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Fortune Cookie Files

Introduction

These are some fortune cookie files I created that can be used with the UNIX fortune program. Most of the quotes here are funny, and the rest are such that I found especially enlightening or could not find in the other fortune collections.

They have been converted to a custom XML grammar, but they may still contain some conversion errors, or not-entirely-semantic-markup.

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Keep track of the newest ones added using a Web-Feed Reader/Aggregator (see a list on the Wikipedia).

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Commentary and Disclaimer

Please report any typos or inaccuracies to me by E-mail. The quotations here are owned by their respective copyright holders, and come with no warranty of any kind.

Licence

As far as Shlomi Fish, who is collecting and maintaining these quotes, is concerned, this collection of fortune cookies is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 (CC-by-sa) Unported (or at your option any later version of that licence). However, as noted earlier, these fortune cookies were collected from various sources, many of them are not original or under incompatible or “All Rights Reserved” licences, and some of them (like the many IRC conversations there) contain text by many authors. So one should take care.

If you feel any of these quotes is doing you damage, and you wish it to be removed or modified, then contact Shlomi Fish and he’ll see what he can do.

  • XML-Grammar-Fortune - Perl 5/CPAN and XSLT code to convert the XML to XHTML and to plaintext.

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