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Here's the Oracularity:

--- 952-04 2oGmc 3.2 -----------------------------------------------------
Selected-By: Otis Viles <cierhart@ic.net>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> I WONDER IF YOU CAN ANSWER A QUESTION FOR ME.
> WHY DO SOME STATES USE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME AND SOME DO NOT.
> IS IT TRUE THE ARIZONA DOES NOT DO IT?
>
>  THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Let's take this one step at a time.
}
} > I WONDER IF YOU CAN ANSWER A QUESTION FOR ME.
}
} This isn't the best opener. . .a more complicated combo would have been
} more appropriate for an omniscient being with a delicate ego.  I mean,
} do you think your lack of faith in me is inspiring?
}
} > WHY DO SOME STATES USE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME AND SOME DO NOT.
}
} Daylight Savings Time?  Ah. . .you mean British Summer Time.  Silly
} American.
}
} Anyway, in 1972, various influential Americans got together in order to
} face a growing threat: you.  It was already obvious by then, O wormiest
} of supplicants, that you, with your breathtakingly unbridled stupidity,
} would cause the end of human existence if left unchecked.  So several
} ingenious plans were devised to contain you.
}
} First of all, the Caps Lock key on any keyboard you touched would be
} permanently enacted, so that everyone would have adequate warning as to
} be able to flee before you caused them harm.  (I can safely handle your
} drivel, but only because I'm immortal.)
}
} Second, you were never taught proper grammar.  This way, even if some
} poor soul should happen to fall into your clutches, he or she would not
} be able to understand your feeble attempts at communication, and not
} absorb any of your "thoughts."
}
} Thirdly--and here we reach the crux of the issue--all sorts of little
} idiosyncrasies were scattered about to puzzle you and occupy your mind
} (or your closest facsimile thereto).  The case of the lack of universal
} DST is a prime example.
}
} > IS IT TRUE THE ARIZONA DOES NOT DO IT?
}
} Didn't you ever watch that movie?  You *missed* a Holly Hunter movie?
} For shame.  I'm not going to tell you.  If you really care, rent the
} movie yourself.  By the way, if your writing were less
} stream-of-consciousness and antecedent-dependent, you'd be able to find
} out what you wanted to.  But wait!  That would counteract the 1972
} plans, wouldn't it?
}
} >  THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.
}
} You're welcome.
}
} You owe the Oracle a mirror and/or a copy of _The Ugly American_.  The
} experience is much the same. . .