A database of quotes from the Godfather of zombies - the late great George A. Romero - for the Unix fortune cookie.
This database contains 200+ lines of dialogue from his trilogy of the dead movies and a small number of personal quotes from the man himself.
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- George A. Romero (1940-2017)
I haven't included quotes from the subsequent movies (Land, Diary, Survival)
because they aren't as good I have not had time, BUT if somebody would
like to contribute these to the database that would be fantastic for fans of
the movies.
- romero - contains the fortunes
- romero.dat - an index file, suitable for use with the Python fortune program
- Makefile - a file for unix systems to build the database
- deadorundead.sh - Fun script to check if George has returned from the grave yet
$ make
$ fortune romero
The files romero and romero.dat can also be copied directly into the fortunes directory, for example:
$ sudo cp -v romero romero.dat /usr/share/games/fortunes/
If you want to bring your terminal back from the dead, you'll add this
to the end of your ~/.bashrc so you can start every shell session with a
touch of nihilistic wisdom:
fortune /path/to/romero
"They're coming for you, Barbara!"
-- Johnny - Night of the Living Dead (1968)
"When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth."
-- Peter - Dawn of the Dead (1978)
"A-... a-... alloooooleeeeesha!"
-- Bub - Day of the Dead (1985)
"I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!"
-- George A. Romero
Some of the quotes are explicit, I have not edited them from the original texts and there may be profanity. All rights belong to the relevant copyright holders, this is simply a bit of fun, and an homage to the filmmaker that has brought me so much happiness.
