Grabs random paragraphs from Edward Butler-Lytton's 1830 novel PAUL CLIFFORD, source of the famous "It was a dark and stormy night." Use it if you're bored of lorem ipsum.

paul_clifford.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'clipboard'

page = Nokogiri::HTML(open('https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7735/7735-h/7735-h.htm'))
count = ARGV[0] ? ARGV[0].to_i : 1
output = ''
count.times do |i|
	output << page.css('p').to_a.sample.text.strip.split.join(' ') << (i < count - 1 ? "\n\n" : "\n")
end

Clipboard.copy(output)
print output