yow returns the same line every time

[swain]

Executing (yow) over and over always returns the same line:

"Yow!  Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!" [4 times]




In GNU Emacs 22.1.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-11-28 on torque.dev.fortunecity.com
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/opt/emacs-22.1' '--with-x' 
'--without-sound' '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t


Recent messages:
I have SEEN the CONSING!!
"Yow!  Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!" [4 times]
Wrote /home/swain/.emacs.shellbuffer.cli-2008-04-17
Wrote /home/swain/.emacs.shellbuffer.root-2008-04-17
Wrote /home/swain/.emacs.shellbuffer.sql-2008-04-17
Wrote /home/swain/.emacs.shellbuffer.cvssync-2008-04-17
Wrote /home/swain/.emacs.shellbuffer.www-2008-04-17
Wrote /home/swain/.emacs.shellbuffer.test-2008-04-17
Wrote desktop.
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