1. s/women/woman/ when the singular is intended

2. Remove some duplicates
3. Slightly improve a punch line, "and then cut off her head"
instead of "and cut her head off."

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index c12b34a5f102..c16313fa692e 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ I've always loved it here."
 	"Why not?"
 	"She's left handed."
 %
-	A women was in love with fourteen soldiers, it was clearly platoonic.
+	A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers, it was clearly platoonic.
 %
 	A young honeymoon couple were touring southern Florida and happened
 to stop at one of the rattlesnake farms along the road.  After seeing the
@@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ The words were these (children may smile; the wise will ponder):
 	During a fight, a husband threw a bowl of Jello at his wife.  She had
 him arrested for carrying a congealed weapon.
 	In another fight, the wife decked him with a heavy glass pitcher.
-She's a women who conks to stupor.
+She's a woman who conks to stupor.
 	Upon reading a story about a man who throttled his mother-in-law, a
 man commented, "Sounds to me like a practical choker."
 	It's not the initial skirt length, it's the upcreep.
@@ -45272,10 +45272,6 @@ The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing --
 and then marry him.
 		-- Cher
 %
-The trouble with some women is that they get
-all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-		-- Cher
-%
 The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds
 the other fellow of a dull one.
 		-- Sid Caesar
@@ -46639,18 +46635,18 @@ There once was a king who ruled his country long, wisely, and well.  The
 king had a son whom he hoped would someday rule the land.  He also wished
 in his heart that the son would be wise and compassionate.  One day he said
 to the prince:
-	"If you promised that you would give a certain women anything, even
+	"If you promised that you would give a certain woman anything, even
 half of your kingdom, and then she demanded the life of your best friend,
 what would your decision be, my son?"
 	The young prince thought for a moment and then said, "I would tell
-her that she was my best friend, and cut her head off."
+her that she was my best friend, and then cut off her head."
 	The king knew that his son would be a great king.
 %
 There once was a king who ruled his country long, wisely, and well.  The
 king had a son whom he hoped would someday rule the land.  He also wished
 in his heart that the son would be wise and compassionate.  One day he said
 to the prince:
-	"If you promised that you would give a certain women anything, even
+	"If you promised that you would give a certain woman anything, even
 half of your kingdom, and then she demanded the life of your best friend,
 what would your decision be, my son?"
 	The young prince thought for a moment and then said, "I would tell
@@ -51888,9 +51884,6 @@ Hopefully
 I take my place among the sellers.
 		-- Bertolt Brecht, "Hollywood"
 %
-When the lights are out, all women are fair.
-		-- Plutarch
-%
 When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies,
 the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a
 nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.
@@ -53100,8 +53093,6 @@ Women, when they have made a sheep of a man,
 always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
 		-- Balzac
 %
-Women who desire to be like men, lack ambition.
-%
 Women who want to be equal to men lack imagination.
 %
 Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore;