diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 2cbd38536168..7fe964889437 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -15529,9 +15529,6 @@ What the world *really* needs is a good Automatic Bicycle Sharpener.
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 What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent bagel.
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-What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent
-bagel.
-%
 What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!
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 What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index ccbb28a0604c..0bc03a6a4024 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -3350,27 +3350,6 @@ had been in a Warner Brothers cartoon we would have run right INTO the beach,
 and you would have seen these two mounds of sand racing across the island
 until they bonked into trees and coconuts fell onto their heads.
 		-- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV"
-%
-	So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark].
-With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to
-maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of
-corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to
-flop up onto the land and evolve.  Richard and I were inching toward
-it, sort of crouched over, when all of a sudden it turned around and --
-I can still remember the sensation I felt at that moment, primarily in
-the armpit area -- headed right straight toward us.
-	Many people would have panicked at this point.  But Richard and
-I were not "many people."  We were experienced waders, and we kept our
-heads.  We did exactly what the textbook says you should do when you're
-unarmed and a shark that is nearly two feet long turns on you in water
-up to your lower calves: We sprinted I would say 600 yards in the
-opposite direction, using a sprinting style such that the bottoms of
-our feet never once went below the surface of the water.  We ran all
-the way to the far shore, and if we had been in a Warner Brothers
-cartoon we would have run right INTO the beach, and you would have seen
-these two mounds of sand racing across the island until they bonked
-into trees and coconuts fell onto their heads.
-		-- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV"
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 	Some 1500 miles west of the Big Apple we find the Minneapple, a
 haven of tranquility in troubled times.  It's a good town, a civilized town.
@@ -8025,26 +8004,14 @@ A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her,
 she follows.
 		-- Chamfort
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-A woman is like your shadow; follow her,
-she flies; fly from her, she follows.
-		-- Chamfort
-%
 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure,
 it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
 		-- Nietzsche
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-A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to
-endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
-		-- Nietzsche
-%
 A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing -- tender, sweet,
 and stupid.
 		-- Adolf Hitler
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-A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive
-little thing -- tender, sweet, and stupid.
-		-- Adolf Hitler
-%
 A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times
 over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of
 pride -- for the opening or the shutting of a door.
@@ -9410,11 +9377,6 @@ Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not
 new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.
 		-- David Letterman
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-An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to
-New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but
-not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.
-		-- David Letterman
-%
 An aphorism is never exactly true;
 it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
 		-- Karl Kraus
@@ -9907,13 +9869,6 @@ face, we have politics.
 		-- Dalglish, Larsen and Sutherland,
 		   "Root Crops and Ground Cover"
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-And yet, seasons must be taken with a grain of salt, for they too have
-a sense of humor, as does history.  Corn stalks comedy, comedy stalks
-tragedy, and this too is historic.  And yet, still, when corn meets
-tragedy face to face, we have politics.
-		-- Dalglish, Larsen and Sutherland,
-		   "Root Crops and Ground Cover"
-%
 And you can't get any Watney's Red Barrel,
 because the bars close every time you're thirsty...
 %
@@ -14737,9 +14692,6 @@ Documentation:
 Documentation is the castor oil of programming.  Managers know it must
 be good because the programmers hate it so much.
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-Documentation is the castor oil of programming.
-Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.
-%
 Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted?
 Does a good teacher overlook even the most humble student?
 Does a good father allow a single child to starve?
@@ -14784,9 +14736,6 @@ I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love.
 Don't be humble, you're not that great.
 		-- Golda Meir
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-Don't be humble, you're not that great.
-                -- Golda Meir
-%
 Don't be irreplaceable.  If you can't
 be replaced, you cannot be promoted.
 %
@@ -15228,9 +15177,6 @@ production of great leaders has been discontinued.
 Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your
 fate and captain of your soul.
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-Due to circumstances beyond your control,
-you are master of your fate and captain of your soul.
-%
 Dungeons and Dragons is just a lot of Saxon Violence.
 %
 During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has
@@ -16240,10 +16186,6 @@ Excess on occasion is exhilarating.  It prevents moderation from
 acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
 		-- W. Somerset Maugham
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-Excess on occasion is exhilarating.  It prevents
-moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
-		-- W. Somerset Maugham
-%
 Excessive login messages is a sure sign of senility.
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 Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
@@ -18812,9 +18754,6 @@ Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
 Good night to spend with family, but avoid arguments with your mate's
 new lover.
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-Good night to spend with family,
-but avoid arguments with your mate's new lover.
-%
 Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.
 		-- R. E. Schenk
 %
@@ -23165,10 +23104,6 @@ I used to work in a fire hydrant factory.  You couldn't park anywhere near
 the place.
 		-- Steven Wright
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-I used to work in a fire hydrant factory.  You couldn't park anywhere
-near the place.
-		-- Steven Wright
-%
 I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals.  I
 don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected
 with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,
@@ -29141,9 +29076,6 @@ Let's do it.
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 Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again.
 %
-Let's just be friends and make no special
-effort to ever see each other again.
-%
 Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted.  In every
 relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive.  If you
 really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end.
@@ -29574,12 +29506,6 @@ Charlie Brown:
 	No, that's giving up.  I'm still hoping that yesterday
 	will get better.
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-Linus:	I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow.  Maybe
-	we should think only about today.
-Charlie Brown:
-	No, that's giving up.  I'm still hoping that yesterday will get
-	better.
-%
 Linus' Law:
 	There is no heavier burden than a great potential.
 %
@@ -29935,10 +29861,6 @@ Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real
 with the ideal never goes unpunished.
 		-- Goethe
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-Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the
-real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-		-- Goethe
-%
 Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
 		-- Dr. Karl Bowman
 %
@@ -30276,10 +30198,6 @@ Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon
 to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
 		-- Oscar Wilde
 %
-Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he
-is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-		-- Oscar Wilde
-%
 Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this--
 no dog exchanges bones with another.
 		-- Adam Smith
@@ -32550,11 +32468,6 @@ Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would.
 The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
 		-- Augustine
 %
-Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they
-would.  The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect
-that much.
-		-- Augustine
-%
 Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
 	The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of
 	the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
@@ -33347,10 +33260,6 @@ Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
 		-- Charlie Brown
 %
-Nothing takes the taste out of peanut
-butter quite like unrequited love.
-		-- Charlie Brown
-%
 Nothing that's forced can ever be right,
 If it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
 That's what she said as she turned out the light,
@@ -34066,9 +33975,6 @@ and God, this is goodbye.  We're moving to Hollywood."
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 On the road, ZIPPY is a pinhead without a purpose, but never without a POINT.
 %
-On the road, ZIPPY is a pinhead without
-a purpose, but never without a POINT.
-%
 On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
 		-- W.C. Fields' epitaph
 %
@@ -35372,10 +35278,6 @@ People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't
 what they want that they don't want it.
 		-- Ogden Nash
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-People who have what they want are very fond of telling
-people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
-		-- Ogden Nash
-%
 People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything.
 %
 People who push both buttons should get their wish.
@@ -35391,9 +35293,6 @@ greatly annoy those of us who do.
 People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin
 Franklin said it first.
 %
-People will accept your ideas much more readily if
-you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-%
 People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
 %
 People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.
@@ -39387,15 +39286,6 @@ the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of
 their boots.
 		-- Samuel Foote
 %
-So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie;
-and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head
-into the shop. "What! no soap?"  So he died, and she very imprudently
-married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand
-Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all
-fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran
-out at the heels of their boots.
-		-- Samuel Foote
-%
 So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
 and yet it is not; it is but so so.
 		-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
@@ -40689,10 +40579,6 @@ TAXES:
 	Of life's two certainties,
 	the only one for which you can get an extension.
 %
-TAXES:
-	Of life's two certainties, the only one for
-	which you can get an extension.
-%
 Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
 %
 TCP/IP Slang Glossary, #1:
@@ -46778,9 +46664,6 @@ pigmentation of their skin.  They happen to be colored.
 There's a fine line between courage and foolishness.  Too bad it's not
 a fence.
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-There's a fine line between courage and foolishness.
-Too bad it's not a fence.
-%
 There's a lesson that I need to remember
 When everything is falling apart
 In life, just like in loving
@@ -46848,11 +46731,6 @@ don't know that much about it.  I tried it once but it didn't do anything
 to me.
 		-- John Wayne
 %
-There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you.
-I really don't know that much about it.  I tried it once but it
-didn't do anything to me.
-		-- John Wayne
-%
 There's got to be more to life than compile-and-go.
 %
 There's just something I don't like about Virginia; the state.
@@ -48625,9 +48503,6 @@ Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
 Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
 specification is that it should run noiselessly.
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-Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for
-which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
-%
 Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
 		-- Alan Watts
 %
@@ -50722,9 +50597,6 @@ What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
 What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow
 in his footsteps?
 %
-What good is having someone who can walk
-on water if you don't follow in his footsteps?
-%
 What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?
 		-- Ashleigh Brilliant
 %
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
index 59958d5c4785..05bfa4ed4000 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
@@ -1071,20 +1071,6 @@ say it, he put that huge thing...  It must have been a foot long, and I don't
 know how thick... into my...  Just a minute."
 	"What's the matter, mister?"
 	"Listen, I have to hang up now, he's getting out of the shower."
-%
-	Here is the problem: for many years, the Supreme Court wrestled
-with the issue of pornography, until finally Associate Justice John
-Paul Stevens came up with the famous quotation about how he couldn't
-define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it.  So for a while, the
-court's policy was to have all the suspected pornography trucked to
-Justice Stevens' house, where he would look it over.  "Nope, this isn't
-it," he'd say.  "Bring some more."  This went on until one morning when
-his housekeeper found him trapped in the recreation room under an
-enormous mound of rubberized implements, and the court had to issue a
-ruling stating that it didn't know what the hell pornography was except
-that it was illegal and everybody should stop badgering the court about
-it because the court was going to take a nap.
-		-- Dave Barry, "Pornography"
 %
 	"How'd you get that flat?"
 	"Ran over a bottle."
@@ -5946,12 +5932,6 @@ That failed; he gave Lava a trial.
 	For contagious V.D.
 Is the wonder drug sulfa-denial.
 %
-For the sores on his prick he used Dial.
-That failed; he gave Lava a trial.
-	But the one remedy
-	For contagious V.D.
-Is the wonder drug sulfa-denial.
-%
 "For the tenth time, dull Daphnis," said Chloe,
 "You have told me my bosom is snowy;
 	You have made much fine verse on
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
index 83e58bdf23b5..c30fa8636e48 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
@@ -435,12 +435,6 @@ Was said to be great in the sack.
 	Put girls in a coma
 And two gave them epileptic attacks.
 %
-A graduate student named Zac
-Was said to be great in the sack.
-	An inch of his boner
-	Put girls in a coma
-And two gave them epileptic attacks.
-%
 A greedy young lady from Sidney
 Liked it in up to her kidney,
 	Till a man from Quebec
@@ -947,12 +941,6 @@ Once sat herself down on a molehill.
 Ms. Vogel's ok, but the mole's ill.
 %
 A pretty young lady named Vogel
-Once sat herself down on a molehill.
-	A curious mole
-	Nosed into her hole --
-Ms. Vogel's okay, but the mole's ill.
-%
-A pretty young lady named Vogel
 Once sat herself down on a molehill.
 	A curious mole
 	Nosed into her hole-
@@ -1261,13 +1249,6 @@ She used it for many a bunt.
 It took twenty-two men and a big Stillson wrench,
 To get the thing out of her cunt.
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-A water pipe suited miss Hunt;
-She used it for many a bunt.
-	But the unlucky wench
-	Got it caught in her trench ---
-It took twenty-two men and a big Stillson wrench,
-To get the thing out of her cunt.
-%
 A weary old lecher named Blott
 Took a luscious young blond to his yacht.
 	Too lazy to rape her,
@@ -1917,13 +1898,6 @@ You must keep her in close quarantine,
 Disorderly, drunk, and obscene.
 		-- Morris Bishop
 %
-The limerick is furtive and mean;
-You must keep her in close quarantine,
-	Or she sneaks to the slums
-	And promptly becomes
-Disorderly, drunk, and obscene.
-		-- Morris Bishop
-%
 The old archeologist, Throstle,
 Discovered a marvelous fossil.
 	He knew from its bend
@@ -2590,12 +2564,6 @@ And you may think it odd when I say,
 	Rank and education,
 She always spelled cunt with a 'k'.
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-There was a gay countess of Bray,
-And you may think it odd when I say,
-	That in spite of high station,
-	Rank and education,
-She always spelled cunt with a 'k'.
-%
 There was a gay dog from Ontario
 Who fancied himself a Lothario.
 	At a wench's glance
@@ -3919,12 +3887,6 @@ Who shaved her cunt bare with a razor.
 This passing parade did amaze her.
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 There was a young lady of Gaza
-Who shaved her cunt bare with a razor.
-	The crabs, in a lump,
-	Made tracks to her rump -
-This passing parade did amaze her.
-%
-There was a young lady of Gaza
 Who shaved her cunt bare with a razor.
 	The crabs, in a lump,
 	Made tracks to her rump--
@@ -4044,12 +4006,6 @@ The cheeks of her ass were so fat
 	Whenever she farted,
 And also whenever she shat.
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-There was a young lass from Surat.
-The cheeks of her ass were so fat
-	That they had to be parted
-	Whenever she farted,
-And also whenever she shat.
-%
 There was a young laundress named Wrangle
 Whose tits tilted up at an angle.
 	"They may tickle my chin,"
@@ -4969,18 +4925,6 @@ Whose prick was remarkably short.
 	The old woman said,
 "That isn't a prick; it's a wart!"
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-There was an old man of the port
-Whose prick was remarkably short.
-	When he got into bed,
-	The old woman said,
-"This isn't a prick; it's a wart!"
-%
-There was an old man of the port
-Whose prick was remarkably short.
-     When he got into bed,
-     The old woman said,
-"That isn't a prick; it's a wart!"
-%
 There was an old man who said, "Tush!
 My balls always hang in the brush,
 	And I fumble about,
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
index a7dd3a9ac712..ad7dbfd7750c 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
@@ -1702,9 +1702,6 @@ Whenever a superstar is traded to your favorite team,
 he fades.  Whenever your team trades away a useless
 no-name, he immediately rises to stardom.
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-Never leave hold of what you've got until you've
-got hold of something else.
-%
 A mediocre player will sink to the level of his or
 her opposition.
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@@ -2026,9 +2023,6 @@ Superiority is recessive.
 %
 Forgive and remember.
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-Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral
-or fattening.
-%
 Anything good in life either causes cancer in
 laboratory mice or is taxed beyond reality.
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