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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 4a56521..63ae95a 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@ deal with yams, and pigs are terrible conversationalists. So he showed me a nude picture of my wife. -- Rodney Dangerfield % - If I kiss you, that is an psychological interaction. + If I kiss you, that is a psychological interaction. On the other hand, if I hit you over the head with a brick, that is also a psychological interaction. The difference is that one is friendly and the other is not @@ -6297,7 +6297,7 @@ A fellow bought a new car, a Nissan, and was quite happy with his purchase. He was something of an animist, however, and felt that the car really ought to have a name. This presented a problem, as he was not sure if the name should be masculine or feminine. - After considerable thought, he settled on an naming the car either + After considerable thought, he settled on naming the car either Belchazar or Beaumadine, but remained in a quandry about the final choice. "Is a Nissan male or female?" he began asking his friends. Most of them looked at him peculiarly, mumbled things about urgent appointments, and @@ -9712,7 +9712,7 @@ hours. Suddenly, the old man opens his eyes whispers: "I must be dreaming of heaven... I smell my daughter Lisle's strudel." "No, no, grandfather, you are not dreaming", he is reassured. "Grandmother is baking strudel right now." - A faint smile crosses the old man's face. "Go an get me a sliver of + A faint smile crosses the old man's face. "Go and get me a sliver of strudel," he says, "she bakes the finest strudel in the world." One of the grandchildren is immediately dispatched to honor the old man's request, and, after what seems a long time, he returns empty-handed. @@ -18011,7 +18011,7 @@ Fortune's Rules for Memo Wars: #2 Given the incredible advances in sociocybernetics and telepsychology over the last few years, we are now able to completely understand everything that -the author of an memo is trying to say. Thanks to modern developments +the author of a memo is trying to say. Thanks to modern developments in electrocommunications like notes, vnews, and electricity, we have an incredible level of interunderstanding the likes of which civilization has never known. Thus, the possibility of your misinterpreting someone else's @@ -18021,7 +18021,7 @@ the memo in question, but have absolutely nothing of substance to say, then you have an excellent opportunity for a vicious ad hominem attack. In fact, the only *inappropriate* times for an ad hominem attack are as follows: - 1: When you agree completely with the author of an memo. + 1: When you agree completely with the author of a memo. 2: When the author of the original memo is much bigger than you are. 3: When replying to one of your own memos. % @@ -27463,7 +27463,7 @@ It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -- Hawkwind % It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will -set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. +set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. -- Francis Bacon % It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. @@ -47025,8 +47025,8 @@ necessary, family, hobbies, and friends -- if you had any of these left (and you might not, if you had signed up too many times before). -- Tracy Kidder, "The Soul of a New Machine" % -There was this New Yorker that had a lifelong ambition to be an Texan. -Fortunately, he had an Texan friend and went to him for advice. "Mike, +There was this New Yorker that had a lifelong ambition to be a Texan. +Fortunately, he had a Texan friend and went to him for advice. "Mike, you know I've always wanted to be a Texan. You're a *real* Texan, what should I do?" "Well," answered Mike, "The first thing you've got to do is look @@ -49293,7 +49293,7 @@ Unless it's blind screaming paroxysmally hedonistic... Under every stone lurks a politician. -- Aristophanes % -Under the wide an starry sky, +Under the wide and starry sky, Dig my grave and let me lie, Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will, |
