Selected-By: Darkmage <davis@licre.ludwig.edu.au>

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

>  O Mighty Oracle!  Keeper of the Sacred Tablets.  Master of the
> Infinite. General All-Around Swell Guy.  I, your humble servant, do
> submit this question for your consideration:
>
>          Why ask why?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} The alternative is to be ignorant of cause and effect, which means that
} if one day you drive off to work and your car has five wheels all
} triangular and paisley dice hanging sideways from the mirror, and where
} you have in the past found the door of your office is a bluish gorilla
} holding a sheaf of theatrical script having something to do with an
} indecisive Danish pastry, and your boss is dressed all in white and
} asks you "Are you happy?", and the pizza delivery boy carries a
} flamethrower, and your briefcase suddenly sprouts myriad pseudopods and
} scurries off on its own, and a bunch of winged nail files swim into the
} something-which-once-vaguely-resembled-a-room and ask you about your
} progress on the Daniken correspondence, you will consider it perfectly
} normal, win five hundred lira playing craps with the dice, put an end
} to the Danish's indecision by eating it, grab the flamethrower and use
} it on your erstwhile boss, toss your briefcase out the window and let
} the vorpal grass chop it up, and tell the nail files that you'll get
} right to it as soon as you can manage to figure out the area, ZIP and
} UPC codes of the northwest end of the astral plane.
}
} You owe the Oracle a pizza with mushrooms, peanut butter and Canadian
} bacon, and make sure the crust doesn't get burnt.