diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 3f62d34496f..e88d4f9681a 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ The story so far:
 
 	In the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made a lot
 of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
+		-- Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
 %
 			DELETE A FORTUNE!
 
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index bb41d4e8f22..ccd3cd891de 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -12770,11 +12770,6 @@ Changing husbands/wives is only changing troubles.
 %
 Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world.
 %
-Chapter 1:
-	The story so far:
-	In the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made
-a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-%
 Chapter 2:  Newtonian Growth and Decay
 
 	The growth-decay formulas were developed in the trivial fashion by