Showing posts with label fortune cookie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fortune cookie. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

New Fortune Cookie

The people (ok, really it's just one person) at Death of the Courtesy Wave would like to wish all of our Chinese readers a very happy Year of the Ox.

There was a time when I actually knew what each year meant, but alas, three years of law school corrupted my brain, filling it with lots of useless information. At this point all I know is that the plural of ox is oxen, just as the plural of box is boxen.

(If you don't believe that last part, ask Brian Regan.)

In honor of the new year, I thought I would treat myself to some Chinese...and not in the Maury Povich kinda way. As always, the fortune cookie was the second best part, this time coming after my beef with garlic sauce.

Tonight's fortune:
"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter"

Hmmm... what to make of this?

Well if I add the traditional "in bed" at the end, it would actually make the fortune worse. Maybe it's professional rather than personal? I guess the cookie is telling me to get a move on that intern. I've needed one for some time but I can't offer salary or even college credit until my business is more established so I'm stuck and don't want to do certain research.

Looks like another Confucious-ism with no answers.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Fortune Cookies

I like Chinese food. Actually, I like most ethnic cuisine as long as I can identify some of the main ingredients. After the food itself, the next best part of a Chinese dinner has to be the fortune cookies. I don't believe in the prophetic value of those little notes or play the "lucky numbers" even they once paid off big time. Yet I still take the fortune with me and over the years have a nice collection of fortunes that are vague enough that they may be true, putting Miss Cleo to shame. I collect them to honor Confucious, the first fortune cookie writer. Some were quite humrous so kudos to the guy in the factory making 3 cents an hour to come up with this stuff.

This was last night's fortune:
"You can have your cake and eat it to"

Well I was celebrating a birthday (not mine) and then went to the birthday's home for some cake. Sure enough I ate it. I'll let you know if there's a deeper meaning to this. It would have been more fitting before I went out New Years eve--probably would have altered the entire night and thrown the planet out of orbit.

If you're interested, the lucky numbers are 31, 18, 37, 33, 16, and 47 (yes, written in that order).

Good luck and if you win, I want a piece of the winnings.