This is a list of the data files included with this distribution, and
what they contain.

To contribute, see:

https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod

One can also send me patches by E-mail / etc.:

https://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/

Offensive fortunes are installed by default.  To *not* install them,
use the "-D NO_OFFENSIVE=TRUE" option to cmake.

./datfiles/     : the directory for inoffensive fortunes

art             : Broadly construed; it includes television and celebrities.
ascii-art       : each one worth a thousand words, I guess.
computers       : various fortunes that are computer-related.  This includes
                  the 'joke' fortunes that are supposed to emulate system
                  error messages, as well as some neat stuff.
cookie          : Cookie file from Karl Lehenbauer's postings to alt.sources
definitions     : It ought to be all the 'definitions,' but what it really
                  is, is all the definitions that have a first line ending
                  with a colon.
disclaimer      : Disclaimer texts found on products and advertisements.
                  Work well after corporate mandated login banners.
drugs           : Alcohol and cigarettes, mostly.  Legal chemicals.
education       : Schools, teachers, and scholarship, mostly not complimentary.
ethnic          : Jokes that are about groups of people, but aren't making
                  fun of them.  Laughing with instead of at.
food            : Recipes, diets, and more about food.
fortunes        : Yes, the old file name, but this contains predictions,
                  evaluations of character, and the kind of stuff that you
                  actually expect to get when you want to know your fortune.
goedel          : Meta-fortunes.  Incomplete, of course.  :-)
humorists       : Stand-up comedians, and people like Dave Barry.  Especially
                  stuff that doesn't fit into another category (almost anything
                  that Steven Wright says doesn't fit a category).
kids            : Real advice and cynical observations on children, parenting,
                  and family life.
law             : Stupid laws, stupider lawyers.  *No* joke about a lawyer
                  is *ever* offensive (except to lawyers, and who cares?).
linux   : From the collection at ftp.icce.rug.nl.  Linux-related.
                  It probably ought to go in with 'computers,' but it's
                  archived separately, so I'm keeping it separate.
literature      : Mostly classic authors; a few newbies.  And Bulwer-Lytton.
                  It should contain more on writing and by writers, but a lot
                  of that somehow got into art.
love            : What no one gets enough of, I guess.
magic           : Abracadabra.
medicine        : Doctors and cures.  And other contradictory juxtapositions.
                  Exercise.
men-women       : And the relations between them.
miscellaneous   : Whatever's left over.
news            : On journalism, and the unintentionally amusing bits of
                  journalism.
people          : You know, humans.  Personality, appearance, relationships,
                  and all the other evilness of which humans are capable.
                  It should probably be several smaller files (personality,
                  appearance, relationships ...)
pets            : Mostly cats and dogs, with some goldfish.  And penguins.
                  And a rubber duck.
platitudes      : The meaning of life, and of other things, including all those
                  stupid little sayings, and variants on them.
politics        : Comments on man as a political animal.  Also police,
                  soldiers, and other criminals.
riddles         : Not really riddles, necessarily, but mostly Q: A:
rules-of-acquisition : The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. Based on
                  https://github.com/JKirchartz/fortunes , but we formatted
                  the lines.
science         : Largely math and engineering, but some other interesting
                  and amusing sorts of science-related apothegms.  Also
                  technology.
songs-poems     : Stuff with meter, at least, and usually with rhymes.
sports          : You know.  Like on television.  ;-)
startrek        : Apparently quotes from Star Trek Classic.  Plus a bit.
the-x-files-taglines : Collection of unique taglines appearing at the beginning
                  of certain episodes of the television series, The X-Files.
translate-me    : A small file containing non-English quotes without
                  translations.
wisdom          : Zen, the True Meaning of Life, and other stupid lies.
work            : Really about the business world, and the pains of being a
                  part of it.  The desperate problems of the wealthy.  Like
                  that.
zippy           : Quotes from the comic Zippy the Pinhead.


./datfiles/off/ : the directory for offensive fortunes, already rot13'd.
                  they aren't distributed.  All the offensive fortunes,
                  unrotated, are found in the subdirectory:
./datfiles/off/unrotated/       : unrotated, offensive fortunes*

atheism         : Wayne Aiken's atheism cookie file, from:
                  http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aiken/
astrology       : Like in the daily newspapers, except nastier.  More would
                  be nice.  A few comments *about* astrology.
black-humor     : Death, violence-as-humor, and the like.  Really sick stuff.
definitions     : Like the inoffensive; first line ends with a colon and
                  it looks sorta like a definition.
drugs           : Various references to illegal herbs and chemicals.
ethnic          : Nasty slams at particular ethnic groups.  'Ethnic' actually
                  includes regionalist jokes in America.
hphobia         : Slams at gays and lesbians.
limerick        : There once was a file named limerick, / the contents of
                  which were pretty slick. / Each fortune five lines, /
                  with execrable rhymes, / And contents t'offend the fanatick.
misandry        : Anti-man stuff.  Smaller than 'misogyny.'  Wotta surprise.
miscellaneous   : It has everything that doesn't fit in other categories.
misogyny        : Jokes that women encounter as real attitudes daily.  Real
                  attitudes that women have to pretend are jokes daily.
politics        : The great wonder about the offensive political file is
                  that it mostly contains direct quotes by politicians
                  who *weren't* trying to be funny.
privates        : No, not promoted recruits.  The naughty bits, that people
                  aren't supposed to talk about.  Body parts and functions.
                  (Note that "size" has nothing to do with sex, so size
                  jokes are all in here).
racism          : Racism.  I suppose it's funny to *someone*.  I hope I
                  never meet him.
religion        : Stuff that might offend religious people, mostly Christians.
riddles         : Not really riddles, but usually the question format,
                  some Q&A and some just leading/rhetorical questions.
sex             : Uhh.  Well, you see, son, there are, umm, birds, and bees...
                  This ranges from outrageously frank to moderately suggestive.
songs-poems     : Filthy, bawdy, naughty songs and poems!  Licentious, I tell
                  tell you!  The programmer must be spanked!  First the
                  spanking ....
vulgarity       : Jokes in which the 'humor' is bad language, plus some
                  genuinely funny things that happen to contain bad language.

The intention throughout has been to create something a bit more
manageable and maintainable, without notable success in most cases.  A
more rational division of the fortunes would be preferred, but you do
what comes naturally.

If you prefer to have all the fortunes in one humongous file, that's fine:
cat 'em all together and run strfile.  That's easy; breaking them apart
again isn't.  Keep in mind that the "-o" infix format is not supported in
this version of fortune, so keep the offensive files in a separate
directory.

*If any of these files are not to your taste, do the easy thing: rm
filename.dat.  That leaves the fortunes there, but without the pointer
file, inaccessible.  Or rm filename, which gets rid of the text strings.
