combat, potion, archeologist data.base entries

     Add second quotes for archeologist and potion, plus a silly new entry
for combat.

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#      SCCS Id: @(#)data.base  3.5     2007/02/08
+#      SCCS Id: @(#)data.base  3.5     2007/04/29
 #      Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
 #      Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
 #      NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.
@@ -231,13 +231,27 @@ apple
        and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say
        when.
                [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
-archeologist
+archeolog*
 * archeologist
        Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. [...]
        So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel,
        and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried
        treasure, and X never, ever, marks the spot.
                [ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ]
+
+       "I cannot be having with archeological excavations, myself,"
+       I said.  "The fellows who dig them only ever find tiny walls
+       and a few bits of broken pottery, and then they get all
+       excited and swear that they have just made the most
+       important discovery of the century, the ruins of a mile-high
+       gold-covered temple to Frogmore the God of Bike-Saddle
+       Fixtures or some such."
+       "I think you will find," said Mr Rune, "that they do this
+       in order to secure further government funding for their
+       diggings and so remain in employment."
+       "That is a rather cynical view," I said.
+               [ the brightonomicon, by Robert Rankin ]
+#              [title & author: same situation as with "bad luck" entry]
 archon
        Archons are the predominant inhabitants of the heavens.
        However unusual their appearance, they are not generally
@@ -914,6 +928,21 @@ zorkmid*
        and says "In Frobs We Trust" in several languages.
                [ Zork Zero, by Infocom ]
 # not "stethoscope"
+combat
+fight
+fracas
+melee
+spat
+squabble
+tiff
+       [Scene: Mr. Moon and Gilbert enter tavern and discover many
+       corpses strewn about the place; Blind Pew is sole survivor.]
+       Blind Pew:  Evening.  Sounded as though there has been a bit
+                   of a squabble.
+        Mr. Moon:  Squabble?  They're all dead.
+       Blind Pew:  Oh.  Must have been more of a tiff then.
+               [ Yellowbeard, directed by Mel Damski, screenplay
+                 by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna ]
 cope
 * cope
        The cope is a liturgical vestment which may be worn by any
@@ -3892,6 +3921,19 @@ poseido*n
        preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific --
        and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
                [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
+
+       Jack Burton:  What's in the flask, Egg?  Magic potion?
+          Egg Shen:  Yeah.
+              Jack:  I thought so, good.  What do we do?  Drink it?
+               Egg:  Yeah.
+              Jack:  Good, I thought so.
+            [later]
+              Jack:  This does what again, exactly?
+               Egg:  Huge buzz!  [drinks]  Oh good!  See things no
+                     one else can see, do things no one else can do.
+               [ Big in Trouble in Little China, directed by
+                 John Carpenter, written by Gary Goldman &
+                 David Z. Weinstein, adaptation by W. D. Richter ]
 pray*
        Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle.  Every
        prayer reduces itself to this:  Great God, grant that twice