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- || The FORTUNE-COOKIE program is soon to be a Major Motion Picture! ||
- || Watch for it at a theater near you next summer! ||
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- Francis Ford Coppola presents a George Lucas Production:
- "Fortune Cookie"
- Directed by Steven Spielberg.
- Starring Harrison Ford Bette Midler Marlon Brando
- Christopher Reeves Marilyn Chambers
- and Bob Hope as "The Waiter".
- Costumes Designed by Pierre Cardin.
- Special Effects by Timothy Leary.
- Read the Warner paperback!
- Invoke the Unix program!
- Soundtrack on XTC Records.
- In 70mm and Dolby Stereo at selected theaters and terminal
- centers.
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- 3M, under the Scotch brand name, manufactures a fine adhesive for art
- and display work. This product is called "Craft Mount". 3M suggests
- that to obtain the best results, one should make the bond "while the
- adhesive is wet, aggressively tacky." I did not know what "aggressively
- tacky" meant until I read today's fortune.
-
- [And who said we didn't offer equal time, huh? Ed.]
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- Answers to Last Fortune's Questions:
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- (1) None. (Moses didn't have an ark).
- (2) Your mother, by the pigeonhole principle.
- (3) I don't know.
- (4) Who cares?
- (5) 6 (or maybe 4, or else 3). Mr. Alfred J. Duncan of Podunk,
- Montana, submitted an interesting solution to Problem 5.
- (6) There is an interesting solution to this problem on page 1029 of my
- book, which you can pick up for $23.95 at finer bookstores and
- bathroom supply outlets (or 99 cents at the table in front of
- Papyrus Books).
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- Beware of computerized fortune-tellers!
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- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as
- difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
- -- R. Emerson
- -- Quoted from a fortune cookie program
- (whose author claims, "Actually, stealing IS easier.")
- [to which I reply, "You think it's easy for me to
- misconstrue all these misquotations?!?" Ed.]
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- Chocolate chip.
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- DELETE A FORTUNE!
- Don't some of these fortunes just drive you nuts?!
- Wouldn't you like to see some of them deleted from the system?
- You can! Just mail to `fortune' with the fortune you hate most,
- and we'll make sure it gets expunged.
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- Did you know about the -o option of the fortune program? It makes a
- selection from a set of offensive and/or obscene fortunes. Why not
- try it, and see how offended you are? The -a ("all") option will
- select a fortune at random from either the offensive or inoffensive
- set, and it is suggested that "fortune -a" is the command that you
- should have in your .profile or .cshrc. file.
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- Do not read this fortune under penalty of law.
- Violators will be prosecuted.
- (Penal Code sec. 2.3.2 (II.a.))
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- For 20 dollars, I'll give you a good fortune next time ...
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- For some reason, this fortune reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz.
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- Fortune's current rates:
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- Answers .10
- Long answers .25
- Answers requiring thought .50
- Correct answers $1.00
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- Dumb looks are still free.
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- Generic Fortune.
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- Ginger snap.
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- Has anyone realized that the purpose of the fortune cookie program is to
- defuse project tensions? When did you ever see a cheerful cookie, a
- non-cynical, or even an informative cookie?
- Perhaps inadvertently, we have a channel for our aggressions. This
- still begs the question of whether the cookie releases the pressure or only
- serves to blunt the warning signs.
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- Long live the revolution!
- Have a nice day.
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- Hi there! This is just a note from me, to you, to tell you, the person
- reading this note, that I can't think up any more famous quotes, jokes,
- nor bizarre stories, so you may as well go home.
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- I know you believe you understand what you think this fortune says, but
- I'm not sure you realize that what you are reading is not what it means.
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- If it's Tuesday, this must be someone else's fortune.
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- If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams.
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- If this fortune didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.
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- If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings -- including this one.
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- Ignore previous fortune.
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- In which level of metalanguage are you now speaking?
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- (null cookie; hope that's ok)
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- Oatmeal raisin.
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- Oreo.
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- Pardon this fortune. Database under reconstruction.
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- Pick another fortune cookie.
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- Please ignore previous fortune.
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- Since before the Earth was formed and before the sun burned hot in space,
- cosmic forces of inexorable power have been working relentlessly toward
- this moment in space-time -- your receiving this fortune.
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- Sorry, no fortune this time.
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- The fortune program is supported, in part, by user contributions and by
- a major grant from the National Endowment for the Inanities.
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- There is no such thing as fortune. Try again.
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- This fortune cookie program out of order. For those in desperate need,
- please use the program "________randchar". This program generates random
- characters, and, given enough time, will undoubtedly come up with
- something profound. It will, however, take it no time at all to be
- more profound than THIS program has ever been.
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- This Fortune Examined By INSPECTOR NO. 2-14
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- This fortune intentionally left blank.
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- This fortune intentionally not included.
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- This fortune intentionally says nothing.
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- This fortune is dedicated to your mother, without whose invaluable assistance
- last night would never have been possible.
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- This fortune is encrypted -- get your decoder rings ready!
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- This fortune is false.
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- This fortune is inoperative. Please try another.
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- This fortune soaks up 47 times its own weight in excess memory.
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- This fortune was brought to you by the people at Hewlett-Packard.
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- This fortune would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
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- THIS IS PLEDGE WEEK FOR THE FORTUNE PROGRAM
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- If you like the fortune program, why not support it now with your
- contribution of a pithy fortunes, clean or obscene? We cannot continue
- without your support. Less than 14% of all fortune users are contributors.
- That means that 86% of you are getting a free ride. We can't go on like
- this much longer. Federal cutbacks mean less money for fortunes, and unless
- user contributions increase to make up the difference, the fortune program
- will have to shut down between midnight and 8 a.m. Don't let this happen.
- Mail your fortunes right now to "fortune". Just type in your favorite pithy
- saying. Do it now before you forget. Our target is 300 new fortunes by the
- end of the week. Don't miss out. All fortunes will be acknowledged. If you
- contribute 30 fortunes or more, you will receive a free subscription to "The
- Fortune Hunter", our monthly program guide. If you contribute 50 or more,
- you will receive a free "Fortune Hunter" coffee mug ....
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- This is your fortune.
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- Vanilla wafer.
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- Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.
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- WARNING:
- Reading this fortune can affect the dimensionality of your
- mind, change the curvature of your spine, cause the growth
- of hair on your palms, and make a difference in the outcome
- of your favorite war.
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- We interrupt this fortune for an important announcement...
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- What does it mean if there is no fortune for you?
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- When you're not looking at it, this fortune is written in FORTRAN.
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- You will think of something funnier than this to add to the fortunes.
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