Jens Schweikhardt
9c83887e23
"The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling.
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Spotted by: grog
2004-01-19 21:22:21 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d910ed771d
Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a
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few typos.
2003-12-26 21:32:47 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
094e585d1c
reformat HP eng. mgr quote
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Requested by: nate
2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
92797e8470
Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'.
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PR: 58909
Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
MFC after: 1 week
2003-11-04 09:21:59 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
bebbcc8ef8
Polish last fortune.
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Suggested by: nate
2003-10-06 22:11:03 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e95a20fe4f
'Upon the release of the second version'
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Suggested that this is fortune material: rene@tunix.nl
MFC after: 2 weeks
2003-10-06 19:34:35 +00:00
Doug Barton
461722f0f2
* Fix a duplicate "how how"
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* Fix pedstals -> pedestals
2003-08-31 23:05:39 +00:00
Tony Finch
587d9e3727
At the risk of serious physical abuse from markm, add another regex joke,
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but s/regex/regular expression/g for terminological consistency.
2003-03-10 19:58:37 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
8f01b038f7
We were low on regex jokes. Now we are *really* low on them.
2003-03-10 13:47:43 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
17d21c5710
Fix style of recent additions and sort.
2003-02-26 04:41:58 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
e426ee5d51
EMACS joke (no, not EMACS itself).
2003-02-24 18:04:20 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
20aef63915
Add a quote from Bob Schieffer's recent book about freedom of the press.
2003-02-23 06:14:04 +00:00
Ceri Davies
a92acc1aed
"Happiness" is a noun.
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PR: misc/47345
Submitted by: Ben Rosengart <ben@narcissus.net>
2003-02-18 20:49:12 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9d5abbddbf
Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
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especially in troff files.
2003-01-01 18:49:04 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d64ada501a
Fix typos, mostly s/ an / a / where appropriate and a few s/an/and/
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Add FreeBSD Id tag where missing.
2002-12-30 21:18:15 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
6563eb85ee
s/seems to thing/seems to think
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X-MFC after: 4.7 is out the door
2002-09-21 16:13:20 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
dd549a74d0
Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate
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Bertrand Russell quotations.
2002-09-11 11:21:36 +00:00
David Malone
a5fe067b05
Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere.
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PR: 7434
2002-08-31 23:15:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
a2c4d39d54
Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2.
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Move the single remaining one across to fortunes2 to join its friends.
Spell his name consistently. Remove a couple of other duplicate fortunes.
2002-08-09 20:37:01 +00:00
Tony Finch
e3b282d990
Fix a couple of typos in a Dijkstra quote.
2002-08-09 19:00:10 +00:00
David Malone
ffaa6f7c38
Fix a typo.
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PR: 40523
Submitted by: Andrew Stevenson <andrew@ugh.net.au>
2002-07-14 15:28:01 +00:00
Peter Wemm
744c5368b2
Fix whitespace botch in previous commit.
2002-07-09 06:47:29 +00:00
Peter Wemm
518b7839f2
Add C code that counts the bits in a 32 bit word, right next to the C code
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that reverses the bits in a 32 bit word. Who thinks up this stuff?
2002-07-09 02:56:10 +00:00
Doug Barton
99bb09292c
Correctly attribute a Douglas Adams quote, and remove a duplicate of
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the same quote.
2002-05-15 04:35:27 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
bff11a8c74
s/-300K/~300K/
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This is an absolute (kelvin) temperature. I expect that in the original
source it was typeset as $\sim 300~{\rm K}$ or similar, meaning
"approximately 300 K". Changing it to a minus sign in the fortunes file
was clearly an error, as absolute temperatures are by definition positive.
2002-05-01 06:20:57 +00:00
Juli Mallett
a85dfc0c55
Add something absurd I used one night as an example of CS overcomplication
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of things most hackers take for granted.
2002-04-29 06:26:12 +00:00
Juli Mallett
6026955eaa
Remove a Kurt Vonnegut quote that appears in fortunes.
2002-04-29 01:44:16 +00:00
Juli Mallett
d6eff954b4
Spell out the name of Hunter S. Thompson.
2002-04-29 01:38:43 +00:00
Doug Barton
b564d8acf1
* Add $FreeBSD$ to limerick and zippy
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* Delete trailing white space in all its forms. In addition to being
bad style in general, it also causes formatting, and other problems
for various third party items (like xscreensaver) which use fortunes
for their own purposes.
2002-04-28 21:59:07 +00:00
Ceri Davies
bc219a1c8b
There is no host called new.bbc.co.uk - fix url.
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Reviewed by: jkh
Approved by: jkh, murray
MFC after: 3 days
2002-04-26 10:58:06 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
b84cde50fc
Resort and suppress dupes.
2002-04-25 19:12:30 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
3cfabe1aef
Add a few more aphorisms.
2002-04-25 18:53:41 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
461e39085c
Add some of uncontroversial fortunes from my files.
2002-04-25 03:20:27 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
7ad7cdff6f
Add some fortunes and re-order the Feynman problem solving algorithm.
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Thanks to gsutter for the quotes.
Reviewed by: jkh
2002-04-24 12:15:00 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
ae444ae634
Assorted mechanical fixes.
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PR: 34790
Submitted by: Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>
2002-03-09 04:38:25 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
b051995c7f
Clean up G. B. Shaw quotes:
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- fix missing punctuation,
- remove duplicates in fortunes2,
- don't abbreviate first names.
Remove duplication of Shaw's principle in fortunes2.
2002-01-07 13:47:22 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
874ba4513a
Separate concatenated fortunes.
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Remove unattributed duplicate of Frederick Brooks eternal words
about the danger of second systems.
2001-11-03 16:43:13 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
096830fe4e
Correct attribution.
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PR: 30500
Submitted by: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.org>
2001-10-28 13:23:39 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
3bb753ca7d
s/Cthulu/Cthulhu/
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Alas, the first one is a repeat in a slightly different format and
ought to be removed (or the other copy). I'll leave that to more
enterprising souls, though (Cthulhu loves enterprising souls).
MFC after: 3 days
2001-05-21 21:30:45 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
70252de401
Axe out duplicate.
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Not to submitter: (I don't let Jordan use my axe)
PR: 24782
Submitted by: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
2001-03-28 11:10:50 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
d2f50a4667
Remove duplicate.
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PR: 19670
Submitted by: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
2001-03-28 11:06:50 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
0a047cf417
Remove a duplicate piece of chalk.
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PR: 23132
Submitted by: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
2001-03-28 11:02:14 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
a28f659d51
Unfortunately low-altitude overflights is not enough to make penguins crash.
2001-02-02 22:35:13 +00:00
David Malone
25524f1985
Remove one other dup.
2000-10-12 09:26:33 +00:00
David Malone
371d271e9f
Remove some duplicated Dijkstra quotes and add a new one.
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Approved by: jkh
2000-10-12 09:16:23 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
a416909903
Remove a duplicate Feyman quote. Add his problem-solving algorithm.
2000-09-30 09:52:49 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
fcd0f2aa36
Remove a couple of dups and fix a typo. This doesn't touch dups that
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are dupped between here (fortunes2) and fortunes.
2000-05-28 05:21:45 +00:00
Wes Peters
bbb8708655
Minor typo nit. Also, remove the redundant entry from fortunes2.
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PR: bin/14239
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
1999-11-27 07:18:33 +00:00
Chris Piazza
aa5fd445bb
Lewis Carroll's name was spelled Lewis Carrol in some fortunes
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PR: 14569
Submitted by: Janet Davis <janet@one-eyed-alien.net>
1999-10-28 03:28:50 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
83fbb33522
Change path order in makefile so newer fortune files will be built with
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the latest fortune (strfile/caesar) sources.
Correct a separator type in fortunes2.
Add Unix geeks dating instructions (reference card style).
1999-10-02 12:31:56 +00:00