diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index bac0077e9..97d4de223 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Nmap Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*-
 
+o Reworded an error message after a woman reported that it was "highly
+  offensive and sexist".  She also noted that "times have changed and
+  many women now use your software" and "a sexist remark like the one
+  above should have no place in software."  The message was: "TCP/IP
+  fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires root privileges. Sorry,
+  dude.".  I checked svn blame to call out the insensitive,
+  chauvinistic jerk who wrote that error message, but it was me. Oops.
+
+o We received a bug report through Debian entitled "Nmap is a
+  clairvoyant" because when you run it with -v on September 1 1970, it
+  reports "Happy -27th Birthday to Nmap, may it live to be 73!".  We
+  have decided that clairvoyance is a feature and ignored the report.
+
 4.23RC1
 
 o NmapFE is now gone.  It had a good run as the default Nmap GUI
diff --git a/NmapOps.cc b/NmapOps.cc
index 80905f919..fc9b11084 100644
--- a/NmapOps.cc
+++ b/NmapOps.cc
@@ -398,19 +398,19 @@ void NmapOps::ValidateOptions() {
 #endif
     
     if (ackscan|finscan|idlescan|ipprotscan|maimonscan|nullscan|synscan|udpscan|windowscan|xmasscan) {
-      fatal("You requested a scan type which requires %s.  Sorry dude.\n", privreq);
+      fatal("You requested a scan type which requires %s.", privreq);
     }
     
     if (numdecoys > 0) {
-      fatal("Sorry, but decoys (-D) require %s.\n", privreq);
+      fatal("Sorry, but decoys (-D) require %s.", privreq);
     }
     
     if (fragscan) {
-      fatal("Sorry, but fragscan requires %s\n", privreq);
+      fatal("Sorry, but fragscan requires %s.", privreq);
     }
     
     if (osscan) {
-      fatal("TCP/IP fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires %s.  Sorry, dude.\n", privreq);
+      fatal("TCP/IP fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires %s.", privreq);
     }
 
     if (ipoptionslen)