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   Message 131 of 1,946   
   Danny Ceppa to Maurice Kinal   
   bragging rights   
   02 Oct 05 12:18:48   
   
   On 30 Sep 05  22:14:50, Maurice Kinal got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: bragging rights   
      
    DC> And, most importantly:  Tagline files!      
      
    MK> As good as this?   
      
    MK> bbs@dads:~$ fortune   
    MK> Truth will be out this morning.  (Which may really mess things up.)   
    MK> bbs@dads:~$ fortune   
    MK> Loud burping while walking around the airport is prohibited in   
    MK> Halstead, Kansas.   
    MK> bbs@dads:~$ fortune   
      
   Kinda of hard to read in that format!     
      
    MK> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog,   
    MK> it's too dark to read."   
    MK> -- Groucho Marx   
      
   A good one, but too long for correct tagline length.     
      
    MK> I did the above with ye ol' cut n' paste from a console login but it   
    MK> would be a big deal to script out 'fortune' and output as a tagline in   
    MK> Fido messages.  Piece of cake.    
    MK> Gotta love this Linux stuff.   
      
   I know of a few programs that do multiple line taglines.  But, as I'm    
   a purist, I don't use them.  It all has to be done in under 78    
   characters.     
      
      
      
   ... DO NOT HIT   This tagline is set to Self-destruct!   
   --- OMX/Blue Wave/DOS v2.30   
    * Origin: Soundly on the Fault Line (1:138/666.0)   

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