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Fortune Cookie Collection

by Bill Evans on Jan 12, 2010

People who keep their fortune cookie fortunes have been turning to a new web site, FortuneKookie.com , where they can save their fortunes and share them with friends. Some of the fortunes people have submitted are not the typical you-will-get-rich predictions. In fact, some are backward looking. "What you ate was not chicken," one stated. Perhaps that person should have opened his fortune cookie before lunch. Some pose existential questions: "If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is it naked or homeless?" Others appear to have been written by the Chinese restaurant itself: "Your fortune said you need to make a donation. Give it to the chef." FortuneKookie.com was created by Craig Robertson and Timothy Laurent . The little slips of paper that fortunes come on were always falling out of our wallets or getting lost in the kitchen junk drawer, so we decided to create a site where we and other fortune cookie fans could electronically save our fortunes. It costs nothing and is easy...Read More >>