Has anyone else noticed that Chinese fortune cookies have become a huge disappointment over the past few years?<\/p>\n
Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s not a fortune. That’s an aphorism.<\/p>\n
What’s going on? Have the Chinese fortune cookie companies been advised by their attorneys to get out of the fortune-telling business? “We have to switch to aphorisms and ‘learn Chinese.’ Otherwise, someone will get squashed by a falling piano and we’ll be sued because his cookie said he was going to win the lottery instead of ‘avoid walking past open fourth story windows.'”<\/p>\n
Or maybe they have been pressured by the astrology columnist lobby? “Get off our turf, Chinese fortune cookie company!”<\/p>\n
Another possibility: fortunes are too difficult to write. Burn-out sets in. Everyone’s just a hack these days, durnit.<\/p>\n
Or maybe it’s easier to avoid printing gaffes like the ones published here if you stick to sayings instead of fortunes . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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