Ignore case and all non-word characters, and remove more duplicates.

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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 21aeb11..ec26018 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -6073,8 +6073,6 @@ Grabel's Law:
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 Graduate life -- it's not just a job, it's an indenture.
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-Graduate life: It's not just a job.  It's an indenture.
-%
 Grandpa Charnock's Law:
 	You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
 %
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index 41aa0fb..d2498c8 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -5038,10 +5038,6 @@ knows them in the naming.
 
 	(Haley's comment.)
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-... if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does
-on lust, this would be a better world.
-		-- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"
-%
 **** IMPORTANT ****  ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ****
 
 Due to a recent systems overload error your recent disk files have been
@@ -12159,17 +12155,6 @@ therefore becomes very important for the rule upholders to bring such
 arrogance down.
 		-- Marilyn French, "The Woman's Room"
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-But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand.  Human
-intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as
-we can tell.  If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues
-that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding
-of their world, not in their distorted perceptions.  Even the standard
-example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads --
-makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing
-whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a
-finite or an infinite number.
-		-- S. J. Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds"
-%
 But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable
 nowdays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
 		-- Leslie Stephen, "Sketches from Cambridge"
@@ -13781,10 +13766,6 @@ Dealing with failure is easy:
 Success is also easy to handle:
 	You've solved the wrong problem.  Work hard to improve.
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-Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve.
-Success is also easy to handle: you've solved the wrong problem.  Work
-hard to improve.
-%
 Dealing with the problem of pure staff accumulation,
 all our researches ... point to an average increase of 5.75% per year.
 		-- C. N. Parkinson
@@ -22338,8 +22319,6 @@ week sometimes to make it up.
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 I must have slipped a disk -- my pack hurts!
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-I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts.
-%
 I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres
 and planets.  Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -- one Earth orbit
 -- around the sun.  If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if
@@ -24145,8 +24124,6 @@ If it happens once, it's a bug.
 If it happens twice, it's a feature.
 If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.
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-If it has syntax, it isn't user friendly.
-%
 If it has syntax, it isn't user-friendly.
 %
 If it heals good, say it.
@@ -24983,9 +24960,6 @@ If you lose a son you can always get another,
 but there's only one Maltese Falcon.
 		-- Sidney Greenstreet, "The Maltese Falcon"
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-If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich,
-or famous or both.
-%
 If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist,
 he'll get rich or famous or both.
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@@ -33139,13 +33113,6 @@ and/or frogs falling from the sky.
 %
 Note to myself: use real bullets next time.
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-Notes for a ballet, "The Spell:"  ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the
-flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ...
-Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part
-woman -- unfortunately, divided lengthwise.  She enchants Sigmund, who
-is careful not to make any poultry jokes...
-		-- Woody Allen
-%
 Notes for a ballet, "The Spell": ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of
 wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is
 astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman --
@@ -37198,9 +37165,6 @@ Everything I am today I owe to people, whom it is now
 to late to punish.
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 QOTD:
-I haven't come far enough and don't call me baby.
-%
-QOTD:
 I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down,
 then I thought 'One of us is in real trouble'.
 		-- Davey Allison, on a 150 m.p.h. crash
@@ -39341,14 +39305,6 @@ So...
 "Why not, David, it might even be fun."
 		-- Dating in Minnesota
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-So you see Antonio, why worry about one little core dump, eh?  In reality all
-core dumps happen at the same instant, so the core dump you will have tomorrow,
-why, it already happened.  You see, its just a little universal recursive joke
-which threads our lives through the infinite potential of the instant.  So go
-to sleep, Antonio, your thread could break any moment and cast you out of the
-safe security of the instant into the dark void of eternity, the anti-time.
-So go to sleep, ...
-%
 So you see Antonio, why worry about one little core dump, eh?  In reality
 all core dumps happen at the same instant, so the core dump you will have
 tomorrow, why, it already happened.  You see, it's just a little universal
@@ -40166,9 +40122,6 @@ editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
 Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the
 way before it is understood.
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-Subtlety is the art of saying what you think
-and getting out of the way before it is understood
-%
 Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names
 the streets after them.
 		-- Bill Vaughn
@@ -42114,10 +42067,6 @@ The first guy that rats gets a belly-full of slugs in the head.
 Understand?
 		-- Joey Glimco
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-The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half
-by our children.
-		-- Clarence Darrow
-%
 The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
 and the second half by our children.
 		-- Clarence Darrow
@@ -44089,9 +44038,6 @@ in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.
 The opossum is a very sophisticated animal.  It doesn't even get up
 until 5 or 6 PM.
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-The opossum is a very sophisticated animal.
-It doesn't even get up until 5 or 6 pm.
-%
 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite
 of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
 		-- Niels Bohr
@@ -46047,10 +45993,6 @@ There are two kinds of fool.  One says, "This is old, and therefore good."
 And one says "This is new, and therefore better."
 		-- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
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-There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good."
-And one says, "This is new, and therefore better"
-		-- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
-%
 There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
 		-- Lord Thomas Rober Dewar
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@@ -46716,8 +46658,6 @@ along -- quite gracefully.
 There's a whole WORLD in a mud puddle!
 		-- Doug Clifford
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-There's always free cheese in a mouse trap.
-%
 There's always free cheese in a mousetrap.
 %
 There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.
@@ -51305,11 +51245,6 @@ When I first arrived in this country I had only fifteen cents in my pocket
 and a willingness to compromise.
 		-- Weber cartoon caption
 %
-When I get real bored, I like to drive down town and get a great
-parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me
-if i'm leaving.
-		-- Steven Wright
-%
 When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot,
 then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.
 		-- Steven Wright
@@ -54832,11 +54767,6 @@ was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into
 the butter upon a hot day.
 		-- Sherlock Holmes
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-You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty
-family was first brought to my notice by the |depth which the parsley
-had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
-		-- Sherlock Holmes
-%
 You will soon forget this.
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 You will soon meet a person who will play an important role in your life.
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
index c30fa86..d150630 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
@@ -269,12 +269,6 @@ Wrote his thesis on cunts and on fucking'em.
 	Taught him Gamahuchee
 - so he added a footnote on sucking 'em.
 %
-A doctoral student from Buckingham
-Wrote his thesis on cunts and on fucking'em.
-	But a dropout from paree
-	Taught him Gamahuchee
-So he added a footnote on sucking 'em.
-%
 A do-it-yourselfer named Alice,
 Used a dynamite stick for a phallus.
 	She blew her vagina
@@ -519,12 +513,6 @@ A hearty young fellow named Yost
 Once had an affair with a ghost.
 	At the height of the spasm
 	The poor ectoplasm
-Cried, "Goodie, I feel it ... almost."
-%
-A hearty young fellow named Yost
-Once had an affair with a ghost.
-	At the height of the spasm
-	The poor ectoplasm
 Cried, "Goodie, I feel it... almost."
 %
 A hidebound young virgin named Carrie
@@ -942,12 +930,6 @@ Ms. Vogel's ok, but the mole's ill.
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 A pretty young lady named Vogel
 Once sat herself down on a molehill.
-	A curious mole
-	Nosed into her hole-
-Ms. Vogel's ok, but the mole's ill.
-%
-A pretty young lady named Vogel
-Once sat herself down on a molehill.
      A curious mole
      Nosed into her hole --
 Ms. Vogel's okay, but the mole's ill.
@@ -1136,12 +1118,6 @@ Beseeching poor Nestor to rest her.
 A sweetheart named Teresa Arden
 Went down on her beau in the garden.
 	He said, "Good lord, Tess,
-	Don't swallow that mess "
-And she replied, "Ulp, beg your pardon?"
-%
-A sweetheart named Teresa Arden
-Went down on her beau in the garden.
-	He said, "Good lord, Tess,
 	Don't swallow that mess!"
 And she replied, "Ulp, beg your pardon?"
 %
@@ -1504,12 +1480,6 @@ Could, when feeling euphoric,
 	Three kinds of erection-
 Corinthian, ionic, and doric.
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-An architect fellow named Yoric
-Could, when feeling euphoric,
-	Display for selection
-	Three kinds of erection-
-Corinthian,ionic,and doric.
-%
 An ardent young man named Magruder
 Once wooed a girl nude in Bermuda.
 	She thought it quite lewd
@@ -1804,13 +1774,6 @@ When he sits on the foot of my bed;
 But for the seventeen years he's been dead.
 		-- Edward Gorey
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-Each night Father fills me with dread
-When he sits on the foot ofmy bed;
-	I'd not mind that he speaks
-	In gibbers and squeaks,
-But for the seventeen years he's been dead.
-		-- Edward Gorey
-%
 From deep in the crypt at St. Giles
 Came a bellow that echoed for miles.
 	Said the rector, "My gracious,
@@ -1849,12 +1812,6 @@ Complacently stroking his madam,
 	For on all of the earth
 There were only two balls -- and he had 'em.
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-In the garden of Eden lay Adam,
-Complacently stroking his madam
-	And loud was his mirth
-	For on all of the earth
-There were only two balls and he had'em.
-%
 In the little French town of Le'Beau,
 Lived a maiden exceedingly droll.
 	At a masquerade ball,
@@ -2075,12 +2032,6 @@ Who got laid by a big alligator.
 There once was a girl from Madras
 Who had such a beautiful ass -
 	It was not round and pink
-	( as you bastards think )
-But had two ears, a tail, and ate grass.
-%
-There once was a girl from Madras
-Who had such a beautiful ass -
-	It was not round and pink
 	(As you bastards think)
 But had two ears, a tail, and ate grass.
 %
@@ -3383,12 +3334,6 @@ Whose screams could be heard for a block away.
 	The Rabbi in terror
 Cried, "God! I have cut his whole cock away!"
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-There was a young lad - name of Durcan
-Who was always jerkin' his gherkin.
-	His father said, "Durcan
-	Stop jerkin' your gherkin
-Your gherkin's for ferkin', not jerkin'.
-%
 There was a young lad from Nahant
 Who was made like the Sensitve Plant.
 	When asked, "Do you fuck?"
@@ -3883,12 +3828,6 @@ She excelled at (so everyone says).
 There was a young lady of Gaza
 Who shaved her cunt bare with a razor.
 	The crabs, in a lump,
-	Made tracks to her rump -
-This passing parade did amaze her.
-%
-There was a young lady of Gaza
-Who shaved her cunt bare with a razor.
-	The crabs, in a lump,
 	Made tracks to her rump--
 This passing parade did amaze her.
 %
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
index ad7dbfd..88f8228 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
@@ -697,9 +697,6 @@ knows it for he shall enjoy living.
 Everything east of the San Andreas fault will evenutally
 plunge into the Atlantic ocean.
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-I finally got it all together ...
-but I forgot where I put it.
-%
 Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
 %
 Blessed is he who expects no gratitude,
@@ -764,9 +761,6 @@ Those who make things happen,
 Those who watch things happen and
 Those who wonder what happened.
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-I no longer get lost in the shuffle,
-I shuffle along with the lost.
-%
 The one thing that money can not buy is poverty.
 %
 You are not drunk if you can lay on the floor without
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/zippy b/games/fortune/datfiles/zippy
index 5cfd637..c2dd028 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/zippy
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/zippy
@@ -506,8 +506,6 @@ I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!
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 I want to perform cranial activities with Tuesday Weld!!
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-... I want to perform cranial activities with Tuesday Weld!!
-%
 I want to read my new poem about pork brains and outer space ...
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 I want to so HAPPY, the VEINS in my neck STAND OUT!!