Mispeled Forchun Cooky Alert

20 Responses to Mispeled Forchun Cooky Alert

1. Southern Baron says:

   10 December 2012 at 11:37 am

   We have determined them right out of the park.
2. Northern Ox says:

   10 December 2012 at 11:51 am

   Misspelled, perhaps, but any fortune cookie that makes me think of Gerard Manley Hopkins can’t be all bad.

   Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: …
   myself it speaks and spells,
   Crying “Whát I do is me: for that I came.”
3. anilwang says:

   10 December 2012 at 12:12 pm

   It’s an old debate:
   “To be is to do”-Socrates
   “To do is to be”-Sartre
   “Do Be Do Be Do”-Sinatra

   which the fortune cookie tries to synthesize into the standard “they’re all true to an extent”.

   Of course, the debate misses one important factor…Grace…which has the power to throw us off our horses and change one from being murderous enemy of the Church to one of its greatest saints.
4. Scott W. says:

   10 December 2012 at 12:39 pm

   As a very young child, my family went to see One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing. Ever since then my preference has always been for wanton soup.
5. acardnal says:

   10 December 2012 at 12:55 pm

   Of course, scripture doesn’t say Paul was on a horse just that he fell to the ground. But it’s all Chinese to me nevertheless.
6. Legisperitus says:

   10 December 2012 at 12:58 pm

   Out deeds?

   Indeed!
7. majuscule says:

   10 December 2012 at 1:09 pm

   Out deeds:

   Something you do on an outing?

   The process of outing?
8. fvhale says:

   10 December 2012 at 1:40 pm

   “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds,
   and until we know what has been or will be
   the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts,
   which constitutes a man’s critical actions,
   it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character.
   There is a terrible coercion in our deeds,
   which may first turn the honest man into a deceiver
   and then reconcile him to the change,
   for this reason—that the second wrong presents itself to him
   in the guise of the only practicable right.
   The action which before commission has been seen
   with that blended common sense and fresh untarnished feeling
   which is the healthy eye of the soul,
   is looked at afterwards with the lens of apologetic ingenuity,
   through which all things that men call beautiful and ugly
   are seen to be made up of textures very much alike.”
   -From “Adam Bede” by George Eliot.

   Fortune cookie was probably written by someone with a doctorate in English literature, with “spelling error” added for “authentic” effect.
9. Dr. Eric says:

   10 December 2012 at 2:09 pm

   “Help! I’m trapped in a fortune cookie factory!”
10. Supertradmum says:

    10 December 2012 at 2:45 pm

    We were out in an Iowan snowstorm sitting out the snow and having a Chinese dinner. Fortune cookie: “You have travelled far through difficulties to get where you are today.”
11. acardnal says:

    10 December 2012 at 3:23 pm

    Speakin of “deeds”, I always remember this little ditty from Servant of God, Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Perhaps he got it from St. Ignatius, I’m not sure:

    Every thought leads to a desire.
    Every desire leads to an action.
    Every action leads to a habit.
    Every habit shapes our character.
    And our character determines our destiny.
12. acardnal says:

    10 December 2012 at 3:49 pm

    typo: speakin = speaking
13. Margaret says:

    10 December 2012 at 4:02 pm

    I’d love, just for once, to get something with a truly predictive statement in it: “Look out!!!” or “You’re having twins!” or even “The panhandler down at the corner actually will spend it on groceries and not booze.”
14. StWinefride says:

    10 December 2012 at 4:27 pm

    acardnal – re “every thought leads to a desire…” I remember Fr George Rutler recounting that on one of his EWTN series a year or two ago. I loved it and wrote it down – I had never heard it before. Thanks for the reminder!
15. RichR says:

    10 December 2012 at 4:41 pm

    My favorite:
    http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads15/That_wasn_t_chicken1255287801.jpg
16. frjim4321 says:

    10 December 2012 at 4:44 pm

    The only problem with hot and sour soup is there never seems to be quite enough of it.
17. Muv says:

    10 December 2012 at 6:32 pm

    I’d have written misspelt myself, as I learnt years ago.
18. Michelle F says:

    10 December 2012 at 7:08 pm

    One of my friends has received a fortune cookie that contained a blank fortune, and it has happened twice.

    Better a misspelled fortune than none at all! Eeek!
19. JonPatrick says:

    11 December 2012 at 5:48 am

    Unfortunately the place we used to get good Hot and Sour soup changed hands when the owner retired and has since gone through at least 2 transformations, currently some kind of cocktail lounge I think.

    It;s actually easier to find an EF Mass around here than good Hot and Sour soup :) So I guess we should count our blessings!
20. joan ellen says:

    11 December 2012 at 4:53 pm

    Have been having Chinese soup weekly…egg drop and wonton. Fr., your hot and sour looks delishous ;). Maybe next week.