Has anyone else noticed that there’s a day for everything? Women’s day (although we really should even it up and have Men’s Day), Book Day, Non-Smoking Day, Dress Like A Pirate Day etc.
Well, the list is growing – September 13 2014 was the first official international Fortune Cookie Day. For all those poor oppressed fortune cookies.
On the plus side, Fortune Cookie Day has prompted lists of hilarious fortune cookie messages from around the world – and Gala & Smosh were not to be outdone. Here is a list of some of the funniest fortune cookie messages from their lists:
Do Not Disturb |
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It’s not rib-hurting funny, but the idea of food talking back is amusing. It makes the cookie seem like a kind of edible Yoda, making its apprentices wait to learn the mystic fortune. |
You Picked Wrong |
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This one could raise a grin from even the most tight-jawed diner – by telling the unlucky individual that their fortune is in another cookie, does this imply that fortune cookies are more than just fried flour? Spooky… |
Go Nerds! |
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It’s true – nerds are trusted with things like performing life-saving operations, keeping the economy going, building our houses and exploring the outer reaches of space, among other things. So this is very sound advice! |
Hate to say I told you so |
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It’s funny because it’s probably true….depending on the quality of the restaurant. The handwritten nature of this note means it’s probably not a bonafide fortune cookie, but whoever thought of it has make us laugh, so well done. |
It’s Imperative |
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It’s like the start of a Liam Neeson film – he opens a fortune cookie that tells him to run, before embarking on a rooftop chase across ten cities in nine hours, unleashing hell on the criminal underworld, without stopping to go to the loo or running out of bullets. |
So, there you have it: fortune cookies aren’t all massed produced pockets of popular wisdom. However, there are definitely more original and funny fortune cookie message out there, and now the baton is passed to you to find them. Let’s make next year’s International Cookie Day the most hilarious yet. Which shouldn’t be too hard, considering there will only have been two.
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