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details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/05a351cd3b4a
branches:  trunk
changeset: 514403:05a351cd3b4a
user:      mjl <mjl%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sat Sep 01 21:28:28 2001 +0000

description:
Some more quotes removed. Corrected errors noticed by Andrew Brown
<atatat%atatdot.net@localhost>.

diffstat:

 games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes |  224 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)

diffs (truncated from 731 to 300 lines):

diff -r 9bd9191b6625 -r 05a351cd3b4a games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes   Sat Sep 01 19:35:32 2001 +0000
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes   Sat Sep 01 21:28:28 2001 +0000
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@
 %
 $3,000,000
 %
-"355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible
-simulation!"
+355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible
+simulation!
 %
 3 syncs represent the trinity -- init, the child and the eternal zombie
 process.  In doing 3, you're paying homage to each and I think such
@@ -343,9 +343,9 @@
 Q is for Quinton who sank in a mire, R is for Rhoda, consumed by a fire.
 S is for Susan who parished of fits, T is for Titas who flew into bits.
 U is for Una  who slipped down a drain, V is for Victor, squashed under a train.
-W is for Winnie, embedded in ice, X is for Xercies, devoured by mice.
+W is for Winnie, embedded in ice, X is for Xerxes, devoured by mice.
 Y is for Yoric whose head was bashed in, Z is for Zilla who drank too much gin.
-               -- Edward Gorey "The Gastly Crumb Tines"
+               -- Edward Gorey "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
 %
 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
 %
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
 %
 A penny saved is ridiculous.
 %
-A person is just about as big as the things that make him angry.
+A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
 %
 A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
                -- George Wald
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@
        Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
 hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
 %
-"A power so great, it can only be used for Good or Evil!"
+A power so great, it can only be used for Good or Evil!
                -- Firesign Theatre, "The Giant Rat of Sumatra"
 %
 A priest asked: What is Fate, Master?
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@
 %
 A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
 %
-"A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis
+A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis
 of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite
 series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric
 precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@
 accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality
 for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly
 defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the
-information in the first place."
+information in the first place.
                -- IEEE Grid news magazine
 %
 A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that
@@ -637,11 +637,11 @@
 to make a travesty of the game.
                -- Donald A. Metz
 %
-"A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line today.  The results blacked
-out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon."
+A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line today.  The results blacked
+out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon.
                -- Steel City News
 %
-"A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives."
+A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.
 %
 A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:
 
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@
 in students.
                -- John Ciardi
 %
-"A University without students is like an ointment without a fly."
+A University without students is like an ointment without a fly.
                -- Ed Nather, professor of astronomy at UT Austin
 %
 A UNIX saleslady, Lenore,
@@ -914,8 +914,8 @@
 Adolescence, n.:
        The stage between puberty and adultery.
 %
-"Adopted kids are such a pain -- you have to teach them how to look
-like you ..."
+Adopted kids are such a pain -- you have to teach them how to look
+like you ...
                -- Gilda Radner
 %
 Adore, v.:
@@ -954,8 +954,8 @@
 %
 After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
 %
-"... After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known
-quotations."
+... After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known
+quotations.
                -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
 %
 After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party?  Surely not
@@ -979,9 +979,9 @@
        It was so granted.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
 %
-"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of
+After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of
 the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the
-cost to others, to win advancement."
+cost to others, to win advancement.
                -- Norman Thomas
 %
 After I run your program, let's make love like crazed weasels, OK?
@@ -1020,11 +1020,11 @@
 
 But at least one must be lived ... and died.
 %
-"Ah, you know the type.  They like to blame it all on the Jews or the
+Ah, you know the type.  They like to blame it all on the Jews or the
 Blacks, 'cause if they couldn't, they'd have to wake up to the fact
 that life's one big, scary, glorious, complex and ultimately
 unfathomable crapshoot -- and the only reason THEY can't seem to keep
-up is they're a bunch of misfits and losers."
+up is they're a bunch of misfits and losers.
                -- A analysis of Neo-Nazis, from "The Badger" comic
 %
 Air is water with holes in it.
@@ -1092,11 +1092,10 @@
 Socrates.
                -- Woody Allen
 %
-"All my friends and I are crazy.  That's the only thing that keeps us
-sane."
-%
-"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more
-specific."
+All my friends and I are crazy.  That's the only thing that keeps us sane.
+%
+All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more
+specific.
                -- Jane Wagner
 %
 All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
@@ -1117,8 +1116,8 @@
 All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
                -- E. Rutherford
 %
-"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right
-hands."
+All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right
+hands.
                -- Saint Patrick
 %
 All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism.
@@ -1132,7 +1131,7 @@
 if it rains?"
                -- Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
 %
-"... all the modern inconveniences ..."
+... all the modern inconveniences ...
                -- Mark Twain
 %
 All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most
@@ -1220,8 +1219,8 @@
 %
 Always remember that you are unique.  Just like everyone else.
 %
-"Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing
-that way."
+Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing
+that way.
 %
 Am I ranting?  I hope so.  My ranting gets raves.
 %
@@ -1258,7 +1257,7 @@
 pictures on the doors.
                -- Dave Barry, "Urine Trouble, Mister"
 %
-"Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it."
+Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.
 %
 An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because
 people refuse to see it.
@@ -1323,7 +1322,7 @@
 incomplete sentences, which is how advertising copywriters denote
 excellence:
 
-"The Rolex Hyperion.  An elegant new standard in quality excellence and
+The Rolex Hyperion.  An elegant new standard in quality excellence and
 discriminating handcraftsmanship.  For the individual who is truly able
 to discriminate with regard to excellent quality standards of crafting
 things by hand.  Fabricated of 100 percent 24-karat gold.  No watch
@@ -1333,13 +1332,13 @@
 Much more successful than the people who laughed at him in high
 school.  Because of his acne.  People who are probably nowhere near as
 successful as he is now.  Maybe he'll go to his 20th reunion, and
-they'll see his Rolex Hyperion.  Hahahahahahahahaha."
+they'll see his Rolex Hyperion.  Hahahahahahahahaha.
                -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"
 %
 An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future.
 %
-"... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often
-picturesque liar."
+... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often
+picturesque liar.
                -- Mark Twain
 %
 An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God.  Some of these
@@ -1359,7 +1358,7 @@
 moment and says, "And from this he makes a living?"
                -- Arthur Naiman, "Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish"
 %
-"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge."
+An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge.
 %
 Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no
 government at all.
@@ -1389,8 +1388,8 @@
 %
 And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
 %
-"... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of
-your own."
+... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of
+your own.
                -- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter
                   Preposterous Words
 %
@@ -1406,8 +1405,8 @@
 Orson Welles.
                -- Dave Barry, "Saving Face"
 %
-"...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
-courtesy detail."
+...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
+courtesy detail.
 %
 And this is a table ma'am.  What in essence it consists of is a
 horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical
@@ -1591,7 +1590,7 @@
 %
 Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
 %
-"Apathy is not the problem, it's the solution"
+Apathy is not the problem, it's the solution.
 %
 Aphorism, n.:
        A concise, clever statement.
@@ -1627,7 +1626,7 @@
 %
 Are you a turtle?
 %
-"Arguments with furniture are rarely productive."
+Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
                -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
 %
 ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 19)
@@ -1723,8 +1722,8 @@
 %
 As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
 %
-"As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500
-programs; a process that traditionally requires some debugging."
+As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500
+programs; a process that traditionally requires some debugging.
                -- USA Today, referring to the IRS switchover to a new
                   computer system.
 %
@@ -1795,9 +1794,9 @@
 Ask your boss to reconsider -- it's so difficult to take "Go to hell"
 for an answer.
 %
-"Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old
+Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old
 woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it,
-she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'"
+she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'
                -- David Letterman
 %
 Ass, n.:
@@ -1810,9 +1809,9 @@
 and dying broke.
                -- Stanley Walker
 %
-"At a recent meeting in Snowmass, Colorado, a participant from Los
+At a recent meeting in Snowmass, Colorado, a participant from Los
 Angeles fainted from hyperoxygenation, and we had to hold his head
-under the exhaust of a bus until he revived."
+under the exhaust of a bus until he revived.
 %
 At any given moment, an arrow must be either where it is or where it is
 not.  But obviously it cannot be where it is not.  And if it is where



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