"But if you're old and not much to look at--like you, happy customer--then you shall have all the wisdom necessary to recall 70's TV shows and R.E.M. B-sides for, alas, no real purpose."
Oh, and the Chinese word for "1,000" is "yi-qian."
What a crappy fortune! Even adding "in bed" to the end doesn't save it. But still, things could be worse! You *could* have ended up with one of these instead:
The best Chinese fortune I ever got was: "You are going to have some new clothes". Not that you are going to BUY new clothes, but somehow magically acquire them. It has yet to come true.
And the best R.E.M. B-side was "Time After Time Etc. (Live)" where Michael Stipe starts singing acappella in the wrong key and Peter Buck has no idea how to accompany him.
Pens the comic strips Sally Forth and Medium Large. Writes for The Onion News Network. Serves as head writer for the PBS series SeeMore's Playhouse (for which his script won two regional Emmys). Was afraid of the color yellow until about age nine. Tans a little too well to be trusted by security.
A simple grilled cheese sandwich. Something that can be procured anywhere at any time. Nothing too exciting, right?
But what if I put a little butter on the bread before I grilled that sandwich? That would add a little extra zing, right? And what if instead of using plain old American cheese I opted for something a tad more exotic, like Camembert, Stilton or Roquefort? Now we're talking, right?
And what if instead of using bread for my grilled cheese sandwich I used two large blocks of pure platinum? And what if instead of eating the platinum I sold it and then used that small fortune as venture capital for a Beijing-based conglomerate that could take advantage of Chinese local business incentives, cheap labor, lax environmental laws and surging global interest in the fastest-growing economy in the world, thereby ensuring returns in the billions of dollars even in the face of a collapsing U.S. dollar and a massive industrial shift from the technical to service business sector? Wouldn't that be nice?
That's exactly what Francesco Explains It All is. In an endless buffet of indistinguishable tastes, it's the grilled platinum Stilton cheese sandwich that could forever destabilize geoeconomics. Care for a bite?
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What a crappy fortune! Even adding "in bed" to the end doesn't save it. But still, things could be worse! You *could* have ended up with one of these instead:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/02/18/Fortune-cookies-promote-census/UPI-90701266530132/
The best Chinese fortune I ever got was: "You are going to have some new clothes". Not that you are going to BUY new clothes, but somehow magically acquire them. It has yet to come true.
And the best R.E.M. B-side was "Time After Time Etc. (Live)" where Michael Stipe starts singing acappella in the wrong key and Peter Buck has no idea how to accompany him.
Just found your blog, extremely funny stuff.
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