Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay
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/ 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" /
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$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;