How do I add those silly sayings to Eterm or the terminal
 

Hi, I have just recently switched to Ubunyu 6.0.6, and it doesn't seem to have those silly quotes and sayings when the terminal starts, my searches seem to turn up nothing(could just be my searches). if anyone could give me some assistance on this please do. thanks in advance.

thanks! very nice

fortune is what you are looking for..

Fortune is what displays those messages, but I think what you want is the -ls option with your xterm command. xterm by itself just shows a blank command prompt. xterm -ls shows fortune and uses any bash options specified in ~/.bashrc.

thanks i will give it a try