Mon 12 Sep 2005 @21:09
I need something light. In addition to the coverage of the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, news from the Gulf coast continues to be mostly grim, but maybe improving slightly. I need a break from that. On the brighter side Tropical Storm… I mean Hurricane… I mean Tropical Storm… I mean Hurricane… I mean Tropical Storm… Ophelia meandered generally northward leaving very pleasant weekend weather here in Central Florida. Michael Brown was relieved of command of the Katrina relief effort on Friday and today resigned as FEMA director. And last Friday, the idiots in Las Vegas that put a severed finger into Wendy’s chili pleaded guilty to that attempt to extort money from the company. For at least a couple days I plan posts that are cheap and superficial — just like me!
Whenever I go to a Chinese restaurant and get a fortune cookie, I play the fortune cookies in bed game. (If, by some chance this is new to you, the rules are simple. Each person has to read their fortune out loud and tack on the words “in bed” to the end. I’m always amazed at how much greater and funnier the fortunes can be that way.) Recently someone gave me Dove chocolates and I discovered that they have little aphorisms inside the wrapper. As a chocoholic, I find these much more satisfying than fortune cookies! And the “in bed” game works just as well.
Here are a few of the sayings from the Dove chocolates chosen randomly. Read them out loud with “in bed” added at the end. And smile….
Smile. People will wonder what you’ve been up to.
Do what feels right.
Whisper in the dark.
Learn something from everyone you meet.
Make your eyes twinkle.
Be mischievous. It feels good.
Count the stars.
You know what? You look good in red.
When two hearts race, both win.
Age is nothing but a number.
Remember your first everything.
Go against the grain.
There’s a time for compromise. It’s called “later”.
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September 12th, 2005 at 22:43
You are anything but cheap and superficial. Please step away from the news coverage. You’ll thank me later.
September 13th, 2005 at 00:50
The best magic trick I’ve ever performed was a trick played on my wife. She’d been out of town for a week on business and when she returned, I proposed that we have Chinese for dinner.
But first, she had to see my new magic trick. She rolled her eyes and I did the pick a card, any card thing. I used a cheap “force” (so called because the mark will be forced to pick the card you want through slight of hand), and she picked the three of clubs.
I clumsily went through the deck about three or four times, then said, “Is this your card?” No. It wasn’t. I tried a few more cards, but they weren’t hers. They weren’t supposed to be. During dinner, I kept asking, “Was it the six of diamonds?” No. “Was it the King of spades?” No.
Finally, fortune cookie time. I palmed the fake fortune cookie I’d cleverly concealed in my pocket and cracked open my cookie, dropped the real one in my lap and “read” the fortune and said, “I KNEW IT!” and tossed the fake fortune on the table.
She looked curiously at me, picked it up and read, “The card was the three of clubs.”
She still hasn’t figured out how I did that.
September 13th, 2005 at 13:01
This made me smile. Someone recently told me this trick and my last fortune cookie paper is saved in my journal. It reads: “You will be rewarded for your efforts.” With the new rules my fortune looks good…promising! hehe
September 14th, 2005 at 19:09
those were great! the only one I have a problem with is counting the stars in bed because I’d have to remove my roof or become a vagrant.
September 16th, 2005 at 00:52
I like those, particularly with the “in bed” attached. I think my favorite was “go against the grain…in bed.” I hadn’t realized Dove had those phrases in their wrappers.