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* New upstream release.
- Fix backgammon scoring bug related to peices on the bar and gammons.
Closes: #185101
- Fix backgammon tutorial text. Closes: #212478
- Advertising clause is gone from most, but not all licenses.
- Apparently better fix for boggle man page.
- Incorporates nearly all changes in Debian diff.
git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/joey/trunk/src/packages/bsdgames@9782 a4a2c43b-8ac3-0310-8836-e0e880c912e2
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A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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A computer, to print out a fact,
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No more than debris,
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If the input was short of exact.
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-- Gigo
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A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
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A CONS is an object which cares.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
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And had an affair with a Saracen.
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She was not oversexed,
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A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen
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lantern.
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-- Edgar A. Shoaff
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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-- Ogden Nash
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A dozen, a gross, and a score,
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Plus three times the square root of four,
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A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a
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Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser.
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Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the network
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Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you
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will find the programmers cannot write in English.
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A limerick packs laughs anatomical
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Into space that is quite economical.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of
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nothing.
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-- Alan Perlis
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loudly inside the stable. "But I can hear it bray, over there." "Whom
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A new dramatist of the absurd
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Has a voice that will shortly be heard.
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A new koan:
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If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you.
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A University without students is like an ointment without a fly.
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-- Ed Nather, professor of astronomy at UT Austin
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A UNIX saleslady, Lenore,
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Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more.
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She found a good way
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She sells C shells by the seashore.
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature
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A very intelligent turtle
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Found programming UNIX a hurdle
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Ran as slow as did he,
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And that's not saying much for the turtle.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without
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getting nervous.
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coins out of one's pockets.
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-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Despising machines to a man,
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The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
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And ride out by night
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In a sheeting of white
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To lynch all the robots they can.
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-- C. M. and G. A. Maxson
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Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will
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be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over
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the table.
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Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity.
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-- Robert Firth
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Flappity, floppity, flip
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The mouse on the m"obius strip;
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The strip revolved,
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The mouse dissolved
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In a chronodimensional skip.
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FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing. Details at ... uh, when
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-- Redd Foxx
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying
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of nothing.
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-- Redd Foxx
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Heaven, n.:
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A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of
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their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you
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If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.
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If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
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If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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-- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
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for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
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-- Alan McKay
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Limericks are art forms complex,
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Their topics run chiefly to sex.
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They usually have virgins,
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Line Printer paper is strongest at the perforations.
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Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe
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Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
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Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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System/3! System/3!
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See how it runs! See how it runs!
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Its monitor loses so totally!
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It runs all its programs in RPG!
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It's made by our favorite monopoly!
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System/3!
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Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad
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infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
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-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
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There once was a girl named Irene
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There once was a member of Mensa
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Who was a most excellent fencer.
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The sword that he used
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There once was an old man from Esser,
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It at last grew so small,
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He knew nothing at all,
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thing to do is to vote on it." So they did, and Mayor Daley won by 97
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There was a young lady from Hyde
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While her lover lamented
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The apple fermented
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"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd,
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Signed "Yours faithfully, God."
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When told this was so,
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It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can."
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Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
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"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
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