Wednesday, March 17, 2010

My first unfortunate cookie followed a sub-par Hong Kong style roast port with brown rice. Kind of disappointing; the roast pork from this place is usually killer...



The unfortunate
The stereotypical replacement of R's and L's and vice versa whilst speaking with a Chinese accent changed "present" to "pleasant". The complete altering of the spelling of the latter half
of the word forces me to question this fortune writer's literacy in general.

The fortunate
What time is "the pleasant?" This could be the time of day when you come home from work and relax, it could be when you meet up with your best friends and crack open a beer, or it could be when you open up a fortune cookie just to find an embarrassing typo. Whatever time of day "the pleasant" may be for anybody, there truly is no time like the pleasant.

On the other hand, the typist could've left some punctuation out: "There is no time. Like the pleasant." You don't have enough time in the day to worry about the things that make you feel like you want to throw a $600 Blu-Ray player with a copy of "The Mask 2: Son of the Mask" out the window of a 16 story building. Enjoy the pleasant things in life, like watching the original "The Mask." Seriously, what were they thinking by making a sequel...

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