Move limericks to limerick file. Sort that and uniq.

2 files changed, 114 insertions, 127 deletions

diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index eac7ca45..3179d817 100644
--- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -188,13 +188,6 @@ wants to read.
 %
 A closed mouth gathers no foot.
 %
-A computer, to print out a fact,
-Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
-	But this output can be
-	No more than debris,
-If the input was short of exact.
-		-- Gigo
-%
 A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
 %
 A CONS is an object which cares.
@@ -213,12 +206,6 @@ damned things is ample.
 A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
 		-- Ben Franklin
 %
-A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
-And had an affair with a Saracen.
-	She was not oversexed,
-	Or jealous or vexed,
-She just wanted to make a comparison.
-%
 A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen
 lantern.
 		-- Edgar A. Shoaff
@@ -257,12 +244,6 @@ architect."
 A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
 		-- Ogden Nash
 %
-A dozen, a gross, and a score,
-Plus three times the square root of four,
-	Divided by seven,
-	Plus five times eleven,
-Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
-%
 A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a
 Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser.
 Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the network
@@ -381,12 +362,6 @@ A Law of Computer Programming:
 	Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you
 will find the programmers cannot write in English.
 %
-A limerick packs laughs anatomical
-Into space that is quite economical.
-	But the good ones I've seen
-	So seldom are clean,
-And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
-%
 A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of
 nothing.
 		-- Alan Perlis
@@ -495,12 +470,6 @@ on loan," the teacher replied.  At that moment, the donkey brayed
 loudly inside the stable.  "But I can hear it bray, over there."  "Whom
 do you believe," asked Nasrudin, "me or a donkey?"
 %
-A new dramatist of the absurd
-Has a voice that will shortly be heard.
-	I learn from my spies
-	He's about to devise
-An unprintable three-letter word.
-%
 A new koan:
 
 	If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you.
@@ -754,22 +723,10 @@ in students.
 A University without students is like an ointment without a fly.
 		-- Ed Nather, professor of astronomy at UT Austin
 %
-A UNIX saleslady, Lenore,
-Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more.
-	She found a good way
-	To combine work and play:
-She sells C shells by the seashore.
-%
 A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature
 replaces it with.
 		-- Tennessee Williams
 %
-A very intelligent turtle
-Found programming UNIX a hurdle
-	The system, you see,
-	Ran as slow as did he,
-And that's not saying much for the turtle.
-%
 A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without
 getting nervous.
 %
@@ -3146,13 +3103,6 @@ Dentist, n.:
 coins out of one's pockets.
 		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
 %
-Despising machines to a man,
-The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
-	And ride out by night
-	In a sheeting of white
-To lynch all the robots they can.
-		-- C. M. and G. A. Maxson
-%
 Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will
 be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over
 the table.
@@ -4079,12 +4029,6 @@ granted.  If I were you, I'd walk right up and smack them in the face.
 Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity.
 		-- Robert Firth
 %
-Flappity, floppity, flip
-The mouse on the m"obius strip;
-	The strip revolved,
-	The mouse dissolved
-In a chronodimensional skip.
-%
 FLASH!  Intelligence of mankind decreasing.  Details at ... uh, when
 the little hand is on the ....
 %
@@ -6955,12 +6899,6 @@ the sucker.
 %
 If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.
 %
-If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
-It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock. 
-	Or some joker who is slicker,
-	Will trick you of your liquor,
-If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
-%
 If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
 		-- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
 %
@@ -8335,12 +8273,6 @@ Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking
 for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
 		-- Alan McKay
 %
-Limericks are art forms complex,
-Their topics run chiefly to sex.
-	They usually have virgins,
-	And masculine urgin's,
-And other erotic effects.
-%
 Line Printer paper is strongest at the perforations.
 %
 Linus:	I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow.  Maybe
@@ -11858,13 +11790,6 @@ Swipple's Rule of Order:
 Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
 		-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
 %
-System/3!  System/3!
-See how it runs!  See how it runs!
-	Its monitor loses so totally!
-	It runs all its programs in RPG!
-	It's made by our favorite monopoly!
-System/3!
-%
 Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad
 infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
 		-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
@@ -13773,24 +13698,6 @@ There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale
 returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
 		-- Mark Twain
 %
-There once was a girl named Irene
-Who lived on distilled kerosene
-	But she started absorbin'
-	A new hydrocarbon
-And since then has never benzene.
-%
-There once was a member of Mensa
-Who was a most excellent fencer.
-	The sword that he used
-	Was his -- (line is refused,
-And has now been removed by the censor).
-%
-There once was an old man from Esser,
-Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
-	It at last grew so small,
-	He knew nothing at all,
-And now he's a College Professor.
-%
 There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
 		-- C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
 %
@@ -13806,30 +13713,6 @@ said, "Look!  We're not solving anything like this!  The only fair
 thing to do is to vote on it."  So they did, and Mayor Daley won by 97
 votes.
 %
-There was a young lady from Hyde
-Who ate a green apple and died.
-	While her lover lamented
-	The apple fermented
-And made cider inside her inside.
-%
-There was a young man who said "God,
-I find it exceedingly odd,
-	That the willow oak tree
-	Continues to be,
-When there's no one about in the Quad."
-
-"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd,
-For I'm always about in the Quad;
-	And that's why the tree,
-	Continues to be,"
-Signed "Yours faithfully, God."
-%
-There was a young poet named Dan,
-Whose poetry never would scan.
-	When told this was so,
-	He said, "Yes, I know.
-It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can."
-%
 There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
 both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
 talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/limerick b/fortune/datfiles/limerick
index 00c73382..05c3ab78 100644
--- a/fortune/datfiles/limerick
+++ b/fortune/datfiles/limerick
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-A computer called Illiac4
-Had a rather tough bug in its core.
-	It chewed up its cards
-	And spewed yards and yards
-Of illegible tape on the floor.
+A UNIX saleslady, Lenore,
+Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more.
+	She found a good way
+	To combine work and play:
+She sells C shells by the seashore.
 %
 A computer, to print out a fact,
 Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
@@ -11,6 +11,18 @@ Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
 If the input was short of exact.
 		-- Gigo
 %
+A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
+And had an affair with a Saracen.
+	She was not oversexed,
+	Or jealous or vexed,
+She just wanted to make a comparison.
+%
+A dozen, a gross, and a score,
+Plus three times the square root of four,
+	Divided by seven,
+	Plus five times eleven,
+Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
+%
 A dreary young bank clerk named Fennis
 Wished to foster an aura of menace;
 	To make people afraid
@@ -24,12 +36,24 @@ Was caught and convicted of rape.
 	From which, to his woe
 He couldn't get out with ESC.
 %
+A limerick packs laughs anatomical
+Into space that is quite economical.
+	But the good ones I've seen
+	So seldom are clean,
+And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
+%
 A linguist thought it a farce
 That memory space was so sparse.
 	One day they increased it.
 	Said he as he seized it:
 "At last! Enough core for the parse".
 %
+A new dramatist of the absurd
+Has a voice that will shortly be heard.
+	I learn from my spies
+	He's about to devise
+An unprintable three-letter word.
+%
 A progressive professor named Winners
 Held classes each evening for sinners.
 	They were graded and spaced
@@ -42,15 +66,95 @@ Found programming UNIX a hurdle
 	Ran as slow as did he,
 And that's not saying much for the turtle.
 %
+A wonderful bird is the pelican.
+His mouth can hold more than his belican.
+	He can take in his beak
+	Enough food for a week.
+And I'm darned if I know how the helican.
+%
+Despising machines to a man,
+The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
+	And ride out by night
+	In a sheeting of white
+To lynch all the robots they can.
+		-- C. M. and G. A. Maxson
+%
+Flappity, floppity, flip
+The mouse on the m"obius strip;
+	The strip revolved,
+	The mouse dissolved
+In a chronodimensional skip.
+%
+If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
+It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock. 
+	Or some joker who is slicker,
+	Will trick you of your liquor,
+If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
+%
+Limericks are art forms complex,
+Their topics run chiefly to sex.
+	They usually have virgins,
+	And masculine urgin's,
+And other erotic effects.
+%
+System/3!  System/3!
+See how it runs!  See how it runs!
+	Its monitor loses so totally!
+	It runs all its programs in RPG!
+	It's made by our favorite monopoly!
+System/3!
+%
+There once was a girl named Irene
+Who lived on distilled kerosene
+	But she started absorbin'
+	A new hydrocarbon
+And since then has never benzene.
+%
+There once was a member of Mensa
+Who was a most excellent fencer.
+	The sword that he used
+	Was his -- (line is refused,
+And has now been removed by the censor).
+%
+There once was an old man from Esser,
+Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
+	It at last grew so small,
+	He knew nothing at all,
+And now he's a College Professor.
+%
+There was a young lady from Hyde
+Who ate a green apple and died.
+	While her lover lamented
+	The apple fermented
+And made cider inside her inside.
+%
 There was a young lady from Niger
 Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
 	They returned from the ride
 	With the lady inside,
 And the smile on the face of the tiger.
 %
-A wonderful bird is the pelican.
-His mouth can hold more than his belican.
-	He can take in his beak
-	Enough food for a week.
-And I'm darned if I know how the helican.
+There was a young man who said "God,
+I find it exceedingly odd,
+	That the willow oak tree
+	Continues to be,
+When there's no one about in the Quad."
+
+"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd,
+For I'm always about in the Quad;
+	And that's why the tree,
+	Continues to be,"
+Signed "Yours faithfully, God."
+%
+There was a young poet named Dan,
+Whose poetry never would scan.
+	When told this was so,
+	He said, "Yes, I know.
+It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can."
+%
+A computer called Illiac4
+Had a rather tough bug in its core.
+	It chewed up its cards
+	And spewed yards and yards
+Of illegible tape on the floor.
 %