• Random Taglines

    From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to All on Sat Mar 16 22:10:54 2019
    Alright,

    Let's get some people posting some taglines in here. Here's a few from my collection:

    Armed, dangerous, and off my medication....
    A good rooster crows in any hen house.
    Today is a day for making firm decisions!!!!! Or is it?
    Each day a day goes by.
    I've had BETA days ... and nights!!!
    Happy couple: A deaf husband and a blind wife.
    Skeptics are seldom deceived.
    Let no good deed go unpunished.
    There is no defense except stupidity against a new idea.
    Fishing is a delusion surrounded by liars in old clothes.
    Living: The best demonstration of victory over mortality.
    Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
    Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
    Part-time musicians are semiconductors.
    Money is the root of all wealth.
    I have become comfortably numb.
    Programmers don't Byte,they just Nybble a bit
    That's odd -- I had a tagline when I came in here...
    For an exciting time, type ECHO Y | FORMAT C: > NUL
    ERROR: COLDBEER.CAN Not Found -- Operator Not Loaded
    The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get....
    Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery!
    What we have here is a failure to communicate.
    So crowded in here, I must go outside to change my mind!
    If I were here more often, I wouldn't be gone so much.


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Dan Richter on Sun Mar 17 12:54:00 2019
    Dan,

    Armed, dangerous, and off my medication....

    You got that right.

    For an exciting time, type ECHO Y | FORMAT C: > NUL

    There'd be some people dumb enough to try it.

    Daryl

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Dan Richter on Mon Mar 18 14:10:40 2019

    On 2019 Mar 16 22:04:54, you wrote to All:

    Let's get some people posting some taglines in here.

    is it time for me to run my script and post my list which now contains 12374 taglines? i don't recall what it had when i last posted it on 2016 Jul 16... a quick search seems to indicate there were 12059 in it at that time... each post was a max of 500 lines...

    )\/(ark

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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Mark Lewis on Mon Mar 18 17:31:58 2019
    On 18 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...

    Let's get some people posting some taglines in here.

    is it time for me to run my script and post my list which now contains 12374 taglines? i don't recall what it had when i last posted it on 2016 Jul 16... a quick search seems to indicate there were 12059 in it at
    that time... each post was a max of 500 lines...

    I was thinking about setting up a script as well. My list, right now, has 51305. I've been trying to get rid of some dupes though...

    I'll probably post 50 random taglines in each post. Gotta keep people wanting more... :)


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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Daryl Stout on Mon Mar 18 17:33:00 2019
    On 17 Mar 2019, Daryl Stout said the following...

    For an exciting time, type ECHO Y | FORMAT C: > NUL

    There'd be some people dumb enough to try it.

    I'm not even sure if that would work under windows anymore... :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Dan Richter on Mon Mar 18 21:59:00 2019
    Dan,

    For an exciting time, type ECHO Y | FORMAT C: > NUL

    There'd be some people dumb enough to try it.

    I'm not even sure if that would work under windows anymore... :)

    Well, as much as a klutz as I am, I'm not going to try it. :P

    Daryl

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Dan Richter on Tue Mar 19 02:13:44 2019

    On 2019 Mar 18 17:25:58, you wrote to me:

    is it time for me to run my script and post my list which now
    contains 12374 taglines? i don't recall what it had when i last
    posted it on 2016 Jul 16... a quick search seems to indicate there
    were 12059 in it at that time... each post was a max of 500 lines...

    I was thinking about setting up a script as well. My list, right now,
    has 51305. I've been trying to get rid of some dupes though...

    if you're on linux, you might find this li'l script handy... it sorts the taglines and removes the duplicates... just tell it the name of the file containing the taglines... it expects the file to have a .txt extension... the results are output into filename.sorted.uniq.txt so you don't lose the original until you're ready to remove/overwrite it...

    the script is 26 lines long... i'm pretty sure wordwrap will bite and need to be corrected...

    ==== Begin "sorttaglines" ====
    #! /bin/sh

    printf "\n"

    printhelp() {
    printf "just tell me the file name to sort. the extension must be txt.\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "eg: sorttaglines alltags\n"
    exit
    }

    case "$1" in
    "" ) printf "ERROR: no filename given.\n";
    printhelp;;
    esac

    if [ ! -e $1.txt ]
    then
    printf "ERROR: file $1.txt not found.\n"
    printhelp
    else
    printf "$(wc -l $1.txt | cut -d" " -f1) lines in $1.txt\n"
    sort -n $1.txt | uniq > $1.sorted.uniq.txt
    printf "$(wc -l $1.sorted.uniq.txt | cut -d" " -f1) lines in $1.sorted.uniq.txt\n"
    fi
    printf "\n"
    ==== End "sorttaglines" ====

    )\/(ark

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Dan Richter on Tue Mar 19 02:21:32 2019

    On 2019 Mar 18 17:25:58, you wrote to me:

    I'll probably post 50 random taglines in each post. Gotta keep people wanting more... :)

    here's my posting script... it breaks the input file out into separate files for posting... it is using hpt on this system to create the posts from the individual files... the NUMLINES variable at the top is the number of lines per file the input file will be broken into... as with the previous script, it expects the input file's extension to be .txt...

    this one is 59 lines long and i know that wordwrap will bite it fairly hard... hopefully it won't be so bad it can't be fixed...

    ==== Begin "posttaglines" ====
    #! /bin/bash

    NUMLINES=500

    printf "\n"

    printhelp() {
    printf "just tell me the tagline file to post (without extension)\n"
    printf "and the base file name of the parts to be posted.\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "eg: posttaglines alltags.sorted.uniq foo\n"
    exit
    }

    case "$1" in
    "" ) printf "ERROR: no tagline filename given.\n";
    printhelp;;
    esac

    case "$2" in
    "" ) printf "ERROR: no base parts filename given.\n";
    printhelp;;
    esac

    if [ ! -e $1.txt ]
    then
    printf "ERROR: file $1.txt not found.\n"
    printhelp
    fi

    if [[ -e $2aa ]]
    then
    printf "Cleaning up previous $(ls -l $2* | wc -l | cut -d" " -f1) $2* files\n"
    rm $2*
    fi

    printf "$(wc -l $1.txt | cut -d" " -f1) lines in $1.txt\n"
    printf "splitting into files containing $NUMLINES lines each\n"
    split -l $NUMLINES $1.txt $2
    TOTALFILES=$(ls -l $2* | wc -l | cut -d" " -f1)
    printf "$TOTALFILES $2* files to post\n"

    COUNTER=0
    for a in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
    do
    for b in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
    do
    if [ ! -e $2$a$b ]
    then
    break
    fi
    ((COUNTER++))
    printf "posting file $COUNTER of $TOTALFILES - $2$a$b - $(wc -c $2$a$b | cut -d" " -f1) bytes\n"
    printf "hpt post -nf \"mark lewis\" -af \"1:3634/12.73\" -nt \"all\" -at \"1:3634/12.73\" -s \"[AUTOPOST] Taglines $COUNTER of $TOTALFILES (max $NUMLINES lines per post)\" -e \"taglines\" -o \"\" -f loc $2$a$b\n"
    ~/fido/bin/hpt post -nf "mark lewis" -af "1:3634/12.73" -nt "all" -at "1:3634/12.73" -s "[AUTOPOST] Taglines $COUNTER of $TOTALFILES (max $NUMLINES lines per post)" -e "taglines" -o "" -f loc $2$a$b
    done
    done

    printf "\n"
    ==== End "posttaglines" ====

    )\/(ark

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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Mark Lewis on Tue Mar 19 17:24:52 2019
    On 19 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...

    if you're on linux, you might find this li'l script handy... it sorts the taglines and removes the duplicates... just tell it the name of the file containing the taglines... it expects the file to have a .txt
    extension... the results are output into filename.sorted.uniq.txt so you don't lose the original until you're ready to remove/overwrite it...

    Thank you.

    That script is quick too! It sorted 51306 lines to 36611 lines in about .5 seconds!

    the script is 26 lines long... i'm pretty sure wordwrap will bite and
    need to be corrected...

    There was only one line that wordwrap messed up. Line 24. It was simple
    enough to straighten out. :)

    I really should spend some more time learning the scripting languages...


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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Mark Lewis on Tue Mar 19 17:48:18 2019
    On 19 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...

    here's my posting script... it breaks the input file out into separate files for posting... it is using hpt on this system to create the posts from the individual files... the NUMLINES variable at the top is the

    Thank you.

    I'm not using hpt anymore, so I'll have to do some tweaking. :)

    this one is 59 lines long and i know that wordwrap will bite it fairly hard... hopefully it won't be so bad it can't be fixed...

    Nope, it's not too bad. A few lines around lines 53-55, but nothing I
    couldn't figure out. :)

    I probably should make sure I don't have any R rated taglines in there... Not sure how some people would react to those. :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Dan Richter on Wed Mar 20 09:09:00 2019
    Dan,

    I probably should make sure I don't have any R rated taglines in there... No DR>sure how some people would react to those. :)

    Dirty Old Sysops need love, too. ;)

    Daryl

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Dan Richter on Wed Mar 20 13:04:40 2019

    On 2019 Mar 19 17:18:52, you wrote to me:

    if you're on linux, you might find this li'l script handy... it sorts
    the taglines and removes the duplicates... just tell it the name of
    the file containing the taglines... it expects the file to have a
    .txt extension... the results are output into
    filename.sorted.uniq.txt so you don't lose the original until you're
    ready to remove/overwrite it...

    Thank you.

    welcome :)

    That script is quick too! It sorted 51306 lines to 36611 lines in
    about .5 seconds!

    the main guts are the "sort -n | uniq" part... i still generally go back through and look at the lines... especially since they're now sorted and it is easier to find typos for things like exact same lines but one has a typo period where the other has a proper comma...

    the script is 26 lines long... i'm pretty sure wordwrap will bite and
    need to be corrected...

    There was only one line that wordwrap messed up. Line 24. It was
    simple enough to straighten out. :)

    yeah, in that one, it was easy... the next one, though, is a bit tougher...

    I really should spend some more time learning the scripting
    languages...

    they're not so bad... like learning .bat coding in DOS... they are a lot more capable, though... kinda like using 4DOS with its enhanced scripting capabilities... the other thing, though, is using the available tools... i mainly write scripts so i don't have to remember all the steps and specific command lines to do certain things...

    )\/(ark

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Dan Richter on Wed Mar 20 13:09:08 2019

    On 2019 Mar 19 17:42:18, you wrote to me:

    this one is 59 lines long and i know that wordwrap will bite it
    fairly hard... hopefully it won't be so bad it can't be fixed...

    Nope, it's not too bad. A few lines around lines 53-55, but nothing I couldn't figure out. :)

    cool... i thought there might be more since i'm on a 120 column terminal but many read on 80 column ones...

    I probably should make sure I don't have any R rated taglines in
    there... Not sure how some people would react to those. :)

    that's an idea... i left all of mine in plus ones with some curse words... a few folk commented to me about them but i still have them... plus some of what they consider to be curse words i consider to be every day language O:-)

    )\/(ark

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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Daryl Stout on Wed Mar 20 20:02:56 2019
    On 20 Mar 2019, Daryl Stout said the following...

    I probably should make sure I don't have any R rated taglines in there. DR>sure how some people would react to those. :)

    Dirty Old Sysops need love, too. ;)

    That's true... Perhaps I'll leave them in. ;)


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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Mark Lewis on Wed Mar 20 20:08:58 2019
    On 20 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...

    the main guts are the "sort -n | uniq" part... i still generally go back through and look at the lines... especially since they're now sorted and it is easier to find typos for things like exact same lines but one has
    a typo period where the other has a proper comma...

    That's what I'm working on now. One will have a period, the won't, and the
    next will have an explanation point. I'm also finding a bunch that are cut
    off at 57 characters.

    they're not so bad... like learning .bat coding in DOS... they are a lot more capable, though... kinda like using 4DOS with its enhanced scripting capabilities... the other thing, though, is using the available tools...
    i mainly write scripts so i don't have to remember all the steps and specific command lines to do certain things...

    I was pretty good at batch files in DOS. Right now, I'm using the scripting
    to basically run programs. For example, my script for running MultiMail:

    #!/bin/bash
    cd ~/mmail/mmail-0.51
    ./mm

    There are a few that I've gotten a bit more complex at, but not much. They
    have if statements, to run certain programs depending on what files are in
    the inbound to the BBS.

    There is so much more that I can be using scripting for...


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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Mark Lewis on Wed Mar 20 20:11:02 2019
    On 20 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...

    I probably should make sure I don't have any R rated taglines in there... Not sure how some people would react to those. :)

    that's an idea... i left all of mine in plus ones with some curse
    words... a few folk commented to me about them but i still have them... plus some of what they consider to be curse words i consider to be every day language O:-)

    That is true. Besides, we are all grown adults... Well, at least
    physically... :) We should be able to handle a few "bad" words here and
    there. ;)


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Dan Richter on Thu Mar 21 11:25:00 2019
    Dan,

    I probably should make sure I don't have any R rated taglines in the DR>sure how some people would react to those. :)

    Dirty Old Sysops need love, too. ;)

    That's true... Perhaps I'll leave them in. ;)

    PG-13 themed might be better. Us decrepit old farts can us our
    imaginations. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to Daryl Stout on Thu Mar 21 20:45:54 2019
    On 21 Mar 2019, Daryl Stout said the following...

    Dirty Old Sysops need love, too. ;)

    That's true... Perhaps I'll leave them in. ;)

    PG-13 themed might be better. Us decrepit old farts can us our imaginations. <G>

    I guess I don't have as many as I thought. I've been going through the file, and haven't found any yet. Granted, I'm almost up to the ones that start with 'B'... :)


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