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Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:


$ fortune | cowsay

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/ curtation, n.:                          \
|                                         |
| The enforced compression of a string in |
| the fixed-length field environment.     |
|                                         |
| The problem of fitting extremely        |
| variable-length strings such as names,  |
| addresses, and item descriptions into   |
| fixed-length records is no trivial      |
| matter. Neglect of the subtle art of    |
| curtation has probably alienated more   |
| people than any other aspect of data    |
| processing. You order Mozart's "Don     |
| Giovanni" from your record club, and    |
| they invoice you $24.95 for MOZ DONG.   |
| The witless mapping of the sublime onto |
| the ridiculous! Equally puzzling is the |
| curtation that produces the same eight  |
| characters, THE BEST, whether you order |
| "The Best of Wagner", "The Best of      |
| Schubert", or "The Best of the Turds".  |
| Similarly, wine lovers buying from      |
| computerized wineries twirl their       |
| glasses, check their delivery notes,    |
| and inform their friends, "A rather     |
| innocent, possibly overtruncated CAB    |
| SAUV 69 TAL." The squeezing of fruit    |
| into 10 columns has yielded such        |
| memorable obscenities as COX OR PIP.    |
| The examples cited are real, and the    |
| curtational methodology which produced  |
| them is still with us.                  |
|                                         |
| MOZ DONG n.                             |
|                                         |
| Curtation of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang   |
| Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, as |
| performed by the computerized billing   |
| ensemble of the Internat'l Preview      |
| Society, Great Neck (sic), N.Y.         |
|                                         |
| -- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP   |
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Here is the PHP code:
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;