Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / The Worst Lines of Verse For a start, \ | we can rule out James Grainger's | | promising line: | | | | "Come, muse, let us sing of rats." | | Grainger (1721-67) did not have the | | courage of his convictions and deleted | | these words on discovering that his | | listeners dissolved into spontaneous | | laughter the instant they were read | | out. | | | | No such reluctance afflicted Adam | | Lindsay Gordon (1833-70) who was | | inspired by the subject of war. | | | | "Flash! flash! bang! bang! and we | | blazed away, | | | | And the grey roof reddened and rang; | | | | Flash! flash! and I felt his bullet | | flay | | | | The tip of my ear. Flash! bang!" By | | contrast, Cheshire cheese provoked John | | Armstrong (1709-79): | | | | "... that which Cestria sends, | | tenacious paste of solid milk..." While | | John Bidlake was guided by a compassion | | for vegetables: | | | | "The sluggard carrot sleeps his day in | | bed, | | | | The crippled pea alone that cannot | | stand." George Crabbe (1754-1832) | | wrote: | | | | "And I was ask'd and authorized to go | | | | To seek the firm of Clutterbuck and | | Co." William Balmford explored the | | possibilities of religious verse: | | | | "So 'tis with Christians, Nature being | | weak | | | | While in this world, are liable to | | leak." And William Wordsworth showed | | that he could do it if he really tried | | when describing a pond: | | | | "I've measured it from side to side; | | | | Tis three feet long and two feet wide." | | | | -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic | \ Failures" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;