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author | Paul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-10 23:03:18 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-10 23:03:18 +0000 |
commit | 22414725d4409c519fe65f7e101568bfdd5ea98c (patch) | |
tree | 2669fe755ab4712b9f3cb46671e905046779308c /games | |
parent | 981acafde2511d757414aebe431439955eed890a (diff) |
Fix a couple typos and remove a few duplications while I'm at it.
Diffstat (limited to 'games')
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 84 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 82 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index c15a6d3d3e7..e7041036b8d 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -2633,7 +2633,7 @@ confirm who I am. -- Captain Freedom % Old Barlow was a crossing-tender at a junction where an express train -demolished an automobile and it's occupants. Being the chief witness, his +demolished an automobile and its occupants. Being the chief witness, his testimony was vitally important. Barlow explained that the night was dark, and he waved his lantern frantically, but the driver of the car paid no attention to the signal. @@ -3212,27 +3212,6 @@ and you would have seen these two mounds of sand racing across the island until they bonked into trees and coconuts fell onto their heads. -- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV" % - So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark]. -With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to -maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of -corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to -flop up onto the land and evolve. Richard and I were inching toward -it, sort of crouched over, when all of a sudden it turned around and -- -I can still remember the sensation I felt at that moment, primarily in -the armpit area -- headed right straight toward us. - Many people would have panicked at this point. But Richard and -I were not "many people." We were experienced waders, and we kept our -heads. We did exactly what the textbook says you should do when you're -unarmed and a shark that is nearly two feet long turns on you in water -up to your lower calves: We sprinted I would say 600 yards in the -opposite direction, using a sprinting style such that the bottoms of -our feet never once went below the surface of the water. We ran all -the way to the far shore, and if we had been in a Warner Brothers -cartoon we would have run right INTO the beach, and you would have seen -these two mounds of sand racing across the island until they bonked -into trees and coconuts fell onto their heads. - -- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV" -% Some 1500 miles west of the Big Apple we find the Minneapple, a haven of tranquility in troubled times. It's a good town, a civilized town. A town where they still know how to get your shirts back by Thursday. Let @@ -3379,24 +3358,6 @@ such as the Spectacularly Rev. Jerry Falwell, would get upset about seeing the wildebeest naked. -- Dave Barry, "Pornography" % - The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just -say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these -primitive African tribes that exist by chasing the wildebeest on foot, -and they have to go around largely naked, because, as the old tribal -saying goes: "N'wam k'honi soit qui mali," which means, "If you think -you can catch a wildebeest in this climate and wear clothes at the same -time, then I have some beach front property in the desert region of -Northern Mali that you may be interested in." - So it's not considered pornographic when National Geographic -publishes color photographs of these people hunting the wildebeest -naked, or pounding one rock onto another rock for some primitive reason -naked, or whatever. But if National Geographic were to publish an -article entitled "The Girls of the California Junior College System -Hunt the Wildebeest Naked," some people would call it pornography. But -others would not. And still others, such as the Spectacularly Rev. -Jerry Falwell, would get upset about seeing the wildebeest naked. - -- Dave Barry, "Pornography" -% The birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public. It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance. Miss Manners @@ -3909,25 +3870,6 @@ against a wall, and this was inscribed on the floor: Proof: assume the opposite... % There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the -warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: -an accounting package or an operating system?" - "An operating system," replied the programmer. - The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an -accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating -system," he said. - "Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package, -the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: -how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to -the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited my outside -appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the -simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system -is easier to design." - The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well, but -which is easier to debug?" - The programmer made no reply. - -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" -% - There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?" "An operating system," replied the programmer. @@ -7478,26 +7420,14 @@ A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings % -A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, -she follows. - -- Chamfort -% A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. -- Chamfort % -A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, -it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. - -- Nietzsche -% A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Nietzsche % -A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing -- tender, sweet, -and stupid. - -- Adolf Hitler -% A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing -- tender, sweet, and stupid. -- Adolf Hitler @@ -7721,11 +7651,6 @@ ACCEPTANCE TESTING: An unsuccessful attempt to find bugs. % Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western -religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic -of Western science. - -- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" -% -Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. -- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" @@ -7862,7 +7787,7 @@ African violet: Such worth is rare Apple blossom: Preference Bachelor's button: Celibacy Bay leaf: I change but in death -Camelia: Reflected loveliness +Camellia: Reflected loveliness Chrysanthemum, red: I love Chrysanthemum, white: Truth Chrysanthemum, other: Slighted love @@ -8127,8 +8052,6 @@ the closest our country has ever been to being even. Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about. -- Philippe Schnoebelen % -Algebraic symbols are used when you don't know what you're talking about. -% Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed. -- T. Cheatham @@ -9417,9 +9340,6 @@ Are you making all this up as you go along? Are you sure the back door is locked? % "Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman?" -"No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat." -% -"Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman?" No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat." -- Monty Python % |