Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay
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/ When the Universe was not so out of \
| whack as it is today, and all the stars |
| were lined up in their proper places, |
| you could easily count them from left |
| to right, or top to bottom, and the |
| larger and bluer ones were set apart, |
| and the smaller yellowing types pushed |
| off to the corners as bodies of a lower |
| grade ... |
| |
\ -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad" /
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;