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| -rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 22 |
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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 1c6efa9..6f621f9 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. % Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. % -CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.. +CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.. % Cecil, you're my final hope Of finding out the true Straight Dope @@ -16278,7 +16278,7 @@ Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. "Yow! Am I having fun yet?" -- Zippy the Pinhead % -YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!" +YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL! % Zero Defects, n.: The result of shutting down a production line. diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index bd52f56..10c1646 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -12663,8 +12663,6 @@ Caution: Breathing may be hazardous to your health. % Caution: Keep out of reach of children. % -CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.. -% CCI Power 6/40: one board, a megabyte of cache, and an attitude... % Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch. @@ -36425,26 +36423,6 @@ trivially equivalent, so the only important n are n less than n. We can take n = n (from above), so it's true for n+1 becuase it's just about n. QED. (QED translates from the Latin as "So what?") % -Proof techniques #2: Proof by Oddity. - SAMPLE: To prove that horses have an infinite number of legs. -[1] Horses have an even number of legs. -[2] They have two legs in back and fore legs in front. -[3] This makes a total of six legs, - which certainly is an odd number of legs for a horse. -[4] But the only number that is both odd and even is infinity. -[5] Therefore, horses must have an infinite number of legs. - -Topics is be covered in future issues include proof by: - intimidation, - gesticulation (handwaving), - "try it; it works", - constipation (I was just sitting there and...), - blatant assertion, - changing all the 2's to n's, - mutual consent, - lack of a counterexample, and, - "it stands to reason". -% Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. -- Darrell Huff |
