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1.1 root 1: # FARB(6)
2: #
3: # Generate farberism
4: #
5: # Ralph E. Griswold
6: #
7: # Last modified 8/25/84
8: #
9: #
10:
11: # This program must be translated and linked with more space than is the
12: # default. The following works on Version 5.9 on VAXs and PDP-11s:
13: #
14: # icont -Sc200 -Ss7000 -St2290 farb.icn
15: #
16: #
17:
18: procedure main()
19: &random := map(&clock,":","0")
20: write(?([
21: "I enjoy his smiling continence.",
22: "Piscasso wasn't born in a day.",
23: "I'll be there with spades on.",
24: "Beware a Torjan bearing a horse.",
25: "A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.",
26: "All the lemmings are going home to roost.",
27: "Anybody who marries her would stand out like a sore thumb.",
28: "Before they made him they broke the mold.",
29: "Boulder dash!",
30: "He's casting a red herring on the face of the water.",
31: "Clean up or fly right.",
32: "Clean up your own can of worms!",
33: "Come down off your charlie horse.",
34: "Don't burn your bridges until you come to them.",
35: "Don't count your chickens until the barn door is closed.",
36: "Don't cut off the limb you've got your neck strung out on.",
37: "Don't do anything I wouldn't do standing up in a hammock.",
38: "Don't get your eye out of joint.",
39: "Don't jump on a ship that's going down in flames.",
40: "Don't just stand there like a sitting duck.",
41: "Don't look a gift horse in the face.",
42: "Don't look a mixed bag in the mouth.",
43: "Don't look at me in that tone of voice.",
44: "Don't make a molehill out of a can of beans.",
45: "Don't make a tempest out of a teapot.",
46: "Don't pull an enigma on me.",
47: "Don't upset the apple pie.",
48: "Erase that indelibly from your memory.",
49: "Every cloud has a blue horizon.",
50: "Fade out in a blaze of glory.",
51: "She's faster than the naked eye.",
52: "Feather your den with somebody else's nest.",
53: "Fellow alumni run thicker than water.",
54: "From here on up, it's down hill all the way.",
55: "Gander your eye at that!",
56: "Get the hot poop right off the vine.",
57: "Go fly your little red wagon somewhere else.",
58: "Half a worm is better than none.",
59: "Have the seeds we've sown fallen on deaf ears?",
60: "He deserves a well-rounded hand of applause.",
61: "He didn't even bat an eyebrow.",
62: "He doesn't know which side his head is buttered on.",
63: "He has a wool of steel.",
64: "He has feet of molasses.",
65: "He hit the nose right on the head.",
66: "He knows which side his pocketbook is buttered on.",
67: "He smokes like a fish.",
68: "He was hoisted by a skyhook on his own petard!",
69: "He was putrified with fright.",
70: "He would forget his head if it weren't screwed up.",
71: "He's a lion in a den of Daniels.",
72: "He's as happy as a pig at high tide.",
73: "He's been living off his laurels for years.",
74: "He's cornered on all sides.",
75: "He's fuming at the seams.",
76: "He's got a rat's nest by the tail.",
77: "He's got four sheets in the wind.",
78: "He's letting ground grow under his feet.",
79: "He's like a wine glass in a storm.",
80: "He's lying through his britches.",
81: "He's procrastinating like a bandit.",
82: "He's reached the crescent of his success.",
83: "He's so far above me I can't reach his bootstraps.",
84: "He's too smart for his own bootstraps.",
85: "His foot is in his mouth up to his ear.",
86: "History is just a repetition of the past.",
87: "I apologize on cringed knees.",
88: "I don't know which dagger to clothe it in.",
89: "I hear the handwriting on the wall.",
90: "I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole.",
91: "I'll procrastinate when I get around to it.",
92: "I'm going to throw myself into the teeth of the gamut.",
93: "I'm parked somewhere in the boondoggles.",
94: "I'm walking on cloud nine.",
95: "I've got to put my duff to the grindstone.",
96: "I've had it up to the hilt.",
97: "If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.",
98: "If the onus fits, wear it.",
99: "Is he an Amazon!",
100: "It fills a well-needed gap.",
101: "It is better to have tried and failed than never to have failed at all.",
102: "It looks like it's going to go on ad infinitum for a while.",
103: "It sounds like roses to my ears.",
104: "It's a caterpillar in pig's clothing.",
105: "It's a fiat accompli.",
106: "It's a fool's paradise wrapped in sheep's clothing.",
107: "It's a monkey wrench in your ointment.",
108: "It's a new high in lows.",
109: "It's bouncing like a greased pig.",
110: "It's enough to make you want to rot your socks.",
111: "It's like talking to a needle in a haystack.",
112: "It's like trying to light a fire under a lead camel.",
113: "It's not his bag of tea.",
114: "It's so unbelieveable you wouldn't believe it.",
115: "Just because it's there, you don't have to mount it.",
116: "Keep your ear peeled!",
117: "Let me take you under my thumb.",
118: "Let me throw a monkey into the wrench.",
119: "Let's not drag any more dead herrings across the garden path.",
120: "Let's put out a smeller.",
121: "Let's skin another can of worms.",
122: "Look at the camera and say `bird'.",
123: "Look before you turn the other cheek.",
124: "Men, women, and children first!",
125: "My ebb is running low.",
126: "Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.",
127: "Never feed a hungry dog an empty loaf of bread.",
128: "No crumbs gather under his feet.",
129: "No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.",
130: "No rocks grow on Charlie.",
131: "No sooner said, the better.",
132: "Nobody could fill his socks.",
133: "Nobody is going to give you the world in a saucer.",
134: "Nobody marches with the same drummer.",
135: "Not by the foggiest stretch of the imagination!",
136: "Not in a cocked hat, you don't!",
137: "People in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black.",
138: "Put it on the back of the stove and let it simper.",
139: "Put the onus on the other foot.",
140: "Rome wasn't built on good intentions alone.",
141: "She has eyes like two holes in a burnt blanket.",
142: "She's a virgin who has never been defoliated.",
143: "She's trying to feather her own bush.",
144: "Somebody's flubbing his dub.",
145: "It's steel wool and a yard wide.",
146: "Straighten up or fly right.",
147: "Strange bedfellows flock together.",
148: "That's a bird of a different color.",
149: "That's a horse of a different feather.",
150: "That's a sight for deaf ears.",
151: "That's the way the old ball game bounces.",
152: "The die has been cast on the face of the waters.",
153: "The early bird will find his can of worms.",
154: "The foot that rocks the cradle is usually in the mouth.",
155: "The onus is on the other foot.",
156: "The whole thing is a hairy potpourri.",
157: "There are enough cooks in the pot already.",
158: "There are two sides to every marshmallow.",
159: "There's a dark cloud on every rainbow's horizon.",
160: "There's a flaw in the ointment.",
161: "There's going to be hell and high water to pay.",
162: "They don't stand a teabag's chance in hell.",
163: "They sure dipsied his doodle.",
164: "This bit of casting oil on troubled feathers is more than I can take.",
165: "This ivory tower we're living in is a glass house.",
166: "Those guys are as independent as hogs on ice.",
167: "Those guys weld a lot of power.",
168: "Those people have no bones to grind.",
169: "Those words were very carefully weasled.",
170: "Time and tide strike but once.",
171: "To the cook goes the broth!"
172: ]))
173: end
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