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Convert fortunes to UTF-8 from the old "backspace punctuation" method.
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# $OpenBSD: Notes,v 1.3 2004/09/28 20:40:01 jmc Exp $
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# $OpenBSD: Notes,v 1.4 2017/07/13 02:05:14 bentley Exp $
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# $NetBSD: Notes,v 1.2 1995/03/23 08:28:26 cgd Exp $
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# @(#)Notes 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
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@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ Limericks are indented as follows, all lines capitalized:
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No more than debris,
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If the input was short of exact.
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Accents precede the letter they are over, e.g., "`^He" for e with a grave
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accent. Underlining is done on a word-by-word basis, with the underlines
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Underlining is done on a word-by-word basis, with the underlines
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preceding the word, e.g., "__^H^Hhi ____^H^H^H^Hthere".
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No fortune should run beyond 72 characters on a single line without good
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@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ test", said the outsider, "because I want you to be happy."
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Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into
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the toaster -- "I wish the toaster to be happy too."
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%
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A diva who specializes in risqu'e arias is an off-coloratura soprano ...
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A diva who specializes in risqué arias is an off-coloratura soprano ...
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A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing
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about whose profession was the oldest. In the course of their
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@ -3620,8 +3620,8 @@ Error in operator: add beer
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Es brilig war. Die schlichte Toven
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Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
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Und aller-m"umsige Burggoven
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Dir mohmen R"ath ausgraben.
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Und aller-mümsige Burggoven
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Dir mohmen Räth ausgraben.
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
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@ -4066,7 +4066,7 @@ Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity.
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-- Robert Firth
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%
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Flappity, floppity, flip
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The mouse on the m"obius strip;
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The mouse on the möbius strip;
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The strip revolved,
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The mouse dissolved
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In a chronodimensional skip.
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@ -5245,12 +5245,12 @@ I need your help, I say 'tween sobs,
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Here in my heart, I am Helen;
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I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least.
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I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Sta"el;
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I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Staël;
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I'm Salome, moon of the East.
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Here in my soul I am Sappho;
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Lady Hamilton am I, as well.
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In me R'ecamier vies with Kitty O'Shea,
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In me Récamier vies with Kitty O'Shea,
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With Dido, and Eve, and poor nell.
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I'm all of the glamorous ladies
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@ -5820,7 +5820,7 @@ streets and frighten the horses.
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"I don't object to sex before marriage, but two minutes before?!?"
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"I don't think so," said Ren'e Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
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"I don't think so," said René Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
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I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other
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hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out.
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@ -7056,10 +7056,10 @@ Ignisecond, n.:
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door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"
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-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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Il brilgue: les t^oves libricilleux
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Il brilgue: les tôves libricilleux
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Se gyrent et frillant dans le guave,
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Enm^im'es sont les gougebosquex,
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Et le m^omerade horgrave.
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Enmîmés sont les gougebosquex,
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Et le mômerade horgrave.
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Iles's Law:
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@ -10423,7 +10423,7 @@ laughter, singing
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The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of
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laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for
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hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron
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Hans Neizant B"ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K"oln in 1653.
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Hans Neizant Bömpzidaize was elected Landburgher of Köln in 1653.
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-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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Portable, adj.:
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@ -11211,7 +11211,7 @@ pencil.
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
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of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
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is not necessarily science.
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-- Henri Poincair'e
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-- Henri Poincairé
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Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.
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@ -11760,7 +11760,7 @@ Spouse, n.:
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wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist
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drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to pur'ee of bat guano; and the
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drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to purée of bat guano; and the
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greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll
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take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
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-- Harlan Ellison
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@ -14330,7 +14330,7 @@ Today, of course, it is considered very poor taste to use the F-word
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except in major motion pictures.
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-- Dave Barry, "$#$%#^%!^%&@%@!"
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Toilet Toup'ee, n.:
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Toilet Toupée, n.:
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Any shag carpet that causes the lid to become top-heavy, thus
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creating endless annoyance to male users.
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-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream
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and never be our destiny.
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-- Ren'e de Visme Williamson
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-- René de Visme Williamson
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If you can believe ten impossible things before breakfast, then you
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should join
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