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authorPaul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-11 02:55:31 +0000
committerPaul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-11 02:55:31 +0000
commit81c3eb41639410437c9b64295ccfccb3560ce0fe (patch)
tree9220e6535b35a031264919336d21e855b6b568bb /games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
parent0889e17ff20ca0cbfe9a0f19088dbc9a087e5745 (diff)
the the; some occurrences found by soren@NetBSD.org
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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
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@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ the father spanked them. His wife asked, "Don't you love your children?"
After being reported missing a day or two later, rangers found two bears,
one a male, one a female, looking suspiciously overstuffed. They killed
the female, autopsied her, and sure enough, found the German and the Pole.
- "What do you think?" said the the first ranger.
+ "What do you think?" said the first ranger.
"The Czech is in the male," replied the second.
%
A group of soldiers being prepared for a practice landing on a tropical
@@ -12073,7 +12073,7 @@ well. (And post to comp.std.mumps, since they hardly get any articles
there, and a "comp" group will propagate your article further.)
You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each
group. If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some newsreaders
-will only show the the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
+will only show the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
-- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
%
Dear Emily:
@@ -13915,8 +13915,8 @@ as firmly established as Copernican cosmology. Biologists differ only with
respect to theories about how the process operates.
-- Martin Gardner, "Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life".
%
-Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for
-even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
+Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for even
+the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-- C.C. Colton
%
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
@@ -15654,7 +15654,7 @@ Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable
exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted
for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous
-confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
+confusion as to the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness
may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a
fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.