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Fortune cookie writer -- Wonton Foods

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by TheSportsPredictor, Feb 10, 2017.

  1. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  2. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    I thought this was an Onion article.

    Really? Just go back to the '80s and start recycling old ones like Charlie Brown.
     
  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I thought he'd be rich from playing the lucky numbers.
     
    I Should Coco and YankeeFan like this.
  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    What about the one I got the other night: "I'm being held captive here. Call the police."
     
    HC likes this.
  5. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    He pioneered the art of writing every fortune so it could add the words "in bed" at the end and still make sense.
     
  6. lcjjdnh

    lcjjdnh Well-Known Member

  7. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Guy has a point. They aren't fortunes anymore, just a poor mix of poor quality inspirational pap.

    The industry has changed.
     
  8. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    He's thinking of branching out into Bazooka Joe jokes.
     
  9. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Who would be the best writer here at SJ to take this job?

    bootsian fortunes would be interesting.
     
  10. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    These are exciting and challenging times in the fortune-cookie business.
     
  11. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    His cheese was moved.
     
  12. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

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