Shamelessly stolen from Frank Mash (or, as UK news organisations will probably argue, “this orphaned content found was at …”):
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.% “How would you rate Quayle’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].% ^How did the sex change operation go?^
Modifier failed.% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many (‘s.% make love
Make: Don’t know how to make love. Stop.% sleep with me
bad character% got a light?
No match.% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.% %blow
%blow: No such job.% \(-
(-: Command not found.$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!$ drink matter
matter: cannot create$ ddate
Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 69th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3176
and of course:
unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep
Some of these work, some of these don’t – it all depends on your OS version. ddate does work on Centos.