After many years of reading fortune cookie messages that are not so much predictions as truisms, such as "Ideas are like children; there are none so wonderful as your own," many dismiss them entirely. To counteract this boredom with fortune cookies edgy, depressing messages have begun cropping up. But there are still fortune cookie romantics who save their favorite little scrolls. I count myself among them. When I stand in front of the fridge at 2 a.m. eating roast beef with my bare hands I close the door and take comfort in reading, "Believe in your abilities, confidence will lead you on."
And then there's Bob Bjarke. Not content to post his favorite fortune cookie message on his fridge or elsewhere, he created The Best Fortune Cookie Ever. What could motivate someone to throw up a one-page tribute to a fortune cookie? Perhaps Bjarke is a frustrated would-be astronaut with plans on living into the 2100's and takes solace in the fact that there's a chance he might still be able to snag that Earth-view villa. The only thing I know for certain is that he found his favorite fortune at Chicago's Papajin. I'd love to know what the Jennifer 8.Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles makes of this.
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3-09-2008 @10:56PM Ariel said... my favorite fortune cookie (taped to the inside of my laptop): Ignore previous cookie.
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3-09-2008 @10:58PM Ariel said... my favorite fortune cookie (taped to the inside of my laptop): Ignore previous cookie.
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3-09-2008 @11:34PM Lorcasaur said... I have one taped on my phone at work: "You will receive great news from far away." It's been there for about five years now ... and depending on how I choose to interpret it, it's been both true and false. I don't know why, but it still gives me a blush of hope every time I see it.
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3-10-2008 @1:02AM Reginae said... "Don't kiss an elephant on the lips."
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3-10-2008 @10:04AM Aris said... "That wasn't chicken"
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3-10-2008 @12:49PM Bear Silber said... Aris, that's horrible. Is that one you actually got? I would be a little frightened if I got that.
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3-10-2008 @2:11PM chiwi said... "A nice cake is waiting for you."
unfortunately it wasn't :(
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3-10-2008 @7:21PM choover said... My favorite (and still on my cubicle wall) is:
"Work on improving your exercise routine"
Gee. Thanks.
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3-10-2008 @7:46PM choover said... Chiwi, are you saying your fortune cookie told you the cake was a lie?
Excellent!
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