A friend of mine once asked the i-ching, " when will I get a permanent job."

He asked this question about six times in a row, when it finally answered his question with this reply "I associate myself with a fool who continues to ask me the same question over and over again."

Since then I have three books on i-ching but none of the translations are good as that one. The author of the book wrote about an incident when his architect friend, whom he met after some years, commented that the i-ching was a parlour trick. Anyway the architect was asked to throw the coins and see how much of a trick it was. The i-ching commented that his wife was in hospital picking on the thigh and face. The architects wife was having a skin graft, skin taken from her thigh to her face.