On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 09:42:28PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 08:18:13PM +0200, Alessandro De Laurenzis wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I was reluctant to submit this patch, since I'm not a native English 
> > speaker and this could be a wordplay joke, but if not, and it is really 
> > citing the Latin phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar (see e.g. 
> > [1], but there are plenty on the net, of course), the wrong order warps 
> > the meaning.
> > 
> > Please consider the attached diff.
> > 
> > All the best
> > 
> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni,_vidi,_vici
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alessandro De Laurenzis
> > [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Web: http://www.atlantide.mooo.com
> > LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
> 
> > --- /usr/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o.orig        Thu Jul 13 
> > 04:45:56 2017
> > +++ /usr/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o     Mon Aug 23 20:07:23 2021
> > @@ -14251,8 +14251,8 @@
> >  to a rival.  Husbands, good or bad, always have rivals.  Lovers, never.
> >             -- Helen Lawrenson, "Esquire"
> >  %
> > -Vidi, vici, veni.
> > -(I saw, I conquered, I came.)
> > +Veni, vidi, vici.
> > +(I came, I saw, I conquered.)
> >  %
> >  Viennese Oyster: Lady who can cross her feet behind her head, lying on her
> >  back, of course.  When she has done so, you hold her tightly round each 
> > instep
> 
> 
> hi.
> 
> it is a joke, yes. there's at least one other joke of this type in the
> database:
> 
>       Veni, Vidi, VISA:
>               I came, I saw, I did a little shopping.
> 
> however i also just spotted the actual quote is there too, and appears
> to have a typo!
> 
ok giovanni@ for the typo fix.

 Giovanni





> jmc
> 
> Index: fortunes2
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2,v
> retrieving revision 1.52
> diff -u -p -r1.52 fortunes2
> --- fortunes2 27 Sep 2019 20:44:22 -0000      1.52
> +++ fortunes2 23 Aug 2021 20:36:05 -0000
> @@ -41833,7 +41833,7 @@ Hagar's note: The first definition is mu
>  only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront
>  property.
>  %
> -Vini, vidi, vici.
> +Veni, vidi, vici.
>  [I came, I saw, I conquered].
>               -- Gaius Julius Caesar
>  %
> 

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