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
Also, fix a couple whitespace formatting errors and typos.
Note that the Klingon joke has a 12-point version in the
-chat list, mesg-id: <19990717120618.C269@marder-1> (thanks to
DES and to submitter doug@gorean). Also, note that the following
people need to learn to double-space after a period: <DougB@gorean.org>,
<des@flood.ping.uio.no>, <mellon@pobox.com>, <jeroen@vangelderen.org>,
and <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>.
some dups, fix some typos and formatting.
Submitted-by (in no particular order):
Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> (bin/12477)
David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> (misc/16647)
Zachary K Drew <drew0054@tc.umn.edu> (misc/16848)
Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> (misc/15809)
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> (bin/17085)
And myself.
Approved by: The Fortune Teller
small typo fixes. Most have to do with periods and ellipses, but there
are some spelling, capitalization, and miscellaneous fixes. No meanings
have been changed.
