[Mist]

We went to a chinese restaurant yesterday, because my grandmother wanted to, and invited us to come along. After dinner, we got fortune cookies. I got two. The first one said, "Promote literacy. Buy a box of fortune cookies today." The next one said, "Your will enjoy good health that is your form of wealth." Obviously, two very deep things to ponder and worry about for my future. They also bring up a deeper question, how do you quantify fortunes from inside a cookie? Which one really came first? Did I read them backwards perhaps, which would mean that the first one was the "your will" one, and the second one was the "box of cookies" one. Maybe one was missing. Maybe I'm missing the first fortune, which warned of my impending doom (so written because doom always impends), which possibly explains why I can't really eek any kind of fortune out of the two that I did receive?

True story.

This post has been edited by Mist: 07 June 2004 - 01:49 PM

[Stalky]

*head explodes*

(Yes, cliche, but it had to be said)

[Supes]

It also begs the question, If you eat the whole box of fortune cookies are they all your fortune or are you ingesting the fortune of others? Also, do contradicting fortunes counteract each other?

To answer your question Mist, the one you opened first is definitely your first fortune. I mean you did open it first after all. It is just the way these things work.

[Heccubus]

I think the box of cookies one was like the paper towel with the red stripe. It means that they need more.

[Mist]

No Supes. The fortunes were all in one cookie. I opened it, and then I separated the two fortunes, and then I just read one of them. Although, if it's really my fortune, you'd think it would have forced itself upon me in chronological order...

That's a scary thought. Hordes of fortune cookies forcing themselves upon helpless passerby. THEY'RE COMING! Chyld knows. So does Ninja Duck. Or they will someday, at least.

But what if my fortune is really just to be confused, and they all are trying to confuse me by invading my mind with these seemingly trivial questions...but I can't overlook them because what if they're TRUE!? Oh the confusion. If only I had simply gotten one fortune.

This post has been edited by Mist: 07 June 2004 - 11:32 PM

[Jane Sherwood]

I've got an old one of mine right here in a dusty corner of my desk, it says:

"You are never bitter, deceptive, or petty."

and also on the back:

"LEARN CHINESE: Hitchhike - da che"


It can't be right, though, because I know I've felt those things before. Does this mean that my fortune cookie can dictate my personality? Or that it can give me commands that I must obey? What if I don't want to learn Chinese, but have to anyway because the cookie commanded me to?

Damn them all! I'm not taking any orders from a cookie! Rebel, I say! Rebel! Down with the cookie oppressor!

[Mist]

We can't rebel, Janey. There are too many of them. Like I said, the day is coming when the cookie hordes will tramp across the ruins of the old human empire. I'll rebel with you, though. If for no other reason than that I'm bored, and it seems like fun. It's kind of odd, though that the cookies would try to unite us by forcing us to learn to communicate with other cultures....

I see two possibilities.

One: Some chinese madman is trying to take over the world through cookies.

Two: The cookies created the chinese as spies to take over humanity, and they're trying to lull us into a false sense of security by making us think we're becoming more united. In actuality, we're falling deeper into their plan.

Three: Some enslaved chinese person is trying to warn everyone, and is trying to sabotage the evil cookies by uniting everyone.

Ok, so I saw three possibilities. LP, join our rebellion!

EDIT: Ok, so she was here, reading this thread, and then she left.

This post has been edited by Mist: 08 June 2004 - 12:06 AM

[Little princess]

I'm back now...

what do I have to do?

[Lachie Dazdarian]

I want to rape your brain, Mist.

True story.

[Jane Sherwood]

We must fight to destroy the Cookies of Fortune! For too long have they dictated our future and told us how we see the world around us! Tonight, we shall take a stand and say, “Fuck you, small tasty cookie with a piece of paper in it! I don’t have to listen to your cryptic messages anymore!”







...I don't think feelings of rebellion and giddiness mix very well...





EDIT: I want to stab you in the head, Lachie.

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 08 June 2004 - 04:22 AM

[Stalky]

Am I right in thinking one of the fortunes was just an advertisement, in which case, it should be ignored and discounted as a real fortune, therefore, the other fortune is indeed the first and, if you will, last fortune itself, so evidently this post, and indeed conversation has all been a waste of time and we should go back to our simple lives of farming and eating fortune cookies?

[Jane Sherwood]

Stalky's in league with the evil fortune cookies! Get him!

[SkinnedAlive]

*pounce*

[Stalky]

Err...well the thing about this is HEY LOOK! A DIVERSION!

*dash*

[Jane Sherwood]

That's about as distracting as yelling "LOOK! A huge distracting thing!" or using the old "three-headed-monkey" line...

(*gives chase*)