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"no longer a place for"
#!/bin/bash
# http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/house-of-lords-is-no-longer-a-place-for-fine-dining-peers-gripe-9102580.html
places=(
"House of Lords"
"Angel of the North"
"Jubilee Line"
"Wembley Stadium"
"Canterbury Cathedral"
"Bridge on the River Kwai"
"Ferry 'cross the Mersey"
"American Constitution"
"Beatles' back catalogue"
"Winston Churchill"
"Mornington Crescent"
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry")
things=(
"raster image processing."
"distributed database architecture."
"enterprise data warehousing."
"fortified cereal nutrition."
"mechanical planetarium enforcement."
"rainwater harvesting facilities."
"brown fluoride compounds."
"luxuriously patterned waitresses."
"municipal endogenous tryptamines."
"weirded literary progenies."
"confusingly discounted merchandise."
"preemptively sepulchred ancestors."
"unrelated hormonal wackiness."
"practically undetectable assassination."
"strongly modulated brilliance."
"the fair Sun's diurnal blessings."
)
RANDOM=$(date +%s)
for (( i=1; i<=20; i++ )); do
thePlace=${places[$RANDOM % ${#places[@]} ]}
theThing=${things[$RANDOM % ${#things[@]} ]}
echo $thePlace 'no longer a place for' $theThing
done
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