Axiom cookies

-or- fortune my eye

February 18, 2006 2:54 PM from

What happened to fortune cookies?

When I think of a fortune I think of some lame, generic, often undecipherable sentence that portended future happenings. You know, something about money, love, life, etc. Like a horoscope. Only shorter. And more vague.

But lately I haven't gotten any fortunes. It seems every time my wife or children and I get fortune cookies someone forgot to include the fortune. I get some oh-so-sage bit of advice or a wonderful "Confucius Say" tidbit of eternal wisdom. I don't get fortune cookies, I get axiom cookies.

And it bums me out. I want a fortune. Confucius say give me a fortune in my fortune cookie dang it!

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Reply #1 February 18, 2006 3:12 PM from

JoeUser Forums Top

I agree, when I eat the cookie I want a fortune, not words of wisdom. And I don't need lucky numbers either. Just put in a fortune that will be wrong but we can still laugh about it.

Reply #2 February 18, 2006 3:14 PM from

JoeUser Forums Top

The fortune cookies that I've been getting as of late, also include a series on numbers across the bottom.... for my strategic planning on Lotto nights, I guess. There's something a bit fishy about that which makes the fortune seem not proper.

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Reply #3 February 18, 2006 3:15 PM from

JoeUser Forums Top

Danny and I both go to the same place, obviously.

Reply #4 February 18, 2006 3:23 PM from

JoeUser Forums Top

But even better is the little "Learn Chinese" bit on the back.

I didn't ask for an education cookie. I want to be an ignorant American! If I wanted to learn Chinese, I'd go to China

Keep your wisdom, Chinese, and crappy numbers to yourself. Give me my fortune!

Reply #5 February 18, 2006 3:56 PM from

JoeUser Forums Top

Reading this made me scour my purse for the fortune I got in a cookie this past week, which says,

"Look around; Happiness is Trying to Catch You."

It makes me want to slow down a bit.

p.s. As for the crappy numbers, we might play them today on the Powerball; we rarely do the lotto thing...but ya never know.

Reply #6 February 18, 2006 4:03 PM from

JoeUser Forums Top

"Look around; Happiness is Trying to Catch You."

That is cute. But it ain't a freakin' fortune!

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