Due to something like the Echo Effect this particular typo has been
picked up from our collection by various online fortune/quote collections
and spread from there.
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Scott Cheloha
Index: games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
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RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes,v
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@@ -8464,7 +8464,7 @@ Lunatic Asylum, n.:
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Lysistrata had a good idea.
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-"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into
+"MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts."
-- Winston Churchill
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