Curse.java

//package org.trevorstone.curse;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

/*****************************************************************************
* Shakespearian Curse Generator -- Based on lists compiled by Jerry Maguire, *
*     English teacher at Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana.     *
* Public domain implementations by Trevor Stone http://trevorstone.org/curse *
*****************************************************************************/
public class Curse {
  // default curse elements
  private static final String[] adjective1 = { "artless", "bawdy",
    "beslubbering", "bootless", "brazen", "churlish", "cockered", "clouted",
    "craven", "currish", "dankish", "dissembling", "distempered", "droning",
    "errant", "fawning", "fitful", "fobbing", "froward", "frothy",
    "gleeking", "gnarling", "goatish", "gorbellied", "greasy", "grizzled",
    "haughty", "hideous", "impertinent", "infectious", "jaded", "jarring",
    "knavish", "lewd", "loggerheaded", "lumpish", "mammering", "mangled",
    "mewling", "paunchy", "peevish", "pernicious", "prating", "pribbling",
    "puking", "puny", "purpled", "quailing", "queasy", "rank", "reeky",
    "roguish", "roynish", "ruttish", "saucy", "sottish", "spleeny",
    "spongy", "surly", "tottering", "unmuzzled", "vacant", "vain",
    "venomed", "villainous", "waggish", "wanton", "warped", "wayward",
    "weedy", "wenching", "whoreson", "yeasty"
  };

  private static final String[] adjective2 = { "base-court", "bat-fowling",
    "beef-witted", "beetle-headed", "boil-brained", "bunched-backed",
    "clapper-clawed", "clay-brained", "common-kissing", "crook-pated",
    "dismal-dreaming", "dizzy-eyed", "dog-hearted", "dread-bolted",
    "earth-vexing", "elf-skinned", "empty-hearted", "evil-eyed",
    "eye-offending", "fat-kidneyed", "fen-sucked", "flap-mouthed",
    "fly-bitten", "folly-fallen", "fool-born", "full-gorged",
    "guts-griping", "half-faced", "hasty-witted", "heavy-handed",
    "hedge-born", "hell-hated", "horn-mad", "idle-headed", "ill-breeding",
    "ill-composed", "ill-nurtured", "iron-witted", "knotty-pated",
    "lean-witted", "lily-livered", "mad-bread", "milk-livered",
    "motley-minded", "muddy-mettled", "onion-eyed", "pale-hearted",
    "paper-faced", "pinch-spotted", "plume-plucked", "pottle-deep",
    "pox-marked", "raw-boned", "reeling-ripe", "rough-hewn", "rude-growing",
    "rug-headed", "rump-fed", "shag-eared", "shard-borne", "sheep-biting",
    "shrill-gorged", "spur-galled", "sour-faced", "swag-bellied",
    "tardy-gaited", "tickle-brained", "toad-spotted", "unchin-snouted",
    "weak-hinged", "weather-bitten", "white-livered"
  };

  private static final String[] noun = { "apple-john", "baggage", "barnacle",
    "bladder", "boar-pig", "bugbear", "bum-bailey", "canker-blossom",
    "clack-dish", "clotpole", "coxcomb", "codpiece", "crutch", "cutpurse",
    "death-token", "dewberry", "dogfish", "egg-shell", "flap-dragon",
    "flax-wench", "flirt-gill", "foot-licker", "fustilarian", "giglet",
    "gudgeon", "gull-catcher", "haggard", "harpy", "hedge-pig", "hempseed",
    "horn-beast", "hugger-mugger", "jack-a-nape", "jolthead",
    "lewdster", "lout", "maggot-pie", "malignancy", "malkin", "malt-worm",
    "mammet", "manikin", "measle", "minimus", "minnow", "miscreant",
    "moldwarp", "mumble-news", "nut-hook", "pantaloon", "pigeon-egg",
    "pignut", "puttock", "pumpion", "rabbit-sucker", "rampallion",
    "ratsbane", "remnant", "rudesby", "ruffian", "scantling", "scullion",
    "scut", "skainsmate", "snipe", "strumpet", "varlot", "vassal",
    "waterfly", "whey-face", "whipster", "wagtail", "younker"
  };

  protected List<WordList> wordLists = new LinkedList<WordList>();

  public Curse() {
    wordLists.add(new WordList(adjective1));
    wordLists.add(new WordList(adjective2));
    wordLists.add(new WordList(noun));
  }

  public String toString() {
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder("Thou");
    // iterator pattern
    for (Iterator iter = wordLists.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
      result.append(' ');
      result.append(iter.next());
    }
    result.append('!');
    return result.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Output many curses.
   * @param n The number of curses to generate
   * @param out Where to write lines of curses
   */
  public static void curse(int n, PrintStream out) {
    Curse curse = new Curse();
    while (n-- > 0) {
      out.println(curse);
    }
  }

  /**
   * org.trevorstone.curse.Curse n prints n curses, without
   * arguments will prompt the user
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    int count;
    if (args.length == 0) {
      System.out.print("Number of curses: ");
      count = new Scanner(System.in).nextInt();
    } else {
      count = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
    }
    curse(count, System.out);
  }

  /**
   * String representation is a random word from a list.
   */
  protected static class WordList {
    private String[] words;
    
    public WordList(String... words) {
      this.words = words;
    }

    public String toString() {
      return words[(int) (Math.random() * words.length)];
    }
  }
}