good UNIX fortunes and a fish called wanda

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

[I had posted this to another list, but the reply seemd relevant to
GNOME]

 Mark Galassi wrote:
>
>In the olden days, before I started using X displays, when I had nice
>dumb terminals with amber letters on a black background, I used to
>read fortunes a lot when logging in and out.  I remember some
>favourites with associated tags: "segmentation fault, cored dumped"
>was cute-and-nerdy.  The Dave Barry quotes were outright-funny and so
>forth.  "<control-g> look out; behind you" was quite cute.  The kind
>of happiness I get remembering fortunes in the olden days can be
>compared to when you take a hike in the mountains and you pause to
>read a book in a meadow with the sun shining on your back.
>
>Then I didn't see fortunes much for a while, until recently the fish
>called wanda appeared on the GNOME panel (GNOME is the GNU desktop
>project).  If you click on Wanda she will tell you your fortune.  So I 
>occasionally click on her, and today I got a gem:
>
>---
>Isn't air travel wonderful?  Breakfast in London, dinner in New York,
>luggage in Brazil.
>---
>
>PS: if my rambling sounds quite silly, forgive me -- I get up at
>4:30am to get some fast internet time from Italy :-)
>

I'll take a tangent:

Did you hear Nancy Reagan sent Ronald to get the movie Scent of a Woman,
and he returned with A Fish Called Wanda?

Mike Woyak - Project Manager