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fortune quotes

Revealed 2021-01-04 #git #emacs #lisp #automation

Naïm has a nice gitconfig alias that they use for all their dotfiles repo commits:

[alias]
    cf = !git commit -m \"$(fortune -sn 60)\"

Sometimes nice stuff comes out, sometimes not so nice stuff comes out. This page will be a random 50 fortune quotes (called with the same args) each time the site is generated:

―― 🙦 ――

Staff meeting in the conference room in 3 minutes.

―― 🙧 ――

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

– Frank Lloyd Wright

―― 🙣 ――

Lemmings don’t grow older, they just die.

―― 🙤 ――

American by birth; Texan by the grace of God.

―― 🙦 ――

volcano, n.:

A mountain with hiccups.

―― 🙣 ――

“One size fits all”:

Doesn’t fit anyone.

―― 🙤 ――

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

―― 🙠 ――

Falling rock.

―― 🙠 ――

Yow! I’m imagining a surfer van filled with soy sauce!

―― 🙥 ――

Are we live or on tape?

―― 🙣 ――

<SirDibos> does Johnie Ingram hang out here on IRC?

―― 🙧 ――

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

―― 🙣 ――

Holiday and other blackout periods apply.

―― 🙢 ――

Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.

―― 🙣 ――

BEWARE! People acting under the influence of human nature.

―― 🙠 ――

In Oz, never say “krizzle kroo” to a Woozy.

―― 🙥 ――

BARBARA STANWYCK makes me nervous!!

―― 🙠 ――

Man has never reconciled himself to the ten commandments.

―― 🙣 ――

I’m a Lisp variable – bind me!

―― 🙧 ――

<moshez> ok, I will not marry Jo-Con-El’s cow.

―― 🙦 ――

When the revolution comes, count your change.

―― 🙣 ――

Save the Whales – Harpoon a Honda.

―― 🙤 ――

I exist, therefore I am paid.

―― 🙣 ――

Not valid with other offers or specials.

―― 🙧 ――

Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.

―― 🙦 ――

wolf, n.:

A man who knows all the ankles.

―― 🙦 ――

Chicken Little only has to be right once.

―― 🙤 ――

laser, n.:

Failed death ray.

―― 🙧 ――

This space intentionally left blank.

―― 🙤 ――

A good memory does not equal pale ink.

―― 🙧 ――

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

―― 🙦 ――

No one can put you down without your full cooperation.

―― 🙧 ――

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

– Oscar Wilde

―― 🙣 ――

The secret of happiness is total disregard of everybody.

―― 🙥 ――

Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense?

―― 🙠 ――

And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.

―― 🙠 ――

Eat drink and be merry! Tomorrow you may be in Utah.

―― 🙥 ――

Man’s horizons are bounded by his vision.

―― 🙥 ――

When you go out to buy, don’t show your silver.

―― 🙥 ――

Innovation is hard to schedule.

– Dan Fylstra

―― 🙠 ――

It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.

―― 🙢 ――

A secure family is a nation’s strength.

―― 🙢 ――

Don’t compare floating point numbers solely for equality.

―― 🙣 ――

A pencil with no point needs no eraser.

―― 🙥 ――

To do nothing is to be nothing.

―― 🙧 ――

In which level of metalanguage are you now speaking?

―― 🙦 ――

Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers.

―― 🙤 ――

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

―― 🙢 ――

Hello, GORRY-O!! I’m a GENIUS from HARVARD!!

―― 🙦 ――

Love is being stupid together.

– Paul Valery