All work and no fun makes Jack dull boy. So lets do something for fun. Here is a one liner I wrote sometime back.  The original idea is not mine and I don’t remeber where I got the idea from but it was some other one liner that I was browsing for some oracle query. Anyway here’s the one liner to get lot of jokes in one file.

#!/bin/bash
for i in `echo 000{0..9} 00{10..99} 0{100..999} {1000..1600}` ; do links -dump http://www.robsjokes.com/$i/index.html | sed ’/Random Joke/,/Next Joke/!d’ | sed ’/^$/,/^$/!d’ » ~/Rob.jokes ; echo ’%’ » ~/Rob.jokes ;echo $i; done

And here are some of the jokes that you would get (Notice they are not mine and I do not have any rights on the content of the jokes)

Q: Why is the blonde’s brain the size of a pea in the morning?
A: It swells at night.

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Q: What did the blonde do when she heard that 90% of accidents occur around the home?
A: She moved.

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Q: What’s five miles long and has an IQ of forty?
A: A blonde parade.

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Q: Why is it okay for blondes to catch cold?
A: They don’t have to worry about blowing their brains out.

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