# The Fortunately/Unfortunately Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419 "2003-11-15T13:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/1 "2003-11-15T13:21:11Z")
Ok I can still remember this from when I was in Year 3 or something like that and was wondering how it would go here. How it goes is I start with a certain event, and the person who sends the next message has to say “Fortunately…this and that happened…” Then the next guy who sends a message has to then go “Unfortunately…that and this happened…” Then it goes back to “Fortunately…” and so on. Events can be as pointless, insane or as immoral as you like. So I’ll start you off with 3 events, fairly simple ones (try to make yours better than mine): 1. RCracer woke up at 10am this morning 2. Fortunately, it was Sunday. 3. Unfortunately, he was glued to the bed for some unknown reason… Pathetic I know but please carry on from here with the best ideas you can come up with and we’ll see what weird and wacky adventures I end up on. See ya, RCracer 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danixa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@danixa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danixa)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/2 "2003-11-15T13:57:30Z")
Fortunately, his pet goat licked all the glue off and he was unstuck. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/3 "2003-11-15T14:02:24Z")
Unfortunately, my pet goat accidentally (I think) bit of my left arm. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/4 "2003-11-15T16:23:52Z")
Fortunately, his goat, after licking all the glue off, pooped it all out and stopped having very toxic farts. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/5 "2003-11-15T17:22:00Z")
unfortunately RCracers arm will never smell the same and he still cant get it clean ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/6 "2003-11-15T17:34:50Z")
Fortunately, my arm was insured so I received half a million pounds. **WOOHOO!** ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/7 "2003-11-15T17:44:13Z")
but you were then sued for a million pounds by your insurance company they forgot to mention they didnt cover “acts of goat” ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/8 "2003-11-15T17:50:35Z")
Fortunately my great-grandmother left two million to me (her husband was in the oil industry) **WOOHOOOOO!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/9 "2003-11-15T18:02:43Z")
unfortunately with tax off it its halved and then she suddenly comes back to life and goes on a zombified killing spree you have to pay damages and end up in your greatgrandmothers lair in debt to the amount of £30000000000000000000 ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/10 "2003-11-15T18:06:35Z")
Fortunately the bill gets sent to BigDaiv instead (the bastard) ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/11 "2003-11-15T18:08:51Z")
but BigDaiv sells RC’s goat and makes £300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 as RC’s goat is a golden goat ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/12 "2003-11-15T18:10:40Z")
Fortunately, that golden goat had three baby goats and so I sold them for three times the amount of whatever BigDaiv said (the bastard) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Babbington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/13 "2003-11-15T18:14:21Z")
Unfortunately, with your new found fortune, everyone and their mother came looking for you for a handout. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/14 "2003-11-15T18:15:39Z")
Fortunately I told them all to piss right off and got away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Babbington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/15 "2003-11-15T18:17:34Z")
Unfortunately, one of them had a nuclear device. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/16 "2003-11-15T18:18:44Z")
Fortunately, it malfunctioned and hit Iraq instead ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/17 "2003-11-15T18:21:13Z")
unfortunately you were in iraq at the time buying real estate and you thought a sadam palace would look good in red well… its red but in a couple of hours it will turn a shde of brown ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/18 "2003-11-15T18:23:27Z")
Fortunately I mysteriously came back to life just like my great-grandmother ( ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/19 "2003-11-15T18:25:17Z")
I inherited her “come back to life gene” you see. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/20 "2003-11-15T18:28:10Z")
unfortunately you never got round to killing your grandma off so shes still zombifying therefore she kills you becasue there can only be one zombie [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419.md?page=2)