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





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Matthew Wingate                     
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