That fortune cookie thing

[ericcoleman]

I never comment on the writers block thing ... but this one made me think of something I did to the folks I work with.

I had told them that I always got bad things in my fortune cookies ... always. They didn't believe me (and for good reason, I was lying). BUT, I have nifty software on my computer, so, in very small text, I printed out my fortune for the day, cut it down to acceptable size, bent it up so it looked like it came out of a fortune cookie. I went off to lunch at my favorite chinese restaurant, and came back.

SEE ... I TOLD ALL OF YOU !!! YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME !!!

My fortune said ... "Give up, it's useless". If I had thought of it at the time on the back it would have had a mock Chinese translation for defenestration.

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[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

My favorite fortune cookie of all time came from an early episode of MST3K. Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank order Chinese - Forrester is delayed and Frank eats it all. There's one fortune cookie left and Forrester opens it.

"You will die alone and friendless knowing no one ever really loved you or ever really cared."

He reads it, tosses it over his shoulder and says something like "That's the same one I always get."

My sister loved that so much she actually made it up and switched it into a fortune cookie.