--- fortune-mod-1.99.1.orig/datfiles/work
+++ fortune-mod-1.99.1/datfiles/work
@@ -137,19 +137,19 @@
A traveling salesman was driving past a farm when he saw a pig with three
wooden legs executing a magnificent series of backflips and cartwheels.
Intrigued, he drove up to the farmhouse, where he found an old farmer
-sitting in the yard watching the pig.
- "That's quite a pig you have there, sir" said the salesman.
+sitting in the yard watching the pig.
+ "That's quite a pig you have there, sir" said the salesman.
"Sure is, son," the farmer replied. "Why, two years ago, my daughter
was swimming in the lake and bumped her head and damned near drowned, but that
pig swam out and dragged her back to shore."
- "Amazing!" the salesman exlaimed.
+ "Amazing!" the salesman exclaimed.
"And that's not the only thing. Last fall I was cuttin' wood up on
-the north forty when a tree fell on me. Pinned me to the ground, it did.
+the north forty when a tree fell on me. Pinned me to the ground, it did.
That pig run up and wiggled underneath that tree and lifted it off of me.
Saved my life."
"Fantastic! the salesman said. But tell me, how come the pig has
three wooden legs?"
- The farmer stared at the newcomer in amazement. "Mister, when you
+ The farmer stared at the newcomer in amazement. "Mister, when you
got an amazin' pig like that, you don't eat him all at once."
%
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
part of any job is coffee break, lunch hour and quitting time. Years ago
there was at least the hope of improvement -- eventual promotion -- more
important jobs to come. Once you can be sold the myth that you may make
-president of the company you'll hardly ever steal stamps. But nobody
+president of the company you'll hardly ever steal stamps. But nobody
believes he's going to be president anymore. The more people change jobs
the more they realize that there is a direct connection between working for
a living and total stupefying boredom. So why NOT take revenge? You're not
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
who has seen the Managing Director face on).
-- Katherine Whitehorn, "Roundabout"
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-Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed
+Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed
to be doing at the moment.
-- Robert Benchley
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@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
%
Dealing with the problem of pure staff accumulation,
all our researches ... point to an average increase of 5.75% per year.
- -- C.N. Parkinson
+ -- C. N. Parkinson
%
Dear Lord:
I just want *___one* one-armed manager so I never have to hear "On
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
message about facing challengehood tomorrow-wise. I dozed off during this,
but the import seems to be that dinosaurs don't have anything to do with
energy policy and neither do you."
- -- P.J. O'Rourke, "Holidays in Hell"
+ -- P. J. O'Rourke, "Holidays in Hell"
%
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
%
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
%
Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.
- -- R.E. Schenk
+ -- R. E. Schenk
%
Happiness is a positive cash flow.
%
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
-- Plato
%
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- -- F.M. Hubbard
+ -- F. M. Hubbard
%
Hotels are tired of getting ripped off. I checked into a hotel and they
had towels from my house.
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@
%
I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on
the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.
- -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
+ -- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
%
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work I will do it.
%
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@
understand his long delay.
%
I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.
- -- H.L. Mencken
+ -- H. L. Mencken
%
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
-- Oscar Wilde
@@ -708,10 +708,10 @@
-- Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil
%
I owe the public nothing.
- -- J.P. Morgan
+ -- J. P. Morgan
%
-I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
-these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
+I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
+these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been
avoiding the beach.
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-- Emile Henry Gauvreay
%
-I'd rather be led to hell than managed to heavan.
+I'd rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
%
I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around.
%
@@ -752,10 +752,10 @@
lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
%
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
- -- G.K. Chesterton
+ -- G. K. Chesterton
%
If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.
- -- W.C. Fields
+ -- W. C. Fields
%
If all else fails, lower your standards.
%
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@
%
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's
got to be a better way.
- -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
+ -- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
%
If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary form.
%
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@
%
If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to
do something else.
- -- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
+ -- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
%
If you always postpone pleasure you will never have it. Quit work and play
for once!
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@
[Great minds think alike? Ed.]
%
It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat
-rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they
+rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they
kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.
-- Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's
%
@@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@
-- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
%
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
- -- P.E. Trudeau
+ -- P. E. Trudeau
%
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
%
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@
%
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while
you're being miserable.
- -- C.B. Luce
+ -- C. B. Luce
%
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
-- Christopher Marlowe
@@ -1234,11 +1234,11 @@
Thank you, The Mgt.
%
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary
-to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one
-ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a
-job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing
-forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient
-he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a
+to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one
+ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a
+job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing
+forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient
+he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a
state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the
"expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
-- From Henry Ford Sr., "My Life and Work"
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@
Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done.
%
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- -- A.H. Weiler
+ -- A. H. Weiler
%
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires
tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@
%
Recent research has tended to show that the Abominable No-Man
is being replaced by the Prohibitive Procrastinator.
- -- C.N. Parkinson
+ -- C. N. Parkinson
%
Regardless of whether a mission expands or contracts, administrative
overhead continues to grow at a steady rate.
@@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@
%
Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a
rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
- -- P.J. O'Rourke
+ -- P. J. O'Rourke
%
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the
pens will multiply instead of disappear.
@@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@
%
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work,
work till we die.
- -- C.S. Lewis
+ -- C. S. Lewis
%
That's life.
What's life?
@@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@
The annual meeting of the "You Have To Listen To Experience" Club is now in
session. Our Achievement Awards this year are in the fields of publishing,
advertising and industry. For best consistent contribution in the field of
-publishing our award goes to editor, R.L.K., [...] for his unrivalled alle-
+publishing our award goes to editor, R.L.K., [...] for his unrivaled alle-
giance without variation to the statement: "Personally I'd love to do it,
we'd ALL love to do it. But we're not going to do it. It's not the kind of
book our house knows how to handle." Our superior performance award in the
@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@
young man opened the first envelope, which said, "Blame it all on me."
The next day, he held a press conference and did just that. The
crisis passed.
- Six months later, sales dropped precipitously. The beleagured
+ Six months later, sales dropped precipitously. The beleaguered
manager opened the second envelope. It said, "Reorganize."
He held another press conference, announcing that the division
would be restructured. The crisis passed.
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@
-- Robert Heller
%
The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist "Jack."
- -- H.L. Mencken
+ -- H. L. Mencken
%
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Erlich
@@ -1827,7 +1827,7 @@
The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
%
The meek shall inherit the earth, but *not* its mineral rights.
- -- J.P. Getty
+ -- J. P. Getty
%
The meek shall inherit the Earth. (But they're gonna have to fight for it.)
%
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@
%
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to
watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
- -- T.H. White
+ -- T. H. White
%
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
%
@@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@
upon the successful management of which so much remains.
-- George F. Baer, railroad industrialist
%
-The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the
+The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travelers pay the
expense of it.
-- Josh Billings
%
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@
%
The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be
in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
- -- C.N. Parkinson
+ -- C. N. Parkinson
%
The trouble with a lot of self-made men is that they worship their creator.
%
@@ -2012,7 +2012,7 @@
admit it, I tell him, `Forget it'. If they bring a car back late we
overlook it. If they've had a crash and it doesn't involve another vehicle
we might overlook that too."
- "Where's the ashtray?" asked on Los Angeles wife, as she settled
+ "Where's the ashtray?" asked one Los Angeles wife, as she settled
into the ripped interior. "Honey," said her husband, "the whole car's the
ash tray."
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
@@ -2068,9 +2068,9 @@
%
"There is no Father Christmas. It's just a marketing ploy to make low income
parents' lives a misery."
-"... I want you to picture the trusting face of a child, streaked with tears
+"... I want you to picture the trusting face of a child, streaked with tears
because of what you just said."
-"I want you to picture the face of its mother, because one week's dole won't
+"I want you to picture the face of its mother, because one week's dole won't
pay for one Master of the Universe Battlecruiser!"
-- Filthy Rich and Catflap
%
@@ -2117,7 +2117,7 @@
was ever built or fought for pay or glory; no Bukhara sacked, or China ground
beneath Mongol heel, for loot or power alone. The payment for doing these
things was itself the doing of them.
- To wield onself -- to use oneself as a tool in one's own hand -- and
+ To wield oneself -- to use oneself as a tool in one's own hand -- and
so to make or break that which no one else can build or ruin -- THAT is the
greatest pleasure known to man! To one who has felt the chisel in his hand
and set free the angel prisoned in the marble block, or to one who has felt
@@ -2312,7 +2312,7 @@
-- Crazy Jimmy
%
We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.
- -- D.W. Robertson.
+ -- D. W. Robertson.
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Weekend, where are you?
%
@@ -2345,7 +2345,7 @@
(We hoped he'd go as far as possible.)
"You won't find many people like her."
(In fact, most people can't stand being around her.)
-"I cannot reccommend him too highly."
+"I cannot recommend him too highly."
(However, to the best of my knowledge, he has never committed a
felony in my presence.)
%
@@ -2392,7 +2392,7 @@
A major technological breakthrough... Back to the drawing board.
Developed after years of research Discovered by pure accident.
Project behind original schedule due We're working on something else.
- to unforseen difficulties
+ to unforeseen difficulties
Designs are within allowable limits We made it, stretching a point or two.
Customer satisfaction is believed So far behind schedule that they'll be
assured grateful for anything at all.