From: Don Armstrong Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:26:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * fix various spelling errors in quote.txt X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=lib.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ebdec8215e5dfba6512e3f29d750709ca83a4bb * fix various spelling errors in quote.txt --- diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 4401dd6..426762e 100644 --- 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