I mostly made this to compete with a couple coworkers who had made their own randomizers for picking which restaurant to eat out at on a given day. Each had used a different language, so I made mine in C#.
You'll want to put your own items in the input.txt file, or remove the file and manually input them via console each time.
Navigate to {baseRepo}/RandomTextPicker in the console app of your choice
$ csc Program.cs
$ Program
You'll need mono installed but otherwise it isn't much more complicated.
$ mono Program.exe