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Examples
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Perhaps actually studying Christian theology in some depth and detail is the reason that our positions regarding religion tend to be more nuanced than you biblethumpers who just memorize fortune-cookie scraps from it.
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My all-time favorite fortune-cookie fortune is "The gods who were smiling when you were born are laughing now."
A Study in Happiness Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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In principle, Sergeant Brock Lumley resisted superstition, but if you were to stop him on any given day he was patrolling Baghdad streets with the other eight men in his rifle squad and ask him to open the front left ammo pouch on his flak vest, he'd get this look on his face—like you caught him farting in a quiet room—then pull out a fortune-cookie fortune.
Duck Sauce David Abrams 2011
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Perhaps actually studying Christian theology in some depth and detail is the reason that our positions regarding religion tend to be more nuanced than you biblethumpers who just memorize fortune-cookie scraps from it.
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And so in the '30s, when, you know, Charlie Chan movies were being shown in Shanghai or Beijing or major cities in China, people flocked to the theaters and, you know, and they loved him - especially with his kind of pseudo fortune-cookie aphorisms.
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And so in the '30s, when, you know, Charlie Chan movies were being shown in Shanghai or Beijing or major cities in China, people flocked to the theaters and, you know, and they loved him - especially with his kind of pseudo fortune-cookie aphorisms.
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This remake of The Karate Kid is filled with buckets of sentimentality and a fortune-cookie factory's worth of trite aphorisms.
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But hard upon the relief came irritation-why the devil did the man have to speak like a damned fortune-cookie!
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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And so in the '30s, when, you know, Charlie Chan movies were being shown in Shanghai or Beijing or major cities in China, people flocked to the theaters and, you know, and they loved him - especially with his kind of pseudo fortune-cookie aphorisms.
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And so in the '30s, when, you know, Charlie Chan movies were being shown in Shanghai or Beijing or major cities in China, people flocked to the theaters and, you know, and they loved him - especially with his kind of pseudo fortune-cookie aphorisms.
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