diff --git a/dmenubar/dmenubar.c b/dmenubar/dmenubar.c
index f8f46fa..7aca70f 100644
--- a/dmenubar/dmenubar.c
+++ b/dmenubar/dmenubar.c
@@ -1,18 +1,13 @@
 /* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
 
-/* I'm not a very good C programmer and this isn't the best I can do.
- * There are a lot of fragments here from Suckless' dmenu. I would
- * recommend hacking on that instead. This is itself a total hack and
- * not a pretty one, but it works and I'm at least proud of that.
+/* This is a hack I did years ago. Fork dmenu and start from there if you can.
  * ~ trinity */
 
-#include <ctype.h>
 #include <locale.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <strings.h>
-#include <time.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 #include <X11/Xlib.h>
@@ -188,7 +183,7 @@ setup(void)
 static void
 usage(void)
 {
-	fputs("usage: dmenubar [-bv] [-fn font] [-m monitor]\n"
+	fputs("usage: dmenubar [-b] [-fn font] [-m monitor]\n"
 	      "                [-cb color] [-cf color] [-w windowid]\n", stderr);
 	exit(1);
 }
@@ -203,11 +198,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		text[i] = '\0';
 
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
-		/* these options take no arguments */
-		if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-v")) {      /* prints version information */
-			puts("dmenuBAR-"VERSION);
-			exit(0);
-		} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-b")) /* appears at the bottom of the screen */
+		if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-b")) /* appears at the bottom of the screen */
 			topbar = 0;
 		else if (i + 1 == argc)
 			usage();