I was watching Mulan on the Disney channel (there are some movies I simply cannot ever pass up when they're on TV) when a commercial for Jackie Chan Adventures came on:
I myself have never heard of this show, but the commercial showed a girl reading a fortune cookie ("danger looms in your future?"), Jackie mocking it ("you listen to fortune cookie?!"), and all consequent pandemonium breaking loose, with the crotchety uncle concluding with the phrase "never mock the cookie" in solemn Asian tones.
Now, I know that nowadays most fortune cookie 'fortunes' are not that at all, but more commentary on your love life ("You are happy and content and make those around you smile"), but what's the coolest fortune you've ever gotten?
(And we all know that fortune cookies originated in San Francisco, not China, yes...?)
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my favorite ever, and i carry it with me in my wallet: if you've got it, flaunt it.
"You are very beautiful." Despite the shameless flirting the fortune cookie never called again. :(
I stopped reading fortune cookies after they started hitting too close to home. For example, the last two I got were:
"You're too fat for anyone to love."
"Bryan, I'm going to kill your mother."
Creeeeepy.
the two fortune cookies i just opened read thusly:
1. "You are heading in the right direction."
2. "A nice cake is waiting for you."
impending doom awaits me... I am sure of it.
not that jackie chan isn't cool enough to have his own cartoon, but what the heck! how does he have his own cartoon?
My favorite fortune said, "Your winsome smile will be your sure protection." I don't know if my smile is winsome, but it didn't protect me from a flying piece of broom that knocked out one of my teeth.
At Paul's Kitchen (formerly the best Chinese restaurant in the greater L.A. area), my grandfather used to always say that his cookie said, "Help! I'm trapped inside a fortune cookie factory!" and then he would never tell us what it really said. Now that he's dead, I carry on the tradition.
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