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Has anyone else noticed that fortune cookies are less predictive and more instructive? I like them, and they’re good quotes, but they really aren’t fortune cookies any more so much as quote cookies. Take this one:
Enhance your karma by engaging in various charitable activities.
While I did derive some pleasure at scoffing and rolling my eyes at the various cookies telling me fame and fortune are in my future, I actually liked this one. If you’ve explored the site much, you know Ermi and I support charities and participate in fund raising activities when we can. Whether that has given us good karma or not, it’s something we will always strive to do, and in the next few months have a really exciting charity project all of you will be able to participate in.
The other fortune cookie I got reminded me of Plato’s allegory of the cave:
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Not exactly a fortune either, but once again, a great quote. Had we not already gotten the first cookie, I don’t think I would have tied it into good karma, but it fits so well with the first, that’s where my mind went.
We may not see someone give, but we can see the good that comes from it. Just some random thoughts inspired by fortune cookies. 🙂 Feel free to leave comments below.
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
Ermilia 
A friend tells me of a time he attended a Quaker Meeting in Norwich, a city in eastern England. It was very quiet and solemn. However, with about five minutes to go before it was due to end, a woman rose from her seat and said: “Every meaningful life is a metaphor.”
“Blimey!” he thought. “What matchbox did you get that off the back of?”
I should explain that it is very unusual to get fortune cookies in the UK, but aphorisms and mottos crop up in other places. Scottish entertainer Billy Connolly has this one:
‘Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea-cozy, does not try it on.’
My own take on that is: ‘Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tennis racquet, does not mime banjo.’
Digressing, the Bard of Salford, John Cooper Clarke, has the following to say about haiku:
expressing oneself
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic
Graffiti can be a very rewarding source. There used to be a vogue amongst evangelical churches for having a billboard outside with the slogan ‘The family that prays together stays together’. It is rumoured that someone in Glasgow wrote large underneath: ‘Thank God my mother-in-law is an atheist.’
LOL @ banjo
Haha I am now I huge fan of John Cooper Clarke. I don’t think I’ve had to write a haiku since 4th grade.
I can’t say I would use a tennis racket to mime banjo, but I’m not a man either so I guess I’m till trustworthy lol.
That Facebook Fortune Cookie app was posting in my News Feed for a while when one of my friends subscribed to it. I started making up my own, which gets really hard after a few days. I’ll share a few since I’m really curious if that block quote will work in a comment. 🙂
I actually shared this one with one of my coworkers: She who seeks her fortune in cookies, finds only wisecracks. We both think you’re brilliant. 😀 As for th second one, I have been able to get the fortune out without damaging the cookie once.
😛 Well fill it back up missy! There’s a new Picture it & Write to contribute to!
🙂 I already started working on it.
Me ha gustado mucho tu post Eliabeth 🙂
Gracias 🙂
I love fortune cookies, they are the best! Almost matched in greatness by the Bacci chocolate words of wisdom on love.
Beware the bite of fortune cookies and the kiss of death from Bacci.
That’s my wisdom for the day 🙂
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a Bacci chocolate. Are they wrapped with something that has text?
Yes they are. They have silver foil and under that is a little wrapping with text on clear paper. Some of them are “sting in the tail” words of wisdom about love. Enjoyable and wrapped around chocolate 🙂
Fascinating!
“SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM! Spam, spam, lovely spam!”
“Shut up! (Bloody Vikings)”
Sorry, friends – I just couldn’t resist that! 😀
haha, thought we had gotten rid of them. Usually our spam filter catches those.