I swear it wasn't me.

-Cryogenic

Cheryl: "This primitive cave was once the ceremonial center for the aboriginals of Pyst."
Other announcer: "How primitive were they, Cheryl?"
Cheryl: "Their simple language consisted of a mere seven symbols: hello-goodbye, tree, bad, luck, very, martini, and death."
Other announcer: "Wow, it sounds like we know very little about them."
Cheryl: "Yes, except for that one haunting sentence they have left behind, 'Very bad martini death, hello-goodbye.'"
Other announcer: "Oh, I've had one of those."

Strings, eh? Check out http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/strings.html . It's native Win32, so I'm not sure how well it plays with cygwin.