Funnies

Steam Lok

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Fortune and Cowsay

sudo apt-get install fortune cowsay
fortune | cowsay -f vader-koala
 _____________________________________
/ Things will be bright in P.M. A cop \
\ will shine a light in your face.    /
 -------------------------------------
   \
    \        .
     .---.  //
    Y|o o|Y//
   /_(i=i)K/
   ~()~*~()~
    (_)-(_)

     Darth
     Vader
     koala

Find other animals at /usr/share/cowsay/cows

Telnet StarWars

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

             f r o m   a  h i d d e n   b a s e ,  h a v e  w o n
             t h e i r   f i r s t  v i c t o r y   a g a i n s t
             t h e   e v i l   G a l a c t i c   E m p i r e.
             D u r i n g     t h e     b a t t l e ,    R e b e l
             s p i e s  m a n a g e d  to  s t e a l  s e c r e t

Ascii Aquarium

sudo apt install libcurses-perl
wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/K/KB/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.5.tar.gz
tar xzf Term-Animation-2.5.tar.gz
cd Term-Animation-2.5/
perl Makefile.PL
make 
sudo make install

cd /tmp
wget https://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz
tar -zxvf asciiquarium.tar.gz
cd asciiquarium_1.1/
sudo cp asciiquarium /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium

Funny manpages

Basic version

sudo apt install funny-manpages

Advanced version

git clone [email protected]:ltworf/funny-manpages.git
cd funny-manpages
sudo make install
# List the pages
man -S 1fun,3fun,6fun,8fun -k .

BSD Games

Repo adventure: the original adventure by Crowther and Woods arithmetic: arithmetic quiz/speed test atc: air traffic control backgammon: backgammon banner: display a message in big letters battlestar: adventure game on a battlestar bcd: outputs text in an antique form boggle: boggle caesar: reads fortunes from the game fortune, also some internet posts canfield: curses-based solitaire countmail: tell you how much new mail you have cribbage: cribbage dab: dots and boxes dm: dungeon master, regulates games playing factor: factor a number fish: go fish fortune: displays a random silly message gomoku: gomoku hack: exploring the Dungeons of Doom hangman: guess the word before it is too late hunt: hunt each other in a maze (multiplayer -- great) mille: mille borne against the computer monop: monopoly morse: output morse code number: output the English text for a number phantasia: interterminal fantasy game pig: output text in Pig Latin pom: display the phase of the moon ppt: outputs text in another antique form primes: generate primes quiz: random knowledge tests rain: attempts to create a rain drop effect (best at 9600 baud) random: random lines from a file or random numbers robots: well... avoid the robots sail: sail your ship into battle snake: grab the cash and avoid the snake and exit tetris: tetris trek: We come in peace, shoot to kill. It's worse than that, he's dead Jim. Ye cannot change the laws of physics. It's life Jim, but not as we know it. There's Klingons on the starboard bow ... wargames: would you like to play a game? worm: eat the numbers without running into anything worms: random worms scurrying across your screen wtf: translate acronyms, e.g. "wtf is WTF" wump: hunt the wumpus

Telnet

Star Wars in Terminal

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Playing chess

telnet freechess.org

other games

telnet telehack.com
Trying 2001:470:67:c0::1337...
Connected to telehack.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

Connected to TELEHACK port 141

It is 11:40 am on Friday, December 19, 2025 in Mountain View, California, USA.
There are 126 local users. There are 26648 hosts on the network.

May the command line live forever.

Command, one of the following:
  ?            ac           advent       aquarium     basic        c8
  cal          calc         ching        clear        clock        cowsay
  ddate        diff         dir          eliza        exit         factor
  figlet       file         finger       fnord        geoip        help
  ipaddr       joke         mac          md5          more         morse
  newuser      notes        octopus      phoon        pig          pong
  primes       privacy      qr           rainbow      rand         recover
  rig          rockets      roll         rot13        salvo        sleep
  tail         today        traceroute   typespeed    units        uumap
  uupath       uuplot       weather      when         zc           zork

More commands available after login. Type HELP for a detailed command list.
Type NEWUSER to create an account. Press control-C to interrupt any command.

Good Excuses

Funny Excuses BoFH style

telnet bofh.jeffballard.us 666
Trying 216.165.179.62...
Connected to jeffballard.us.
Escape character is '^]'.
=== The BOFH-style Excuse Server --- Feel The Power!
=== By Jeff Ballard <[email protected]>
=== See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/ for more info.
Your excuse is: The math co-processor had an overflow error that leaked out and shorted the RAM
Connection closed by foreign host.