Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a

few typos.

5 files changed, 32 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 02f0f12..432bd12 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ System going down in 60 seconds
 feel interested.
 	"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
 vexed.  "That's what the name is called.  The name really is, 'The Aged
-Aged Man.'"
+Man.'"
 	"Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?"
 Alice corrected herself.
 	"No, you oughtn't:  that's quite another thing!  The song is
@@ -5106,7 +5106,7 @@ left hand corner of Prize Claim Form) and affix it to the 3x5 card
 below your address label. (d) Then print on your 3x5 card, above your
 computer-printed name and address the words "CARTER & VAN PEEL
 SWEEPSTAKES" (Use all capital letters.)  (e) Finally place 3x5 card
-(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the the
+(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the
 Official Prize Claim and CVP Perfume Reply Envelope or you may be
 disqualified], and mail to: CVP, Box 1320, Westbury, NY 11595.  Print
 this address correctly.  Comply with above instructions carefully and
@@ -7877,7 +7877,7 @@ shopping center in the world?
 %
 If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would
 be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call
-you to say they had a nice time.  Now you'll be be expected to throw
+you to say they had a nice time.  Now you'll be expected to throw
 another party next year.
 
 What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake up
@@ -9600,7 +9600,7 @@ mine.  Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.
 Manual, n.:
 	A unit of documentation.  There are always three or more on a
 given item.  One is on the shelf; someone has the others.  The
-information you need in in the others.
+information you need is in the others.
 		-- Ray Simard
 %
 Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon,
@@ -11913,7 +11913,7 @@ RY  RUNNING LOW. DIVISION UNIT 3 WILL BE OUT OF ACTION UNTIL    RY
 RY  THURSDAY DUE TO EMERGENCY COG REPLACEMENT - PLEASE ENSURE   RY
 RY  THAT YOUR PROGRAM DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE BY ZERO AS     RY
 RY  THIS CAN CAUSE SEVERE DAMAGE (INCLUDING SHAFT BREAKAGES).   RY
-RY                                                              RY 
+RY                                                              RY
 RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
 .
 .
@@ -15280,7 +15280,7 @@ the entire show without answering a single question ...
 Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them
 back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds,
 or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they
-they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
+couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
 		-- President Ronald Reagan, on the MX missile
 %
 "Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index 42a0e26..0cb57c2 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ sadly, "runneth over."
 After being reported missing a day or two later, rangers found two bears,
 one a male, one a female, looking suspiciously overstuffed.  They killed
 the female, autopsied her, and sure enough, found the German and the Pole.
-	"What do you think?" said the the first ranger.
+	"What do you think?" said the first ranger.
 	"The Czech is in the male," replied the second.
 %
 	A group of soldiers being prepared for a practice landing on a tropical
@@ -2991,7 +2991,7 @@ perception of the elephant.
 attacked the men.  He continued to trample them until they were nothing but
 bloody lumps of flesh.  Then, strolling away, the elephant remarked, "It just
 goes to show that you can't depend on first impressions.  When I first saw
-them I didn't think they they'd be any fun at all."
+them I didn't think they'd be any fun at all."
 %
 	Once upon a time there were three brothers who were knights
 in a certain kingdom.  And, there was a Princess in a neighboring kingdom
@@ -3807,7 +3807,7 @@ just a case of "uncontained blade liberation."
 feel interested.
 	"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
 vexed.  "That's what the name is called.  The name really is, 'The Aged
-Aged Man.'"
+Man.'"
 	"Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?"
 Alice corrected herself.
 	"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing!  The song is
@@ -7686,7 +7686,7 @@ monkey and its mother is thirty years.  One half of the weight of the monkey,
 plus the weight of the banana, is one forth as much as the weight of the
 weight and the weight of the rope.  The monkey's mother is half as old as
 the monkey will be when it is three times as old as its mother was when she
-she was half as old as the monkey will be when when it is as old as its mother
+was half as old as the monkey will be when it is as old as its mother
 will be when she is four times as old as the monkey was when it was twice
 as its mother was when she was one third as old as the monkey was when it
 was old as is mother was when she was three times as old as the monkey was
@@ -14047,7 +14047,7 @@ well.  (And post to comp.std.mumps, since they hardly get any articles
 there, and a "comp" group will propagate your article further.)
 	You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each
 group.  If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some newsreaders
-will only show the the article to the reader once!  Don't tolerate this.
+will only show the article to the reader once!  Don't tolerate this.
 		-- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
 %
 Dear Emily:
@@ -15180,7 +15180,7 @@ OR'd together, outta sight!
 Double Bucky, I'd like a whole word of,
 Double Bucky, I'm happy I heard of,
 Double Bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!
-		-- to Nicholas Wirth, who suggested that an extra bit
+		-- to Niklaus Wirth, who suggested that an extra bit
 		be added to terminal codes on 36-bit machines for use
 		by screen editors.  [to the tune of "Rubber Ducky"]
 %
@@ -16340,7 +16340,7 @@ respect to theories about how the process operates.
 		-- Martin Gardner, "Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life".
 %
 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for
-even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
+even the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
 		-- C.C. Colton
 %
 Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
@@ -18376,7 +18376,7 @@ Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable
 exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
 	Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted
 for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous
-confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
+confusion as the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
 regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain.  This reprehensible carelessness
 may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a
 fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.
@@ -24010,7 +24010,7 @@ If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
 		-- W.E. Hickson
 %
-If at first you don't succeed, try try again.  Then quit.
+If at first you don't succeed, try again.  Then quit.
 No use being a damn fool about it.
 %
 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
@@ -24643,7 +24643,7 @@ and never be our destiny.
 		-- Rene de Visme Williamson
 %
 If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a
-Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per per gallon,
+Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon,
 and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
 		-- Robert Cringely, InfoWorld
 %
@@ -25356,7 +25356,7 @@ lack sufficient imagination.
 %
 If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would be
 to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call you to
-say they had a nice time.  Now you'll be be expected to throw another party
+say they had a nice time.  Now you'll be expected to throw another party
 next year.
 	What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake
 	up several days from now and call their lawyers to find out if
@@ -30590,7 +30590,7 @@ conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
 manual, n:
 	A unit of documentation.  There are always three or more on a given
 	item.  One is on the shelf; someone has the others.  The information
-	you need in in the others.
+	you need is in the others.
 		-- Ray Simard
 %
 Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
@@ -30663,7 +30663,7 @@ life of crime after taking college Computer Science courses.
 Many pages make a thick book.
 %
 Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket Bibles which are on very
-very thin paper.
+thin paper.
 %
 Many people are desperately looking for some wise advice
 which will recommend that they do what they want to do.
@@ -31811,7 +31811,7 @@ First his legs and then his thighs, his arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...
 But all too late, for they were gone, and he had started on his dong...
 "Oh! foolish child!" the father mourns "You could have deep-fried that
 	with prawns,
-Some parsley and and some tartar sauce..."
+Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
 But H. was on his second course: his liver and his lights and lung,
 His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue; "To think I raised him from the cot,
 And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
@@ -35260,7 +35260,7 @@ Ozman's Laws:
 	(4)  Pizza always burns the roof of your mouth.
 %
 paak, n:	A stadium or inclosed playing field. To put or leave (a
-			a vehicle) for a time in a certain location.
+			vehicle) for a time in a certain location.
 patato, n:	The starchy, edible tuber of a widely cultivated plant.
 Septemba, n:	The 9th month of the year.
 shua, n:	Having no doubt; certain.
@@ -39218,7 +39218,7 @@ Shedenhelm's Law:
 	All trails have more uphill sections
 	than they have downhill sections.
 %
-"Shelter", what a nice name for for a place where you polish your cat.
+"Shelter", what a nice name for a place where you polish your cat.
 %
 Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then
 turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a
@@ -39705,7 +39705,7 @@ then they act as though this was a totally unexpected and very dangerous
 development, although clearly it is what they wanted all along.
 		-- Dave Barry
 %
-So this it it.  We're going to die.
+So this is it.  We're going to die.
 %
 So, what's with this guy Gideon, anyway?
 And why can't he ever remember his Bible?
@@ -46684,7 +46684,7 @@ on his own account.  The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is
 even highly probable.
 		-- H.L. Mencken, 1930
 %
-There is is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
+There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
 		-- Ken Olsen (President of Digital Equipment Corporation),
 		   Convention of the World Future Society, in Boston, 1977
 %
@@ -50716,7 +50716,7 @@ And grow some funk, grow your funk at home.
 Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them
 back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds,
 or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they
-they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
+couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
 		-- Ronald Reagan, on the MX missile
 %
 Well, if you can't believe what you read
@@ -50883,7 +50883,7 @@ and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students.
 %
 We're happy little Vegemites,
 	As bright as bright can be.
-We all all enjoy our Vegemite
+We all enjoy our Vegemite
 	For breakfast, lunch and tea.
 %
 Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
index cff78ac..827f97a 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ fixed?"
 %
 	An Israeli soldier was checking travelers' papers on a road, when a
 man and a heavily pregnant woman on a donkey came by.  "Your names please?"
-said the the soldier.
+said the soldier.
 	"My name is Mary," said the woman.
 	"And mine is Joseph," said the man.
 	"Oh," said the soldier, a little taken aback, "And where are you
@@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ did to us?"
 
  1. WITTY AND CHARMING:  This is after one or two drinks.  The tongue is
 	loosened and can yet remain in step with the brain.  In the "witty
-	and charming" state, one is likely to use foreign idioms and and
+	and charming" state, one is likely to use foreign idioms and
 	phrases such as "au contraire" in place of "No way, Jose" or
 	"Bullsheyet".
  2. RICH AND POWERFUL:  By the third drink, you begin mentioning the little
@@ -4892,7 +4892,7 @@ CHASTITY BELT:
 Chastity is its own punishment.
 %
 Chicago has journalists' bars, ethnic bars, neighborhood bars, even midget
-bars, hundreds, maybe thousands of bars, on on every neighborhood block.
+bars, hundreds, maybe thousands of bars, on every neighborhood block.
 I was drinking on afternoon in O'Rourke's, a bar on the Near North side.
 It was dark and empty, which suited my mood.  A fat, stubble-bearded,
 middle-aged man waddled in, took the stool next to mine, and ordered a
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
index 7672a9e..817752f 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ The one thing that money can not buy is poverty.
 You are not drunk if you can lay on the floor without
 holding on.
 %
-In any household, junk accumulates to the the space
+In any household, junk accumulates to the space
 available for its storage.
 %
 Don't stop to stomp on ants
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ If anything can't go wrong it will.
 If muprhy's law can go wrong, it will.
 %
 If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in
-in the worst possible sequence.
+the worst possible sequence.
 %
 After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle
 will repeat itself.
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek b/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek
index ffc4ea9..dbc9510 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ The sooner our happiness together begins, the longer it will last.
 		-- Miramanee, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6
 %
 ... The things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies, the
-the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
+miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
 failures and the glorious victories.
 		-- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7
 %