Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay
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/ A reader reports that when the patient \
| died, the attending doctor recorded the |
| following on the patient's chart: |
| "Patient failed to fulfill his wellness |
| potential." |
| |
| Another doctor reports that in a recent |
| issue of the *American Journal of |
| Family Practice* fleas were called |
| "hematophagous arthropod vectors." |
| |
| A reader reports that the Army calls |
| them "vertically deployed anti- |
| personnel devices." You probably call |
| them bombs. |
| |
| At McClellan Air Force base in |
| Sacramento, California, civilian |
| mechanics were placed on "non-duty, |
| non-pay status." That is, they were |
| fired. |
| |
| After taking the trip of a lifetime, |
| our reader sent his twelve rolls of |
| film to Kodak for developing (or |
| "processing," as Kodak likes to call |
| it) only to receive the following |
| notice: "We must report that during the |
| handling of your twelve 35mm Kodachrome |
| slide orders, the films were involved |
| in an unusual laboratory experience." |
| The use of the passive is a |
| particularly nice touch, don't you |
| think? Nobody did anything to the |
| films; they just had a bad experience. |
| Of course our reader can always go back |
| to Tibet and take his pictures all over |
| again, using the twelve replacement |
| rolls Kodak so generously sent him. |
| |
| -- Quarterly Review of Doublespeak |
\ (NCTE) /
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$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;