diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/gerrold.limerick b/games/fortune/datfiles/gerrold.limerick
index cd0b87fb068c..8c6d0549251d 100755
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/gerrold.limerick
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/gerrold.limerick
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
 I have written some limericks quite fateful,
 malicious and vicious and hateful;
 	but I've torn up the jokes
-	that will sicken most folks,
+	that would sicken most folks,
 and humanity ought to be grateful.
 
 From The War Against The Chtorr, (c) David Gerrold, 1984-2000, all
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
 %
 There was a young lady quite tearful.
 Of sucking a cock, she was fearful.
-	In a moment of dreard,
+	In a moment of dread,
 	she just turned her head.
 And, boy! Did she get an earful!
 
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ Rick promised to gently deflower
 a maiden who lived on South Gower,
 	(The truth is, he spread
 	her legs wide on the bed,
-and finsihed her off in an hour.)
+and finished her off in an hour.)
 
 From The War Against The Chtorr, (c) David Gerrold, 1984-2000, all
 rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
@@ -528,15 +528,6 @@ who only ate muffins and thin tea.
 	gave her the blecchs,
 and left her all dried up and squinty.
 
-From The War Against The Chtorr, (c) David Gerrold, 1984-2000, all
-rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
-%
-I have written some limericks quite fateful,
-malicious and vicious and hateful;
-	but I've torn up the jokes
-	that would sicken most folks,
-and humanity ought ot be grateful;
-
 From The War Against The Chtorr, (c) David Gerrold, 1984-2000, all
 rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
 %
@@ -552,7 +543,7 @@ rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
 A maiden who had a third breast
 always kept her hand close to her chest,
 	and I promised her well
-	that I never woudl tell.
+	that I never would tell.
 (Write me privately. Name on request.)
 
 From The War Against The Chtorr, (c) David Gerrold, 1984-2000, all
@@ -741,7 +732,7 @@ tie me up in some chains that are clinky.
 Just get the straps and the slings and a shipment
 	of high-grade Vaseline,
 	and a strong trampoline,
-and allof the other equipment!"
+and all of the other equipment!"
 
 "Now, when we get all the bedsprings a-drummin',
 that's when I'll start in a-hummin',
@@ -769,7 +760,7 @@ rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
 %
 The speed of Ed's seed is unclocked
 whenever a lady's unfrocked.
-	Tho' his spirit is willin,
+	Tho' his spirit is willin',
 	when a pussy needs fillin',
 he's a man who goes off half-cocked.
 
@@ -815,7 +806,7 @@ rights reserved, used with permission of the author.
 A king who was mad at the time,
 decreed limerick writing a crime.
 	but late in the night
-	all the poets woudl write
+	all the poets would write
 verses without any rhyme or meter.
 
 From The War Against The Chtorr, (c) David Gerrold, 1984-2000, all