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bin/48443: Errors and typos in games fortune2



>Number:         48443
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Errors and typos in games fortune2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 11 10:15:00 +0000 2013
>Originator:     Henning Petersen
>Release:        NetBSD-current
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Errors from openbsd and freebsd.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
diff -u -p -r1.49 fortunes2
--- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2    24 Jul 2013 06:57:09 -0000      1.49
+++ games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2    11 Dec 2013 09:44:46 -0000
@@ -1803,7 +1803,7 @@ promised me faithfully that you'd be bac
 nine.  It just can't take that long to play 18 holes of golf."
        "Honey, wait," said Harry.  "Let me explain.  I know what I promised
 you, but I have a very good reason for being late.  Fred and I tee'd off
-right on time and everything was find for the first three holes.  Then, on
+right on time and everything was fine for the first three holes.  Then, on
 the fourth tee Fred had a stroke.  I ran back to the clubhouse but couldn't
 find a doctor.  And, by the time I got back to Fred, he was dead.  So, for
 the next 15 holes, it was hit the ball, drag Fred, hit the ball, drag Fred...
@@ -2210,7 +2210,7 @@ man.  Mud-as-man alone could speak.
        "Certainly," said man.
        "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all of this," said God.
        And He went away.
-               -- Kurt Vonnegut, Between Time and Timbuktu"
+               -- Kurt Vonnegut, "Between Time and Timbuktu"
 %
        In the beginning there was data.  The data was without form and
 null, and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of
@@ -9939,13 +9939,13 @@ Anti-trust laws should be approached wit
 Antonio Antonio
 Was tired of living alonio
 He thought he would woo                        Antonio Antonio
-Miss Lucamy Lu,                                Rode of on his polo ponio
+Miss Lucamy Lu,                                Rode off on his polo ponio
 Miss Lucamy Lucy Molonio.              And found the maid
                                        In a bowery shade,
                                        Sitting and knitting alonio.
 Antonio Antonio
 Said if you will be my ownio
-I'll love tou true                     Oh nonio Antonio
+I'll love you true                     Oh nonio Antonio
 And buy for you                                You're far too bleak and bonio
 An icery creamry conio.                        And all that I wish
                                        You singular fish
@@ -9954,7 +9954,7 @@ Antonio Antonio
 Uttered a dismal moanio
 And went off and hid
 Or I'm told that he did
-In the Antartical Zonio.
+in the Antartical Zonio.
 %
 ANTONYM:
        The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
@@ -11439,7 +11439,7 @@ after they got done, you wanted to be tr
        "The test or the room?"
        "The tests or the room?  Vell, nah, about them I can't complain."
        "The nurses? The food?" asked Fats, but Bernard shook his head no.
-Fats laughed and said, "Listen , Bernie, you went to the MBH, they did this
+Fats laughed and said, "Listen, Bernie, you went to the MBH, they did this
 great workup, and when I asked you shy you came to the House of God, all you
 tell me is, 'Nah, I can't complain.'  So why did you come here?  Why, Bernie,
 why?"
@@ -23432,7 +23432,8 @@ them scream.
                -- Sylvestre Matuschka, "the Hungarian Train Wreck Freak",
                   escaped prison 1937, not heard from since
 %
-Iam
+I
+am
 not
 very
 happy
@@ -23446,7 +23447,7 @@ intellectual
 enlightenment
 %
 IBM:
-       [Internation Business Machines Corp.]  Also known as Itty Bitty
+       [International Business Machines Corp.]  Also known as Itty Bitty
        Machines or The Lawyer's Friend.  The dominant force in computer
        marketing, having supplied worldwide some 75% of all known hardware
        and 10% of all software.  To protect itself from the litigious envy
@@ -23726,7 +23727,7 @@ we wouldn't reach a conclusion.
 If an average person on the subway turns to you, like an ancient mariner,
 and starts telling you her tale, you turn away or nod and hope she stops,
 not just because you fear she might be crazy.  If she tells her tale on
-camera, you might listen.  Watching strangers on television , even
+camera, you might listen.  Watching strangers on television, even
 responding to them from a studio audience, we're disengaged - voyeurs
 collaborating with exhibitionists in rituals of sham community.  Never
 have so many known so much about people for whom they cared so little.
@@ -33925,7 +33926,7 @@ the code over again, since I also remove
 %
 Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
 %
-Old age is always fifteen years old than I am.
+Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
                -- B. Baruch
 %
 Old age is the harbor of all ills.
@@ -36567,7 +36568,7 @@ A:      "Twelve; one to screw the light-bulb 
        the ship out of disgrace."
 
        [Warning: do not tell this joke to Romulans or else be ready for
-       a fight.  They consider this it to be a disgrace, though it's
+       a fight.  They consider it to be a disgrace, though it's
        pretty good for a LBJ.  Ed.]
 %
 Q:     How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
@@ -43971,7 +43972,7 @@ they had just discovered that he lived i
 taken another one of those damned Vermont winters!"
 %
 THE OLD POOL SHOOTER had won many a game in his life. But now it was time
-to hang up the cue. When he did, all the other cues came crashing go the
+to hang up the cue. When he did, all the other cues came crashing to the
 floor.
 
 "Sorry," he said with a smile.
@@ -44162,7 +44163,7 @@ is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
 The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
                -- Oscar Wilde
 %
-The only way to keep you health is to eat what you don't want,
+The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,
 drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
                -- Mark Twain
 %
@@ -44227,7 +44228,7 @@ dinner.  After dinner he sketched two da
 went to several nightclubs, drank champagne, danced and had a glorious
 evening.  It had gotten quite late when she motioned for the pencil and drew
 a picture of a four-poster bed.  He was dumbfounded, and to this day has
-never be able to understand how she knew he was in the furniture business.
+never been able to understand how she knew he was in the furniture business.
 %
 The part of the world that people find most puzzling is the part called "Me".
 %
@@ -52627,7 +52628,7 @@ pay the fiddler.
        -- The Best of Will Rogers
 %
 Why don't you fix your little problem... and light this candle?
-               -- Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program
+               -- Alan Shepard, the first man into space, Gemini program
 %
 Why, every one as they like; as the good woman said when she
 kissed her cow.
@@ -55169,7 +55170,7 @@ YOUR FOAMY FUTURE
        by Miss Fortune
 
 ARIES (March 21 - April 19)
-       Matters are not good, where you health is concerned.  This Fall, be
+       Matters are not good, where your health is concerned.  This Fall, be
 sure to "walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, and sleep soundly"
 and you will live all the days of your life.
 




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