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Add a Fortune Cookie to your Homepage
To add a fortune cookie follow these steps:
1. Use this tag to access the Fortune.
<a href="/cgi-bin/fortune.cgi?user=
Username&options=
Options">Fortune
Cookie</a>
2. Where it says username
enter your username. Where it says options
enter the options from the list at the bottom
of this page. If you wanted options a, b and c you would insert:
&options=abc
3. Now you must create a file in
your web directory called fortune.html
. It should contain this text :
<html>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Your Fortune Is:
<br>
<!-- fortune -->
</body>
</html>
This is just an example page. You can edit it anyway you like.
There must be a line with <!-- fortune
--> on it somewhere in the page. This line will be replaced
with the fortune bye the fortune tool every time it is accessed.
When fortune is run with no arguments it prints out
a random epigram. Epigrams are divided into several categories,
where each category is subdivided into those which are potentially
offensive and those which are not. The options are as follows:
| a |
Choose from all
lists of maxims, both offensive and not. (See the o
option for more information on offensive fortunes.) |
| l |
Long dictums only. |
| o |
Choose only from potentially
offensive aphorisms.
Please, please, please request a potentially offensive
fortune if and only if you believe, deep down in your heart,
that you are willing to be offended. (And that if you are,
you'll just quit using o
rather than give us grief about it, okay?)
... let us keep in mind the basic governing
philosophy of
The Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words:
we believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the
whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.
--H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes" |
| s |
Short apothegms only. |
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