local bofh = { ["desc"] = "Give a BOFH excuse",

               ["aliases"] = { "excuse" } }

function bofh.cmd (args, botdata, cmd)

    local r = {}

    if cmd:lower() == "excuse" and args and not args:match("[!%?]+") then

        return nil

    end

    for line in io.lines(excusefile) do table.insert(r, line) end

    local len = table.getn(r)

    if len == 0 then

        return nil, "I have no excuse, Sir...  :-("

    end

    local n = math.random(len)

    return "BOFH's excuse: "..r[n]

end

mcbot_register_command("bofh", bofh)