Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / The Worst American Poet \ | | | Julia Moore, "the Sweet Singer of | | Michigan" (1847-1920) was so bad that | | Mark Twain said her first book gave him | | joy for 20 years. | | | | Her verse was mainly concerned with | | violent death -- the great fire of | | Chicago and the yellow fever epidemic | | proved natural subjects for her pen. | | | | Whether death was by drowning, by fits | | or by runaway sleigh, the formula was | | the same: | | | | Have you heard of the dreadful fate | | | | Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife? | | | | Of their death I will relate, | | | | And also others lost their life | | | | (in the) Ashbula Bridge disaster, | | | | Where so many people died. | | | | Even if you started out reasonably | | healthy in one of Julia's poems, the | | chances are that after a few stanzas | | you would be at the bottom of a river | | or struck by lightning. A critic of the | | day said she was "worse than a Gatling | | gun" and in one slim volume counted 21 | | killed and 9 wounded. | | | | Incredibly, some newspapers were | | critical of her work, even suggesting | | that the sweet singer was | | "semi-literate". Her reply was | | forthright: "The Editors that has | | spoken in this scandalous manner have | | went beyond reason." She added that | | "literary work is very difficult to | | do". | | | | -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic | \ Failures" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;