I have a fairly long fortune file ( http://home.kreme.com/mysigs.txt )
that I would like to sort in alphabetic order, excepting leading
punctuation or supper common words like 'a', 'the', 'I', &c.

I have two problems, one of which I think is trivial, so let's cover
that one first.

I need to capture the entire 'fortune' from % %, but fortune files
don't have a leading % or a closing % at the file boundaries. Many of
the fortunes are multiple lines, and I do not want to muck up the
formatting when I sort.

The second problem, of course, is excluding a list of words I consider
'common' from the sort. For example,

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"

I would have both 'the' and 'may' in my exclusion list, so that should
sort based on 'forces'.

"If a pig looses its voice, is it disgruntled"

would be sorted under 'pig'

Ideas? Probably a perl script, huh?

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