* fix various spelling errors in quote.txt

diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
index 4401dd6955075d11c547f4a24e66a900df9734b1..426762e5182e24298992dab37749cd5d105dfb31 100644 (file)
--- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt
+++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
 cookie.
  -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
 %
-Three little words. (In decending order of importance.)
+Three little words. (In descending order of importance.)
 I
 love
 you
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ N: So you're saying that I should believe it because it's true.
 B: It IS true.
 -- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG
 %
-UF: What's your favourite coffee blend?
+UF: What's your favorite coffee blend?
 PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? "If geiger
     counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick."
 %
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
 shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
 stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
 and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
-thouroughly that it had to be condemed and later demolished.
+thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
  -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
 %
 Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ REAL earnings to the IRS."
  -- The B.O.F.H..
 %
 When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I 
-realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
+realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
 Him to forgive me.
  -- Emo Philips.
 %
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"?
  -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907
 %
 Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
-and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like colour television
+and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like color television
 only with less plot.
  -- Clement Freud _Grimble_
 %
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ on it--and is just as likely to succeed.
 Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you
 step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers'
 EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof,
-sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychadelic patterns --
+sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns --
 requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
  -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
 %
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
 something.
  -- Steven Wright
 %
-I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to
+I'm wrong to criticize the valor of your brave men. It's important to
 die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
 wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
  -- Cyrano de Bergerac
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ character, give him power.
 %
 When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
 by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents"
+ -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents"
 %
 Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
 rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if an enemy has
 an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.
  -- Terry Pratchett _Jingo_ p265
 %
-Vimes hated and despised the priviledges of rank, but they had this to
+Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to
 be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise
 them in comfort.
  -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111