diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 1efa5db82725..d56e1e8184c9 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -34924,6 +34924,9 @@ that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were
 just as high and wild as I was: no doubt at all about that.
 		-- Hunter S. Thompson
 %
+"My code is elegant", "Your code is sneaky", "His code is an ugly hack"
+		-- Colin Percival on irregular verbs
+%
 "My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think
 of saying, except in a desperate case.  It is like saying "My mother,
 drunk or sober."