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Sounds more like a threat!
Anything speaking of the future is a fortune
(golly Fr Z- how many readers will complain of you dabbling in the occult? As for me- fortune cookies are fun- but they are as far as I go)
I got this on my latest Panda Express run and kept it, because while it’s not a ‘fortune’, it’s great advice, and applies so well to me personally. ‘Do not let your instincts run right over your reason.’ I tend to do that at times. Replace ‘instincts’ with ’emotions’, and you’ve nailed me. :)
If they’ve got “lucky numbers” on the back, they’re fortune cookies.
White’s, Pratt’s, or Beefsteak. The rest are for chumps.
That’s an advice cookie: better than a platitude cookie, but not a full-blown fortune cookie.
I voted “no but it almost is”.
The part about being surprised seems a bit like a fortune (prediction for the future). But the part about joining a new club is only generic-type advice.
I could be mistaken, but I think it’s from the Book of Blessings.
Almost is was my vote. Better than, “You will travel today” which is always true, unless you actually live in the Chinese Restaurant or Take-away.
For me it is a simple statement. IF i joined a new club today i WOULD be surprised!
I think it is more advisory than anything else. Some people — many people — really do need to get out of the house once in a while and have some form of non-virtual human contact.
I think we’ve lost some of our humanity by so much virtual-ity.
definitely not a fortune. A proper fortune would tell you that you will join a new club today and will be surprised.
Glad we could help you settle that question.
PS as to non-fortune fortunes, one I had read “A smile is golden, but a frown is lead.” I opened another one….
“Yes, but only vaguely so.” “Only vaguely so” as there is a condition attached – that you join a club – and fortunes usually just tell you something is going to happen without making it conditional on your doing something else. However, there is a fortune – that you’ll be surprised – albeit still vague since it doesn’t say in what manner or why you will be surprised.
Guess I’m in the minority! I voted that it was a fortune. I was comparing it with the other “fortunes” Fr Z has been getting recently, and I thought “Well, compared with the ones Fr has been getting recently, this one is definitely a fortune.”
A little to the side of topic. We used to go to ManchuWok at the Chinook Centre, (an amazing mall), which is a Chinese restaurant and take-away, started in Canada, by a Maltese immigrant. I cannot remember any fortunes from there, however. You can send a fortune cookie online to your friends at http://www.manchuwok.com/
Whatever it is, it’s a comma splice. *shudder*
No, definitely not. It is more of a command.
The Militia Templi needs chaplins!
No, it’s a two-fold command:
1) Join a club
2) Be surprised
“Or else” I think is implied.
Does your posting it here make it a chain letter?
Another clue to what happened to the lost Virginia colony!
Not a fortune, but a clear indication that the composer had too much baijio
Dictionary.com defines fortune cookie as “a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim”; maxim is defined as “a principle or rule of conduct”; prediction is defined as “prophecy”; fortune is defined generally as “things that happen or are to happen to a person”.
So I vote “almost a fortune” because we would need to add/subtract words to get the fortune: “You shall join a club and be surprised” or the fortune: “You join a club and are surprised” or the maxim: “Those who join clubs are surprised”.
John V says:
2 November 2011 at 12:12 pm
I could be mistaken, but I think it’s from the Book of Blessings.
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It’s a conditional fortune. Not as useful as a regular fortune, more useful than a platitude.
For the record, I really like the taste of fortune cookies. They’re really quite yummy. Don’t like the taste of the fortunes, though.
The least they could do is actually quote Kong Zi, or Meng Zi, or Lao Zi, or any other Chinese sage. I would rather have a “Confucius says:…” in the “fortune” than “You will go on a journey,” or some other thing. Please, if you are reading this, fortune cookie factories, please make your cookies read something more substantial.
Like this:
The Master said, “Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
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The Master said, “The superior man is catholic and not partisan. The mean man is partisan and not catholic.” (I can’t believe that the translator used the word catholic.)
It didn’t post the Chinese characters so I’m providing the link:
http://ctext.org/analects/wei-zheng
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I voted for Yes, but only vaguely so. I would class it more as a demand, but at least it is telling you what will happen if you do do as you are told.
I voted no, it’s a piece of paper with some words written on it. Based on the photo I would guess that whoever made that cookie stuffed that paper in the cookie. I tend to get my advice from other sources.
…might be a good cookie to send to Econe’….
I don’t read the contents of fortune cookies-drives people crazy-I do eat the cookie!
Written by someone employed by Costco?
I Voted the Second Option.
Would The “Surprise” that This Cookie Fortune Refers to would be:
A Food Lovers’ Club that is When Revealed,A Catholic Confraternity?