of many duplicates, formatting/whitespace fixes, spelling fixes,
and a host of others. Note: No fortunes were intentionally removed
(other than duplicates) as part of this cleanup. In removing dupes
I tried to be generous in not removing similarly worded fortunes
that had even slightly different punch lines.
Duplicates were resolved as follows (in this order):
* + limerick -> limerick
* + fortunes-o.real -> fortunes-o.real
* + fortunes2-o -> fortunes2-o
* + zippy -> zippy
murphy + fortunes -> fortunes
In correcting spelling I've tried to leave colloquial variations
(especially British'isms) intact, as well as to not "correct"
errors that are part of the joke.
In fortunes and fortunes2-o I combined a couple of fortunes that
were adjacent to each other that seemed like they should have
originally been combined, and split a couple that seemed like they
should have originally been split.
Miscellaneous:
1. Fixed underlining
2. Capitalized proper names
3. Removed quotation marks from "freestanding" quotes for consistency
4. Added quotation marks to QOTD fortunes that needed them
5. Corrected or added many attributions
6. Removed apostrophes from trailing 's' that are plural, not possessive
7. Updated the path to fortune stuff included in some of the jokes
8. Updated several fortunes to their original version, and added attribution
9. Split up compound words that ispell tripped over
- When none of the directories in FORTUNE_PATH exist, abort instead
of using the default FORTDIR.
- Little stylify changes.
- Add documentation about the FORTUNE_PATH variable.
MFC after: 1 week
in one fortune of only 32 words. Based on that single ratio, there
are 50453 more typos in the rest of the fortunes file....
Noticed by: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
MFC after: 1 week
This patch adds an environment variable FORTUNE_PATH, which
works like PATH for fortune files.
PR: bin/36867
Submitted by: Alan Eldridge <ports@geeksrus.net>
[patch] fortune -e implementation bug
Fix the behaviour of "-e file1 file2" to equally pick them
instead of only picking the first one.
PR: bin/70182
Submitted by: Martin Kulas <coolaz@web.de>
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: grog (mentor)
1. Fix small typo "retorted ." -> "retorted."
2. Remove from fortunes a story that is duplicated in fortunes2-o
3. Remove from fortunes and fortunes2-o Zippy the Pinhead quotes
that are already in the zippy file.
4. ... therefore remove zippy from fortunes.sp.ok
5. Remove a duplicate in the zippy file.
Delete some duplicates found while double checking the new ones,
and fix a typo.
These haven't been sorted yet, but will be in a future commit.
PR: ports/40273
Submitted by: Achim Patzner <ap@proxon.bnc.net>
Tuftes book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
The constant width font does not quite do the typeset original justice,
but it is is good enough for a fortune.
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with
an idea. -- The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook
and
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and
bragged about forever. -- Button at the Boston Computer Museum
I wonder why people call me a cynic. ;-)
Peter Fellgett's wildcard recipe:
Into a clean dish, place the dry ingredients and add the
liquids until the right consistency is obtained. Turn out
into suitable containers and cook until done.
