Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 19:42:03 -0400 (EDT) From: An evil guy who submits requests for ports <ac199@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/1780: One of the fortunes is SCREWED! Message-ID: <199610122342.TAA00370@X2296> Resent-Message-ID: <199610121700.KAA10075@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1780
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: fortune misspelling
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 12 10:00:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tim Vanderhoek
>Organization:
--
Organization of people who don't lie when they talk in
X-headers: What?
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-961006-SNAP i386
>Environment:
Sunshine will misc with cloud, milder with a brisk breeze at time today.
Highs 15 to 17. Mostly cloudy, maybe an isolated shower this evening
and overnight. Lows 6 to 8. Mostly cloudy and breezy with isolated
showers tomorrow. Highs 16 to 18.
(Genuine Toronto Star weather report for Hamilton area).
>Description:
When reading this fortune, one is forced to pause momentarily
to try and make the given word ("gave") fit the context. It almost
works, so it takes a milli-second or so longer than necessary to
induce the correct word. This is detrimental to the overall
effect of the fortune.
The fortune reads as follows,
--
When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of
investigation of a topic, it is well to gave the answer firmly in hand,
so that you can proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or
swayed, directly to the goal.
-- Amrom Katz
--
The typo is on the second line, 9th word.
>How-To-Repeat:
fortune -m forthrightly
>Fix:
Change the `g' in "gave" (on the second line of the fortune) to
`t' or something so that it is obvious that the word is wrong, thus
avoiding the multitudes of milliseconds the reader spends trying to
make "gave" fit the context.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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