fortunes, but occasionally remove them from the other 2 files when
they are not offensive, or not murphy'ish enough.
Where the version in fortunes had better attribution and/or formatting,
copy it over.
2. Fix a few typos
3. Use the full name of François De La Rochefoucauld, fix one of his
quotes, and remove the duplicate of it.
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
This is a recent conversion of an old IBM Mainframe application
to the fortune datafile format.
The "laws" were extracted from a S/370 Assembler program on a SHARE tape.
The comments in the program:
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
* 'MURPHY' THE OLE PHILOSOPHER 18 AUGUST 1988 *
* *
* MURPHY WAS FOUND ON A JES2 TAPE OF ALL PLACES WITH ABOUT *
* 500 OR SO SAYINGS. GOT ANOTHER 250 FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE *
* AND HAVE ADDED ABOUT 100 OR SO MYSELF. *
* *
[list of changes omitted]
* *
* JIM MARSHALL, CAPT, USAF *
* (301) 688-6829 *
* *
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
Fortunes that a sufficiently twisted mind could perceive as offensive
have been moved to murphy-o. Thanks to the submitter for reviewing
these fortunes.
The copyright issues were considered before approval.
PR: misc/8519
Submitted by: Cy Schubert (misc/8519)
Approved by: The Fortune Teller
