I’m perhaps overly-fond of the Magic Eight Ball (or Magic 8-Ball, if you prefer).
It is perhaps surprising, then, that I have never created this Bash alias before:
alias 8ball='shuf -n1 -e "As I See It Yes" "Ask Again Later" "Better Not Tell You Now" "Cannot Predict Now" "Concentrate And Ask Again" "Don'"'"'t Count On It" "It Is Certain" "It Is Decidedly So" "Most Likely" "My Reply Is No" "My Sources Say No" "Outlook Good" "Outlook Not So Good" "Reply Hazy Try Again" "Signs Point To Yes" "Very Doubtful" "Without A Doubt" "Yes" "Yes Definitely" "You May Rely On It"'
"Don'"'"'t Count On It"
was the trickiest part, fortunately StackOverflow helped me with How to escape single quotes within single quoted strings?
Harmless fun:
$ 8ball
Ask Again Later
$ 8ball
My Reply Is No
$ 8ball
Very Doubtful
Almost as good as running yes yes
or yes no
!