1 This is a list of the data files included with this distribution, and
6 https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod
8 One can also send me patches by E-mail / etc.:
10 https://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/
12 Offensive fortunes are installed by default. To *not* install them,
13 use the "-D NO_OFFENSIVE=TRUE" option to cmake.
15 ./datfiles/ : the directory for inoffensive fortunes
17 art : Broadly construed; it includes television and celebrities.
18 ascii-art : each one worth a thousand words, I guess.
19 computers : various fortunes that are computer-related. This includes
20 the 'joke' fortunes that are supposed to emulate system
21 error messages, as well as some neat stuff.
22 cookie : Cookie file from Karl Lehenbauer's postings to alt.sources
23 definitions : It ought to be all the 'definitions,' but what it really
24 is, is all the definitions that have a first line ending
26 disclaimer : Disclaimer texts found on products and advertisements.
27 Work well after corporate mandated login banners.
28 drugs : Alcohol and cigarettes, mostly. Legal chemicals.
29 education : Schools, teachers, and scholarship, mostly not complimentary.
30 ethnic : Jokes that are about groups of people, but aren't making
31 fun of them. Laughing with instead of at.
32 food : Recipes, diets, and more about food.
33 fortunes : Yes, the old file name, but this contains predictions,
34 evaluations of character, and the kind of stuff that you
35 actually expect to get when you want to know your fortune.
36 goedel : Meta-fortunes. Incomplete, of course. :-)
37 humorists : Stand-up comedians, and people like Dave Barry. Especially
38 stuff that doesn't fit into another category (almost anything
39 that Steven Wright says doesn't fit a category).
40 kids : Real advice and cynical observations on children, parenting,
42 law : Stupid laws, stupider lawyers. *No* joke about a lawyer
43 is *ever* offensive (except to lawyers, and who cares?).
44 linux : From the collection at ftp.icce.rug.nl. Linux-related.
45 It probably ought to go in with 'computers,' but it's
46 archived separately, so I'm keeping it separate.
47 literature : Mostly classic authors; a few newbies. And Bulwer-Lytton.
48 It should contain more on writing and by writers, but a lot
49 of that somehow got into art.
50 love : What no one gets enough of, I guess.
52 medicine : Doctors and cures. And other contradictory juxtapositions.
54 men-women : And the relations between them.
55 miscellaneous : Whatever's left over.
56 news : On journalism, and the unintentionally amusing bits of
58 people : You know, humans. Personality, appearance, relationships,
59 and all the other evilness of which humans are capable.
60 It should probably be several smaller files (personality,
61 appearance, relationships ...)
62 pets : Mostly cats and dogs, with some goldfish. And penguins.
64 platitudes : The meaning of life, and of other things, including all those
65 stupid little sayings, and variants on them.
66 politics : Comments on man as a political animal. Also police,
67 soldiers, and other criminals.
68 riddles : Not really riddles, necessarily, but mostly Q: A:
69 science : Largely math and engineering, but some other interesting
70 and amusing sorts of science-related apothegms. Also
72 songs-poems : Stuff with meter, at least, and usually with rhymes.
73 sports : You know. Like on television. ;-)
74 startrek : Apparently quotes from Star Trek Classic. Plus a bit.
75 translate-me : A small file containing non-English quotes without
77 wisdom : Zen, the True Meaning of Life, and other stupid lies.
78 work : Really about the business world, and the pains of being a
79 part of it. The desperate problems of the wealthy. Like
81 zippy : Quotes from the comic Zippy the Pinhead.
84 ./datfiles/off/ : the directory for offensive fortunes, already rot13'd.
85 they aren't distributed. All the offensive fortunes,
86 unrotated, are found in the subdirectory:
87 ./datfiles/off/unrotated/ : unrotated, offensive fortunes*
89 atheism : Wayne Aiken's atheism cookie file, from:
90 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aiken/
91 astrology : Like in the daily newspapers, except nastier. More would
92 be nice. A few comments *about* astrology.
93 black-humor : Death, violence-as-humor, and the like. Really sick stuff.
94 definitions : Like the inoffensive; first line ends with a colon and
95 it looks sorta like a definition.
96 drugs : Various references to illegal herbs and chemicals.
97 ethnic : Nasty slams at particular ethnic groups. 'Ethnic' actually
98 includes regionalist jokes in America.
99 hphobia : Slams at gays and lesbians.
100 limerick : There once was a file named limerick, / the contents of
101 which were pretty slick. / Each fortune five lines, /
102 with execrable rhymes, / And contents t'offend the fanatick.
103 misandry : Anti-man stuff. Smaller than 'misogyny.' Wotta surprise.
104 miscellaneous : It has everything that doesn't fit in other categories.
105 misogyny : Jokes that women encounter as real attitudes daily. Real
106 attitudes that women have to pretend are jokes daily.
107 politics : The great wonder about the offensive political file is
108 that it mostly contains direct quotes by politicians
109 who *weren't* trying to be funny.
110 privates : No, not promoted recruits. The naughty bits, that people
111 aren't supposed to talk about. Body parts and functions.
112 (Note that "size" has nothing to do with sex, so size
113 jokes are all in here).
114 racism : Racism. I suppose it's funny to *someone*. I hope I
116 religion : Stuff that might offend religious people, mostly Christians.
117 riddles : Not really riddles, but usually the question format,
118 some Q&A and some just leading/rhetorical questions.
119 sex : Uhh. Well, you see, son, there are, umm, birds, and bees...
120 This ranges from outrageously frank to moderately suggestive.
121 songs-poems : Filthy, bawdy, naughty songs and poems! Licentious, I tell
122 tell you! The programmer must be spanked! First the
124 vulgarity : Jokes in which the 'humor' is bad language, plus some
125 genuinely funny things that happen to contain bad language.
127 The intention throughout has been to create something a bit more
128 manageable and maintainable, without notable success in most cases. A
129 more rational division of the fortunes would be preferred, but you do
130 what comes naturally.
132 If you prefer to have all the fortunes in one humongous file, that's fine:
133 cat 'em all together and run strfile. That's easy; breaking them apart
134 again isn't. Keep in mind that the "-o" infix format is not supported in
135 this version of fortune, so keep the offensive files in a separate
138 *If any of these files are not to your taste, do the easy thing: rm
139 filename.dat. That leaves the fortunes there, but without the pointer
140 file, inaccessible. Or rm filename, which gets rid of the text strings.