misc/131469: George Bernard Shaw quote fix
John Hein
jhein at timing.com
Sat Feb 7 10:40:02 PST 2009
>Number: 131469
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw quote fix
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Feb 07 18:40:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Hein
>Release: all
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
This error has been in fortunes since 1.1 (verbatim from the Rand
Lindsly collection of quotes)
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
s/milestones/millstones/
and less important..
s/man/Man/
Not every source I've seen capitalizes 'Man', but it seems
right. Uncapitalized 'man' would usually be preceded by
an 'a'. But I haven't seen any reference cite the orignal
source yet, so I can't say for sure.
Index: fortunes
===================================================================
RCS file: /base/FreeBSD-CVS/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes,v
retrieving revision 1.272
diff -u -p -r1.272 fortunes
--- fortunes 8 Oct 2008 19:39:22 -0000 1.272
+++ fortunes 7 Feb 2009 17:21:58 -0000
@@ -48262,9 +48262,9 @@ beat their head on the keyboard. After
-- Harry Skelton
%
The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,
-respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones
-from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the
-milestones are lifted.
+respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones
+from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the
+millstones are lifted.
-- George Bernard Shaw
%
The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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