Steeped in trivia and mystique!
Oracle + Clique = Oraclique
Such words are called portmanteaus. Lewis Carroll is regarded as the inventor of this technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
Oraclique was a series of quizzes I had started on Quiznet http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quiznet/ with the nick sonofdelphi.
The name is based on the meanings (all angles) of the combining words.
Oracle:
1. An authoritative person who divines the future
2. A prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible
Clique:
1. An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
2. Completely interconnected graph in computer science
And in Greek mythology, the oracle at Delphi had all the answers.
Couldn't be a more meaningful name, huh?
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