>Huh, I'm pretty sure I first encountered this California joke from some variant of fortune[1] back in the '80s. Haven't thought of it in ages. ("fortune -m for

>Huh, I'm pretty sure I first encountered this California joke from some variant of fortune[1] back in the '80s. Haven't thought of it in ages. ("fortune -m fornication" comes up empty on my linux system now though.) Yep. That's where I remember that joke from too. A DDG search returned the link I used as the first result. I'd note that when looking for fortunes (ala fortune(6), to which you refer), the following sites are often useful: https://motd.ambians.com/ https://motd.ambians.com/ http://fortunes.cat-v.org/ http://fortunes.cat-v.org/ https://bsdfortune.com/ https://bsdfortune.com/ Edit: fixed man page section for fortune and formatting.