Selected-By: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)

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

> Oh, wondrous, stupendous, magnificent Oracle...
>
> What's the difference between Santa's elves and graduate students?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Graduate students get paid and Santa's elves are satisfied with their
} jobs.