Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / The Man Who Almost Invented The Vacuum \ | Cleaner | | | | The man officially credited with | | inventing the vacuum cleaner is Hubert | | Cecil Booth. However, he got the idea | | from a man who almost invented it. | | | | In 1901 Booth visited a London | | music-hall. On the bill was an American | | inventor with his wonder machine for | | removing dust from carpets. | | | | The machine comprised a box about one | | foot square with a bag on top. After | | watching the act -- which made everyone | | in the front six rows sneeze -- Booth | | went round to the inventor's dressing | | room. | | | | "It should suck not blow," said Booth, | | coming straight to the point. "Suck?", | | exclaimed the enraged inventor. "Your | | machine just moves the dust around the | | room," Booth informed him. "Suck? Suck? | | Sucking is not possible," was the | | inventor's reply and he stormed out. | | Booth proved that it was by the simple | | expedient of kneeling down, pursing his | | lips and sucking the back of an | | armchair. "I almost choked," he said | | afterwards. | | | | -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic | \ Failures" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;