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Oracle, the

  The all-knowing, all-wise Internet Oracle `rec.humor.oracle`, or one of the foreign language derivatives of same. Newbies frequently confuse the Oracle with Oracle, a database vendor. As a result, the unmoderated `rec.humor.oracle.d` is frequently cross-posted to by the clueless, looking for advice on SQL. As more than one person has said in similar situations, “Don't people bother to look at the newsgroup description line anymore?” (To which the standard response is, “Did people ever read it in the first place?”)

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