisoning (and a day off in lieu).
}
} You owe the Oracle a triple Scotch.

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1607-10
Selected-By: Rich <mvsopen@gmail.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> If "Peppermint" Patty asked "Chuck" to marry her...
>
> Would Chuck?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Wood ZOT.

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