From 81130a8a3dd1d444f13ce0d184b49b9561ca8aff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacob Harris <jharris@nytimes.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:26:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Trying randomized last-word truncation

---
 ebook.rb | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ebook.rb b/ebook.rb
index 831714f..5a21c44 100644
--- a/ebook.rb
+++ b/ebook.rb
@@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ else
   
   5.times do
     tweet = markov.generate_sentence
-    break if !tweet.nil? && tweet.length < 110 && !source_tweets.any? {|t| t =~ /#{tweet}/ }
+
+    if rand(3) == 0 && tweet =~ /(in|to|from|for|with|by|our|of|your|around|under|beyond)\s\w+$/ 
+      puts "Losing last word randomly"
+      tweet.gsub(/\s\w+.$/, '')   # randomly losing the last word sometimes like horse_ebooks
+    end
+
+    break if !tweet.nil? && tweet.length < 110 && !source_tweets.any? {|t| t =~ /^#{tweet}/ || t =~ /#{tweet}$/ }
   end
   
   if params["tweet"]