Wes Peters
b2cbee8f60
Too good to miss.
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Wisdumb by: Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>
2004-02-09 18:45:25 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9c83887e23
"The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling.
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Spotted by: grog
2004-01-19 21:22:21 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e65046462a
typo, duh!
2004-01-13 08:00:55 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6b073ad98d
This is simply too true to not become a fortune.
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Wisdom by: wes
2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d910ed771d
Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a
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few typos.
2003-12-26 21:32:47 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
41ea5e4b77
A too good Feynman quote to pass up.
2003-12-07 10:03:20 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
5645e50570
Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection.
2003-11-12 20:08:47 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b6f0aad2fb
Addition.
2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
32f3fff9ac
A comment about spam and cockroaches.
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Suggested by: dwmalone
2003-10-16 15:25:19 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
f8aa6f0c29
Fix typo.
2003-10-15 10:25:31 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
b3b86d2929
Retrocomputing alternate history....
2003-10-07 15:09:19 +00:00
Maxime Henrion
42e271cf22
Remove a duplicate entry.
2003-07-25 11:14:03 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
87956a4441
Eliminate a duplicate.
2003-07-14 22:22:56 +00:00
John Baldwin
12008234da
Add a quote of wpaul@ explaining the importance of including requested
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content when replying to an e-mail.
2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
0eecaa8d98
Preserve an involunteerily joke SunCheckup has been providing.
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(NB: the space before the colon in the second line is authentic, please
don't remove.)
2003-06-18 12:46:20 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
f7f024d9cc
Fixup three rather minor typos that have irked me over time.
2003-05-31 16:27:53 +00:00
Greg Lehey
11b8cdf76c
Add long-term view of astronomy.
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Submitted by: newton
The attribution appears to be correct according to
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/sagan.htm . Others have apparently
attributed it to Carl Sagan.
2003-03-15 02:10:53 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
17d21c5710
Fix style of recent additions and sort.
2003-02-26 04:41:58 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
f8b259a69a
Add a great quote from Linus Torvalds about BDE.
2003-02-26 03:42:10 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
5a99c48ef3
Fix a grammar bogon.
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Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after: 4.8 is out the door.
2003-02-24 17:52:02 +00:00
Tony Finch
59da8bd213
Add Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming.
2003-02-18 20:34:13 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
25ef827219
Correct typos.
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Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after: 4.8 is out the door
2003-02-16 18:38:12 +00:00
Wes Peters
24860c5a80
Add Warner Losh quote.
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Submitted by: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
2003-02-11 21:38:02 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
961ce4ff77
Immortalize a Robert Watson quote.
2003-02-10 17:34:32 +00:00
Tony Finch
77e48fe336
Add an explanation of why indirection is good. Remove an indirection
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filk that also appears in fortunes2.
2003-01-23 19:23:52 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9d5abbddbf
Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
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especially in troff files.
2003-01-01 18:49:04 +00:00
Tony Finch
34faf20fae
The future's bright: the future's Ballard...
2002-10-30 01:00:48 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6baff12cf5
Add a fortune for people who have read their classics.
2002-10-29 10:16:06 +00:00
Tony Finch
078b5daef7
So a positive time zone offset is west, right? or is it east? Um.
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What is the standard for this, anyway? Ah, we get to choose. I see.
This commit is brought to you by the numbers 2001 and 2822 and the
letters P, O, S, I, X and R, F, C.
2002-10-19 04:49:10 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
dd549a74d0
Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate
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Bertrand Russell quotations.
2002-09-11 11:21:36 +00:00
David Malone
a5fe067b05
Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere.
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PR: 7434
2002-08-31 23:15:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
a2c4d39d54
Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2.
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Move the single remaining one across to fortunes2 to join its friends.
Spell his name consistently. Remove a couple of other duplicate fortunes.
2002-08-09 20:37:01 +00:00
Tony Finch
37609309c2
Re-sort.
2002-08-09 19:54:11 +00:00
Tony Finch
6ad860e1cf
Remove spurious quotes.
2002-08-09 19:31:27 +00:00
Tony Finch
868052707a
Correctly sort previous addition.
2002-08-09 19:30:20 +00:00
Tony Finch
7ce9cc80b4
Some more advice from Dijkstra.
2002-08-09 19:08:02 +00:00
Peter Wemm
518b7839f2
Add C code that counts the bits in a 32 bit word, right next to the C code
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that reverses the bits in a 32 bit word. Who thinks up this stuff?
2002-07-09 02:56:10 +00:00
Doug Barton
99bb09292c
Correctly attribute a Douglas Adams quote, and remove a duplicate of
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the same quote.
2002-05-15 04:35:27 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
bff11a8c74
s/-300K/~300K/
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This is an absolute (kelvin) temperature. I expect that in the original
source it was typeset as $\sim 300~{\rm K}$ or similar, meaning
"approximately 300 K". Changing it to a minus sign in the fortunes file
was clearly an error, as absolute temperatures are by definition positive.
2002-05-01 06:20:57 +00:00
Doug Barton
ab4b9024b8
More ispell fun
2002-04-30 10:13:42 +00:00
Juli Mallett
d6eff954b4
Spell out the name of Hunter S. Thompson.
2002-04-29 01:38:43 +00:00
Doug Barton
c1ca1eec09
Move the Rush Limbaugh fortunes to the offensive file, right after the
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Anti-Reagan section. :) Apparently, people find opinions contrary to
their own to be offensive.
2002-04-29 00:41:55 +00:00
Doug Barton
c1652fa4a1
* Add a quote about the differences between human and machine
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understanding from Ellen Ullman.
* Add Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life. The ordering
of the entries is due to the ../tools/do_sort script.
2002-04-28 23:34:25 +00:00
Doug Barton
b564d8acf1
* Add $FreeBSD$ to limerick and zippy
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* Delete trailing white space in all its forms. In addition to being
bad style in general, it also causes formatting, and other problems
for various third party items (like xscreensaver) which use fortunes
for their own purposes.
2002-04-28 21:59:07 +00:00
Ceri Davies
bc219a1c8b
There is no host called new.bbc.co.uk - fix url.
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Reviewed by: jkh
Approved by: jkh, murray
MFC after: 3 days
2002-04-26 10:58:06 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
94223b38e8
Sort.
2002-04-25 19:31:43 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
cdc811cfca
Spell Fred Brooks's name right.
2002-04-25 19:27:40 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
3cfabe1aef
Add a few more aphorisms.
2002-04-25 18:53:41 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
461e39085c
Add some of uncontroversial fortunes from my files.
2002-04-25 03:20:27 +00:00
John Baldwin
8c47a53d2c
Add a new fortune seen in the sig of an e-mail.
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Submitted by: ue (indirectly)
Approved by: eivind
2002-03-29 21:32:08 +00:00