Automatic Proverb Generator

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by jbs on January 14, 2004 @ 12:36 pm

I love cheesy proverbs. Today, whilst having a stand-up meeting somebody said some quip and then someone perverted it into a nonsense quip that had the same tone and I though ‘Hey, theres a program to do just that’ and so I wrote it and
so there is.

It’s a python script, it’s really, really simple, it takes a formated file of beginings and endings and and chooses a random
way to put them together,
example output:

The ox is stronger
But the man is patient

The output is not always this good, but it’s often funny.

This may sound simple, but it’s going to be used to test spam bayes fooling stuff, which if your interested contact me
and I’ll tell you about. NOTE: I am not a spammer, when I say ‘fooling stuff’ I’m talking about test suites to combat
nonsense bombing (you know, the spam that’s filled with non-sensical strings of dictionary words).
This software is released under the GPL.
Get the Proverable Here



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace