From 116debb60377c98849446c5d7bebb3fcff212988 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:53:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] This string of coincidences was too good to let pass. Obtained from: BBC World Service on 9410kHz --- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 58c5166e954..6586a2ff3be 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -16407,3 +16407,25 @@ How to become a sysop: worked a full day in my life since then. -- rho/slashdot % +Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. +Kennedy exactly one hundred years later in 1946. + +Lincoln was elected president in November 1860. +Kennedy in November 1960. + +Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who urged him not to go to +the theatre. +Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who advised against his going +to Dallas. + +Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran off into a warehouse. +Oswald shot Kenned y from a warehouse and ran off into a theatre. + +Lincoln was succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson. +Kennedy was succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson. + +The first Johnson was born in 1808. +The second Johnson was born in 1908. + + -- Alistair Cooke, "Letter From America", 26nov2001 +%