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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