[vox] fish?

[Shwaine]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 11:09:07PM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
>> The strangest thing just happened.  I was reading a book on Sun OS trying to
>> figure out how to modify my .bashrc to permanently alias rm to rm -i.  So I
>> was playing around by typing "touch fish" and "rm fish", etc.  After awhile I
>> became tired and mistakenly typed just "fish."  All of a sudden the rules of
>> the children's card game "Fish" came up on the screen.  And to make matters
>> even more weird the computer started playing a game of Fish with me.
>
> Heh. :)  Well, I found it in Debian, too...
>
>  Package: bsdgames
>  Priority: optional
>  Section: games
>  ...
>  Description: a collection of classic textual unix games
>   This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that
>   have been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.
>   .
>   Includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar,
>   bcd, boggle, caesar, canfield, countmail, cribbage, dab, fish, gomoku, hack,
>   hangman, hunt, mille, monop, morse, number, pig, phantasia, pom, ppt,
>   primes, quiz, random, rain, robots, sail, snake, tetris, trek, wargames,
>   worm, worms, wump, wtf
>

The bsdgames package is on Slackware as well... but the best part about 
'man fish' is the following:

BUGS
      The computer cheats only rarely.