Fix doubled 'the's.

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 89b907ca..4ebd6ebe 100644
--- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -3836,7 +3836,7 @@ left hand corner of Prize Claim Form) and affix it to the 3x5 card
 below your address label. (d) Then print on your 3x5 card, above your
 computer-printed name and address the words "CARTER & VAN PEEL
 SWEEPSTAKES" (Use all capital letters.)  (e) Finally place 3x5 card
-(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the the
+(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the
 Official Prize Claim and CVP Perfume Reply Envelope or you may be
 disqualified], and mail to: CVP, Box 1320, Westbury, NY 11595.  Print
 this address correctly.  Comply with above instructions carefully and
diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index c1fa5a7c..0bd80fd8 100644
--- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ the father spanked them.  His wife asked, "Don't you love your children?"
 After being reported missing a day or two later, rangers found two bears,
 one a male, one a female, looking suspiciously overstuffed.  They killed
 the female, autopsied her, and sure enough, found the German and the Pole.
-	"What do you think?" said the the first ranger.
+	"What do you think?" said the first ranger.
 	"The Czech is in the male," replied the second.
 %
 	A group of soldiers being prepared for a practice landing on a tropical
@@ -14023,7 +14023,7 @@ well.  (And post to comp.std.mumps, since they hardly get any articles
 there, and a "comp" group will propagate your article further.)
 	You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each
 group.  If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some newsreaders
-will only show the the article to the reader once!  Don't tolerate this.
+will only show the article to the reader once!  Don't tolerate this.
 		-- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
 %
 Dear Emily:
@@ -16317,8 +16317,8 @@ as firmly established as Copernican cosmology.  Biologists differ only with
 respect to theories about how the process operates.
 		-- Martin Gardner, "Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life". 
 %
-Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for
-even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
+Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for even
+the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
 		-- C.C. Colton
 %
 Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
@@ -18328,10 +18328,10 @@ Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable
 exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
 	Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted
 for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous
-confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
-regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain.  This reprehensible carelessness
-may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a
-fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.
+confusion as the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment
+during a sandstorm in western Spain.  This reprehensible carelessness may be
+related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a fact
+which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.
 	This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of
 my instructions from His Majesty's Government so that I may better understand
 why I am dragging an army over these barren plains.  I construe that perforce it
diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o.real b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o.real
index b10a0985..9b03d931 100644
--- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o.real
+++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o.real
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ fixed?"
 %
 	An Israeli soldier was checking travelers' papers on a road, when a 
 man and a heavily pregnant woman on a donkey came by.  "Your names please?" 
-said the the soldier.
+said the soldier.
 	"My name is Mary," said the woman.  
 	"And mine is Joseph," said the man.  
 	"Oh," said the soldier, a little taken aback, "And where are you