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How it operates is simple: one sends an email to a particular address, asking it to "askme" a question or "tellme" the answer to a question. Every "tellme" gets sent to an "askme", and the recipient of the question answers it and sends the answer back. The best questions and answers are added to the digests.
What sort of questions are asked, and what sort of answers are given? Let's put it this way: before the Web, the Usenet Oracle had its public home in the [[UseNet]] newsgroup rec.humor.oracle. This is not a place to ask about the amusing minutiae of Oracle RDBMS queries. Nor is it a place to ask about the quantity of lumber that a groundhog could toss if groundhogs could toss lumber. [[Never Heard That One Before|They've heard that one before, with various wordings. Repeatedly.]] This is a place for ''original'' humor - and, with
Of course, with three decades of humor under its belt, the Oracle has a few running gags: High Priest Zadoc (who is rarely competent) and his occasionally-appearing assistant Kendai, [[Shock and Awe|ZOT]]ting supplicants for poor-quality questions or grovels, the Oracle's beautiful (and kinky) girlfriend Lisa the Net.Sex.Goddess, a random assortment of deities, and the caveman Og -- among others.
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