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LoCo: We do something similar - our phrase is, "That's what the girl said to the sailor." Can get darn funny with a group, especially with a little alcohol thrown in. In any casual situation. Yours definitely works best with fortunes, though. I'm laughing.

PerkyMac at 11:12PM on 01/17/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

We had our wedding dinner at a Chinese restaurant (we were broke) and my fortune cookie read: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

17 years later ... I still have the husband and the fortune too.

maered at 12:41AM on 01/17/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

I got one that said: "The number three."

I keep every one of my fortune cookie slips. The early ones were in this tiny 1 inch diameter decorative clay pot. When that got full, I started putting them in the large pink plastic see-through piggy bank that I got as a holiday party gift. That hasn't gotten full yet.

wunami at 8:05PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

When I was in high school, a friend of mine was deployed during Desert Storm. I made him homemade fortune cookies and put fortunes like "Don't look a gift camel in the mouth," and "If you lay down with camels, you'll get up with sand fleas." They were great comic relief and I had a blast making them.

mollydolly at 7:33PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

Best I ever got was "You like to eat Chinese food"

beanish at 5:22PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

A recent one that's still sitting on my desk:

Avoid the opposite sex today.
Yeah, right!

And then just for emphasis, the 'Learn Chinese' word on the back:
Still single-mae yao jeh huan

Can't make these up!!

Curlz at 5:17PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

most nonsensical: "here we go. moo shu cereal for breakfast. with duck sauce."
favorite: "a nice cake is waiting for you."
i should eat chinese food more often!

hannahc at 4:41PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

Favorite fortune "that wasn't chicken".

logicalmind at 4:16PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

Went to a Chinese restaurant on my 40th birthday, April 1, and my fortune said" A fool at forty is a fool indeed"

diamath at 3:43PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

Anybody else have funny fortune-cookie traditions? One that's popular where I come from is to read your fortune aloud to the rest of your party and add the words "in bed" to the end of the fortune. Some pretty hysterical results as you go around the table. Especially if it's a large group that's been drinking!

LoCo at 3:42PM on 01/16/08

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

There is a Chinese food restaurant in my town that does not put fortunes in its cookies because it is a Christian business. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's a little sad to open your fortune (non-fortune?) cookie and have nothing inside!
The ones my husband and I got last night happen to be related to our potential work situations in the near future! "Investigate a new opportunity as a potential prospect."

misseditor at 2:56PM on 01/16/08

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I collect fortunes, and get lots of generic ones. The best fortune I've gotten reads, "Very soon, and in pleasant company." I think that covers all bases!

kirkbyky at 2:55PM on 01/16/08

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In the past month, on separate occasions, I've gotten a blank fortune. So, if I stop commenting here I think it's safe to assume I'm dead :)

LizNYC at 2:53PM on 01/16/08

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by far, this one

lethargarian at 2:42PM on 01/16/08

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"Life can be sweet and sour, and so can your meal."

brandi at 2:15PM on 01/16/08

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My weirdest fortune was not so much what it said, but what it did. I was at this restaurant that offered both General and Adult fortunes. My table opted for Adult. I cracked open my fortune cookie and a huge cockroach came out of it and ran up my arm. To this day I still get the wigs.

chisai at 1:19PM on 01/16/08

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"If you are still hungry, have another fortune cookie."

DanielJ at 1:01PM on 01/16/08

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the day before my son was born, my daughter's fortune was "A short, dark stranger will soon enter your life". I am not normally a cheeseball, but this one is still tucked into my wallet somewhere.

i8alot at 12:20PM on 01/16/08

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