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1.1     ! root        1: #      FARB
        !             2: #
        !             3: #      Generate farberism
        !             4: #
        !             5: #      Ralph E. Griswold
        !             6: #
        !             7: #      Last modified 2/1/86
        !             8: #
        !             9: #
        !            10: 
        !            11: #  This program is broken into procedures in an arbitrary way to allow
        !            12: #  it to be translated on computers with limited address spaces.
        !            13: #
        !            14: 
        !            15: procedure main()
        !            16:    &random := map(&clock,":","0")
        !            17:    write(??[farb1(),farb2(),farb3(),farb4()])
        !            18: end
        !            19: 
        !            20: procedure farb1()
        !            21:    return [
        !            22:       "I enjoy his smiling continence.",
        !            23:       "Picasso wasn't born in a day.",
        !            24:       "I'll be there with spades on.",
        !            25:       "Beware a Trojan bearing a horse.",
        !            26:       "A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.",
        !            27:       "All the lemmings are going home to roost.",
        !            28:       "Anybody who marries her would stand out like a sore thumb.",
        !            29:       "Before they made him they broke the mold.",
        !            30:       "He's casting a red herring on the face of the water.",
        !            31:       "Clean up or fly right.",
        !            32:       "Come down off your charlie horse.",
        !            33:       "Don't burn your bridges until you come to them.",
        !            34:       "Don't count your chickens until the barn door is closed.",
        !            35:       "Don't do anything I wouldn't do standing up in a hammock.",
        !            36:       "Don't get your eye out of joint.",
        !            37:       "Don't just stand there like a sitting duck.",
        !            38:       "Don't look a mixed bag in the mouth.",
        !            39:       "Don't look at me in that tone of voice.",
        !            40:       "Don't make a molehill out of a can of beans.",
        !            41:       "Don't make a tempest out of a teapot."
        !            42:       ]
        !            43: end
        !            44: 
        !            45: procedure farb2()
        !            46:    return [
        !            47:       "Don't upset the apple pie.",
        !            48:       "Every cloud has a blue horizon.",
        !            49:       "She's faster than the naked eye.",
        !            50:       "Feather your den with somebody else's nest.",
        !            51:       "From here on up, it's down hill all the way.",
        !            52:       "Go fly your little red wagon somewhere else.",
        !            53:       "Half a worm is better than none.",
        !            54:       "He doesn't know which side his head is buttered on.",
        !            55:       "He has feet of molasses.",
        !            56:       "He hit the nose right on the head.",
        !            57:       "He knows which side his pocketbook is buttered on.",
        !            58:       "He smokes like a fish.",
        !            59:       "He was hoisted by a skyhook on his own petard!",
        !            60:       "He was putrified with fright.",
        !            61:       "He would forget his head if it weren't screwed up.",
        !            62:       "He's as happy as a pig at high tide.",
        !            63:       "He's been living off his laurels for years.",
        !            64:       "He's got a rat's nest by the tail.",
        !            65:       "He's got four sheets in the wind.",
        !            66:       "He's letting ground grow under his feet.",
        !            67:       "He's lying through his britches.",
        !            68:       "He's procrastinating like a bandit.",
        !            69:       "He's reached the crescent of his success.",
        !            70:       "He's so far above me I can't reach his bootstraps.",
        !            71:       "He's too smart for his own bootstraps.",
        !            72:       "His foot is in his mouth up to his ear.",
        !            73:       "History is just a repetition of the past.",
        !            74:       "I apologize on cringed knees.",
        !            75:       "I don't know which dagger to clothe it in.",
        !            76:       "I hear the handwriting on the wall.",
        !            77:       "I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole.",
        !            78:       "I'll procrastinate when I get around to it.",
        !            79:       "I'm going to throw myself into the teeth of the gamut.",
        !            80:       "I'm parked somewhere in the boondoggles."
        !            81:       ]
        !            82: end
        !            83: 
        !            84: procedure farb3()
        !            85:    return [
        !            86:       "I'm walking on cloud nine.",
        !            87:       "I've got to put my duff to the grindstone.",
        !            88:       "I've had it up to the hilt.",
        !            89:       "If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.",
        !            90:       "If the onus fits, wear it.",
        !            91:       "Is he an Amazon!",
        !            92:       "It fills a well-needed gap.",
        !            93:       "It is better to have tried and failed than never to have failed at all.",
        !            94:       "It looks like it's going to go on ad infinitum for a while.",
        !            95:       "It sounds like roses to my ears.",
        !            96:       "It's a caterpillar in pig's clothing.",
        !            97:       "It's a fiat accompli.",
        !            98:       "It's a fool's paradise wrapped in sheep's clothing.",
        !            99:       "It's a monkey wrench in your ointment.",
        !           100:       "It's a new high in lows.",
        !           101:       "It's bouncing like a greased pig.",
        !           102:       "It's enough to make you want to rot your socks.",
        !           103:       "It's like talking to a needle in a haystack.",
        !           104:       "It's like trying to light a fire under a lead camel.",
        !           105:       "It's not his bag of tea.",
        !           106:       "It's so unbelieveable you wouldn't believe it.",
        !           107:       "Just because it's there, you don't have to mount it.",
        !           108:       "Keep your ear peeled!",
        !           109:       "Let's not drag any more dead herrings across the garden path.",
        !           110:       "Let's skin another can of worms.",
        !           111:       "Look at the camera and say `bird'.",
        !           112:       "Look before you turn the other cheek.",
        !           113:       "Men, women, and children first!",
        !           114:       "Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.",
        !           115:       "Never feed a hungry dog an empty loaf of bread.",
        !           116:       "No rocks grow on Charlie.",
        !           117:       "No sooner said, the better.",
        !           118:       "Nobody could fill his socks.",
        !           119:       "Nobody is going to give you the world in a saucer.",
        !           120:       "Nobody marches with the same drummer.",
        !           121:       "Not by the foggiest stretch of the imagination!",
        !           122:       "Not in a cocked hat, you don't!",
        !           123:       "People in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black.",
        !           124:       "Put it on the back of the stove and let it simper."
        !           125:       ]
        !           126: end
        !           127: 
        !           128: procedure farb4()
        !           129:    return [
        !           130:       "Put the onus on the other foot.",
        !           131:       "Rome wasn't built on good intentions alone.",
        !           132:       "She has eyes like two holes in a burnt blanket.",
        !           133:       "She's a virgin who has never been defoliated.",
        !           134:       "She's trying to feather her own bush.",
        !           135:       "Somebody's flubbing his dub.",
        !           136:       "It's steel wool and a yard wide.",
        !           137:       "Straighten up or fly right.",
        !           138:       "Strange bedfellows flock together.",
        !           139:       "That's a bird of a different color.",
        !           140:       "That's a horse of a different feather.",
        !           141:       "That's a sight for deaf ears.",
        !           142:       "That's the way the old ball game bounces.",
        !           143:       "The die has been cast on the face of the waters.",
        !           144:       "The early bird will find his can of worms.",
        !           145:       "The foot that rocks the cradle is usually in the mouth.",
        !           146:       "The onus is on the other foot.",
        !           147:       "The whole thing is a hairy potpourri.",
        !           148:       "There are enough cooks in the pot already.",
        !           149:       "There's a dark cloud on every rainbow's horizon.",
        !           150:       "There's a flaw in the ointment.",
        !           151:       "There's going to be hell and high water to pay.",
        !           152:       "They don't stand a teabag's chance in hell.",
        !           153:       "They sure dipsied his doodle.",
        !           154:       "This ivory tower we're living in is a glass house.",
        !           155:       "Time and tide strike but once.",
        !           156:       ]
        !           157: end

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