diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 7f888d60a94b..8bc6f426edd4 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -2692,8 +2692,6 @@ Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on
 society.
 		-- Mark Twain
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-cmc screams a screm which cannot be spelled.
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 COBOL programs are an exercise in Artificial Inelegance.
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 Cocaine -- the thinking man's Dristan.