From Matthew.Wingate@Colorado.EDU Fri Apr 4 16:35:20 EST 1997 Article: 7256 of rec.humor.oracle.d Subject: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS... ...but the oracular priests apparently aren't... This hasn't made the digests, which is disappointing... The Internet Oracle requires an answer to this question! > After almost a year of campaining and complaining, I must admit defeat > in trying to make your old name stick. So I've decided to write a > song about it: > > The Internet was the Usenet Oracle > Now it's the Internet, not the Usenet Oracle > Been a long time gone, the Usenet Oracle > Now it's Woodchuck Delight on a moonlight night > Every answer from the Usenet Oracle > comes from the Internet, not the Usenet Oracle > So if you've sent some mail to the Usenet Oracle > It'll be coming from the Internet > Even the old Internet > was once the Arpanet > Why they changed it I can't say > NSF just liked it better that way > So ask me, tell me, the Usenet Oracle > No, you can't go ask the Usenet Oracle > Been a long time gone, the Usenet Oracle > Why did the Usenet Oracle get the works? > That's nobody's business but those jerks > In--ter--net > > What do you think? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Supplicant man, Supplicant man } Doing the things a supplicant can } What's he like? It's not important } Supplicant man } } Is he a troll, or is he a hack? } When he's online does he get net? } Or does the net get him instead? } Nobody knows, Supplicant man } } Political man, Political man } Political man hates Supplicant man } They have a fight, Political wins } Political man } } Oracle man, Oracle man } Size of the entire universe man } Usually kind to supplicant man } Oracle man } } He's got a wand with a Usenet hand } Internet hand and a zot-zot hand } When they meet it's a scary land } Powerful man, Oracle man -- Matthew Wingate Matthew.Wingate@Colorado.edu http://spot.colorado.edu/~wingate