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A '''fortune cookie''' is a crisp, wafer-like cookie that is baked around a message of [[infinite]] wisdom and [[prophecy]]. The cookies are usually served after dinner at authentic Chinese restaurants. Although the [[Chinese]] have known the secrets of the fortune [[cookie]] for millennia, the rest of the world only gained [[knowledge]] of the untapped wisdom of the fortune cookie in the mid-15th century, when the prophet [[Nostradamus]] utilized fortune cookies and [[opium]] to see the future.

==History==
===Origin===
[[File:Confucius1.jpg|thumb|"Wisdom mayhaps be attained – but only through great discipline."<br>''— Confucius'' ]]
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The fortune cookie was developed in the early 5th century B.C. by the Chinese philosopher [[Confucius]]. Confucius sought to make a delicious treat that provided not only physical nourishment but [[mental]] and [[spiritual]] nourishment as well. It is said that Confucius spent many days meditating in the mountains of [[Tibet]] while training in [[Tai Chi]] with [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] monks so that he could condense his wisdom.

Legend has it that Confucius encountered a nomad while focusing his Chi energies at an ancient temple where he encountered a nomadic clan of goatherders. These people, the Batu-Kashmir nomads, practiced a religion which worshiped the [[Earth]] goddess Aleri. Noticing the way the Confucius was so in tune to nature and its mysterious ways, they sought his council and offered him a magical confection, the modern fortune cookie. They taught them how to make the crispy-crunchy tarts which he wrote down on scrolls to be kept by the Tibetan people. These scrolls also contained the first fortune cookie prophecies. Scholars maintain that while most of these scrolls were lost in the Great Fire of Lhasa in 422 B.C, some have survived.

All fortune cookies manufactured according to the regulations set out by the philosopher, Li-Tzao, sometime after Confucius (The year of the Furby to be precise) will, in general, be approximately over 112% correct in all matters. In his treatise on fortune cookies he described how he had eaten a fortune cookie, made by him, the message inside saying, "Fortune cookie in future will not be made to real standard, crude white man will doubt." This of course was entirely true, and has led to the worrying recent trend of fortune cookie scepticism. Certain cookies are still manufactured to Li-Tzao's original standard, however, and account for many of the correct predictions. (Although other cookies have had correct predictions through chance or the blessing of Li-Tzao and his ancestors.)

===Sun Tzu and the fortune cookie===
[[File:Suntzu.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|left|"Skilled and calculating is he who takes the high ground."<br>''— Sun Tzu'']]

Chinese [[General]] [[Sun Tzu]] began to dabble in fortune cookies when he led the Wu kingdom to victory of the combined [[Zoo|Zu]] and Chu kingdoms with the aid of one of Confucius' prophecies. Ancient scrolls found in the Mon-shiko Temple outside of <small>a</small> Hunan tell of how the general, seeking guidance before battle, confided in a Confucian fortune cookie for advice. The cookie told Sun Tzu that he would win the battle, and that the gods favored his faction. Of course, Tzu defeated his rivals and led the Wu to dominance in China. After retiring, Sun Tzu decided to begin writing his own little tidbits of wisdom, which, eventually, he compiled together and published in his famous book "The Art of War". Historians such as [[Sid Meier]] have noted that with the writing of "The Art of War", a barracks was built in every city on continental China.

===Nostradamus and the fortune cookie===
[[File:Fortune mints.jpg‎|thumb|Theorized to be the first meaningful fortune cookie]]

15th-century prophet [[Nostradamus]] was the first European to make the fortune cookie a household delicacy. After visiting China while high on [[opium]], Nostradamus began to dictate his intricately detailed prophecies to a scribe. Some of his prophecies offered highly detailed descriptions of [[World War II]], [[9/11]], and the rise of [[Wikipedia]]. Fortunately, these events were avoided due to our knowledge that they would occur beforehand. Although Nostradamus never wrote any fortune cookies, he did manage to make them popular with the West by selling his book ''Les Prophecies'', which foretold the aforementioned events.

===Mao Tse Tung and the fortune cookie===
[[Chairman Mao]], widely regarded as the savior of the working class people of China, was another highly notable fortune cookie-ite. He first discovered the cookie's power when deciding the fate of the Communist Party in China. After weighing the decisions, Mao could not decide whether to gain prominence through peaceful revolution or by declaring war on Chiang-Kai-Shek and the nationalists. Mao decided civil war ''and'' defensive war against Japan was the best possible choice as the cookie he ate contained the message:
{{Pull quote|It is better to have blood on hand than dissent throughout body.|author=Fortune Cookie}}

Many say Mao applied this fortune throughout his regime. It is certain that Mao decided to initiate the Great Leap Forward after the instruction of a long-since lost fortune, as is chronicled in Mao's own collection of fortunes, the Little Red Book. This initiative was widely regarded as one of the better policy moves of the PRC, resulting in high crop yields and increased production by the Chinese state as a whole. Mao also sought the guidance of fortune cookies when he initiated the Cultural Revolution, another successful campaign by the Chinese government. In an [[irony|ironic]] twist of [[fate]], Mao died from choking on a fortune cookie.

==Fortune cookie fortunes==
The wisdom of fortune cookies has been long since regarded as the greatest in all the land. Special [[philosopher]]s and thinkers, known as Fortunecookie-ites, have dedicated their lives to interpreting and writing fortunes and prophecies to be inserted into the cookies.

If you click on the image below, you will receive fortunes greater in number than there are pine trees in the [[China|land of Han]].

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<option><small>Bachelor is man who never<br>make same mistake once.</small></option>
<option><small>Your car is being stolen.</small></option>
<option><small>May you rive in<br>non lacist times</small></option>
<option><small>Man who stand on toilet<br>get high on pot.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who lose key to lady's<br>apartment get no new key.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who drop watch in<br>toilet have shitty time.</small></option>
<option><small>Man with one [[chopstick]]<br>go hungry.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who run behind car<br>get exhausted</small></option>
<option><small>Racial stereotyping is wong.</small></option>
<option><small>Two wongs don't make a white.</small></option>
<option><small>Don't cross your chopsticks at end<br>of meal, ignorant Westerner</small></option>
<option><small>Research shows little difference in white/Asian penis size.</small></option>
<option><small>Lim Ping not name of Chinese paraathlete.</small></option>
<option><small>Made in the USA.</small></option>
<option><small>One legged Chinese woman not called Irene.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who eat many [[prune]]s<br>get good run for money.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who eat many [[prune]]s<br>sit on toilet many moons.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who drive like hell<br>bound to get there.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who sit on tack get point.</small></option>
<option><small>Never tell secret to pig<br>he may squeal.</small></option>
<option><small>Passionate kiss like [[spider]]s web<br>soon lead to undoing of fly.</small></option>
<option><small>Today's dog in alley,<br>tomorrow's moo goo gai pan.</small></option>
<option><small>That wasn't [[cat|chicken]].</small></option>
<option><small>The clean tie attracts<br>[[soup]] of the day.</small></option>
<option><small>Virginity like bubble.<br>One prick, all gone.</small></option>
<option><small>Wife who put man in doghouse<br>soon find him in cathouse</small></option>
<option><small>We Chinese, we play joke,<br>we make weewee in your [[Coca Cola|Coke]].</small></option>
<option><small>You will have food poisoning<br>in one hour.</small></option>
<option><small>Expert fisherman is<br>master baiter.</small></option>
<option><small>The fore-arm of the [[Uncyclopedian]]<br>is sore from [[masturbation|self-pleasing]]</small></option>
<option><small>Keep away from<br>Asian food.</small></option>
<option><small>Ask 'How do they make these things anyway?'</small></option>
<option><small>This space for rent.</small></option>
<option><small>Never drink milk<br>from a yellow cow.</small></option> 
<option><small>Water only go uphill<br>when picture is upside down.</small></option> 
<option><small>The better things in life are free,<br>that's why you have to pay.</small></option> 
<option><small>The cow only moos<br>when the lightning strikes a frog.</small></option> 
<option><small>Where ever you go<br>bad drivers follow.</small></option>
<option><small>You will be the one<br>to pay the bill tonight.</small></option>
<option><small>Your ad here</small></option>
<option><small>Enjoy Coca Cola!</small></option>
<option><small>May contain<br>traces of nuts</small></option>
<option><small>Baseball wrong. Man with 4 balls cannot walk.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who buy drowned cat pay for wet pussy.</small></option>
<option><small>Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.</small></option>
<option><small>Your thumbnails are curiously attractive.</small></option>
<option><small>And then.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who kiss girl's behind, get crack in face.</small></option>
<option><small>Man with holes in pocket, feels cocky all day.</small></option>
<option><small>Girl who rides bicycle, peddles ass all over town.</small></option>
<option><small>Your karma will run over your dogma.</small></option>
<option><small>He who farts in church, sits in own pew.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who is sceptical about Feng Shui will find tables have turned.</small></option>
<option><small>Rohypnol available from waiter with beard.</small></option>
<option><small>Don't leave cookie on the table like that, you pig dog.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who live in glass house, dress in basement.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who take lady on camping trip, have one intent.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who go to bed with sex on mind wake up with solution in hand.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who not poop for many days must take care of back log.</small></option>
<option><small>War not determine who is right, war determine who is left.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who leap off cliff jump to conclusion.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who eats dad's portrait soon spitting image of father.</small></option>
<option><small>Woman who wear jockstrap have make believe ballroom.</small></option>
<option><small>Crib needs many nails to build it, just one screw to fill it.</small></option>
<option><small>Woman laid in tomb may become mummy.</small></option>
<option><small>Man who cut self while shaving, lose face.</small></option>
</choose>
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Fortune cookies also often contain several lucky numbers, which will always win you the [[lottery]]. The opposite side usually has a word or phrase (eg., elephant or elevator operator) that you will probably want to know in [[Chinese]], with its phonetic English pronunciation and equivalent under it. Funny, considering that [[Confucius]] was Chinese, after all and would have no reason to provide [[English]] translations for Chinese words, especially when he had no [[knowledge]] of English.

==See also==
*[[China]]
*[[Confucius]]
*[[Sun Tzu]]

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