Comments on: Misfortune Cookie http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/ Digressions in Discourse Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anirban http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-716 Anirban Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:46:36 +0000 http://12apostrophes.net/2007/11/14/misfortune-cookie/#comment-716 "Your deepest desire shall be fulfilled" A couple of days later I managed to buy volumes I&II of "52" at a Bandra bookshop. Makes me wonder if I have my priorities right... “Your deepest desire shall be fulfilled”

A couple of days later I managed to buy volumes I&II of “52″ at a Bandra bookshop. Makes me wonder if I have my priorities right…

]]> By: Kris http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Kris Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:22:39 +0000 http://12apostrophes.net/2007/11/14/misfortune-cookie/#comment-715 That's true, it happened to me. They ignored me, attacked me, then I won, and then I forgave them. I mean, I already won, why not let bygones be bygones? Last night I got another funny fortune, I swear to God I'm not making this up: "Friends are like passengers on the bus, they get on and off." You don't even have to add "in bed." It's too easy! That’s true, it happened to me. They ignored me, attacked me, then I won, and then I forgave them. I mean, I already won, why not let bygones be bygones?

Last night I got another funny fortune, I swear to God I’m not making this up: “Friends are like passengers on the bus, they get on and off.”

You don’t even have to add “in bed.” It’s too easy!

]]> By: Pulao http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Pulao Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:21:31 +0000 http://12apostrophes.net/2007/11/14/misfortune-cookie/#comment-714 "You have to forgive that person. Just believe me." dbay's is the best one ever, still. “You have to forgive that person. Just believe me.”

dbay’s is the best one ever, still.

]]> By: dbay http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-713 dbay Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:15:23 +0000 http://12apostrophes.net/2007/11/14/misfortune-cookie/#comment-713 Got it! "First they ignore you, then they attack you, then you win." Best. Fortune. Cookie. Ever. Got it!

“First they ignore you, then they attack you, then you win.”

Best. Fortune. Cookie. Ever.

]]> By: dbay http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-712 dbay Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:29:34 +0000 http://12apostrophes.net/2007/11/14/misfortune-cookie/#comment-712 I got the best fortune/platitude EVER when I was out with Pulao and Kris recently. Please wait for me, I'll post it! After work today. Snore.... I got the best fortune/platitude EVER when I was out with Pulao and Kris recently. Please wait for me, I’ll post it! After work today. Snore….

]]> By: Aakaash http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Aakaash Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:47:30 +0000 http://12apostrophes.net/2007/11/14/misfortune-cookie/#comment-711 If all fortune cookies actually just told the future, we wouldn't have "fortune-cookie wisdom" in popular parlance would we? I think the Reader's-Digest-lite-level of platitudes and wisdom is definitely to be expected. Having said that, years of chinese-restaurant frequenting have given me some interesting results in the fortune-cookie arena. The best one was the one that read "Somebody is watching you." I never found out who, I never knew why, but damn if that cookie didn't make me watch everyone in the restaurant very closely for a while (fortune cookie+ice cream= 15 minutes of people watching). Come to think of it, what if everyone got the same cookie? Devious way of engineering accuracy... If all fortune cookies actually just told the future, we wouldn’t have “fortune-cookie wisdom” in popular parlance would we? I think the Reader’s-Digest-lite-level of platitudes and wisdom is definitely to be expected.

Having said that, years of chinese-restaurant frequenting have given me some interesting results in the fortune-cookie arena. The best one was the one that read “Somebody is watching you.” I never found out who, I never knew why, but damn if that cookie didn’t make me watch everyone in the restaurant very closely for a while (fortune cookie+ice cream= 15 minutes of people watching). Come to think of it, what if everyone got the same cookie? Devious way of engineering accuracy…

]]> By: Pulao http://12apostrophes.net/misfortune-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-710 Pulao Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:58:05 +0000 http://12apostrophes.net/2007/11/14/misfortune-cookie/#comment-710 Wow, that's ominous. Maybe you should have tied those loose ends when the fortune cookies were still talking of things in terms of beauty and bows. Wow, that’s ominous. Maybe you should have tied those loose ends when the fortune cookies were still talking of things in terms of beauty and bows.

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