I had some General Tso's chicken for lunch one day this week. The fortune was wedged tight into the cookie and I ended up ripping the paper and smashing the treat. It doesn't make much sense, but I can't help but read this thing as two separate documents. I don't know what "you will enjoy different this" or "doing something coming weekend" mean, but my brain keeps trying to tell me they mean something.
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"different this" definitely sounds something like "paradigm shift."
ReplyDeleteActually, after a dozen years as an English teacher in East Asia, I am totally able to parse those two lines of text and understand what the writer was trying to get across.
ReplyDeleteThey're the sorts of things I see on tee-shirts, pencil cases, or packaged snack cakes on a daily basis.
Weirdest fortune cookie I ever got - I grabbed some food at Panda Express on the way to our bi-weekly D&D game. Ate the food, opened the fortune, and it said (I'll have to paraphrase, it was a few years ago) "You will come into many gold pieces" - not "dollars" or "money", but it actually read "gold pieces".
ReplyDelete... in bed
ReplyDeleteIf you squint, it almost looks like some very likley crucial words have been deleted. My character is not fucking reading that out loud.
ReplyDeleteThe best fortune cookie fortune I've ever received was this: "You laugh now, but wait until you get home."
ReplyDeleteI didn't know whether to except something funny or something with an axe.
The best fortune cookie a _friend_ of mine ever got ... it was so good that I slipped a copy of it into the Silicon Valley Tarot when I was doing production work on that.
ReplyDeleteI slipped it under the glued flap on the card box, though, so it's hard to guess if anyone ever saw it ;)