combat, potion, archeologist data.base entries

Add second quotes for archeologist and potion, plus a silly new entry
for combat.
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# SCCS Id: @(#)data.base 3.5 2007/02/08
# SCCS Id: @(#)data.base 3.5 2007/04/29
# Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
# Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
# NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
@@ -231,13 +231,27 @@ apple
and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say
when.
[ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
archeologist
archeolog*
* archeologist
Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. [...]
So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel,
and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried
treasure, and X never, ever, marks the spot.
[ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ]
"I cannot be having with archeological excavations, myself,"
I said. "The fellows who dig them only ever find tiny walls
and a few bits of broken pottery, and then they get all
excited and swear that they have just made the most
important discovery of the century, the ruins of a mile-high
gold-covered temple to Frogmore the God of Bike-Saddle
Fixtures or some such."
"I think you will find," said Mr Rune, "that they do this
in order to secure further government funding for their
diggings and so remain in employment."
"That is a rather cynical view," I said.
[ the brightonomicon, by Robert Rankin ]
# [title & author: same situation as with "bad luck" entry]
archon
Archons are the predominant inhabitants of the heavens.
However unusual their appearance, they are not generally
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and says "In Frobs We Trust" in several languages.
[ Zork Zero, by Infocom ]
# not "stethoscope"
combat
fight
fracas
melee
spat
squabble
tiff
[Scene: Mr. Moon and Gilbert enter tavern and discover many
corpses strewn about the place; Blind Pew is sole survivor.]
Blind Pew: Evening. Sounded as though there has been a bit
of a squabble.
Mr. Moon: Squabble? They're all dead.
Blind Pew: Oh. Must have been more of a tiff then.
[ Yellowbeard, directed by Mel Damski, screenplay
by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna ]
cope
* cope
The cope is a liturgical vestment which may be worn by any
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preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific --
and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
[ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
Jack Burton: What's in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?
Egg Shen: Yeah.
Jack: I thought so, good. What do we do? Drink it?
Egg: Yeah.
Jack: Good, I thought so.
[later]
Jack: This does what again, exactly?
Egg: Huge buzz! [drinks] Oh good! See things no
one else can see, do things no one else can do.
[ Big in Trouble in Little China, directed by
John Carpenter, written by Gary Goldman &
David Z. Weinstein, adaptation by W. D. Richter ]
pray*
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every
prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice