Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:35:38 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/24782: Duplicate fortune Message-ID: <20010201183538.B16163@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
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>Number: 24782
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Duplicate fortune
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 01 09:40:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Szilveszter Adam
>Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
University of Szeged, Eotvos Lorand Dormitory
>Environment:
My desk, after finishing my exam season and before leaving for a party:-)
>Description:
There is the following duplicate fortune in the database:
One promising concept that I came up with right away was that you could
manufacture personal air bags, then get a law passed requiring that
they be installed on congressmen to keep them from taking trips. Let's
say your congressman was trying to travel to Paris to do a fact-finding
study on how the French government handles diseases transmitted by
sherbet. Just when he got to the plane, his mandatory air bag,
strapped around his waist, would inflate -- FWWAAAAAAPPPP -- thus
rendering him too large to fit through the plane door. It could also
be rigged to inflate whenever the congressman proposed a law. ("Mr.
Speaker, people ask me, why should October be designated as Cuticle
Inspection Month? And I answer that FWWAAAAAAPPPP.") This would save
millions of dollars, so I have no doubt that the public would violently
support a law requiring airbags on congressmen. The problem is that
your potential market is very small: there are only around 500 members
of Congress, and some of them, such as House Speaker "Tip" O'Neil, are
already too large to fit on normal aircraft.
-- Dave Barry, "'Mister Mediocre' Restaurants"
It is in both /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes and
/usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes2
>How-To-Repeat:
Complete (finally) your exam season at the university.
Feel lucky. Pop in a CD. Do silly things at the computer to pass the time.
Try (among others):
grep -R "FWWAAAAAAPPPP" /usr/share/games/fortune|less
Yes, admittedly silly, but hey:-)
>Fix:
There is only space for one of them!:-) Borrow the axe from phk and nuke
the other one.
Or, alternatively shoot this submitter:-)
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