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I.D.10-t wrote:"Your understanding of other peoples' problems is unique."
Not so much. I've gotten that one before. :wink:

Being flattered by fortune cookies. What a sad, sad turn my life has come to.
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Post by I.D.10-t »

Sadly, I misquoted the cookie.
It read

"You have an unusual understanding of the problems of others."

The double meaning was not lost on my wife, who laughed and agreed with it.
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Just got this one at lunch today:

"You have an ability to sense and know higher truth."
Giles: "We few, we happy few."
Spike: "We band of buggered."
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jsluder wrote:Just got this one at lunch today:

"You have an ability to sense and know higher truth."

Hmmm... I guess you had better get to work then.


:D



Here is one just the opposite of that.

Its a little harsh but at least its to the point as in this case one would need to be direct.


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Aanvil wrote:
jsluder wrote:Just got this one at lunch today:

"You have an ability to sense and know higher truth."

Hmmm... I guess you had better get to work then.


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Several years ago I read my favorite one and I still keep it posted on my refrigerator door. (And yes, all the other fortunes read at the table that night were the usual sort.)

"You will be hungry soon. Order takeout now."
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This year we went to a New Year's Eve party with friends who have a tradition of opening fortune cookies at midnight. That's your fortune for the new year, and you post it on your fridge. Mine is:

"Whatever you do, make it fun."

I think that makes a good motto for 2008. I'm going to try! :)


Edit to add my all-time best cookie fortune:
Many years ago, I went out for Chinese food with a kind blue-eyed man. My fortune was "Blue eyes shall bring happiness deep as the sea." A few months later he proposed, and we've been married 19 1/2 years now. :)
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My latest one reads: "You will spend many years in comfort and material wealth."

That would be nice. :P
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are you comfortable with a lot of sewing scraps?
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My current favorite is:

"You want another cookie" :D
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Denny wrote:are you comfortable with a lot of sewing scraps?
:lol:

Maybe I can braid them together and make chains for the car.
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there ya go!

a wealth of comfortable material...

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Denny wrote:there ya go!

a wealth of comfortable material...

chains
Just ask Jacob Marley.
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no lame duck there, eh? :wink:
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This one left me shaking my head:

A girlfriend is a bottle of wine, a wife a wine bottle.

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