new fortunes

fruit and flies

diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
index 0a6f0ba71f14ccf30faf5c6c1dd4274bc330b20a..bbc355c060c7b31602fabb91d1f0606a85a65650 100644 (file)
--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -44232,3 +44232,26 @@ i am the universe,
 and the universe is me,
 but we don't have an exclusive.
   -- fred t. hamster
+~
+time flies like an arrow.
+fruit flies like a banana.
+  -- Anthony Oettinger
+~
+Time Flies Like an Arrow
+An Ode to Oettinger
+
+Now, thin fruit flies like thunderstorms,
+And thin farm boys like farm girls narrow;
+And tax firm men like fat tax forms--
+But time flies like an arrow.
+
+When tax forms tax all firm men's souls,
+While farm girls slim their boyfriends' flanks;
+That's when the murd'rous thunder rolls--
+And thins the fruit flies ranks.
+
+Like tossed bananas in the skies,
+The thin fruit flies like common yarrow;
+Then's the time to time the time flies--
+Like the time flies like an arrow.
+  -- Edison B. Schroeder (1966)