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Tuesday 21 September 2004
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LAST NIGHT I opened a fortune cookie and it was empty.
Completely totally empty.
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Posted by: Molly | 4:27 am |
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LAST NIGHT I opened a fortune cookie and it was empty.
Completely totally empty.
Filed under: humor
Posted by: Molly | 4:27 am |
September 21st, 2004 at 4:43 am
I had one of those a couple of months ago. I spent the rest of the afternoon looking over my shoulder. Later on in the day, my stepdaughter totalled her car, and we spent the rest of the summer sharing my Ford Focus.
September 21st, 2004 at 7:02 am
“In bed”?
September 21st, 2004 at 7:12 am
Maybe you’re at the end of this journey and need more guidance.
September 21st, 2004 at 7:30 am
All it means is that you aren’t ruled by any type of pre-destiny. That cookie empowered you to to make your own future.
September 21st, 2004 at 7:33 am
I hope it does not mean that you ran out of fortune…
September 21st, 2004 at 8:56 am
naw, all is illusion, you only thought the cookie was empty, it was full of possibility. either that or Tara managed to remove it when ya were not lookin so you would envision CATastrophe. LOL
September 21st, 2004 at 9:48 am
I think it means that they were cheap fortune cookies. You should have asked for another, demanded a fortune from a cookie.
September 21st, 2004 at 9:57 am
It means everything already is too fortunate… I had that one once, too. Thanks for reminding me
September 21st, 2004 at 10:39 am
If you had not opened the cookie at all, the fortune would have been there and NOT been there at the same time. This was the conclusion of Schroedinger’s less-well-known experiment. He did not, unfortunately, postulate what this means for the diner.
September 21st, 2004 at 11:09 am
Sometimes a cookie is just a cookie.
September 21st, 2004 at 12:31 pm
There is an old Chinese legend regarding an empty fortune cookie and an ox.
A farmer, who plowed his fields every year using a push-style plow, wished to expand his farm to produce more grain for a large village near his land. He knew that if he could convice the village to buy from him, he would be rich. (by his terms)
Unfortunately, with no sons, no money for hired help, and only this push-plow, he was limited as to the area he could farm. What he needed was an ox to pull his plow. With an ox, he could plow three times the area he currently used, and thus triple his output.
20 miles down the road lived another man who raised oxen as plow animals, who needed seed for his crops this year. Now the first farmer had enough seed to plant his crops this year, and had enough seed to trade for an ox, but did not have enough seed to do both. He had to make a decision.
So his wife made fortune cookies that night, and placed a “yes” or “no” fortune in each one to help her husband decide whether to buy the ox or not. However when the farmer opened his chosen cookie, he found no fortune in it at all. His wife was shocked because she distinctly remembered putting a fortune in each cookie.
In the end, the first farmer felt that the investment was good for his future and traded his seed grain for the ox in the hopes of building his crop two years down the road. (how he planned to grow more seed grain when he had none to plant, I don’t know, but that’s the way these old stories go)
Tragically, two weeks after purchasing the ox, his farm was flooded and the ox, tied to a fence, drowned - leaving him with nothing. He had no seed, a dead ox, and no future.
So they had a barbecue.
September 21st, 2004 at 12:45 pm
I have had a fortune cookie or two with two fortunes. I probably still have some fortunes around here somewhere; I could send you one to balance things out.
September 21st, 2004 at 1:05 pm
That part of having a Ford Focus sounds like the worst part of the entire experience.
September 21st, 2004 at 2:51 pm
And one day, they ran out of paper at the factory…
September 21st, 2004 at 4:31 pm
Consider self fortunate at least one has a cookie in first place.
September 21st, 2004 at 4:49 pm
Hahahah… nice work.
September 21st, 2004 at 6:45 pm
Maybe it means this your chance to create your own fortune pertaining to whatever you want.
September 21st, 2004 at 7:19 pm
This simply illustrates that, due to variables in the maufacturing process, the probability that a fortune cookie will actually contain a fortune is less than 100%.
September 21st, 2004 at 7:34 pm
The uncarved cookie?
September 22nd, 2004 at 12:57 pm
Personally, I’ve been on a campaign to demonstrate a massive conspiracy in the fortune cookie industry.
You see, at least two-thirds of all fortunes I, my friends and my family have received in the past year (since I started this campaign) HAVE NOT BEEN ACTUAL FORTUNES!
Nope. They’re statements of philosophy, indicators of personality characteristics, or just plain too vague to decipher. But at no point do they actually attempt to predict or even forecast a future occurrence. They are not fortunes, merely useless slips of paper with treacle printed on them.
Join me in this campaign. Stamp out fortuneless fortune cookies! Give ’til it hurts at your local church or synagogue!
:-)
Sorry, Molly. Better fortune next cookie!
September 22nd, 2004 at 1:38 pm
gad, I always thought eating a cookie in bed was fortunate in itself. but spilling the milk or tea is another matter. BTW, General Tso chicken is hell to get out of sheets.
September 22nd, 2004 at 4:59 pm
When this popped up in my Bloglines, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
September 22nd, 2004 at 6:24 pm
When I was sixteen, the WIchita Eagle left out my horroscope in the paper for two days in a row, my relatives at the time thought that was catastropic and dragged me to a palm reader and Gypsy lady, that lived near the underpass on Douglass street in Wichita at the time near the old Salvation Army building. She did the Tarot and then would not talk, seems it said i would be dead by age 42. I lived in fear and trembling for several years. no joke , then it was a big thing among my family to take those things seriously. Then one day my horrorscope. lol. said. “you take things too seriously, lighten up and laugh more” i remember that. Still alive. have had several supposed forturne cookies that had smeared fortunes or one time in Tucson with order in, i got two and one said I was pessemistic and the other one said i was known for my great optomism. no lie. so take this tale as you like. I believe more in chicken bones as if i swallow one it makes for a hell of an evening and either the Heimlic manouver or a trip to the ER. sorry to go on. All is illusion, so just ignore the man behind the curtain, I am not really there. LOL
September 22nd, 2004 at 11:31 pm
I’d rather have no fortune than the one that was on my last Jones Soda. It told me I need to learn how to manage my money. Hmph. (The sad part is it’s true…)
September 23rd, 2004 at 11:44 am
That’s really strange. I opened a cookie and got two fortunes. No kidding.
September 23rd, 2004 at 2:49 pm
That happened to my friend Mark, 2 FORTUNE COOKIES IN A ROW during a lunch one Sunday. Nobody wanted to cross the street with him after that.
September 23rd, 2004 at 6:02 pm
I’d say your on the save side with that.
September 24th, 2004 at 9:27 am
I once got a bag of 100 fortune cookies with a bunch of friends. We sat around eating cookies and drinking tea. And one friend kept getting empty fortune cookies. After getting 6 empty fortune cookies (without ever getting one with a fortune), he just stopped and kept to the tea.
September 28th, 2004 at 5:08 pm
It’s a conspiracy, Molly.
This yid has experienced several empty fortune cookies. Perhaps fortune cookie makers have decided that we yids have had enough good fortune of late.
September 28th, 2004 at 8:33 pm
Did the cookie before that one contain a slip of paper saying “Your life will include an empty fortune cookie”?
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:39 pm
re: No fortune?
January 26th, 2005 at 7:37 pm
Oh my. I had that today. Scary. But nothing happened.
February 9th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
Great today is the Chinese New Year and I got an empty fortune cookie. I have my fingers crossed that the cookie trust me to creat my own future/fortune. If not I am screwed by the year of the cock.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:42 am
Wasnt much interested in fortune cookies until I got 2 empty fortune cookies on seperate occasions- 1 week after another. Any thoughts on this?
March 11th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
So I had this happen to me yesterday after having made the comment ‘Ok! This cookie holds my fortune for the coming year…’. Needless to say, I was less than happy upon finding no fortune in the cookie. I asked our Chinese waitress for another to ‘cancel’ out the first and she refused saying it is actually GOOD LUCK to have a cookie with no fortune. I wanted to believe her but then I thought maybe it’s just a smart way to save on cookies…so I figured I’d come to the web to look it up…
April 15th, 2005 at 5:56 pm
my aunt got a fortune cookie that was empty. Then she died the next day.
(from old age)
April 15th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
I got this like totally empty cookie. It was so wicked awesome! When i opened it, like my sister died the next day and in her purse was a fortune cookie with nothing in it!
(weep weep)
April 15th, 2005 at 6:03 pm
it is cool that i got one. but now i have to go because i have to do a TV show with my ‘friend’ Big Bird.
shoutout: hi 2year olds!
April 23rd, 2005 at 6:24 am
hey i luv u elmo!!!!!!! elmo roks!!!
May 25th, 2005 at 11:55 am
I stumbled on this site due to the lack of fortune in my Safeway fortune cookie. I was distraught for about 5 seconds.
May 29th, 2005 at 8:18 pm
This happened to me just tonight. My date and I insisted on looking it up on the internet and found this lovely forum. I really like the setup here and all the responses.
Our favorite comment theory has to be that our fortuneless fortune cookie is a sign of Good Luck. I’ve recently come to believe that our fortune is in fact our own to make or break.
Regardless, we asked for another cookie and were generously granted our wish. This cookie let us know that my persuasive appeal would get me what I wanted.
We came home and made love like wild heathen’s.
June 10th, 2005 at 12:56 am
I too looked it up on the internet because I recieved an empty fortune cookie tonight. At the time, I wondered if it meant that I am already fortunate (I am). I liked this response best:
It means everything already is too fortunate… I had that one once, too. Thanks for reminding me
And, that it is Good Luck.
Thanks for the site.
June 16th, 2005 at 12:39 pm
Apparently this is THE site for the fortuneless. I also stumbled upon this site after opening an empty cookie in Chinatown today and wondered what is supposedly meant. I will share this story. When I was very young I ate a fortune cookie, fortune and all. It drove me to tears when I realized what I had done (I was a sensative kid). The waitress brought me a new cookie and the fortune said something along the lines of “your destiny lies within you.”
June 16th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Oh yeah, and I hate how fortunes aren’t really fortunes too. I remember them being better as a kid, but that’s probably just a POV thing. I wonder when was the last time the fortune cookie industry changed their fortunes. Do they cycle them through and then retire them?
June 16th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
Ha! Matt, that’s great.
Interesting how blog posts on blogs completely unrelated to a given topic become part of the fabric of the Web. I call this the “Accidental Blogger” effect and it’s fascinating to me.
Thanks for dropping by. And yes, your destiny does in fact lie within you, sugar and all
June 18th, 2005 at 12:34 am
very, very interesting.
today, i got chinese takeout. my boyfriend made me open a fortune cookie with him. i remember him saying how, dumb his was..i couldn’t get it open..hehh.. once i did, i realized.. it was empty.. crazy.
August 6th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Just today i opened a forune cookie with no fortune. There was also no electricity for 5 hours on my block. Once i ate the cookie, the power came back. I think an empty cookie means that your fortune will be what you desire.
August 16th, 2005 at 9:28 pm
Yeah. I open my cookie today and no fortune, so my friend sent me this site. I feel better now that I know I’m not alone. Maybe we should start a support group!
August 25th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
I got one today wile out with the guys. Yea we was also like millions of other wondering what in the world does this mean…..well I left my motorcycle at the restraunt and road with a friend!!!!
August 25th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
Yea i got empty cookie a month ago wile at a restraunt. As i was leaving i was headed back to work. I was hit by a f-150 who also pulled out to beat the traffic. I am ok now bike destroyd and a broke leg and color bone. Boy do i not want another cookie.
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:28 am
I see that I am not the only one who surfed the net to find out what an empty fortune cookie means. Last week, I had an empty one. The very next time I ate Chinese food, I had another empty one. I was telling my husband about this last night - while eating Chinese food again. He told me which cookie I should pick (which, incidently, was the one I had been eyeing up), and declared that for sure this one would have a fortune in it. Guess what??? Believe it or not - it was the third fortune cookie in a row that I had opened up to find absolutely nothing! I guess this means I really am fortunate and must really be in charge of my own future. (If not, I’m toast!) LOL.
Maybe I shouldn’t open any more…
September 20th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
Well.. I had my first no-fortune cookie tonight! I’ve had lots of 2-fortune cookies, and one that had 2-1/2 (yes, it actually had a 1/2 fortune in it, cut lengthwise down the middle!).
I opened another one and it said “You will live long and prosper” (seriously).
Hmmm.. maybe I’ll stick to Fig Newtons.
September 22nd, 2005 at 9:25 am
I got my first empty fortune cookie today.
I like the one where it says you are already too fortunate also…
October 13th, 2005 at 12:52 pm
I received no fortune in my cookie! And the next day, I received no fortune cookie at all with my meal. Is it possible that they somehow knew that I was without fortune or that wasting a cookie on me was unnecessary? Those Chinese cookies can be most insidious.
October 15th, 2005 at 3:27 am
I got a cookie with no fortune today, i hope it means that i’ll get what i want! Time to buy that ticket to the 22 million draw
November 11th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
Tonight, I ordered chinese food with the boyfriend. We got 4 cookies. i opened mine, it had no fortune…I opened the second and still no fortune…Both cookies the boyfriend ate had fortunes….What are the odds?
November 20th, 2005 at 7:39 pm
I just got one and did a search on the net about no fortunes in a cookie. Just to see who also had no fortune. I only finished half of the cookie and act like it might still have a small tiny fortune inside. It will sit upon my desk for good. I will not give this no fortune cookie the edge to win…
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December 8th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
What an interestingly strange idea. It’s like a support group for the “unfortunate”.
I got my first fortuneless cookie today, and I can’t say I feel very good about it.
December 21st, 2005 at 11:34 am
Well, I received my fortuneless cookie on the evening of December 19th, 2005. I actually made it a point to ask the guy that rang me and my friends up for fortune cookies since they did not bring them with the bill like they usually do. So he gave me three cookies (one for me and each of my friends), I handed out the cookies and when I opened mine it was empty. It was kind of scary, but nothing bad has happened to me yet so I’m assuming that its a good thing. I think it just means that my future is what I make it. It can be limitless. So now I plan to only fill my mind with positive uplifting thoughts in order to paint a pretty future for myself.
December 28th, 2005 at 1:13 am
About the time of the first post (ironically), I tossed a fortune cookie to someone I had a huge crush on. When she opened it and it was empty my heart dropped, but I just acted like it was totally cool. Well, 15 months later I still have a huge crush on her, we work together, but I think she’s making me pay for tossing her that cookie because I think she hates me. LOL
January 15th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
I got two fortune cookies today instead of one, on accident. The first one said “Others see you as a wise person”, which is one of my worse fears. The second was empty. I think I’m gonna take the emtpy one as saying “So, what’re you gonna do about it?”
January 20th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
I just got a fortuneless fortune cookie for the first time in my life, ( I am forty years old) so I gures what this really means is “no news is good news”.
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
My dad opened a fortun cookie…and nothing was there and that happend three times…and then after the third…a day latter him and my X step mom got a devoce! Hated that lady!
February 9th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
*sigh* … No fortune in my cookie today. The guys I was eating lunch with said it’s as good as waking up with a horse’s head in bed next to me … I’m a dead man walking.
Then I remembered the words “in bed”… and it all became clear to me. You see, my wife is 7 and a half months pregnant. I’ve been dead “in bed” for a while now!
February 28th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
I received a fortuneless cookie today. This morning my girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me, then during the same dinner as the cookie I was served a sour Guinness. Never had an “off” one before. It’s been one of the worst days of my life. Is the support group up and running yet?
March 1st, 2006 at 9:40 pm
i got a fortuneless cookie tonight. i like to think it means i make my own fortune.however i first thought oh no i am going to die. how silly we can be.it reallyt is up to us what our fortune will be .thanks for this site you helped me.
March 12th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
It really is wonderful to find out you’re not alone. I have gotten an empty fortune cookie before and I love reading what other people think of it. Today, however, I don’t know what to think. I reached in the bag and pulled out my fortune cookie and it was an empty wrapper…perfectly sealed and puffed full of air! I couldn’t believe it. It’s not like it had been open because it wasn’t. It was baffling. So I got a air-filled wrapper but did not get a fortune OR a cookie…which is highly depressing. Think it means double good luck??…let’s hope so…
March 16th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
I just wish good things happen to all of us
March 16th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
i got a empty fortune cookie today.
it was funny because..i was eating half of the cookie when i told my mom about it and she made me spit out what i was eating because apparently if you eat to your fortune it will come true. anyway so, i mean, if i was going to die, id at least be half alive since half of it was unchewed.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:35 am
I think anything out of the ordinary is just unique and special, I go w/ the positive and optimistic comments!
April 16th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Haha 7 days ago me and a friend went to Panda Express. Fortuneless was her cookie so i was very hesitant to get behind the wheel with her driving. But I did (I had my fortune safely in my pocket), and we lived. Haha you guys are all gonna die soon though. Know it, and half the people who started this over a year ago are probably already dead. That is why you’ll never hear back from them again.
July 7th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
ok so I was at Pei Wei w/ my friendsa a couple weeks ago, and things were gettin a little boring so I lied about not having a fortune in my fortune cookie when really i just slipped it in my pocket really quick. It got us laughin and sayin stuff, but I didn’t really think much of it cuz i actually did have a fortune. The next day, i got in a wreck and got a ticket, and the day after that a ladder fell on the windshield of my car. Just yesterday, my mom had small wreck w/ an African woman who later freaked out on us and tried to practically kill us, and now we’re pressing charges and have a court date. Then today, we went to Pei Wei again, but this time, I actually didn’t get a fortune in my cookie. My friend saw me open it and everything. I don’t know what to think now.
July 16th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
tonight i got a fortunless cookie. great. i also once recieved a fortune that said WARNING: Do Not Eat Fortune. I did not eat it.
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:47 pm
10 days ago my older brother Michael & I went to lunch for my birthday at Buffet House. After the meal we both went to open our fortune cookies. Mine was “You will become rich & sucessful.” Snicker, seen that before. His was empty. 3 days later he was taking a ride with a friend who had just bought a 98 T-Top Camaro 3 days before. The friend didn’t see a stop sign at a heavily travelled intersection. A KIA Sephia T-Boned them on the passenger side. The fire department had to cut my brother out of the Camaro. He sustained Hip, Pelvic & Tailbone fractures, & a severely lacerated spleen. He is in ICU today still recovering from this accident. Makes you wonder?
August 25th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
My favorite response so far is “Loner” with “I just wish good things happen to all of us.” Thankyou master of the obvious. I also wish that.
Anyway, I had an empty cookie today as well and I figured I would look it up to see what (if anything) it means. Once I opened the cookie, I was mortified and my mind immediately started dreaming up various Final Desitination-esque ways that I was going to go out like a chump. It has only been 3 hours since I opened the cookie and so far my work email has completely shut down and I haven’t been able to get a thing done at work (thus the blog reading activity).
Anyway, I will probably be dead soon, but hopefully it works out better for everyone else.
Oh, and enough “I guess it means I’m gonna make my own destiny and everything’s gonna be great” comments. Your optimism is only bumming me out more.
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:51 pm
10 days i was just thinking about how much i wanted a fortune cookie, when we were about to have ice cream. for some reason one of the toppings we used was fortune cookies. of course i asked noting how much i liked getting the fortunes. Well i got a cookie without a fortune. Wasn’t really upset but they gave me another anyway. it said i should have fun this weedend and worry about work later. so i found my love interest before it ended, but i still can’t seem to get any work done.
i think i got the empty the empty cookie because i messed up the matrix, rejected my fate.
but then again the tower keeps showing up in my tarot readings when anyone asks about my future. Nothing bad has happened yet though.
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:05 pm
I did not get an empty fortune cookie but I did get the same fortune twice in a row at different Chinese food restaurants.
October 8th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Last night my girl and I were at a chinese take-out joint waiting on our food. For fun we bought a bag full of fortune cookies and started breaking them open together, each of us holding on to one side and pulling. When we broke open the fourth one it was empty… We thought it really bizzare, especially since we did it together.
October 9th, 2006 at 3:22 am
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October 12th, 2006 at 5:13 am
No fortune for me either… guess i’ll just be extra careful these next few days…
October 14th, 2006 at 10:58 am
I love this support group. My favorite response is “No news is good news.” My least favorite are all the responses about creating our own destiny.
I had General Tso’s chicken before hitting the bar tonight. It was Friday the 13th when I ate the food. I got “lucky” and had anonymous sex. On the way home I ate the fortune cookie, and there was no fortune. Yikes! Whenever I die, no matter how many decades from now it happens, it will be because of this fortune cookie. (Actually, I’m not going to die, so I guess the cookie was wrong.)
October 14th, 2006 at 11:51 am
… and that, children, is how we create our own destiny.
October 19th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Go to http://www.emptyfortunecookie.com/
October 20th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Ok. I think this may have happened to me before, but this is the first time i looked it up. It’s more difficult to get a cookie without a fortune then eithER one. It is more difficult to be lucky then unlucky. So i take this as lucky or unlucky, MAKE YOUR OWN FORTUNE!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
January 21st, 2007 at 3:31 am
OK.. you guys are freaking me out LOL.. I got a no fortune.. fortune cookie tonight.. Now I’m all nervous
January 24th, 2007 at 2:07 am
I found this page because my hubby got a fortuneless cookie today. I loved reading everyone’s stories. I especially enjoyed Matt’s eating his fortune and having another one saying “your destiny lies within you.” and Mandy’s air-filled wrapper!
I can help - I made a fortune cookie generator. Feel free to drop by and get your fortune! jeanegan.com
I like to keep adding fortunes to it, so If you have a fortune that you got in the past that you especially liked, please drop me an email. I’ll add it to my online fortune cookie! If you made it up, I’ll even give you credit
April 8th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Last night I had went out to eat with my brother… It was just for his birthday and stuff. Upon recieving fortune cookies mine was empty, puffed full of air and everything with only a sliver of cookie inside but nothing more.
Does anyone know what it means?
May 5th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
My husband opened an empty fortune cookie tonight. I ate half of it so whatever his fate is I will share it. I guess that means I am extremely co-dependent, or, If it means the worst, I can’t bear the idea of spending that much time alone with our kids.
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June 10th, 2007 at 5:49 am
I don’t know what to think. I’m 28 years old, married for a year in June, my baby is 2 months old, I was hired at a school closer to home, and my husband and I are moving out of my parents house. I guess the empty fortune cookie means to me that I have decisions to make and shouldn’t depend on superstitions to help me through them, but have the confidence in myself to make the right decisions. It’s cool that an empty fortune cookie helped me realize how blessed I really am!
July 29th, 2007 at 11:02 am
We had chinese food last night and this morning I opened my cookie and it was empty… so I was wondering what that meant and said to my friend maybe it means that I have no future. My friend then asked me to open the other cookie and it said: “Don’t panic”. We thought that was so fun :0D
September 10th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Went by the bag with the fortune cookies. This one cookie screamed at me to open it. It was empty. Was I depressed until I stumbled onto these postings.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
i had three in a row of empty fortune cookies…kinda scared, but all shall be well. i dont take them fortunes too seriously ^^
September 28th, 2007 at 8:16 am
We have already begun to implement some of your suggestions.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
An empty cookie means only one thing - you will find this website and be amused! Keep it to yourself. Never speak of it to those who have fortunes in their cookies. This is our secret place on the web, only for the chosen ones!
October 11th, 2007 at 10:55 am
I’m wasting my time wondering why everyone on this page is wasting their time. I guess the empty fortune cookie represents moments in time spent on nothing.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:32 am
I also got a no-fortune cookie today. The lady at the restaurant asked me if I wanted another - I replied “No thank you, it must mean something. I will Google it when I get home.” Now I’m thinking I should’ve took the cookie. For everyone who didn’t get a fortune, it can’t be that bad, you’re here telling us about it so at least you made it back home safely. I guess I’m like many more people, very fortunate already!
November 18th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I just had a cookie with no fortune! I’m so scared!!!
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:06 am
Well, I was thrilled to see the postings on this site after I had the unfortunate experience of receiving a fortuneless cookie.
One might be very literal in this occurance by calling the Fotune Cookie an Unfortunate Cookie, but that would imply bad luck is on its way…
One might also argue that an empty fortune cookie is still a fortune cookie, therefore not having your fortune told to you can only mean that it is what you make of it. If you believe that bad things will happen, then that’s what it will be. If you believe that good things will happen, then that is what it will be.
just my 2 cents
November 28th, 2007 at 12:31 am
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November 28th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I ordered chinese food today and when I opened my fortune cookie, I was SHOCKED to find no fortune in it. Luckily, my friend Sharon stopped me from eating the cookie so I spat it out just in time. Hopefully this means that I have overcome death.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
however, my friend Dominic said that I will have very bad luck since I got an unfortunate cookie.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
and I am still alive today…
December 28th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Actually, my friend Dominic was disappointed that I spit the cookie all over the text book we were trying to work with.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Today I received my first cookie without a fortune. I did not know what to make of it, other then the fact the Chinese are even screwing up the quality of cheap useless cookies too….
March 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
i got one today too
a cookie without a fortune that is
I was so scared coming home,thinking i was gonna die or something
i didn’t
obviously
but i’m starting to feel kind of sick
and my throat hurts
but I already contacted my friends and a statue will be made in my honor if i die :]
March 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
hello, Tomorrow I start a new job, things have been a little rocky lately money-wise and I’m hoping that will change. So tonight I had chinese with a friend, having been unable to find the menu for our favourite place we opted for another - having double checked that we would get a cookie with the meal. after eating my friend allowed me to choose my cookie which happened to be empty. so now I have arrived here in my search to see whether or not folklore was on my side.
My first comment after asking my friend if she knew what it meant was “maybe it means that my fortune is my own to create”, and this reminded me about “The Fateful Coin”
anyone who has played Baldur’s Gate will that know of which I speak, but for those who don’t I shall explain.
“History of the Fateful Coin
Old tales tell that luck plays a crucial role in each person’s life. When each newborn baby enters into the Realms, Tymora flips a coin formed from the remnants of the original goddess of luck, Tyche. Beshaba calls it in the air - the moon (heads) or the cloak (tails). If Beshaba is right, that person is cursed with misfortune for the rest of his or her days. If she’s wrong, Lady Luck smiles on that child for the rest of his or her life. For some rare beings, the coin lands edge on - and these luckless few can forge their own fates, for they have more freedom over their destinies than the powers themselves.”
It is this philosophy that I am choosing to believe applies to an empty fortune cookie.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:33 am
okies little update for you…
my previous post was submitted at around 22:30 GMT last night
it is now 07:30 GMT I’ve had a crap night’s sleep because of the weather and finally woke up properly an hour ago to find my electricity meter had run out and I had to fill it up to get the power back, and I am starting my new job in 1 hour - I will be learning to drive a bus - in 85mph winds
If I’m spared I will report back tonight when I get home
March 10th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
so. here I am, still alive
today went surprisingly well so all in all I would say the empty fortune cookie was no bad thing
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 am
I think alot of the people freaking out on here (thinking that they are going to die or have REALLY bad luck) are forgetting the purpose of a fortune cookie. It’s a FORTUNE cookie! If fate (or whatever you believe in) was going to change your life for the worse, then you would have gotten a fortune telling you about bad things to happen in your future. DUH!!!!!
Conversely, if your life was going to change for the better, then you would have gotten a fortune telling you about the good things about to happen to you.
I think that the “your future is up to you to make it better or worse” idea floating around is probably the best answer.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:32 am
thanks
April 7th, 2008 at 1:45 am
it is easy to find it, i think u just search on google or yahoo
April 8th, 2008 at 5:43 am
but, i think it is another thing which you have
April 8th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
i like it
April 8th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
interesting, thanks
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April 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
it is good t see u
April 16th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I just got an empty fortune cookie. I didn’t know what it meant. so, naturally i googled it. and here i am. i see that i’m not the only one. i guess it is supposed to be bad luck. fortunately for me, i only believe in good luck, and only when it suits me. well, the cookie tasted fine anyhow.
April 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I got my empty cookie this morning..all I did was open another one to find a fortune. I’ve come to realize that an empty cookie means to find a new place to eat.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
thats the matter i want to learn
April 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm
ok,thanks
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
I just got one without a fortune. I’ve had two before in the same cookie.
I was looking for meaning of it and found this. Am I going to die? Will bad things happen to me? what should I do?
I thought about it more and realized something. I do believe in luck, but as I got older I saw that luck was just luck, and not good or bad. It works in your favor sometimes and other times it works against you.
In this case, I think no fortune means a balance. Everything must be perfect.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Nice job.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:21 am
hi, umit. how is going on
April 26th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I just received a empty cookie i have 5 boys and they all received one but mine didnt i was freaked out!!!lol…especially since i am 4 months pregnant…but then again maybe it is good luck…my whole life has been what i made it and it is good!!!! even though i feel freaked guess i won’t be sleeping tonight (sigh)
May 1st, 2008 at 8:12 am
it is easy to find it on google