oracle, the

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?")