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
Dima Dorfman
ae444ae634
Assorted mechanical fixes.
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PR: 34790
Submitted by: Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>
2002-03-09 04:38:25 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
4670ae1cea
Add one.
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Submitted by: jedgar
Reviewed by: The usual gang of idiots in that IRC channel.
2002-02-25 21:52:34 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
b051995c7f
Clean up G. B. Shaw quotes:
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- fix missing punctuation,
- remove duplicates in fortunes2,
- don't abbreviate first names.
Remove duplication of Shaw's principle in fortunes2.
2002-01-07 13:47:22 +00:00
Greg Lehey
eb8d2682ce
Correct typo.
2002-01-01 00:50:30 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
9e33f9cfe0
A case of ninfo (non-info)
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Submitted by: Hans.VanSluis@compaq.com
MFC after: 1 month
2001-12-20 17:25:45 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
aa84159a86
Unix: Just Say No..
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Obtained from: Jan.Hendriks@Compaq.com
MFC after: 3 days
2001-12-12 09:49:02 +00:00
John Baldwin
d860ec7a2b
Trim yet another duplicate fortune.
2001-12-05 22:40:44 +00:00
John Baldwin
ae4385c3b1
Properly sort the last two fortunes alphabetically.
2001-12-05 22:39:00 +00:00
John Baldwin
6d8773a960
Add a short commentary on libdialog by jkh.
2001-12-05 22:13:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
01ad25b722
Remove an incorrect duplicate Douglas Adam quote and properly format and
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the correct duplicate. Both versions also attributed the quote to the
wrong book.
2001-12-05 22:09:39 +00:00
John Baldwin
b2b286f559
Fix a typo and add a missing period.
2001-12-05 21:36:14 +00:00
John Baldwin
bc584bd7b6
Remove some duplicate fortunes.
2001-12-05 21:06:30 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
c47d61ce4e
s/Kenned y/Kennedy/
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Pointed out by: $a_lot_of_people
2001-11-27 17:10:54 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
116debb603
This string of coincidences was too good to let pass.
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Obtained from: BBC World Service on 9410kHz
2001-11-27 16:53:43 +00:00
Peter Wemm
73025dc48c
Fix some duplicate quotes and tidy up some Dr. Who quotes.
2001-11-27 12:02:03 +00:00
Josef Karthauser
a5e74e2314
Fix a typo:
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Flinstone -> Flintstone.
Submitted by: grog (during the kernel debugging session at BSDConEurope)
2001-11-12 12:21:39 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
83ce8c6db8
Add terminating % so the last fortune can be found.
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Add a fortune.
2001-11-09 18:24:09 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f9e2c4f5e8
Correct attribution and fix translation from Danish.
2001-11-03 16:38:06 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
247a741b8a
Add some important advice for young optical physicists.
2001-10-05 08:27:21 +00:00
John Baldwin
c33f34c05e
Borrow Peter's peril-sensitive sunglasses and add a short parody quoted in
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the unnamed IRC channel.
2001-09-27 22:04:42 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
ae62a4cf07
Update a duplicate quotation.
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PR: 30228
MFC after: 2 weeks
2001-09-01 08:01:06 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
9070692e9d
A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever
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gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes,
then asks the backhoe operator for directions.
-- Bill Bradford <mrbill@mrbill.net>
Submitted by: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>
2001-08-01 22:51:09 +00:00
John Baldwin
a9df2152da
Document the mysterious Peter Wemm Murphy Field (PWMF).
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Reviewed by: phk, eivind, nra
2001-06-20 20:58:04 +00:00
John Baldwin
26df205f44
Remove some more duplicate fortunes.
2001-06-20 20:25:56 +00:00
John Baldwin
798c771f8d
Resort the last entry to its proper location. D definitely comes before Z.
2001-06-20 19:55:41 +00:00
John Baldwin
5a69ac96f5
Remove a duplicate entry.
2001-06-20 19:45:15 +00:00
Warner Losh
8c4ed82764
%DCL-I-FORMATRIGHT, Format VMS error messages pedantically correct.
2001-04-23 06:08:30 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
0a047cf417
Remove a duplicate piece of chalk.
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PR: 23132
Submitted by: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
2001-03-28 11:02:14 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
d2ef936949
Lets spell the guys name correctly: s/Avogardo/Avogadro/
2001-03-23 22:42:16 +00:00