* fix spelling errors

diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
index 0ec9fd4f504e9898e4396a156bf1cca9debde15d..e500fdb44e656580673df85e5e7a14e6c9d35f2d 100644 (file)
--- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt
+++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Tell me something interesting about yourself.
 Lie if you have to.
  -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
 %
-We were at a chinese resturant.
+We were at a chinese restaurant.
 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
@@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
 And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE? 
  -- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
 %
-She was alot like starbucks.
-IE, generic and expensive.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
-%
 You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
 just close enough to watch other people fall off.
   -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
@@ -391,7 +387,7 @@ get at or repair.
  For those who do not, none is possible."
 %
 Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming
-them to crisp is bad behaviour, I have not yet achieved a state of
+them to crisp is bad behavior, I have not yet achieved a state of
 nirvana.
  -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
 %
@@ -421,8 +417,8 @@ class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
  -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
 %
 I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
-such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a
-negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system
+such that it can be singled out, by means of empirical tests, in a
+negative sense: it must be possible for an empirical scientific system
 to be refuted by experience.
  -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
 %
@@ -617,7 +613,7 @@ This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic
  -- Terry Pratchett
 %
 Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or
-derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But
+daring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But
 the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer
 to achieve immortality by not dying.
  -- Terry Pratchet _The Color of Magic_
@@ -750,7 +746,7 @@ up for them as have no voices."
  -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
 %
 But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
-dissapointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
+disappointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
 will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
  -- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152
 %
@@ -807,7 +803,7 @@ will unflinchingly designate here as "croutons".
  -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability.
     AIR 1:3, June, 1995.
 %
-[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of acheiving the ultimate
+[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of achieving the ultimate
 balance of aroma and density, aftertaste and emollience, pentosans and
 tannins. The next step is to reduce the cost of the HPLC-E technology
 to the point where it can be manufactured for less than the cost of a
@@ -816,7 +812,7 @@ Boeing 757.
 %
 Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an
 information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy something,
-no amount of shouting or propogandizing will budge me; all it will do
+no amount of shouting or propagandizing will budge me; all it will do
 is get me annoyed. On the other hand, if I have a need for your
 product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink.
  -- Charles Stross "Toast: A Con Report" in _Toast_ p136
@@ -824,7 +820,7 @@ product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink.
 [On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs
 and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.]
 "Anyone so square as to tell you they are transporting grass seeds is
-bound to be ok"
+bound to be OK"
  -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009
 %
 "What, now?"