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get-excuse.ps1
function Get-Excuse
{
$url = 'http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl'
$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
$page = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -UseBasicParsing
$pattern = '<br><font size = "\+2">(.+)'
if ($page.Content -match $pattern)
{
$matches[1]
}
}
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mockmyberet commented Oct 12, 2017 •
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(( Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/excuses ).content -split '\n') | Get-Random -ea Ignore

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