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Convert fortunes to UTF-8 from the old "backspace punctuation" method.

suggested by tedu, ok schwarze@ stsp@ tb@
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# $OpenBSD: Notes,v 1.3 2004/09/28 20:40:01 jmc Exp $
# $OpenBSD: Notes,v 1.4 2017/07/13 02:05:14 bentley Exp $
# $NetBSD: Notes,v 1.2 1995/03/23 08:28:26 cgd Exp $
# @(#)Notes 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ Limericks are indented as follows, all lines capitalized:
No more than debris,
If the input was short of exact.
Accents precede the letter they are over, e.g., "`^He" for e with a grave
accent. Underlining is done on a word-by-word basis, with the underlines
Underlining is done on a word-by-word basis, with the underlines
preceding the word, e.g., "__^H^Hhi ____^H^H^H^Hthere".
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."
Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into
the toaster -- "I wish the toaster to be happy too."
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A diva who specializes in risqu'e arias is an off-coloratura soprano ...
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
about whose profession was the oldest. In the course of their
@ -3620,8 +3620,8 @@ Error in operator: add beer
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Es brilig war. Die schlichte Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-m"umsige Burggoven
Dir mohmen R"ath ausgraben.
Und aller-mümsige Burggoven
Dir mohmen Räth ausgraben.
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
@ -4066,7 +4066,7 @@ Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity.
-- Robert Firth
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Flappity, floppity, flip
The mouse on the m"obius strip;
The mouse on the möbius strip;
The strip revolved,
The mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip.
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Here in my heart, I am Helen;
I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least.
I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Sta"el;
I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Staël;
I'm Salome, moon of the East.
Here in my soul I am Sappho;
Lady Hamilton am I, as well.
In me R'ecamier vies with Kitty O'Shea,
In me Récamier vies with Kitty O'Shea,
With Dido, and Eve, and poor nell.
I'm all of the glamorous ladies
@ -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.
"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
hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out.
@ -7056,10 +7056,10 @@ Ignisecond, n.:
door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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Il brilgue: les t^oves libricilleux
Il brilgue: les tôves libricilleux
Se gyrent et frillant dans le guave,
Enm^im'es sont les gougebosquex,
Et le m^omerade horgrave.
Enmîmés sont les gougebosquex,
Et le mômerade horgrave.
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Iles's Law:
@ -10423,7 +10423,7 @@ laughter, singing
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of
laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for
hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron
Hans Neizant B"ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K"oln in 1653.
Hans Neizant Bömpzidaize was elected Landburgher of Köln in 1653.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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Portable, adj.:
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
is not necessarily science.
-- Henri Poincair'e
-- Henri Poincairé
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Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.
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@ -11760,7 +11760,7 @@ Spouse, n.:
wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist
drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to pur'ee of bat guano; and the
drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to purée of bat guano; and the
greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll
take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
-- Harlan Ellison
@ -14330,7 +14330,7 @@ Today, of course, it is considered very poor taste to use the F-word
except in major motion pictures.
-- Dave Barry, "$#$%#^%!^%&@%@!"
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Toilet Toup'ee, n.:
Toilet Toupée, n.:
Any shag carpet that causes the lid to become top-heavy, thus
creating endless annoyance to male users.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

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@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ only two went back to women.
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If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream
and never be our destiny.
-- Ren'e de Visme Williamson
-- René de Visme Williamson
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If you can believe ten impossible things before breakfast, then you
should join