spelling fix and zap a stray line while here;

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
index 5fcfd8309f0..9ab7c5a4bb1 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ innocently and merrily for hundreds of millions of years.  Maybe they
 were dumb animals, but they knew a good thing when they had one."
 		-- Alan Sherman, "The Rape of the A*P*E*"
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-God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can chose our friends.
+God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can choose our friends.
 %
 God is an atheist.
 %
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index 414f8bd2717..710ac6a60b0 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -2338,7 +2338,6 @@ Andropov's turn, and again when Chernenko was in the Kremlin.  Why is
 it always me, teacher?"
 	"Because, Jacek, you have such golden hands," the teacher
 explains.
-
 		-- being told in Poland, 1987
 %
 	Joan, the rather well-proportioned secretary, spent almost all of
@@ -15879,7 +15878,7 @@ God gave man two ears and one tongue so
 that we listen twice as much as we speak.
 		-- Arab proverb
 %
-God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can chose our friends.
+God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can choose our friends.
 %
 God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to
 change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.