Explain this fortune to me!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I went to a Chinese restaurant last night, and the message inside my fortune cookie is as follows–“What makes an apple fall from the tree?”
That’s it. Everyone else at the table had stereotypical fortunes (“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains,” “Now is the time to try something new,” and the like), but no one could figure out what mine meant. Can you?
sigh I’m just the princess of weird-ass fortunes. I’ve also recieved ones that said “You look very pretty,” “Someone can read your mind,” instructions on how to say banana in Chinese (Xiang-jiao), and on my fourtenth birthday, I got three empty cookies! The waiter kept bringing out then out until I got one with a message. I’ve don’t think I’ve ever gotten a normal fortune. . .

“I need the biggest seed bell you have. . . no, that’s too big.”–Hans Moleman

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Perhaps it was trying to same some things are inevitable?

If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.

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They got this one out of the “screw with her head” box, obviously.

The correct answer being a) gravity and b) the tree’s innate urge to spread its seeds to ensure the survival of the species.

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Perhaps it was trying to say some things are inevitable?

If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.

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Well shit, you can’t edit posts here… LMAO!! Too funny!

What I meant to say was the latter.

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I’ve always followed the rule that you add “…in bed.” to the end of your fortune.

“What makes an apple fall from the tree in bed?”

“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains in bed”

“Now is the time to try something new in bed.”

Well, 2 out of 3 isn’t bad. :smiley:

I’d go with the inevitability theme of previous posters.

The Sleeper has AWAKENED!

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I’d like to start by saying I am not lying here. I once recieved a fortune that read “You are the greatest person in the world.” No lie. I showed it to about 300 of my closest friends, so I have witnesses. I kept it proudly displayed in the ID window of my wallet. My wallet was stolen. ARGH.

Re: OP. Maybe something about the inevitable happening? An apple NEEDS to fall for a new tree to grow? You got me.

A little persistance goes a long way. Announcing:

“I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig!

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I would guess it’s one of those questions that are supposed to clear your mind and make you think. Like:

What’s the sound of one hand clapping?

and

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there, does it make a noise?

Nosense stuff like that.

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I once opened my fortune cookie, and the fortune was BLANK. I was afraid to get back in the car.

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The best fortune I ever got (that I kept in my wallet for a long time) was
“If you respect the stars, you will soon to be received.”

Very profound!

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I once had a fortune which read “There is nothing you cannot accomplish.” :slight_smile:
– Sylence

I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.

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I actually got a fortune cookie message that read…

“He who laughs at himself always has something to laugh at”

I think I should take that as a complement… :slight_smile:

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Man, like I said, I have the worst luck with these!

“I need the biggest seed bell you have. . . no, that’s too big.”–Hans Moleman

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The strangest fortune cookie was claimed by Woody Allen (no relation) (I forget the movie Annie Hall? Manhattan?):

“You Will Be Horribly Mangled”

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Eve, you sure you weren’t looking at the back of the fortune? Remember, they only print on one side…

I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.

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The last fortune I got read (and it actually had smilies on it, too):

My response was, “About freaking time! I’m sick and tired of my kindness being taken for granted!” My co-workers thought that was pretty funny. I taped it to my computer keyboard.

The night before our wedding, my husband and I had our rehearsal dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant in town. I still carry the fortunes we got in my wallet:

“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy

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I happen to collect fortune cookies. My 3 favorites are (in this order):

  1. Completely blank
  2. “Everything is not yet lost”
    and 3. “Keep your plans secret for now.”

Like I said, I collect fortune cookies. I keep them in my wallet, and leave one along with the tip everytime I go to a Mexican restaurant. Keep the karma flowing. No other restaurants though. A fortune at Ihop? No, that just doesn’t work.

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LMAO!

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A forgot-- another good fortune I got just a couple months ago was “Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the soul of genius.”

The thing that struck me about this fortune was that someone had written that exact phrase in my senior year book about 10 years ago. At the time, I was highly flattered because I had spent most of high school in complete solitude. So it was gratifying that someone had a.) acknowledged my unrecognized genius (every teenager’s dream) and b.) signed my year book. But now I’m thinking, sheesh, all I rated was a fortune cookie fortune? Oh well, better than nothing :slight_smile:

BTW, TheNerd, don’t your cookies get crunched in your wallet? Wouldn’t a lunchbox be a safer mode of cookie transportation?

“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy

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“What makes an apple fall from the tree?”

I think it is the result of the slowly increasing weight of the apple opposed to the slowly weakening strength of the stem.

Take from that what you will.