# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/41 "2003-11-15T23:28:54Z")
Unfortunately, I read this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/42 "2003-11-16T06:07:49Z")
Fortunately… WTF happened here? Let’s try backing up about 12 hours in **RCracer** ’s story and have a restart of this game. **RCracer** goes into a bar at 10pm Saturday night. Fortunately, his favorite song was blasting on the jukebox and a cutie was dancing by herself to the music. Unfortunately, he realized that he had forgotten to change out of his clown suit… ---
**Author:** ![Jonmarzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jonmarzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonmarzie)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/43 "2003-11-16T06:11:38Z")
Fortunately, the clown shoes make it look like he has big feet, which means… ---
**Author:** ![Andros\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Andros\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andros_X)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/44 "2003-11-16T07:23:12Z")
Unfortunately, the cutie (as well as everyone else at the bar) know better than to trust stereotypes. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/45 "2003-11-16T08:59:18Z")
Fortunately, another cutie dressed like a clown (for an unknown reason) came into the bar, spotted me and walked over to me. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/46 "2003-11-16T09:14:53Z")
Unfortunately, she turned out to be a recently escaped mental patient. She starts rambling about how the universe will collapse on itself in one hundred billion years if we don’t WARN SOMEBODY and you get bored… ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/47 "2003-11-16T09:17:44Z")
Fortunately, one hundred billion years is a LONG LONG **LONG** time and the human race will probably all be dead by then so there’s no need to worry ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/48 "2003-11-16T11:24:50Z")
Unfortunately, the guys in white suits arrive in time to snag their patient and decide to take the guy dressed in a clown suit at a bar on Saturday night along with them for good measure. His monstrous clown shoes are left behind for everybody else to enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/49 "2003-11-16T12:58:16Z")
Fortunately, the bartender is superstitious about clown shoes and decides that their presence is a sign that everyone in the bar should get a free round. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/50 "2003-11-16T17:59:58Z")
Unfortunately, my brain is tested on for any signs of sanity leading to a very painful five years in which at the end of them I am permanently brain-damaged for the rest of my life because some idiot went and dropped his hammer in their, accidentally of course…not on purpose, no…they wouldn’t do that… ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/51 "2003-11-16T19:35:51Z")
Fortunately, he is left with enough brain power to post to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/52 "2003-11-16T20:00:20Z")
Unfortunately, one day he walks under a crane with a high powered magnet that rips the hammer right out of his head. Fortunately, a pack of dogs is nearby and lick the massive head wound until their saliva coagulates his blood and his life is spared. He regains approximately half of his mental facilities but forgets his password to the message board. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/53 "2003-11-16T20:01:01Z")
Unfortunately he was practically incapable of doing hardly anything else ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/54 "2003-11-16T20:03:05Z")
Fortunately RCracer had remembered to write down his password on the back of his hand so that he remembers. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/55 "2003-11-16T20:10:12Z")
unfortunately he cant rememeber what those weird letters relate to on that thing in front of him with lots of odd symbols on it ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/56 "2003-11-16T20:15:45Z")
Fotunately my computer was told to remember my password so that I don’t need to remember it. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/57 "2003-11-16T20:40:03Z")
Unfortunately, he no longer remembers what a “computer” is, or what one might use it for. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/58 "2003-11-17T17:18:13Z")
Fortunately my parents me a copy of “A severely brain-damaged idiot’s guide to computers” in which I don’t need to read it because it reads it out to me, and I was easily able to understand and remember nearly every word of it. ---
**Author:** ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/59 "2003-11-17T17:20:15Z")
Woops, that should say “Fortunately my parents **bought** me a copy of…” ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419/60 "2003-11-17T17:22:49Z")
unfortunately the few words you didnt understand were those relating to turning your computer on [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fortunately-unfortunately-game/213419.md?page=4)