Did shee mine yohr D.N.A.?

[Bohgosity BumaskiL]

Bloh Job.?;:.' Hay yoh nee how hoh yuu ar?

[Eli the Bearded]

In rec.humor.oracle.d, Bohgosity BumaskiL <bre...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> Did shee mine yohr D.N.A.?

So it was asked and so it was answered.

} Have you ever asked a question, but gotten the answer to a different one?
} Today's answer is 37.

It least it didn't claim to be random.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/random-numbers.html
The most random two-digit number is 37, When groups of people are
polled to pick a "random number between 1 and 100", the most
commonly chosen number is 37.

That page also links here, for background on 17:

https://www.vinc17.net/yp17/index.en.html

Which I find amusing since I've met the Prof David Kelly mentioned.

Elijah
------
but who is going to read this?

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

[...]

> but who is going to read this?

Are you being serious?

--
FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/

[Eli the Bearded]

In rec.humor.oracle.d, Ivan Shmakov <iv...@siamics.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
>> but who is going to read this?
> Are you being serious?

If you checked the group name, you'd see the word "humor" is part of it.
But I was serious in that everyone who once was a regular in this group
has gone away.

Elijah
------
people following me around Usenet are not the lifeblood needed

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
>>>>> In rec.humor.oracle.d, Ivan Shmakov <iv...@siamics.net> wrote:
>>>>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

>>> but who is going to read this?

>> Are you being serious?

> If you checked the group name, you'd see the word "humor" is part
> of it.

That I did; hence the question.

> But I was serious in that everyone who once was a regular in this
> group has gone away.

I'm afraid that I've started following this group much after it
could've claimed to have many "regulars"; 2012, perhaps? (I can't
find my archives for the year, but the group, along with its
non-.d counterpart, was already in my .newsrc in January 2013.)

I think I ever posted once. Somehow, it seems that E-S does not
have that article. (Expired earlier due to cross-posting perhaps?)
I guess it was #126 there.

> people following me around Usenet are not the lifeblood needed

Don't flatter yourself.

[Eli the Bearded]

In rec.humor.oracle.d, Ivan Shmakov <iv...@siamics.net> wrote:
> I'm afraid that I've started following this group much after it
> could've claimed to have many "regulars"; 2012, perhaps? (I can't
> find my archives for the year, but the group, along with its
> non-.d counterpart, was already in my .newsrc in January 2013.)

Yeah, that's late. The last post I saved in my personal archives was in
2005:

From: "Extraneous Bob" <ignomin...@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: A solitary plea
Date: 11 Apr 2005 13:53:17 -0700
Message-ID: <1113252797.7...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>
Xref: panix rec.humor.oracle.d:157854

> I think I ever posted once. Somehow, it seems that E-S does not
> have that article. (Expired earlier due to cross-posting perhaps?)
> I guess it was #126 there.

On my local news server your post above was: rec.humor.oracle.d:160992

>> people following me around Usenet are not the lifeblood needed
> Don't flatter yourself.

Would you have replied to me if you hadn't been interacting with me in
another group recently?

Elijah
------
the panix spool only keeps articles a few months

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

>>>>> In rec.humor.oracle.d, Ivan Shmakov <iv...@siamics.net> wrote:

>> I'm afraid that I've started following this group much after it
>> could've claimed to have many "regulars"; 2012, perhaps? (I can't
>> find my archives for the year, but the group, along with its non-.d
>> counterpart, was already in my .newsrc in January 2013.)

> Yeah, that's late. The last post I saved in my personal archives was
> in 2005:

... What I can't recall is when I've first learned of the Oracle.
It most certainly couldn't have happened before 1999, and I have
a feeling that it wasn't after 2003, either.

[...]

>>> people following me around Usenet are not the lifeblood needed

>> Don't flatter yourself.

> Would you have replied to me if you hadn't been interacting with me
> in another group recently?

I probably wouldn't have replied to that specific post were the
topic of Usenet demise not brought up recently a few times too
often. For instance, news:87fu13w...@violet.siamics.net.
(A minor correction: contrary to what I've stated in that
article, I've had a very short-lived Usenet access c. 1996.)

> the panix spool only keeps articles a few months

E-S spool goes back to 2010-12-19 at #15. It's possible that
on the account of this being a low-traffic group the articles
are retained indefinitely there.