I hate shell semantics sometimes

Without quoting this, the tweet:

  i;ll never be a real pig *sobs uncontrollably *

is interpreted _as if you'd typed that verbatim on the commandline_:

  i;ll never be a real pig *sobs uncontrollably dril dril.dat dril.html fortunes Makefile mkfortunes.sh README.md

mkfortunes.sh

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ lines=$(cat dril.html |\
 total=$(echo -n "$lines" | wc -l)
 at=1
 while read tweet; do
-    echo $tweet | sed 's%<br />%\n%g'
+    echo "$tweet" | sed 's%<br />%\n%g'
     echo "                -- dril"
     echo %