From: kdex Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 05:35:13 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Fix numerous typos X-Git-Tag: fortune-mod-2.0.0~9 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=778847aabd0a244ff6ec2f7c52de1cf43a8b093e;p=fortune-mod Fix numerous typos --- diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/art b/fortune-mod/datfiles/art index d037892..6fb772e 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/art +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/art @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ what he meant. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. % - A hard-luck actor who appeared in one coloossal disaster after another + A hard-luck actor who appeared in one collossal disaster after another finally got a break, a broken leg to be exact. Someone pointed out that it's the first time the poor fellow's been in the same cast for more than a week. % @@ -2060,7 +2060,7 @@ We'll know that rock is dead when you have to get a degree to work in it. % We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. -Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spirtual +Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you. -- Bob Dylan, "LA Times", September 5, 1984 diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie index 6120f7d..e2dfd57 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ repeated elements abound. - Fred Brooks, Jr. % Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build: -They hyave very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, +They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard. Software systems have orders-of-magnitude more states than computers do. - Fred Brooks, Jr. @@ -718,11 +718,11 @@ Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side. - Han Solo % -How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? +How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? 3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work. % -How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? +How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a light bulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it." % @@ -1165,16 +1165,16 @@ Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism. "Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11 % -How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? +How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools. % -How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb? +How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue. % -How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb? +How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a light bulb? It depends on how many bad ones he brought with him. % @@ -2941,7 +2941,7 @@ Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. Absolute: Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by -limited monarchies, where the soverign's power for evil (and for good) is +limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance. -- Ambrose Bierce % @@ -3625,7 +3625,7 @@ Garbage In, Gospel Out % "Facts are stupid things." -- President Ronald Reagan - (a blooper from his speeach at the '88 GOP convention) + (a blooper from his speech at the '88 GOP convention) % "The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke @@ -3727,7 +3727,7 @@ of her artful lips. Just for a few precious seconds. Just long enough to put in one good, clean punch. That's all I ask. -- Martin Amis, _Money_ % -"Love may fail, but courtesy will previal." +"Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail." -- A Kurt Vonnegut fan % New York is a jungle, they tell you. You could go further, and say that @@ -4503,7 +4503,7 @@ to make? I think most of us are interested in examining and discussing literary (and musical) works that possess a certain stylistic excellence and perhaps a rather extreme perspective; this is what CP is all about, no? Maybe there -should be a newsgroup like, say, alt.postmodern or somthing. Something less +should be a newsgroup like, say, alt.postmodern or something. Something less restrictive in scope than alt.cyberpunk. -- Jeff G. Bone % @@ -5030,7 +5030,7 @@ someone writes `bible thumpers?' -- Richard Sexton, richard@gryphon.COM % "And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just -because there are a few hunderd other people sharing your lunacy with you +because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?" -- Oleg Kiselev,oleg@CS.UCLA.EDU % @@ -5417,7 +5417,7 @@ Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so." -- Senator Adlai E. Stevenson % "The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that ->from time to time threaten freedoms everyhere... Indeed, it is difficult +>from time to time threaten freedoms everywhere... Indeed, it is difficult to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised @@ -5671,7 +5671,7 @@ reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming." -- Siddartha, _Lord_of_Light_ by Roger Zelazny % -"Irrigation of the land with sewater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. +"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion % diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/definitions b/fortune-mod/datfiles/definitions index 42f16eb..6d561a4 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/definitions +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/definitions @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Atlanta: Auction: A gyp off the old block. % -audophile, n: +audiophile, n: Someone who listens to the equipment instead of the music. % Authentic: @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Taphephobia: Fear of being buried alive. Sitophobia: Fear of food. -Trichophobbia: +Trichophobia: Fear of hair. Vestiphobia: Fear of clothing. diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/drugs b/fortune-mod/datfiles/drugs index e2818ad..7ed7171 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/drugs +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/drugs @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ 1/2 oz. gin 1/2 oz. vodka 1/2 oz. rum (preferably dark) -3/4 oz. tequilla +3/4 oz. tequila 1/2 oz. triple sec 1/2 oz. orange juice 3/4 oz. sour mix diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/law b/fortune-mod/datfiles/law index f19f8cc..04f71d4 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/law +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/law @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ in her boudoir, lying beside her little Princess phone, 962-7873?" % Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club. - -- Melvin Belli on the occcasion of his getting kicked out + -- Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association % God decided to take the devil to court and settle their differences diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/linux b/fortune-mod/datfiles/linux index e4d3571..9f13c2c 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/linux +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/linux @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ C:\> LOSE Loading Microsoft Windows ... % Linux ext2fs has been stable for a long time, now it's time to break it - -- Linuxkongreß '95 in Berlin + -- Linux-Kongress '95 in Berlin % The state of some commercial Un*x is more unsecure than any Linux box without a root password... @@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ completely new. -- from kernel 2.1.90, arch/alpha/kernel/irc.c % Linus Torvalds: -> This is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 +> This is the special Easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 Winfried Truemper: > Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit > working today and rise on easter? diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/linuxcookie b/fortune-mod/datfiles/linuxcookie index 964ced6..3106182 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/linuxcookie +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/linuxcookie @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus. (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) % linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste -(ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93) +(ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on T-shirts in '93) % Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu, Mark Komarinski) diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/love b/fortune-mod/datfiles/love index d13159e..8fd7f54 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/love +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/love @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again. Let's not complicate our relationship by trying to communicate with each other. % Lonely is a man without love. - -- Englebert Humperdinck + -- Engelbert Humperdinck % Love -- the last of the serious diseases of childhood. % diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/platitudes b/fortune-mod/datfiles/platitudes index 300cf8c..e0ef95e 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/platitudes +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/platitudes @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ Many hands make light work. -- John Heywood % May you have warm words on a cold evening, -a full mooon on a dark night, +a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. % May you live in uninteresting times. diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/science b/fortune-mod/datfiles/science index 19da632..fe4fd0b 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/science +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/science @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line 1 Dog Pound = 16 oz. of Alpo 1000 beers served at a Twins game = 1 Killibrew 2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League -2000 pounds of chinese soup = 1 Won Ton +2000 pounds of Chinese soup = 1 Won Ton 10 to the minus 6th power mouthwashes = 1 Microscope Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = 1 Machturtle 8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss @@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ are forbidden. They are less allowed than allowed transitions, if you see what I mean. -- From a Part 2 Quantum Mechanics lecture. % -Kleeneness is next to Godelness. +Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. % Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. %