Fortune cookie charades
For all of you who are eating in a Chinese restaurant today, I want to mention that when my family eats in a Chinese restaurant, we always make everyone at the table play charades with the fortunes inside the fortune cookies.
For instance, "prosperity" would be: first syllable, "sounds like glow," second syllable, "spear," and you're on your own for figuring out how to convey the rest of the word.
Naturally no one ever wants to do it, but we force them to and they have a great time in the end (or so we tell ourselves). Try it. I guarantee everyone at the table will be rolling on the floor laughing.
See how useful this blog is? Not only do you learn where the good Chinese restaurants are, but I tell you what to do once you get there.
Comments
Oh that sounds like so much more fun than just adding "in bed" to end of the fortune.
Posted by: Janet | December 25, 2007 5:29 PM
What I find annoying about modern fortune cookies is that they seldom contain fortunes. They're much more likely to contain proverbs, sayings, statements of the obvious, etc.
So does this make me officially pathetic, responding to a blog on Christmas day?
Probably not as pathetic as me posting three times.
Posted by: Hal Laurent | December 25, 2007 6:34 PM
Years ago a friend once got a fortune cookie that said "Life is a struggle." She was so taken with it that she made it into a needlepoint pillow. Today she probably would have posted it to the blog, Christmas day or not.
Posted by: Darlene | December 26, 2007 9:03 AM
Most of the fortunes I get have lottery number suggestions. Do you charade those or play them??
I have to admit I ignore them as crass innovations.
Posted by: MD Canon | December 27, 2007 1:00 PM