# Looking for my favorite program after system crash

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-my-favorite-program-after-system-crash/441342>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-my-favorite-program-after-system-crash/441342 "2008-03-14T08:32:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-my-favorite-program-after-system-crash/441342/1 "2008-03-14T08:32:43Z")

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Not sure which forum this should go in – Mods, feel free to move it.

I am just recovering from a massive boot-sector virus (and I mean “recovering” in the sense of “lost nearly everything on both hard drives”). I am trying to re-acquire my favorite little apps, and it looks like all the download sites I can find for this particular one are extinct.

It’s called, “Random Verse Lab”. It’s a random poetry generator. I managed to salvage my custom lexicon for it, into which I have input hundreds of words, but the program itself did not survive. Does anybody out there have it? (It was freeware.)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-my-favorite-program-after-system-crash/441342/2 "2008-03-14T08:40:18Z")

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Is this it?

[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bluntindustries/poetrylab/newsite.htm](http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bluntindustries/poetrylab/newsite.htm)

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-my-favorite-program-after-system-crash/441342/3 "2008-03-14T16:02:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
Is this it?

[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bluntindustries/poetrylab/newsite.htm](http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bluntindustries/poetrylab/newsite.htm)  
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**Mangetout!** You rock! Howcome I couldn’t find it with my formidable google-fu? I am very very grateful!

Besides, anybody who sails away in a pea-green boat is OK by me!

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-my-favorite-program-after-system-crash/441342/4 "2008-03-14T16:28:04Z")

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It works!!! Even with my multitudinous cut-and-pasted lexicon! And here’s a snippet:

```
one progress wouldn't count                                    
beside my intelligent future out                           
her lucky endurance like carrier                           
endure before all persuasion                                    
then embellish faster all people
```