Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Breaking News: My Fortune Cookie

I just opened my fortune cookie (courtesy of a Singapore rice noodle purchase) to find the following message inside:

As far as I can discern from the above communiqué, I'm either the center of the universe and the focal point of all creation or I'm about to be assassinated through my living room window. Neither conclusion really seems to jibe with my status of a fair-to-middling unknown cartoonist but rather than simply assume there was a slip-up with the paper cutter at Fortunes LLC, I'm going to build a fort out of sofa cushions for protection and quietly try to will planets to revolve backwards. Oh, and I'm playing those numbers.

See you tomorrow when I'm either God or dead.

10 Comments:

Blogger R_Star said...

I'll never open another fortune cookie again for fear that I get the other half of that message.

8:43 AM  
Blogger yellojkt said...

Add "in bed" to the end and it all makes sense.

9:44 AM  
Blogger yellojkt said...

Add "in bed" to the end and it all makes sense.

9:44 AM  
Anonymous (k) said...

maybe the fortune-y sounding fortune writer retired: i just got "an apple a day keeps cancer away".

9:54 AM  
Anonymous Woodrowfan said...

Some years back the Washington Post's "Style Invitation" had a contest to write a fortune cookie fortune. You can read them at...
http://www.cyberslayer.co.uk/jokes/joke1228.html

3rd runner up: Help! I'm being held prisoner in a chinese fortune cookie factorie so I'm putting my hair into the batter to alert people

2nd runner up: A penny saved is a penny earned (copyright 1995 Chinese Proverbs Inc., Shanghai. All right reserved. No portion of this fortune may be reproduced in any way without express permission of the publisher.)

first Runner up: We riked you Chinee waiter imitation. Hope you riked the speciar soup we fix fol you.

10:39 AM  
Anonymous Woodrowfan said...

Some years back the Washington Post's "Style Invitation" had a contest to write a fortune cookie fortune. You can read them at...
http://www.cyberslayer.co.uk/jokes/joke1228.html

3rd runner up: Help! I'm being held prisoner in a chinese fortune cookie factorie so I'm putting my hair into the batter to alert people

2nd runner up: A penny saved is a penny earned (copyright 1995 Chinese Proverbs Inc., Shanghai. All right reserved. No portion of this fortune may be reproduced in any way without express permission of the publisher.)

first Runner up: We riked you Chinee waiter imitation. Hope you riked the speciar soup we fix fol you.

10:39 AM  
Blogger 2fs said...

IIss tthheerree aann eecchhoo iinn hheerree??

8:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Best cookie fortune I ever recieved:

"Your hormones are humming. Play it safe."

You KNOW I hung on to that one.

11:50 AM  
Anonymous Alechemist said...

It sounds like the fortune is threatening you.

On the other hand, if your fortune is "you" that means you are also your fortune, then everything is in perfect symmetry and you have achieved the ultimate state of enlightenment.

4:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i think someone's trying to tell me something - i've gotten this fortune 3 times: "Bouncy ball is the source of all goodness and light."

6:15 PM  

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