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Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:


$ fortune | cowsay

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/ Back in the early 60's, touch tone      \
| phones only had 10 buttons. Some        |
| military versions had 16, while the 12  |
| button jobs were used only by people    |
| who had "diva" (digital inquiry, voice  |
| answerback) systems -- mainly banks.    |
| Since in those days, only Western       |
| Electric made "data sets" (modems) the  |
| problems of terminology were all Bell   |
| System. We used to struggle with        |
| written descriptions of dial pads that  |
| were unfamiliar to most people (most    |
| phones were rotary then.) Partly in     |
| jest, some AT&T engineering types       |
| (there was no marketing in the good old |
| days, which is why they were the good   |
| old days) made up the term              |
| "octalthorpe" (note spelling) to denote |
| the "pound sign." Presumably because it |
| has 8 points sticking out. It never     |
\ really caught on.                       /
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        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||


Here is the PHP code:
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;