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authoreivind <eivind@FreeBSD.org>2003-03-19 17:54:22 +0000
committereivind <eivind@FreeBSD.org>2003-03-19 17:54:22 +0000
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Fix typos
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
index 871369d..e5ca1cc 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ the conclusions aren't likely to be very good.
The organization of any program reflects the organization
of the people who developed it.
%
-There is no such thng as a "dirty capitalist",
+There is no such thing as a "dirty capitalist",
only a capitalist.
%
Anything is possible, but nothing is easy.
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ screw it up.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain,
than to be coming up it.
%
-A $300.00 picture tube will protect a 10› fuse by blowing
+A $300.00 picture tube will protect a 10c fuse by blowing
first.
%
Justice always prevails...
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
%
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
%
-The time it talkes to rectify a situation is
+The time it takes to rectify a situation is
inversely proportional to the time it took
to do the damage.
%
@@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ approximation and know the truth, than to demand an
exact solution and not know the truth at all.
%
An easily-understood, workable falsehood is more useful
-than a complex, incompreshensible truth.
+than a complex, incomprehensible truth.
%
Anyone who make a significant contribution to any field
of endeavor and stays in that field long enough,
@@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ An expert is one who knows more and more about less
and less until he knows absolutely everything
about nothing.
%
-To spot the expert, pick the one who perdicts the job
+To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job
will take the longest and cost the most.
%
If it sits on your desk for 15 minutes, you've just
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ When in trouble, obfuscate.
%
Progress does not consist in replacing a theory that is
wrong with one that is right. It consists in replacing
-a theory that is wrong with one that is more sublty wrong.
+a theory that is wrong with one that is more subtly wrong.
%
It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex
task to make them simple.
@@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@ Class schedules are designed so that every student will
waste the maximum time between classes.
%
Show me a person who's never made a mistake and I'll
-show you somebdoy who's never achieved much.
+show you somebody who's never achieved much.
%
When you consider there are 24 hours in a day, it's
sad to know that only one is called the happy hour.
@@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ not understand, his work will be understood only by
readers who know more about that subject than he does.
%
Writings prepared without understanding must fail in the
-first ojbective of communication -- informing
+first objective of communication -- informing
the uninformed.
%
When a student asks for a second time if you have read
@@ -1928,7 +1928,7 @@ the other side.
%
Washing machines only break down during the wash cycle.
%
-All break downs occur on the plumber's day off.
+All breakdowns occur on the plumber's day off.
%
Cost of repair can be determined by multiplying the
cost of your new coat by 1.75, or by multiplying the
@@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ King Arthur ran the first knight club.
Magellan was the first strait man.
%
If you smile when everything goes wrong, you are
-either a nitwit or a repariman.
+either a nitwit or a repairman.
%
If it weren't for the opinion polls we'd never know
what people are undecided about.
@@ -2131,9 +2131,9 @@ driver is in the back seat.
Nothing is indestructible, with the possible exception
of discount-priced fruitcakes.
%
-How do they know no two snowflakes are alike.
+How do they know no two snowflakes are alike?
%
-How did they measure hail before the golf ball was invented.
+How did they measure hail before the golf ball was invented?
%
To err is human, to forgive is divine --
but to forget it altogether is humane.
@@ -2248,7 +2248,7 @@ programming is for feebs who can't do systems programming.
%
Real programmers don't eat quiche. In fact, real
programmers don't know how to spell quiche. They eat
-twinkies and szechwan food.
+twinkies and szechuan food.
%
Real programmer's programs never work the first time. But
if you throw them on the machine, they can be patched into
@@ -2262,7 +2262,7 @@ programmers are around at 9 a.m., it's because they
were up all night.
%
Real programmers don't write in Basic. Actually, no
-programmers write in basic after age 12.
+programmers write in Basic after age 12.
%
Real programmers don't write in PL/1. PL/1 is for
programmers who can't decide whether to write in
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