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| author | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-11-27 16:53:43 +0000 |
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| committer | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-11-27 16:53:43 +0000 |
| commit | 17c42ff93df491cfe3a2c747562d21d88b2b14a6 (patch) | |
| tree | e21e15ee97e3700bd2d68c6cf21ca2b8c4bc625d /games | |
| parent | d6ea22c61785f66fda317a412e9febf626847326 (diff) | |
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This string of coincidences was too good to let pass.
Obtained from: BBC World Service on 9410kHz
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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 58c5166..6586a2f 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -16407,3 +16407,25 @@ How to become a sysop: worked a full day in my life since then. -- rho/slashdot % +Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. +Kennedy exactly one hundred years later in 1946. + +Lincoln was elected president in November 1860. +Kennedy in November 1960. + +Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who urged him not to go to +the theatre. +Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who advised against his going +to Dallas. + +Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran off into a warehouse. +Oswald shot Kenned y from a warehouse and ran off into a theatre. + +Lincoln was succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson. +Kennedy was succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson. + +The first Johnson was born in 1808. +The second Johnson was born in 1908. + + -- Alistair Cooke, "Letter From America", 26nov2001 +% |
