#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Q: Are the words "strict" and "warnings" too negative?
# A: Synonyms from Moby Thesaurus II @ http://www.dict.org
use strict;
use warnings;
my @strict = strict();
my @warnings = warnings();
while () { print
$strict[int(rand(@strict))], ' ',
$warnings[int(rand(@warnings))], "\n";
sleep 2
}
sub strict { return split /,\s+/,
qq/Sabbatarian, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, absolutist,
absolutistic, accurate, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant,
aspersion, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian,
authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, bossy, careful, censorious,
choicy, choosy, circumscription, close, cold-blooded, complete,
compulsive, confining, conscientious, constant, constrictive,
correct, cramp, creedbound, critical, defined, delicate, demanding,
despotic, detailed, dictatorial, direct, discriminating,
discriminative, dogmatic, domineering, dour, draconian,
evangelical, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite,
faithful, fastidious, feudal, fine, finical, finicking, finicky,
firm, forbidding, fundamentalist, fussy, grim, grinding, hard,
hard-boiled, harsh, hidebound, high-handed, hyperorthodox,
imperative, imperial, imperious, inerrable, inerrant, infallible,
inflexible, ironhanded, just, limitation, literalist, literalistic,
lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, mathematical,
meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute,
monocratic, narrow, nice, obloquy, oppressive, overbearing,
overconscientious, overruling, overscrupulous, particular,
peremptory, perfectionistic, picky, pinpoint, pitiless, precise,
precisianist, precisianistic, precisionistic, priggish, prudish,
punctilious, punctual, purist, puristic, puritanic, puritanical,
refined, reflection, religious, religiously exact, repressive,
right, rigid, rigorist, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, scientific,
scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective,
sensitive, severe, slam, slur, square, staunch, stern, stint,
straitlaced, stricture, stringent, subtle, suppressive,
tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, tyrannical, tyrannous,
uncompromising, undeviating, undistorted, unerring, unsparing,
unsympathetic, veracious, veridical/}
sub warnings { return split /,\s+/,
qq/admonishing, admonition, admonitory, advice, advising, advisory,
advocacy, alerting, augural, blackmail, briefing, bulldozing, call,
call for, caution, cautionary, cautioning, caveat, claim, clue,
commination, consultation, consultative, consultatory,
contribution, council, counsel, cue, demand, demand for,
denunciation, determent, deterrence, deterrent, didactic,
direction, directive, draft, drain, duty, empty threat, exaction,
exemplary, exhortation, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulation,
expostulative, expostulatory, extortion, extortionate demand,
foreboding, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening,
forewarning, frightening off, guidance, heavy demand,
heavy with meaning, hint, hortation, hortative, hortatory, idea,
idle threat, imminence, implied threat, imposition, impost, indent,
indicative, insistent demand, instruction, instructive,
intimidation, intuitive, levy, meaningful, menace, monition,
monitorial, monitory, moralistic, nonnegotiable demand, notice,
notificational, notifying, office, opinion, order, parley,
passing word, pointer, preachy, precursive, precursory, predictive,
prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging,
prognostic, prognosticative, promise of harm, proposal,
recommendation, recommendatory, remonstrance, remonstrant,
remonstrative, remonstratory, requirement, requisition, rush,
rush order, sententious, significant, steer, suggestion,
sword of Damocles, talking out of, tax, taxing, thought, threat,
threateningness, threatfulness, tip, tip-off, tribute, ultimatum,
whisper/}
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