# Unfortunate cookie **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2004, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624 "2004-12-19T08:03:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/21 "2004-12-20T20:38:11Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > What does it mean when you open your fortune cookie and there’s no fortune there? > > > [@Chastain86](#): > > > > Seven days. Hanh? Did I miss a memo or something? ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/22 "2004-12-20T21:13:04Z")
Hm. Reminds me of the time when I got the fortune slip that said “Financial hardship in your life is coming to an end. Enjoy!” But for some reason, it was misprinted and smudged, and it read "_-_–\_-\*_l **–** _- \_\_ your life is coming to an end. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/23 "2004-12-21T01:14:54Z")
It’s better than the one I got last time I went to eat chinese. “You are doomed to be happy in wedlock” Okay, now what’s going on with that? _Doomed_ to be happy? In Wedlock? Something isn’t adding up. I still have it taped to my door. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/24 "2004-12-21T01:27:32Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > What does it mean when you open your fortune cookie and there’s no fortune there? It’s Zen. what? ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/25 "2004-12-21T01:35:40Z")
> [@raz](#): > > It’s better than the one I got last time I went to eat chinese. > > “You are doomed to be happy in wedlock” > > Okay, now what’s going on with that? _Doomed_ to be happy? In Wedlock? Something isn’t adding up. I still have it taped to my door. I believe “doomed” means “fated.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/26 "2004-12-21T02:05:57Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > Maybe it means I will MAKE my own fortune? 🙂 Yeah, if you have time before your imminent death… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/27 "2004-12-21T02:11:01Z")
Several times I’ve gotten cookies with two fortunes. I think it means that someone from the future time traveled to their past and have screwed up my future. I hate those bastards from the future. I really do. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/28 "2004-12-21T02:51:23Z")
I’ve gotten a fortune in a fortune cookie that said… …absolutely nothing. There were a few light ink smears that show where it went through the printer, but no words. No lucky lotto numbers. No Chinese word of the day. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. 😕 So does that mean my future is a blank slate? * * * \<\< Stop procrastinating. Starting tomorrow. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/29 "2004-12-21T07:22:55Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > What does it mean when you open your fortune cookie and there’s no fortune there? “Reply hazy, try again.” ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624/30 "2004-12-21T07:28:27Z")
I call getting two fortunes forTWOitous [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-cookie/280624.md?page=1)