From: nethack.rankin Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 02:11:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: bad luck quote X-Git-Tag: MOVE2GIT~1422 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24bb857d95a36be7fc5fdac3325e0fbe7b8083f5;p=nethack bad luck quote Nothing to do with 's recent list of missing entries, just an amusing quote I like. The book itself isn't remotely nethackish; it's about a teenage boy and a teddy bear who are operating as hardboiled-style detectives in a land of sentient toys where nursery rhyme characters start getting murdered. --- diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 5dd5eebea..9afa1b34a 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# SCCS Id: @(#)data.base 3.4 2004/06/04 +# SCCS Id: @(#)data.base 3.4 2004/09/02 # 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. @@ -2348,6 +2348,24 @@ lord surt* and harry, and overcome all the gods, and burn all the world with fire. [ The Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson ] +# if a quote for good luck gets added, make this one exclusively bad luck +luck +bad luck + "[...] We'll succeed and you'll get all the fortune you came + seeking." + Jack shook his head dismally. "You'll be better off without + me," he said. "I'm nothing but bad luck. It's because I'm + cursed. A farmer I met on the way to the city cursed me. He + said, 'I curse you Jack. May you never know wealth. May all + that you wish for be denied you.'" + "What a horrid man," said Eddie. "Why did he curse you like + that?" + Jack shrugged [...]. "Bad grace, I suppose. Just because I + shot off his ear and made him jump into a pit full of spikes." + [ the hollow chocolate bunnies of + the apocalypse, by Robert Rankin ] +# [no relation... both cover and title page list +# this book's title in all lower case] lug* Lugh, or Lug, was the sun god of the Irish Celts. One of his weapons was a rod-sling which worshippers sometimes saw in