Chinese Fortune Cookies

Chinese fortune cookies are globally famous for their messages predicting the future – some messages are incredibly touching, while others are of absolute no use. This entry focuses on those pointless Chinese fortune cookie messages which reveal absolutely nothing.

Matter-of-factly written – makes Chinese food seem better health-wise then what it actually is – it is more of an advertisement than a fortune

Rather dramatic – though I can’t quite understand what a German proverb does in a Chinese fortune cookie

Straight-forward and, I must say, rather insulting

Utterly disappointing and pointless  

Too mysterious for my taste

Completely hermetic and meaningless

This fortune message states the obvious – why would you ever listen with your eyes in the first place?

  

Rather useless – why would one want to smell the inside of a hat? 

Emm… random and slightly off topic

I hope you enjoyed reading these failed fortune cookie messages – should you want to read more messages, here is the link to a fortune cookie game, which tells you your luck after you click on the cookie – you can try it out as many times as you desire - http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/chinese/games/fortune_cookie/cookie.htm

To rap up, here is a fortune cookie which particularly fits in with this entry

Eh… What’s Up, Doc?

Cartoons – we can find them for all tastes – they’ve made us laugh and, more important, they’ve widened our imagination. Today’s entry is a homage to all those memorable cartoons .

• Mickey Mouse’s name was originally Mortimer
• Donald Duck’s twin sister’s name is Della Thelma Duck
• The irony of Mickey Mouse’s creation is that Walt Disney was in fact afraid of mice

      Over the door at Pooh’s house there is a sign which says “Mr. Sanders” , which is the name of the person who resided at this very address before Pooh moved in

         The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse

• Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy
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  Donald Duck’s father’s name is Quackmore Duck, and his mother’s name is Hortense McDuck 

• Every food Shaggy (from Scooby Doo) has ever eaten on the show is meatless
• Shaggy’s real name is Norville Rogers
• Velma is only 15 years old and, hence, cannot drive the Mystery Machine
• The Flintstones, originally supposed to be called the Flagstones, wasn’t always a family friendly show – it was created in 1960 for a more adult audience for its portrayal of marriage (you see, this is the first animated program to show two characters of the opposite sex sleeping together in one bed)
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  The furniture in the Flintstones’ house changes almost every episode, and Dino, the family’s pet dinosaur, changes colors throughout the show’s history

Hoped you enjoyed these rarely known facts about these great cartoons –

I’ll try to find more info on cartoons and post them up in following entries.

Izzie

Pictures from - indycarnation.indycar.com, ultimatedisney.com, procultura10.blogspot.com, cartooncharacters.onsugar.com

Happy New Year

Greetings fellow bloggers!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday and a relaxing vacation! I still can’t believe we’re in 2011 – it seems as if the past year flew away!

The Chinese, as most of you already know, name each year after an animal according to their legend of the animal race. This year, the chosen animal is…

THE RABBIT!

In honor of 2011, this entry will comprise utterly useless information about rabbits:

·         Rabbits love licorice.

·         Rabbits digest their food twice because they don’t acquire enough nutrients the first time. This is due to their need of a high bacterial count in their stomach – which, if you haven’t yet guessed, they get from eating their excrements. (If you’ve ever eaten rabbit meat, I’m sorry to reveal this piece of information).

·         Rabbits cannot vomit.

·         Rabbits have 14 toenails – 4 on each of their back feet, and 5 on each of their front feet. 

·         Rabbits can look behind without turning their heads.

·         Rabbits can suffer from heat strokes.

·         Rabbits can’t sweat.

I hope you find these useless facts compelling – Happy 2011, and a blissful year of the Rabbit to all!

Izzie