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I was written in 1979 by Ken Arnold and continue to give bite-sized doses of irreverent absurdism to curious individuals to this very day. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)

* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
<Knghtbrd> m2 - that's a bad sign

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Hi! I'm Larry. This is my brother Bob, and this is my other brother
Jimbo. We thought you might like to know the names of your assailants.

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Facts, apart from their relationships, are like labels on empty bottles.
-- Sven Italla

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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups --
alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
-- Alex Levine

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What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed
of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly --
that is the first law of nature.
-- Voltaire

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I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one.
-- Gellett Burgess

I've never seen a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But from the milk we're getting now
There certainly must be one
-- Odgen Nash

Ah, yes, I wrote "The Purple Cow"
I'm sorry now I wrote it
But I can tell you anyhow
I'll kill you if you quote it.
-- Gellett Burgess, many years later

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That that is is that that is not is not.

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Linux is addictive, I'm hooked!
-- MaDsen Wikholm's .sig

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Pohl's law:
Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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