From 6ba30859289bb3bafe3e0fcb88fca7944b721dc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pk Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 20:44:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Correct typos noted by Mike Long; PR#1654. --- fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 8 ++++---- fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real | 2 +- fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 2 +- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 2f697571..395f1741 100644 --- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -8536,7 +8536,7 @@ carts. -- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends" % Magpie, n.: - A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it + A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" % @@ -8614,9 +8614,9 @@ is an enemy. % Man, n.: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks -e is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His hief -occupation is extermination of other animals and his own pecies, which, -however, multiplies with such insistent apidity as to infest the whole +he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief +occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, +however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" % diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real index 60d62e51..ab291048 100644 --- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real +++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real @@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers. % Occident, n.: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It -is largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the +is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient. diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index d4d29717..64c4b7b2 100644 --- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ program. conference and then returned to report to his manager, saying: "What sort of programmers work for other companies? They behaved badly and were unconcerned with appearances. Their hair was long and unkempt and their -clothes were wrinkled and old. They crashed out hospitality suites and they +clothes were wrinkled and old. They crashed our hospitality suites and they made rude noises during my presentation." The manager said: "I should have never sent you to the conference. Those programmers live beyond the physical world. They consider life absurd, -- 2.47.1